dread in monochrome
all i know is that it's fucking hard trynna focus on my studies when i've got such fun things waiting for me if i pass my exams. it kind of gets in the way of enjoying the process and daily routine of my pre-exam life. and the fantastic irony of it all is that when the whole thing's over i'll probably be the happiest if you leave me staring at the wall for a couple of days. it's really unbelievable how fun everything is when you've got to do something else.
anyway, i've watched some really cool movies the past week. first i must say, i'm a big road movie lover. i mean it doesn't even have to be all about the road. it just has to involve cars, alcohol, cigarettes, cheap diners, illegal substances and picking up strangers that fuck you over in the end, or are maybe just plain weird.
i've got to say something about my favourite hitch-hiker ever to be picked up on a movie screen. she's palm apodaca from the movie 'five easy pieces', played by helena kallianiotes. here's a pic:
anyway, palm is trying to get to alaska because she saw a picture of it and she thought it looked clean. i was so obsessed with her character, so driven and crazy, that i kept re-watching her parts in the movie for some time.
those movies i watched, they were:
y tu mama tambien - it's about being youthful and wild out of your mind. saying anything else i want about this movie would surely be classified as a spoiler.
transamerica - a man finds out he has a son one week prior to his sex-change surgery. they travel from nyc to l. a. meeting all kinds of people on the way, peyote shamans and such. really heart-warming.
2 days in paris - it's okay, nothing special. delpy's rants in the movie make her look like a tiring, uninteresting female version of woody allen in most of his roles.
rules of attraction - nothing special no. 2. desperate and self-absorbed rich kids. cool scene when the gay guy invites his crush to his room to smoke a joint and there's 'so alive' by love and rockets playing in the background.
fargo - i felt like an idiot after watching it and seeing it got an 8.3/10 on imdb. it was okay i guess but i don't think that the subtle (or not so subtle) irony in this movie is that funny or whatever.
a little digression to the road again. something about one of my favourite music videos of all time, the sisters of mercy's black planet. here's a pic:
there really isn't much you can add to the comment smachnok702 made on youtube:
I just love the juxtaposition. Deathly white British goth gods (yes, yes, I know... shut up) cruising down Pacific Coast Highway in some monstrous tunnel rammed hotrod. And it seems as if they're driving to a funeral while coming down off drugs. Doesn't get cooler than this.
anyway, i've watched some really cool movies the past week. first i must say, i'm a big road movie lover. i mean it doesn't even have to be all about the road. it just has to involve cars, alcohol, cigarettes, cheap diners, illegal substances and picking up strangers that fuck you over in the end, or are maybe just plain weird.
i've got to say something about my favourite hitch-hiker ever to be picked up on a movie screen. she's palm apodaca from the movie 'five easy pieces', played by helena kallianiotes. here's a pic:
anyway, palm is trying to get to alaska because she saw a picture of it and she thought it looked clean. i was so obsessed with her character, so driven and crazy, that i kept re-watching her parts in the movie for some time.
those movies i watched, they were:
y tu mama tambien - it's about being youthful and wild out of your mind. saying anything else i want about this movie would surely be classified as a spoiler.
transamerica - a man finds out he has a son one week prior to his sex-change surgery. they travel from nyc to l. a. meeting all kinds of people on the way, peyote shamans and such. really heart-warming.
2 days in paris - it's okay, nothing special. delpy's rants in the movie make her look like a tiring, uninteresting female version of woody allen in most of his roles.
rules of attraction - nothing special no. 2. desperate and self-absorbed rich kids. cool scene when the gay guy invites his crush to his room to smoke a joint and there's 'so alive' by love and rockets playing in the background.
fargo - i felt like an idiot after watching it and seeing it got an 8.3/10 on imdb. it was okay i guess but i don't think that the subtle (or not so subtle) irony in this movie is that funny or whatever.
a little digression to the road again. something about one of my favourite music videos of all time, the sisters of mercy's black planet. here's a pic:
there really isn't much you can add to the comment smachnok702 made on youtube:
I just love the juxtaposition. Deathly white British goth gods (yes, yes, I know... shut up) cruising down Pacific Coast Highway in some monstrous tunnel rammed hotrod. And it seems as if they're driving to a funeral while coming down off drugs. Doesn't get cooler than this.