Break is winding down
I have just one more full day in jax until I go back to Miami on Saturday. It's been a fairly eventful break, but nothing too exciting.
I haven't updated seriously in a while with everything getting so hectic the last month of school. There were a lot of things that went right and others that went wrong. But 2006 looks to be a good year for me, my twentieth year in existance haha. But yeah the end of the semester got rough and I ended up sleeping thru a final exam for movement, and that led me to getting a C+ in the class. My parent weren't too upset because they knew how hard I worked this semester. I got an A in math thankfully, and A's and B's in everything else. While doing a tough run of The Exonerated during final exam week and having several class assignments/presentations the day after it close. We had no reading days due to the hurricanes down south so I had no time to study, and we had classes during the same times we had finals and i was doing a show. So it kinda led to me having to compromise things and it ended up just turing out not well in Movement, but other than that, my grades were good, I was in good spirits, and the second half of the semester picked up, no complaints there.
So Jacksonville has been good to me as it always has, I spent a week in Atlanta including New Years. I went to the Peach Bowl Debacle, where the Miami players gave up in the second half, I'm glad they made changes on the staff, but seriously players need to step it up and play real Miami football next season. We have no excuse for not winning the ACC. Sheesh.
Read some plays and watched some movies over the break, Started memorizing a monologue for when I get back. My schedule is no joke next semester, I'll be taking 19 credits and I still don't know wheter I'm cast in the show or not, let's hope I am-but damn thats gonna be a hell of a lot of stuff.
Schedule:
Intro to Weather and Climate---don't know if this is gonna be difficult or not, hopefully not.
Vocal Techniques for non-majors-----singing class, ugh.
Intro to Philosophy---I know this won't be easy.
Acting I-B -should be great got an A in this last semester he's a good teacher and pretty hard on kids.
Movement I-B---hopefully I can get the A that I wasexpecting last semester this semester.
Dance I-B---I won't have a 300 term dance test to bail me out, so I'm gonna have to work alot out of class.
Freshman Studio II--new teacher we'll see how it goes with all 30 people in there as opposed to 3 of us.
Theater Crafts Lab---I don't have to take the class (thank God) but I do have to take the Lab portion,
History before 1877-- Hope I can add this instead of getting the Anthropology class that I'll have to take instead
Yes nine classes, 19 credits. I know my classes aren't worth shit in credits. But oh well, like I said, thoughest semester for me yet. We'll see how I perform under pressure...
Also I'm gonna curb my spending once again the second semester. I did it last year and I should be able to do it again. I spent very little the second semester at SMU so let's hope I can do it this time in Miami. Though I have spent more last semester in Miami than I did in Dallas my first semester. Part of it could be that I had more to spend- and the 400+ trip to Trailerhassee didn't do anything to help seeing as gasoline was 3.50 for Premium that weekend, fukin Katrina. Anyways...
Movies,
I had issues with King Kong-and I had written like a whole freaking essay on it, but unfortunately I got deleted-but needless to say I wasn't all that impressed-sure SOME of the visuals were impressive, but with that much attention to detail i dent to see that there were other details that were forgotten. And to be honest I didn't like the dumbass ice skating scene in central park, it was just plain dumb- i mean if I go to see an action film I want to see Kong beating ass-not stroking a not-hot-at-all Naomi Watts, who was miscast--I could see Renee or Nicole as a better cast Ann, and Jack Black was totally miscast, I didn't believe for a second that he was a director in the twenties, I don't honestly think it's his fault, but-No it just didn't work for me. Adrian Brody was probably the best cast person. But Naomi Watts? ehgh the whole movie she bugged me because she never never never, shuts her mouth, her mouth hangs open the entire movie and it just started to bug me when they kept showing close ups of her. I dunno they paid so much details to the fur, and didn't pay attention to the surroundings of King Kong, I would think an animal of that scale and magnitude would make the earth tremble with every step or at least not be able to tiptoe thru the streets of New York, but maybe I just don't know- gorrillas may be able to walk quietly but stil...Naomi Watts is walking around the middle of FREEZING COLD winter New York and everyone else has on a bundle up coat and Naomi is walking around in a white sleeveless, dress?????? and she's not acting cold at all, no shivering nothing- no breath coming out of her mouth. just not believeable. But maybe I am just being nitpicky, but then again attention to detail is what Kong was about.
