i've been posting a lot on my tumblr and totally neglected this. Not that I feel obligated to do this, but hey, sometimes it's good to feel for a throwback. or whatever it's called. This is also me procrastinating for 5 mintues (yes I'm timing myself on the amt of time I'm spending not studying in the library). It's an experiment I'm conducting for the next couple of weeks. Qualitative experiment to document the effects of studying with the computer. hmm..

so lets see....
how long has it been since I've posted on here?
What.. about half a year? oh dear! That's a bit too long I fear! 
Ok, enough rhyming, I figure I'll slowly get back into the blogging scene, although how people do it weekly/daily whatever is beyond me. So who knows it might be another couple of months before I do another one.

Anyways, I suppose whats on my mind right now... I've been seeing a lot of movies lately. Most of them were enjoyable, so far (knock on wood). I still have yet to see a really bad movie or one where I thought "here I've just wasted two hours (or however long the movie was) of my life." But rarely is the case, since I see so many in the comfort of my desk on a decent sized screen! 
So here's a quick list of the movies I've seen, that I would recommend to anyone else who looks at these... 

Hotel Chevalier/Darjeeling Limited - A movie you have to watch more than once (for most) in order to get it all. Still, I liked it.
Charlie Wilson's War - Well made, very entertaining. The ending was quick. It tended to focus more on
The Kingdom - a bit slow to get going, but once it does, (about at the start of the second act) its pretty captivating. I like how it shows both sides of battle.
The Brave One - actually that's a meh...a movie to watch while you're doing something else
No Country for Old Men - you really have to be in the mood for this type of movie, but I thought it was pretty suspenseful, more about the bad guy than anything else
Juno - Yeah, if you haven't heard of it, I'm ashamed of you. I thought it was pretty good, but not great. It didn't really hit me like it did others who thought it was amazing. However, its still quite entertaining
Once - An amazing movie. I highly recommend it. Great movie, even better music
Intermission - just a fun movie in general, a background movie
Underground  - A 1995 bohemian movie, a bit long, but overlooking that, very well made. I like it more and more the more I think about it.  Recommend this
La Doublure (The Valet) - A French romantic-ish comedy. Entertaining, and good to see if you want to stay in. 
Paris Je T'Aime (Paris, I Love You) - A collection of short love stories in Paris that explore love on many different levels. Cameos Galore! Off the top of my head...Willem Dafoe, Natalie Portman, Steve Buschemi, Nick Nolte, Maggie Gyllenhal
Dan in Real Life - A "finding yourself" type of movie. I usually like these types of movies. This was pretty good. Not great, but not bad either it had its moments.
Bourne Ultimatum - Awesome. 'Nuff Said
The 11th Hour - A much more biased version of inconvenient truth by Leo Decapuccino. It was all about scaring the audience into environmentalism. Not the right way to go. But, it had some interesting facts
Vier Minuten  (Four Minutes) - Great German movie about passiona, love/lesbianism, and more importantly music. This is up there.
Les Chansons D'Amor (Love songs) - A very fun French Musical. I liked the music. The story was kind of fun, not very deep. But I think it was more  about the songs and singing. 
Across the Universe  - Usually covering beatles songs are a big no-no. But in this case, its a big yes-yes.  Cameos by Selma Hayek and Eddie Izzard (which was a total surprise)
Rendition - About torturing suspected citizens to get information. It was OK. 
The Lives of Others - Great German Movie. Another Recommend. Takes place in the time Germans spied on each other post world war II. You might need to brush up on history to get the context, but you can manage without it. Very very well done, and great acting. 
4 luni 3 saptamani si 2 zile - A very powerful russian (or is it romanian) movie about abortion. Brutal but excellent film making

Sorry about the random order of the movies, but it all just came out in that order, and I'm not about to spend much time (maybe that's why I suck at blogging) on reordering.. meh. 

Movies I want to see:
La Vie en Rose [French]
Mongol [Mongolian]
Falscher Die [German]
2 Days in Paris [French-ish]
The Savages
Love in the Time of Cholera
Wristcutters: a love story
There Will Be Blood
Lust Caution [Chinese]
Le Scaphandre et le papillon [French]
Naissance des pieuvres  [French]
Assassination of Jesse James
Mon meilleur ami [French]

wow. its been a while since I've posted on this one. hahaha. :)
anyways, its the middle of the summer, and i'm still waiting. and still sending stuff in. oh well. there will be other things to happen and to look forward to, there are always other opportunities. You know, I was listening on NPR and I heard that the average 30 yr old (or somewheres around there) person nowadays holds about 6 different jobs before that age? Apparently they were doing an article on how america's twenty-something crowd takes more time to figure things out about themselves mostly due to the fact that society no longer puts pressure on the younger crowd to get their life in order so quickly. In our parents' era, they were expected to at least have their life in order by around 18. So that's either hold a job that they could get promoted in or go to college/professional school to get a better job or something like that. No it isn't like that. The self-styled "boomerang generation" no longer has the expectation to have their life set by such a young age. There is a growing population in this age group that are "wanderers." Which is by no means a bad thing. They're spending more time to discover new opportunities for themselves instead of thrusting their lives into something they might or might not enjoy. Maybe this will lead to a happier generation because they'll have the experiences at their youth that will give way to an occupation they're sure they'll enjoy. Maybe not. Who knows. Either way, actively waiting (sounds like an oxymoron) for your future isn't a bad thing. It isn't "putting it off" (which has such a negative connotation). It isn't being lazy. It just is. Society evolves. Rather, it changes. I think that word has to be somewhere in the description of what a society is.

OK. here's something that probably annoys the hell outta anyone that's experienced this - those damn flash ads. Especially those on the top of these myspace pages that you mouse just happens to flow through when going up to the address bar or whatever. and then outta no where 'SAY SOMETHING. WAAAT??' or "OMIGOSH. NO WAAYY!!" it literally screws up the train of thought and surprises the heck outta me. not to mention its so annoying anyways. and if your laptop is in a public place and you forget to turn the vol. down all the way and it happens? yeah, bloody annoying to everyone.

and then theres the ones you don't even have to mouse-over. Page just loads and a female voice just says: CONGRATULATIONS, YOU'VE JUST WON AN XBOX 360. or whatever. stupid bitch. shut the hell up. if she were here, she'd win a free invitation to my fist. arrrgh. so you have to find the small little square to click on to stop it from playing. but some of them don't even have the mute button! like the one where it says SWAT THE FLY TO WIN XX BUCKS!! and there's this annoying fly sound that just goes on and on and on while you're listening to music.

i don't even know what they're selling, so they don't even serve their purpose. terrible marketing is all i have to say. it just serves to make me angrier. and you wouldn't like me when i'm angry..

remember the days of yesteryear?