on time off, on hair, on funny feelings, on movies and a show...
First I must take a refresher course in LJ-Cut. As I have not really updated my LJ in sometime... not for the general population anyway... I think I had better take time to delve into a few things... where the hell to begin.
That place had become so fucking negative, time off was really a welcome thing. And thought I still didn't want to go back to work, and though I still didn't want to be there really... I did feel more positive about it than I have in a long while. Shelley being gone is great, and so far Rey seems to be working out well. I am going to get the staffing I need finally or at least some of it. The people that work for me are all good! Its a reliable team and a team of people that know what they are doing, and most of all, they don't need me to babysit them or hold their hands through anything. I don't know exactly what it is, and maybe its just that I was complemented for my work for once and not bitched at by anyone today that makes it seem better.
And by the end of the day I swear I look like Bob Dylan almost every single day! Its shorter in the back and longer on the sides and super curly... (pookie, you'd like that part). Heavily layered. With little retarded bangs, lol. Then AJ and I dyed it Blue-Black. A color called Onxy... its a rad color but the bangs... the color faded out really badly, so we redyed it... they're fading agian. Its the heat of the blow dryer and mostly the flat iron that is raping them of the black and blue. Sad. I don't know how much I really like the hair style though, I liked it a lot for the first few days, maybe a week, now, I just am not sure that it fits. Maybe its just because I washed it a day or two ago. Clean hair is the bad news! See userpic for further visual reference.
Speaking of the userpic... its a shot AJ took while I was driving. He said it turned out as a good picture of me. I looked at it and I was like... "I look pissed!?" He said "...you were driving!??!"
Well, I am getting to the part where I am tired of trying to not tell the world even though sometimes I want to scream it out and sometimes I want to break out into song and dance about it. I know these would be silly things to do, and only result in ridicule at best. I dunno what else to say though. I feel giddy. I feel like the luckiest person in the world. I feel excited, and saddened and blissful and scared and like my chest might explode. What else could it be? I can't try and deny it, and if you didn't already know it... fuck it. I'm terribly in love. Something I never aimed to do, and something I never expected. Something that perhaps had I known how emotionally taxing it can be I would have bypassed... but no... I wouldn't change a thing if I could. Its scary sometimes. Sometimes it hurts... sometimes its just wonderful. and yes, sometimes it is emotionally taxing, but I'm in love and I wouldn't change it for anything. Oddly enough he feels the same! Its the most amazing feeling, like nothing I have ever experienced and like nothing I could ever try to predict. I am the luckiest me I've ever been anyway, I don't know what I did to deserve something so wonderful...
Fuck. end the babble. AJ was just here for just under 2 weeks. It kills when he leaves. Its rattles me to the very core of my being. But, even across the continent we're never really totally torn apart... (thanks Al Gore...) and I love spending time with him. However I spend it, I am thankful for every minute! Karma? I am a giddy babbling moron, and I hate me for it too.
While AJ was here we did a Netflix trial and watched too many movies...
So when I think "hey, lets listen to some Bob," I think Dylan, not Marley. I've a soft spot for folk obviously. I think great music-story-movies, and yeah Velvet Goldmine comes to mind. I'm Not There puts Velvet Goldmine to total and utter shame, and I love that movie. Same director- Todd Haynes. No joke people, if you like music at all, check this film out. Its brilliantly filmed, jucstaposing several story lines as several analogies for differing parts of Dylan's life and career. Cate Blanchett is brilliant and oddly enough makes the best "Dylan." Its filmed so you know when you're in one story versus another, and its brilliant how Haynes can use his characters to tell a full and complete story without any bit of dialog at points. 5/5 stars or whatever. Loved it!
Okay, AJ said it best... With ther first Harold and Kumar movie you weren't expecting much, another stupid comedy about stoner's... but it was way better! So it was memorable and impressive. Making the sequel have higher expectations that are really fair... Making it harder for the sequel to be anywhere near on parr with the original just based on preconceived notions alone. In the end it really wasn't a bad movie. It didn't have quite the same \o/ as the first movie, but it was good. Neil Patrick Harris' shroom trip, as silly as it is... HOTT.
