My brain, it no workey
Mar. 26th, 2006 01:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fredericksI think if I believed in labels I'd be really happy right now. It took me almost the entire day to finish the assignments for my Psych rotation that are due Monday. Two process reports, one journal entry, and six med cards took me NINE HOURS. I don't know what my problem is, if I do have one. Maybe it's just laziness. I can't seem to concentrate when I need to most: I'll start doing work and hit a brick wall almost immediately. It is the most frustrating thing in the world, and I hope there's some sort of easy explanation for it, something outside of myself, instead of "you're just really really lazy". This degree of distractability and general non-focus is a step away from being frightening.
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Vacation wraps up tomorrow, and that's part of the reason why I decided to hunker down and finish my assignments today - I hate having work hang over my head the day before I have to return to school. My aunt figured I should "get out of the house" yesterday evening so she invited me to the movies with her to see "The Inside Man". It's not my type of movie so I declined but she kept nagging so I said I'd go with them and see "V for Vendetta" instead. As I dislike to stand in line and purchase tickets I decided to buy mine online ahead of time. Everything worked out great, but I sort of neglected to ask them what theatre they intended on going to. Turns out they wanted to go across town from the theatre where I bought my tickets. Joy. I ended up going to the movies completely alone; I didn't want to waste the money on the ticket so my brother dropped me off at my theatre before going back to pick up his girlfriend and rendezvous with my aunt at the other theatre.
My initial response to "V for Vendetta" was positive, but I think I could do with another viewing before forming a definite opinion on it. One thing's for certain - Hugo Weaving could read me to sleep every night and I'd be a happy happy woman (as long as he didn't throw any "Mister AN-derson"'s into the mix). I amused myself by counting how many of the men on-screen had appeared in queer-friendly cinema. Rupert Graves was lovely in "Maurice" (it's been a while since I've seen it and I can't remember if he snogged Hugh Grant or the other gent) and "Different for Girls", Stephen Rea was the deer in the headlights of "The Crying Game" (what happened to Jaye Davidson after his part in "Stargate" anyway?), and my personal hero Stephen Fry (he of the disconcertingly crooked nose) got to get real real cozy with one Jude Law (*swoon*!) in "Wilde". Fuckin' awesome. Hells, even Hugo Weaving played the ugliest drag queen this side of Wesley Snipes in "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert". If only notable American male actors could go out of their wayto satisfy my need to see male/male action to act in more diverse roles this world would be a much better place.
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I just finished watching Miyazaki's latest "Howl's Moving Castle". Wow. I hadn't walked away from an animated movie saying "this SUCKS!" until, oh, 30 minutes ago. I think I'm suffering from "the book was sooooooo much better" syndrome but it's true! the book WAS so much better. The movie was a complete departure from the intriguing twists of the book, and it was a waste to bring Welsh actor (and current![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fredericks cutie) Christian Bale in to VO Howl because of that. Grrrr. Ending idiotic, the whole war thing was a distraction, and having Sophie's age fluctuate constantly was confusing as all hell. Perhaps I'm also pissed because I've been anticipating this movie for the last year, I finally get my hands on it and...nothing. I should have know better - I really didn't like "Princess Mononoke" (or whatever the heck) at.all.
Admire my paragraph with the amazing changing tense. I'm too tired to go back and fix everything; sorry grammar Nazis.
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Okay Friend's List, take note - my birthday is in...two months and two weeks, just about. I'd like an Ubersexy Sex Therapist session, if you please. Start saving up now.
PS - What I've learned today: if you can listen to the "Transformers: The Movie" soundtrack and not feel the 80's synth rock down in your very SOUL you aren't human. "Dare" is my official rally song, dammit!
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Vacation wraps up tomorrow, and that's part of the reason why I decided to hunker down and finish my assignments today - I hate having work hang over my head the day before I have to return to school. My aunt figured I should "get out of the house" yesterday evening so she invited me to the movies with her to see "The Inside Man". It's not my type of movie so I declined but she kept nagging so I said I'd go with them and see "V for Vendetta" instead. As I dislike to stand in line and purchase tickets I decided to buy mine online ahead of time. Everything worked out great, but I sort of neglected to ask them what theatre they intended on going to. Turns out they wanted to go across town from the theatre where I bought my tickets. Joy. I ended up going to the movies completely alone; I didn't want to waste the money on the ticket so my brother dropped me off at my theatre before going back to pick up his girlfriend and rendezvous with my aunt at the other theatre.
