Watched the Donnie Darko DVD and holy hell, is that a mind-fuck of a movie! Definitely a keeper—you’ve totally got to see that more than once. Lots of good music too; I might get the soundtrack.
I need to make a list of movies I want to catch up on (not necessarily in this order):
Requiem for a Dream
Memento
Napoleon Dynamite
Almost Famous
Saved!
Red Rock West
Waiting for Guffman
Traffic
Watched When Harry met Sally yesterday and didn’t find it to be nearly as charming as I once did, maybe because I’m not a romantic soul anymore, or maybe because it didn’t age well. Dunno.
Was dismayed yesterday to find that someone beat me to the Mexican Coca-Cola in the Hispanic food section at Wallyworld. Damn, I was hoping to keep that my special little secret, that Mexican Coke is still made with sugar instead of corn syrup and tastes worlds better than American Coke. There was only one bottle left, which I took. They’d better get another shipment in soon, dammit! That’s the only soda I drink now, unless I’m at school and about to fall asleep, in which case I get something from the vending machine. Mexican Coke doesn’t make me feel like shit after I drink it, like American Coke does.
Warm kitty-cats on my lap but I have to pee.
Monday, March 27, 2006
God I’m pissed. I finally get the stupid-ass laptop wireless connect card, I insert the CD and it doesn’t auto-start. So I double-click on setup.exe and I get a message: “What program should we use to open this?” How the fuck should I know? Come to find, though, that the whole issue is moot anyway. The card, an Option GT MAX, which, from what I could gather, was the only one Cingular offered that’s Mac compatible, DOES NOT FIT INTO THE SLOT. Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. I was really hoping to be on the internet by this point and no longer dependent on the shitty school computer lab. So now am I going to have to buy an adaptor or something? More likely I’ll just return the whole gottdamn thing and call Peg to see what she uses. Nothing’s simple.
And the cats were playing marbles with the blown-glass eyeballs for my ball-jointed dolls and lost one. Grrrrr.
Anyway, I’m tired. Spent about three hours this evening in the ceramics lab, throwing on the wheel. That shit’s hard.
Tuesday, March 28, 2006, 9:55 AM
Here’s what I wrote in class yesterday:
I’m being critiqued right now. Here it goes. I’m totally divorcing myself from
people’s opinions – it’s not my story.
Not enough conflict. I’d like to
see more dialogue. Just about main character observing.
Great idea for a
story, BUT energy is different in introduction. Journal form preferred. Narrator
is character’s protector, too tidy; better to be there with, or “be” character.
Journal shows change.
Style of writing belies theme of story. Style is
very relaxed. Paragraphs are too long and languid. Show not tell. Too distant.
Write in first person, present tense. Currently in third person limited. End is
too tidy and predictable; should be messy. Sounds like “what I did on my summer
vacation.” Need tension. “A story I would want to live, not what I want to
read.”
Whatever. Teacher did say that I’m a good writer. He’s weird though. Lots of times acts like the class clown rather than a professor. I was talking to a classmate yesterday who pointed out that the prof makes a lot of sexually inappropriate comments, and I paid attention yesterday for the first time. Holy mackerel, he needs to get laid. Plus every other quip has to do with alcohol. I think he thinks I’m attractive; he said something to the effect that he could look at me all day. WTF? Oh well, tough noodles on his part. I’m so sick of being with losers that if I can find nothing else, I’d much rather be by myself.
posted by Newpeep, N.D. (neurotic depressive) @ 5:42 PM
2 Comments:
Requiem for a Dream is very good - and if you like druggie movies, Spun is good too. Don't know why, but I love addiction flicks.
I think the setup program you tried to run was for a PC not for Mac.
Anyway, I've heard a lot of good things about the movie Saved. Only seen part of it. Waiting For Guffman is a total riot! I love that one.
When Transamerica comes out for rental, check it out. Maybe you can still see it at the theateres. But I loved this movie and can't wait to see it again when it's available on rental.
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