Woah self, woah...
Hey LJ friends. Long time no see. For some odd reason I felt like I should pounce on LJ and give you guys a little bitty update, which will probably turn into a freaking HUGE update.... But that's okay, I suppose.
So, lately. I guess I really haven't been doing anything other than obsessing over movies. People who know me really well know that I go in and out of hobbies. Sometimes I draw a lot (which was like a week and a half ago), sometimes I play a lot of music, sometimes a write a lot, but right now I'm watching a lot of films. I think that basically stems from the fact that the screenwriting class I'm taking is eating my brain, but that's okay... There really isn't such a thing as too many films.... I mean, it could be ridiculious but it isn't as of the present time.
So yeah movies. I've been watching a crap-ton of them lately. A few weekends ago I watched The Mummy. Which I love... I'd obviously seen it before because I mean seriously, it's been out since 1999 so who hasn't seen it... haha. Not saying that you're somehow less of a person if you haven't seen it, but really. It's a definate new-age horror classic.
Then, just last weekend my movie obsession hit a new high and I watched four movies. Yes four movies. Four movies in three days. I watched 16 Candles, which is also a classic, though a different type of classic. I watched it with a friend who'd never seen it, so I suggested it to her. I'm happy to say that she enjoyed it thoroughly. Then I watched Spirited Away. Which is, I swear, the best anime movie ever. It's fantastic and has a great story, great characters, great art, and great music. What more could you ask? On Saturday night after watching Spirited Away I was home alone and flipping through TV channels. To my surprise I found that the film Traffic was on AMC. It was uniquely bizzar that it happened to be on, due to the fact that I had just read about the movie on netflix. So I gave the film a try and ended up watching it twice. It was a little confusing and I swear that they took out some huge plot development piece or something to make it fit in the alotted time frame... The movie had famous people out the yin-yang and it was a little hilarious to see Dennis Quiad comfort Cathrine Zeta-Jones while she was sad. o.O Upon researching the film I realized that it won four academy awards in 2000 when it came out. Best Director, Best editing, Best Writing for and Adapted Script, and Best Actor in a Supporting Role which went to the ever talented Benicio Del Toro for his role as Javier... Though the drug wars between Mexico and the US don't really intrest me, the movie kept my interest well enough. But I think that it just might have been that Topher Grace who played Eric Foreman on That 70's Show played a kid addicted to hardcore drugs... haha. The last movie on my list for last weekend was The Mummy Returns which, in my opinion, is better than the first one. But, then again, I do really enjoy Anck Su Namun. And if you've never seen that movie well then you have no idea what I'm talking about, and I'm sorry...
I suppose this movie talk then brings us to this week, which went well all except for the fact that I got sick. I stayed home from school yesterday because my throat killed and my face felt like it had been seriously jacked up with a hammer or something. Thankfully my congestion has started to drain and my throat doesn't hurt as much. Now I just sound like a seventy year old smoker or something. But, it shall pass with time.
And a big shock this morning. It was snowing last night but I totally didn't think it would snow enough to actually leave snow on the ground but lo and behold I woke up this morning to the sound of the school calling to inform me that we were delayed. But, of course the delay turned into a cancelation after I got ready to head out. But now I'm fully dressed and awaiting a friend's arrival. We are going to pick up Sin City from the post office and then go to the library to get some more films for our viewing pleasure. We've actually decided to have "Friday Movie Night" so we are putting that into effect for the second time. Yay. I'm really hoping that Sin City doesn't freak me out too much.... But you never can tell. I think it's pretty creepy that Mr. Wood plays a dude who lives on a FARM AND EATS PEOPLE. Il mange les gents. Yes. He eats the people.