Hey Baby, They're Playing Our Song

No need to go over Resolution 15 anymore. But seriously. I’ve never realized the stack of things I own that I’ve never watched. In some cases, these were gifts from people and it’s like “Oh… Thanks, yes, I enjoyed the first Sandlot movie. But uh… this decade-late-direct-to-DVD-sequel should be just as good.”

I’ve wanted to watch this one since I first started getting into true crime. I’m always curious about what a director views as the correct interpretation of this crime. This was a particularly heinous crime from the fifties that took place in New Zealand. Here’s the wiki link if you’re particularly interested. 

Anyway. This was made by Peter Jackson, and it really shows. One of the things that always stuck with me about the case was the fact that these girls had invented an entire fantasy world for themselves, and this film did a fantastic job showing that. The creative direction of the film was almost something else entirely. 

Up next is probably I <3 Huckabees.

So, this week, as the movie I keep meaning to watch but never get around to, I picked Reservoir Dogs. Put out in 1992 by Quentin Tarantino, this movie has been in my possession for at least seven years, if not longer. I purchased this at A&B Sound during a Boxing Day sale. I did sit down to try to watch it once before but as I recall, I got bored.

When Grindhouse came out and Quentin Tarantino defended his half of the movie by saying “Well, yeah, it’s a movie where people stand around and talk. That’s what all my movies are.” I didn’t really see it. My experience with his movies were Pulp Fiction and both the Kill Bill movies.

Having watched this and read that quote, it makes sense now. 

I thoroughly enjoyed everyone’s performance in this. Tim Roth was far and away my favourite, but Chris Penn always comes in a close second. Really, this is a movie where if you changed one of the elements, like casting John Malkovich instead of Michael Madsen, you wouldn’t have ended up with the same movie. (Comparison used because of the portrayal of Cyrus the Virus in Con-Air. I think he would’ve done well, but he wouldn’t have nailed it.)

Overall, a movie slot not wasted.

Watch movies you’ve always wanted to see but haven’t had the time for

So, yesterday I have seven hours between the end of work and the start of classes. Rather than do anything productive in between, I crocheted a scarf for a friend’s sibling and watched Silence of the Lambs.

Nothing fascinates me the way the psychology of serial killers, and I’ve had this movie on my To Watch list for a long time. I was definitely excited to see that it lived up to the hype. I was able to call two of the plot twists fairly early on, but really, for a movie that’s twenty-ish years old, I think I did well.

I’m thinking next week, I’ll go for Reservoir Dogs. 

1. Crochet something for myself and for someone else
2. Cross-stitch something for myself and for someone else
3. Travel to see Mitchell
4. Correspond more with the people I care about
5. Use technology to my benefit with regards to organization
6. Create and keep self-imposed deadlines
7. Find a boy who deserves that midnight kiss and give him a kiss
8. Graduate my program
9. Remain friends with those who deserve it from the program and cut off those who don’t
10. Continue to tell people I love them when I love them
11. Make at least one outrageous purchase this year
12. Ask for help when I need it
13. Handwrite a letter a month to someone who likes getting snail mail
14. Try to get back into French
15. Watch movies you’ve always wanted to see but haven’t had the time for
16. Have another Rocktober where there can be absolutely no fucks given
17. Read ten books, graphic novels not included
18. Try my hand at cooking, because I’ve already made baking my bitch
19. Have one new experience a month
20. Be as happy as I am right now

ravenclawincamelot:

http://www.videobb.com/watch_video.php?v=mGbADpiXpt1o

I love helping people out. Enjoy!

Just in case there’s anyone else out there like me who was frantically looking for a download link for this.

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I made a big long post with all of my recommendations and advice from the year, because I’m only a year older, but I’d like to be more than a year wiser. Tumblr didn’t save all of it for me like it was supposed to.

I think the advice went something like this:

• Don’t let the hand you hold be the hand that holds you down.
• People are always going to let you down, you can’t let it get you down.
• If you do something shitty to a friend without thinking about it, that’s probably a sign that you’re not really friends.
• Speak up, if what you’re saying needs to be heard.
• If you don’t think you’re that strong, wait until you have to prove you are.

See The Muppets, read 11/22/63, read Juliet, read If I Stay, read The Psychopath Test, listen to My Dinosaur Life, watch American Horror Story, watch Doctor Who, and watch The Big Bang Theory. 

While it was happening 2011 felt like such a big year full of epic things that happened. Really, it wasn’t. Work was work, school was school, friends were friends. I got Rocktober. I got rid of a shitty boss. I made some new friends. I got rid of some old friends. And at the end of the year, I’m happier than I was at the start, so I’ll put 2011 in the win column and try to make 2012 even better.