I similarly was unimpressed with another "blockbuster" War of the Worlds. I had some of the same problems, some editing problems in WOTW, Dumb shit like a plane crash destroyed everything except for their van? The characters were unlikeable. I dunno it just wasn't very quality. I've come to expect more from Speilberg anyway- he's kind of gone down since Saving Private Ryan. Terminal wasn't all that to me, neither was WOTW, Munich looks good and I'll prolly see it tomorrow. But no Spielberg is usually a master of details, and thats part of why I am critical of some of PJ's work ie ROTK but that was once again because of the sappy sentimental shit that didn't belong in it, and wasn't in the first two of that series.
Anyways, Memoirs of a Geisha was a good movie- well told and just beautifully visually. Rob Marshall is quickly becoming one of the better newly popular directors. Anyways My Top Five from this year.
Top Six Favorite Movies
1. Sin City
2. Lord of War
3. Batman Begins
4. Revenge of the Sith
5. Wedding Crashers
6. Crash-I still believe this could have been much better though.
Disappointments
1. Mr. and Mrs. Smith--I disliked this movie very much, it was boring and I fell asleep during it, I almost never do that in an action movie. It was better on dvd though. But on the big screen- it didn't do it for me and it was advertised as a battle between those two, but most of the good stuff was once again in the trailer.
2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory- as much as I like Johnny Depp, nobody- i mean nobody could touch Gene Wilder's performance, but I thought if anyone could it would have been JD, but no. It was funny yes, but nothing like a classic.
3.Hitch--I'm a big Will Smith fan, but I wasn't feeling it too much all the funniest stuff was in the previews. By no means a bad movie, it just didn't do it for me like i thought it would.
4. Jarhead--This movie didn't say anything about anything, it was a pointless movie- and it was advertized as a war movie, but it wasn't that at all. For those who haven't read the book it must have been a huge suprise.
5.
6.Amityville Horror--I was looking forward to this being as it was done by the same people who brought Texas Chainsaw Massacre the update, but it flat out sucked.
Overall-this was not a good year for the movies in my opinion. But that's just me, I'm glad that I got into a lot of movies for free over the summer and over this break, because I would have been mad had I spent money on some of these movies.
To Be Continued
I haven't updated seriously in a while with everything getting so hectic the last month of school. There were a lot of things that went right and others that went wrong. But 2006 looks to be a good year for me, my twentieth year in existance haha. But yeah the end of the semester got rough and I ended up sleeping thru a final exam for movement, and that led me to getting a C+ in the class. My parent weren't too upset because they knew how hard I worked this semester. I got an A in math thankfully, and A's and B's in everything else. While doing a tough run of The Exonerated during final exam week and having several class assignments/presentations the day after it close. We had no reading days due to the hurricanes down south so I had no time to study, and we had classes during the same times we had finals and i was doing a show. So it kinda led to me having to compromise things and it ended up just turing out not well in Movement, but other than that, my grades were good, I was in good spirits, and the second half of the semester picked up, no complaints there.
So Jacksonville has been good to me as it always has, I spent a week in Atlanta including New Years. I went to the Peach Bowl Debacle, where the Miami players gave up in the second half, I'm glad they made changes on the staff, but seriously players need to step it up and play real Miami football next season. We have no excuse for not winning the ACC. Sheesh.
Read some plays and watched some movies over the break, Started memorizing a monologue for when I get back. My schedule is no joke next semester, I'll be taking 19 credits and I still don't know wheter I'm cast in the show or not, let's hope I am-but damn thats gonna be a hell of a lot of stuff.
Schedule:
Intro to Weather and Climate---don't know if this is gonna be difficult or not, hopefully not.
Vocal Techniques for non-majors-----singing class, ugh.
Intro to Philosophy---I know this won't be easy.
Acting I-B -should be great got an A in this last semester he's a good teacher and pretty hard on kids.
Movement I-B---hopefully I can get the A that I wasexpecting last semester this semester.
Dance I-B---I won't have a 300 term dance test to bail me out, so I'm gonna have to work alot out of class.
Freshman Studio II--new teacher we'll see how it goes with all 30 people in there as opposed to 3 of us.
