Today was supposed to be "Best quote"
and I have NO idea how I'm going to do that. Quotes are my life. They're like children to me. I can't pick a favorite. So, I've decided to hold off on that one until I'm ready...and that day might never come
So. The show I plan on watching
Well, I'd say Big Love or Weeds, but me and Emily already started watching those, so perhaps they doesn't count
You know what? I really plan on sitting down one of these days and watching Friends from start to finish. I know everyone has seen episodes of Friends, but I feel it still fits the bill for a show I plan on watching. Christine had a bunch of the seasons, but she moved away where we can't get to her. And reruns on the TV just don't cut it
Nope. Just gonna have to rent it, season by season
Or hit up surfthechannel. Whatever is easier
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I so very rarely have insomnia. I mean, I do stay up past 5am sometimes (more often this last semester than in my entire life), but that's always because I'm chatting with someone on the computer or I'm doing something that is keeping me occupied. It is rare that I try to go to sleep and simply can't
Tonight is one of those nights.
At 1am, I was quite exhausted. But I had to go in my room and start watching a movie I hadn't seen in while. Usually I fall asleep to movies, but for some reason, the one I was watching captivated me enough to keep me awake.
And then I was doomed.
4:45am and I'm WIDE awake.
Fuck
In other news (yet on a related note [I seem to be doing this a lot]), if you were to look in my computer files at the movies that I've collected onto my hard drive over the past few years, you would think I was very strange.
I have the oddest array of movies - none of them favorites of mine - that I know I never downloaded myself. I just got them from other people. Here is my list:
Truly Madly Deeply
Secretary
Run Lola Run
Choke
Capturing the Friedmans
The Accidental Husband
Shortbus
Rachel Getting Married
My Best Friends Girl
The History of the Devil
I'm sure I probably got most of them from someone, but I can't recall why. With the exception of Truly Madly Deeply and HotD, I have no overwhelming interest in most of these. They have their value as movies go, but in my opinion, certainly not the best of the best
But they're there, on my computer. Most often, I forget what some of them are about (Like My Best Friends Girl and The Accidental Husband) and some of them I wish I could forget (Like Capturing the Friedmans or Run Lola Run), but they all have their stories. I will tell you one now
Run Lola Run
is a very good movie in both technical and narrative ways. It has a good concept and is shot methodically. You may disagree, but you would be disagreeing with JFay and JWray, and that's not cool.
The reason I want to forget that this movie EVER existed is because I did a film report on it; had to break a three minute scene down, shot by shot
Do you know many fucking shots were in that fucking three minute scene? Way way over a hundred
And all the while, there was the same techno music playing over and over and over again.
Every time I see the title of this movie, all I hear in my brain is "Shot/reverse shot - shot/reverse shot - shot/reverse shot - pan left - right - shot/reverse shot" over that damn techno music
Of course, that wonderful shot breakdown was accompanied by a scene analysis and a 10 page paper. Needless to say, Run Lola Run - as good a movie as it is - was ruined for me forever
On a completely unrelated note, my brother turned 24 yesterday (still feels like today, but his birthday is on the 11th). Getting older. I mean, the kid's not a dinosaur by any means, but I remember being a freshman in high school and thinking the seniors were SO OLD. I look at my brother and all I see is the same Andy I've known all my life. I don't see a 24 year old person. It's all a little unreal to me
Then again, I'll be 22 in little less than a month
I look at that number and it makes me sick to my stomach
I wish I still had Tylenol PM pills left. I could drug myself to sleep
That is all
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