I knew the story line. I knew the but of hype surrounding the movie. I wasn't really expecting much though. Way better movie than I expected. Moldy Peaches and Belle and Sebastian soundtrack, interesting and fun. But really, the movie was an interesting story of characters, their workings, people in a movie that aren't busy being perfectly fake but are busy making mistakes and learning the way real people learn... It was a good movie and a decent story. Makes me want to do something with orange tic tacs...
As Wes Anderson films go, this wasn't a winner really. It wasn't bad. I loved the filming! It just didn't captivate and catch you in the emotional drama like The Royal Tannenbaum's or Life Aquatic did... at least not for me. I was a bit sad with being a bit disappointed. And Owen Wilson looked like a douche in the movie. The part where they save the boys in the river but one dies was really good, and I think would have made into a better climactic point...
Odd movie. These plot-less movies of that era can be so tiresome. This was really good. The acting was excellent!!! Young Anthony Hopkins was weird to see but the acting was brilliant. And Katherine Hepburn... wow. You have got to love that woman, all over again. I enjoyed it.
Meh. I have to admit it. Thats how I felt about the movie as a whole. The way it was filmed, especially for when it was filmed... fucking brilliant thought.
There were many other movies... many. These are the one's I felt worth mention, or the need to mention.
First off, the opening Band was amazingly disappointing. I felt like I could predict every change, every tempo, ever bass line... cause I swear they sounded just like a billion other bands not worth my time. Predictable!!!
City and Colour though was wonderful. Not a super long set, but it was good. He preforms very very well! Sounds just as wonderful in person, a terribly difficult task for most "artists." I think this ability makes him a far more quality artist. Also seeing the emotion with the song writer is always nice. What can I say, good show! I did think he talked a bit too much during the set... at a couple points I remember thinking, enough with the excess banter... but it was good stuff anyway. I have to admit, before I didn't know he was Canadian. Oops. Anyway, it was a good show, I would love to see him again, though a better setting could be thought of. Seeing him outside holds some appeal. Also, just playing in a small venue, a relaxed and mature show. Where people aren't crowded and sweaty and someone doesn't have their boyfriend pretending to nuzzle them to wipe sweat off on them... charming I know. Just a setting thats, well, less fucking scene kids! I am old and a snob I guess. Good stuff though!
That place had become so fucking negative, time off was really a welcome thing. And thought I still didn't want to go back to work, and though I still didn't want to be there really... I did feel more positive about it than I have in a long while. Shelley being gone is great, and so far Rey seems to be working out well. I am going to get the staffing I need finally or at least some of it. The people that work for me are all good! Its a reliable team and a team of people that know what they are doing, and most of all, they don't need me to babysit them or hold their hands through anything. I don't know exactly what it is, and maybe its just that I was complemented for my work for once and not bitched at by anyone today that makes it seem better.
And by the end of the day I swear I look like Bob Dylan almost every single day! Its shorter in the back and longer on the sides and super curly... (pookie, you'd like that part). Heavily layered. With little retarded bangs, lol. Then AJ and I dyed it Blue-Black. A color called Onxy... its a rad color but the bangs... the color faded out really badly, so we redyed it... they're fading agian. Its the heat of the blow dryer and mostly the flat iron that is raping them of the black and blue. Sad. I don't know how much I really like the hair style though, I liked it a lot for the first few days, maybe a week, now, I just am not sure that it fits. Maybe its just because I washed it a day or two ago. Clean hair is the bad news! See userpic for further visual reference.
Speaking of the userpic... its a shot AJ took while I was driving. He said it turned out as a good picture of me. I looked at it and I was like... "I look pissed!?" He said "...you were driving!??!"
Well, I am getting to the part where I am tired of trying to not tell the world even though sometimes I want to scream it out and sometimes I want to break out into song and dance about it. I know these would be silly things to do, and only result in ridicule at best. I dunno what else to say though. I feel giddy. I feel like the luckiest person in the world. I feel excited, and saddened and blissful and scared and like my chest might explode. What else could it be? I can't try and deny it, and if you didn't already know it... fuck it. I'm terribly in love. Something I never aimed to do, and something I never expected. Something that perhaps had I known how emotionally taxing it can be I would have bypassed... but no... I wouldn't change a thing if I could. Its scary sometimes. Sometimes it hurts... sometimes its just wonderful. and yes, sometimes it is emotionally taxing, but I'm in love and I wouldn't change it for anything. Oddly enough he feels the same! Its the most amazing feeling, like nothing I have ever experienced and like nothing I could ever try to predict. I am the luckiest me I've ever been anyway, I don't know what I did to deserve something so wonderful...
