Another semester has come and gone and what have I learned? A whole lot about movies and filmmaking and not much else. My two non-film classes are going to give me hell on my GPA this semester. Now comes the time of the year when I get to freakout because I am out of money and have to get more money - and I am worried about a couple of grades. Not quite the finesse by which I finished last semester. I am pleased with grades I already know I’m getting in my film classes and I am looking forward to taking nothing but film classes for the rest of the year. Overall a shaky, slightly rough semester and I am glad its over.
Now the summer of love begins…shooting films and working at the Apple Store. I also need to figure out how I can get back into a work-out routine without a. spending $70+/month and b. making it convenient to either where I live, work or go to school. There’s a new gym that has opened in the old Real World house down North Ave. but of course the membership fees are atrocious. Why is it that only yup’s are allowed to work-out in this town?
Life’s a bitch right now. I hope she calms down soon.
I was just listening to Faith No More - Everything’s Ruined
I just got my offer letter, W-4, and the infamous Apple NDA…gotta go FedEx this stuff off.
I was just listening to Dinosaur Jr. - Not The Same
After a day of panic attacks and depression over a flunked final, I watched The Pianist — Polanski’s film about a famous Polish Jew piano player who survives German occupation/Holocaust during WWdos. I was on target of my assumption that it would be a depressing movie, but the best way to describe it is “optimistically depressing”. Since Szpilman survived, having to deal with some of the biggest pricks of all time, it makes me feel glad that I don’t have to worry about getting the shit beat out of me or just shot in the street because I happen to look Jewish.
The holocaust itself — and I believe it was portrayed very well in the film — is so horrific and ridiculous, you have to wonder why did all of those Nazi fuckheads go along with Herr Hitler’s great idea? Did they ever stop and think that off’ing Jews and other ordinary people in record numbers was the least bit….evil? I guess it just goes to show that an entire nation of people is capable of being brainwashed.
Did Adrien Brody deserve the Best Actor Oscar? That’s questionable. Did Roman “American Fugitive” Polanski deserve Best Director? I’d say so. He definitely made a very powerful film which recreates Warsaw during the war and portrays the good and evil in all parties involved. And it’s probably the best use of sound I’ve seen in a film recently.
So there is my props to that dirty old man Polanski.
I was just listening to Galactic - Change My Ways (Part 1)
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Nice follow up to Jonah’s whale. Makes me want to go work out…not.
I was just listening to Les Claypool & The Holy Mackeral - El Sobrante Fortnight
Two things really grossed me out this Memorial Day weekend � eating part of a mysteriously softened/mushy bone from a pork rib and this Rolling Stone article.
So, it should go without saying that I am a little weary of meat right now.
I was just listening to James - Laid
I can’t believe this shit he’s listening to.
I was just listening to Creed - Don’t Stop Dancing