My initial response to "V for Vendetta" was positive, but I think I could do with another viewing before forming a definite opinion on it. One thing's for certain - Hugo Weaving could read me to sleep every night and I'd be a happy happy woman (as long as he didn't throw any "Mister AN-derson"'s into the mix). I amused myself by counting how many of the men on-screen had appeared in queer-friendly cinema. Rupert Graves was lovely in "Maurice" (it's been a while since I've seen it and I can't remember if he snogged Hugh Grant or the other gent) and "Different for Girls", Stephen Rea was the deer in the headlights of "The Crying Game" (what happened to Jaye Davidson after his part in "Stargate" anyway?), and my personal hero Stephen Fry (he of the disconcertingly crooked nose) got to get real real cozy with one Jude Law (*swoon*!) in "Wilde". Fuckin' awesome. Hells, even Hugo Weaving played the ugliest drag queen this side of Wesley Snipes in "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert". If only notable American male actors could go out of their way
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I just finished watching Miyazaki's latest "Howl's Moving Castle". Wow. I hadn't walked away from an animated movie saying "this SUCKS!" until, oh, 30 minutes ago. I think I'm suffering from "the book was sooooooo much better" syndrome but it's true! the book WAS so much better. The movie was a complete departure from the intriguing twists of the book, and it was a waste to bring Welsh actor (and current
fredericks cutie) Christian Bale in to VO Howl because of that. Grrrr. Ending idiotic, the whole war thing was a distraction, and having Sophie's age fluctuate constantly was confusing as all hell. Perhaps I'm also pissed because I've been anticipating this movie for the last year, I finally get my hands on it and...nothing. I should have know better - I really didn't like "Princess Mononoke" (or whatever the heck) at.all. Admire my paragraph with the amazing changing tense. I'm too tired to go back and fix everything; sorry grammar Nazis.
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Okay Friend's List, take note - my birthday is in...two months and two weeks, just about. I'd like an Ubersexy Sex Therapist session, if you please. Start saving up now.
PS - What I've learned today: if you can listen to the "Transformers: The Movie" soundtrack and not feel the 80's synth rock down in your very SOUL you aren't human. "Dare" is my official rally song, dammit!
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Date: 2006-03-26 05:44 pm (UTC)There's a chance I might have liked it more if I didn't read the book and really enjoy it. I read the book in anticipation of the movie, and did the typical "this would make a great scene" and "I can't wait to see this play out in animation", so the big deviations were disappointing. I was more interested in Howl and Sophie than the themes of war and pollution, and I didn't get nearly enough of them. Or what I got of them just confused me (I'm always a bit slow on the uptake). I still have it so I'll see if I can listen to the Japanese dub with subtitles and find out if it's an improvement.
Re: Transformers The Movie
When we were younger my dad used to rent animation for us (back then it was only me and one brother) and then record them onto video cassette...for posterity, I suppose. Weird, and I can only chalk it up to his brain damage, but we loved to watch the shows over and over again. Of course, VHS isn't the most durable of mediums and all our copies of He-Man, Silverhawks, and Thundercats either eventually broke or completely stopped working (or were recorded over by an overzealous mom). Our favorite was definitely the Transformer Movie, but that was the first thing to go, tapewise. It would always fade out RIGHT as Hotrod opened up The Matrix in the gut of Galvetron ("light...our darkest...hour!" ::cue "You've Got the Touch"; cue
Ubersexy-saaaaaaaaaan! Hee! Man, I'm so in love with that it isn't even funny. Himeno (he of the second chapter) looks remarkably like Hal Sparks, to the point where I found myself saying "Kodaka is such teh QAF groupie". Now I'm crushing on the small man all over again.
Oh, the smex! You're so awesome, enabling me like this. *grin*