Theater Crafts Lab---I don't have to take the class (thank God) but I do have to take the Lab portion,
History before 1877-- Hope I can add this instead of getting the Anthropology class that I'll have to take instead
Yes nine classes, 19 credits. I know my classes aren't worth shit in credits. But oh well, like I said, thoughest semester for me yet. We'll see how I perform under pressure...
Also I'm gonna curb my spending once again the second semester. I did it last year and I should be able to do it again. I spent very little the second semester at SMU so let's hope I can do it this time in Miami. Though I have spent more last semester in Miami than I did in Dallas my first semester. Part of it could be that I had more to spend- and the 400+ trip to Trailerhassee didn't do anything to help seeing as gasoline was 3.50 for Premium that weekend, fukin Katrina. Anyways...
Movies,
I had issues with King Kong-and I had written like a whole freaking essay on it, but unfortunately I got deleted-but needless to say I wasn't all that impressed-sure SOME of the visuals were impressive, but with that much attention to detail i dent to see that there were other details that were forgotten. And to be honest I didn't like the dumbass ice skating scene in central park, it was just plain dumb- i mean if I go to see an action film I want to see Kong beating ass-not stroking a not-hot-at-all Naomi Watts, who was miscast--I could see Renee or Nicole as a better cast Ann, and Jack Black was totally miscast, I didn't believe for a second that he was a director in the twenties, I don't honestly think it's his fault, but-No it just didn't work for me. Adrian Brody was probably the best cast person. But Naomi Watts? ehgh the whole movie she bugged me because she never never never, shuts her mouth, her mouth hangs open the entire movie and it just started to bug me when they kept showing close ups of her. I dunno they paid so much details to the fur, and didn't pay attention to the surroundings of King Kong, I would think an animal of that scale and magnitude would make the earth tremble with every step or at least not be able to tiptoe thru the streets of New York, but maybe I just don't know- gorrillas may be able to walk quietly but stil...Naomi Watts is walking around the middle of FREEZING COLD winter New York and everyone else has on a bundle up coat and Naomi is walking around in a white sleeveless, dress?????? and she's not acting cold at all, no shivering nothing- no breath coming out of her mouth. just not believeable. But maybe I am just being nitpicky, but then again attention to detail is what Kong was about.
I similarly was unimpressed with another "blockbuster" War of the Worlds. I had some of the same problems, some editing problems in WOTW, Dumb shit like a plane crash destroyed everything except for their van? The characters were unlikeable. I dunno it just wasn't very quality. I've come to expect more from Speilberg anyway- he's kind of gone down since Saving Private Ryan. Terminal wasn't all that to me, neither was WOTW, Munich looks good and I'll prolly see it tomorrow. But no Spielberg is usually a master of details, and thats part of why I am critical of some of PJ's work ie ROTK but that was once again because of the sappy sentimental shit that didn't belong in it, and wasn't in the first two of that series.
Anyways, Memoirs of a Geisha was a good movie- well told and just beautifully visually. Rob Marshall is quickly becoming one of the better newly popular directors. Anyways My Top Five from this year.
Top Six Favorite Movies
1. Sin City
2. Lord of War
3. Batman Begins
4. Revenge of the Sith
5. Wedding Crashers
6. Crash-I still believe this could have been much better though.
Disappointments
1. Mr. and Mrs. Smith--I disliked this movie very much, it was boring and I fell asleep during it, I almost never do that in an action movie. It was better on dvd though. But on the big screen- it didn't do it for me and it was advertised as a battle between those two, but most of the good stuff was once again in the trailer.
2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory- as much as I like Johnny Depp, nobody- i mean nobody could touch Gene Wilder's performance, but I thought if anyone could it would have been JD, but no. It was funny yes, but nothing like a classic.
3.Hitch--I'm a big Will Smith fan, but I wasn't feeling it too much all the funniest stuff was in the previews. By no means a bad movie, it just didn't do it for me like i thought it would.
4. Jarhead--This movie didn't say anything about anything, it was a pointless movie- and it was advertized as a war movie, but it wasn't that at all. For those who haven't read the book it must have been a huge suprise.
5.
6.Amityville Horror--I was looking forward to this being as it was done by the same people who brought Texas Chainsaw Massacre the update, but it flat out sucked.
Overall-this was not a good year for the movies in my opinion. But that's just me, I'm glad that I got into a lot of movies for free over the summer and over this break, because I would have been mad had I spent money on some of these movies.
To Be Continued