Revelations

As a child, I was obsessed with many movies, some of which include E.T., Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Grease. The reason I point out these three out of MANY is the simple fact that upon watching these shows again around the age of 14 or 15, I suddenly realized that I had NO CLUE what these movies were about as a child.

E.T.
1) I had no idea that Elliot and E.T. were physically co-dependent.
2) I thought those guys in the suits were also aliens.
3) I didn't understand the implications of the rude name "penis breath".
4) I didn't understand that the flower was healed by E.T. and then died when he was dying. I just thought they were crying over a dead flower.
5) I DID NOT understand why Elliot acted so weird in the scene where E.T. gets drunk and Elliot is acting out the movie while he's at school. Totally over my head.
6) I thought Drew Barrymore's character name was "Birdy".

Raiders of the Lost Ark
1) What's an ark?
2) What's the covenant?
3) Who's the evil guy?
4) Why does the bad guy make Marion put on that dress?
5) That's it, I want to be an archaelogist.
6) SNAKESSSS

Grease
1) "A hickey from Kenickie is like a Hallmark card." I thought that he just made up a word to rhyme with his name, and he really gave Rizzo a card.
2) "75-cent insurance policy" I really thought he meant the insurance policy for the car, not a condom. And when he said "it broke", I thought he meant that a) the certificate ripped or b) it was expired. Yes, I was 9.
3) I thought Danny was just being nice by giving Sandy a ring, and I couldn't understand why she got so pissed, then I realized he basically tried to rape her. Yeah, that would piss me off too.
4) I also didn't understand how Rizzo thought she was pregnant and then she wasn't. I didn't understand the female menstrual cycle at the time and I just thought she was stupid.

Ennui

I'm skipping class. I feel abnormally tired. I'm probably suffering from a bad case of ennui. I am not loving this weather, or my constant sneezing, or the fact that Jesse James cheated on Sandra Bullock.

I am not very stressed out, although at this time of year I feel like I should be. I don't even want it to be summer, because I'm going to be so busy it will just be depressing for me to look outside at the beautiful warm weather while I'm working or at school or (hopefully) interning.

I have watched and acquired some good movies, though, always a bright spot in my pathetic life. Withnail and I was funny. I bought Harry Potter 6, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Batman, and Jurassic Park. 500 Days of Summer is next on my Netflix queue.

Formal is this weekend and for the first year ever I am going to feel like I look hot, probably because I finally found a dress in my favorite color that I actually like..

I miss Mary.

I hope my Romeo and Juliet-inspired short is funny. Hopefully I'll shoot it this week. I'll post after I submit it to the International Shakespeare Film Festival.

That's it right now. Sorry for the boring blogs as of late.

School-ish update and me getting way too excited about celebrities

Can I just say that I'm not loving real school. I say real school because to me Harlaxton was fake school. Not that it wasn't difficult -- it was much more difficult than any class I've ever taken at LTU besides maybe Calc 2 or University Chem. It's just that it was so much easier to like school when you got to wake up, throw on your sweatpants, walk a few feet, sit in a sunny room full of creepy cherubs and hardwood floors and rolling green hills outside and learn about the awesomeness that is British history and then take off to Lincoln and London to see it all. I honestly didn't really mind doing homework for British Studies or Renaissance History. POLITICS is another story.

Anyway, I'll go class-by-class I suppose.

1) Introduction to Film Production -- This is a Media Comm elective that I'm pretty much only taking because I didn't want to wake up at 8am on Fridays for Cinematography. It's okay. Since our school doesn't have much in the way of equipment, we just set stuff up in class and learn how to be a PA. We are shooting a re-creation of the witch village scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail after spring break which should be fairly cool.

2) Collaborative Communication for Leaders -- TEAMWORK class. So naturally, I dislike it. However, because we're actively learning (doing activities, watching movies, presentations, etc.) the class goes by quickly. I really despise it though. Group work, while I understand it is necessary, is particularly difficult for me because I always feel like I have to pick up the slack for everyone else. My past overachieving tendencies always emerge in these situations and I hate it.

3) Screenwriting -- This class is okay. It's nice because all we do is read the book, write a script, read it out loud and critique it. But sometimes I get the feeling that my teacher doesn't quite know what she's talking about. I learn more from the book and the other students' critiques. The teacher always wants me to make my stories more fantastical and weird and I never want to do what she tells me to. She grates on my nerves sometimes. However, I understand that a lot of things bother me.

4) Directed Study -- love it! (And not just because Jennie reads my blog). I get to do things that I want to do. My next project is re-creating a scene from Romeo and Juliet for the International Shakespeare Film Festival. So that will be fun!!!

I am going to watch The Oscars tonight, and this is the only year that I have not seen ONE Best Picture nominee. Not even UP. I know! Please don't get mad! I am very disappointed in myself. In my defense, I was out of the country while most of the Best Picture nominees were being released. No excuse. So now I'm going to use the awards show to gauge what movies I should watch. And, DUH, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin are hosting. Wherever they are, I am.