Fuck. end the babble. AJ was just here for just under 2 weeks. It kills when he leaves. Its rattles me to the very core of my being. But, even across the continent we're never really totally torn apart... (thanks Al Gore...) and I love spending time with him. However I spend it, I am thankful for every minute! Karma? I am a giddy babbling moron, and I hate me for it too.
While AJ was here we did a Netflix trial and watched too many movies...
So when I think "hey, lets listen to some Bob," I think Dylan, not Marley. I've a soft spot for folk obviously. I think great music-story-movies, and yeah Velvet Goldmine comes to mind. I'm Not There puts Velvet Goldmine to total and utter shame, and I love that movie. Same director- Todd Haynes. No joke people, if you like music at all, check this film out. Its brilliantly filmed, jucstaposing several story lines as several analogies for differing parts of Dylan's life and career. Cate Blanchett is brilliant and oddly enough makes the best "Dylan." Its filmed so you know when you're in one story versus another, and its brilliant how Haynes can use his characters to tell a full and complete story without any bit of dialog at points. 5/5 stars or whatever. Loved it!
Okay, AJ said it best... With ther first Harold and Kumar movie you weren't expecting much, another stupid comedy about stoner's... but it was way better! So it was memorable and impressive. Making the sequel have higher expectations that are really fair... Making it harder for the sequel to be anywhere near on parr with the original just based on preconceived notions alone. In the end it really wasn't a bad movie. It didn't have quite the same \o/ as the first movie, but it was good. Neil Patrick Harris' shroom trip, as silly as it is... HOTT.
I knew the story line. I knew the but of hype surrounding the movie. I wasn't really expecting much though. Way better movie than I expected. Moldy Peaches and Belle and Sebastian soundtrack, interesting and fun. But really, the movie was an interesting story of characters, their workings, people in a movie that aren't busy being perfectly fake but are busy making mistakes and learning the way real people learn... It was a good movie and a decent story. Makes me want to do something with orange tic tacs...
As Wes Anderson films go, this wasn't a winner really. It wasn't bad. I loved the filming! It just didn't captivate and catch you in the emotional drama like The Royal Tannenbaum's or Life Aquatic did... at least not for me. I was a bit sad with being a bit disappointed. And Owen Wilson looked like a douche in the movie. The part where they save the boys in the river but one dies was really good, and I think would have made into a better climactic point...
Odd movie. These plot-less movies of that era can be so tiresome. This was really good. The acting was excellent!!! Young Anthony Hopkins was weird to see but the acting was brilliant. And Katherine Hepburn... wow. You have got to love that woman, all over again. I enjoyed it.
Meh. I have to admit it. Thats how I felt about the movie as a whole. The way it was filmed, especially for when it was filmed... fucking brilliant thought.
There were many other movies... many. These are the one's I felt worth mention, or the need to mention.
First off, the opening Band was amazingly disappointing. I felt like I could predict every change, every tempo, ever bass line... cause I swear they sounded just like a billion other bands not worth my time. Predictable!!!
City and Colour though was wonderful. Not a super long set, but it was good. He preforms very very well! Sounds just as wonderful in person, a terribly difficult task for most "artists." I think this ability makes him a far more quality artist. Also seeing the emotion with the song writer is always nice. What can I say, good show! I did think he talked a bit too much during the set... at a couple points I remember thinking, enough with the excess banter... but it was good stuff anyway. I have to admit, before I didn't know he was Canadian. Oops. Anyway, it was a good show, I would love to see him again, though a better setting could be thought of. Seeing him outside holds some appeal. Also, just playing in a small venue, a relaxed and mature show. Where people aren't crowded and sweaty and someone doesn't have their boyfriend pretending to nuzzle them to wipe sweat off on them... charming I know. Just a setting thats, well, less fucking scene kids! I am old and a snob I guess. Good stuff though!