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dommeyourass, mintwaster and I made jokes about coming up with the livejournal form entry.
Here's the couple categories we mentioned:
"I hate work"
"stories/encounters with an ex"
"dream interpretation"
"horoscopes"
and I would add:
"observing strangers doing something fcked up"
"movie reviews"
This entry will be utilizing the horoscope and movie reviews forms. And it might be long depending on how soon earthlink will keep me on hold, which, since I'm trying to cancel my account, might be forever in an attempt to get me to stay which won't happen since I finally got DSL. I installed it last night and the form said it could take up to 60 minutes to complete. I did it in 10. Probably because I never actually read those terms of agreements and just click "I accept" assuming that I can get out of any contract. But anyway...
Weekly Horoscope:
You want to make your mark on the world, RAYMOND, that is for sure. But you are not certain about what is the best way to do so. Or rather, you have some idea, but you are a little worried about whether you have what it takes. Saturn in your sign is making you very determined to get it right. You want to have it all sewn up, but nothing is ever perfect. You may not realize just how much you do have to offer that others would be willing to pay for, or would love to be involved with. Saturn is doing you a real favor, as this planet is showing you how your capacity to doubt yourself is causing you to wait, when you have everything you need to enable you to go ahead. This week Jupiter and Mercury in Virgo continue to encourage you to talk, and get in touch with those around you. Don't hold back, as you could miss out on some fabulous chances to shine. If you write, teach, or work in sales, administration, or the media, you have what it takes to flourish. So don't look back, don't dwell on your fears, but do be prepared to take your life in your hands and make something of it.
I got my official acceptance letter from Antioch yesterday along with a packet and the mandatory blue form I must return by October 7th that is actually orange. I wonder if they ran out of blue paper or if my application has a special flag. I'm paranoid that way.
In order to guarantee my slot in the program, I must send a $250 deposit. I thought I had to send $750 and was freaking out about having to decided without hearing from my other two schools. But I'm willing to take the gamble with $250 since I might not get into the other two schools OR I might get in but I'll decide on Antioch anyway. It will be nice to have the reassurance that I'm going SOMEWHERE for school in the near future. Not that I really have $250 to just throw around, but here's to student loan money hopefully appearing sometimes soon.
Last night I finally saw the movie "The Shape of Things" which I've wanted to see since I saw the preview but missed it's run in the theaters. I'm big fan of Paul Rudd and the director Neil Lebute and I heard good things about Rachel Weisz's performance.dommeyourass came into the room at one point and complained about the bad acting. I think it was more a combination of Neil's characters always engaging in painfully awkward dialogue along with her hearing Gretchen Moll speak. She's totally the poor man's Charlize Theron.
I'm simultaneously annoyed and intrigued by directors who make movies about themselves, either as rebuttal statements or underhanded insults to critics and/or fans. It's so self-serving and egocentric, yet I also love how it plays as an inside-joke or a statement within a statement. I hate it but I can't look away. Todd Solondz's Storytelling seemed like a "response movie" and at the time I watched it, the second story seemed stronger, but Miss Rook and I were talking the other week about how now, a couple years later, we don't remember anything about the second story but remember everything about the first one, the one about the professor and the student fcking.
The Shape of Things wasn't exactly that type of commentary within a movie, but there's certainly a way that he made the manipulating sadistic main character fascinating and sympathetic to watch and the ending had lots of statements and speeches about art and her duty to show how fcked up people can get. I sort of spaced out. Mostly when the movie ended I thought "wow, it was just like the preview, only longer." I have this reaction a lot to movies lately. I'm not sure if it's the fault of marketing campaigns revealing too much or if movies just don't go in depth enough for my taste. For the most part, I love watching previews, but only if the movie is coming out so far in the future that I won't remember what I saw by the time it came out. Or if it just adequately teases without revealing. I know a lot of people wanted to go see "Whale Rider" after the trailer, but I felt like I'd already seen it -- they showed almost everything in abridged form, including what looked like a happy ending. It seems like trailers used to have a different problem, where great movies had horrible horrible misleading previews that made me want to run away but later I was convinced by trusted friends that they were actually pretty good (e.g. "Three Kings" and "The Slums of Beverly Hills" and "Election"). I'm not sure which is better -- too much or too little.
Maybe I'm starting to prefer preview for foreign films because they don't include any dialogue, since Americans don't want to read during the commercials.
dommeyourass, mintwaster and I made jokes about coming up with the livejournal form entry. Here's the couple categories we mentioned:
"I hate work"
"stories/encounters with an ex"
"dream interpretation"
"horoscopes"
and I would add:
"observing strangers doing something fcked up"
"movie reviews"
This entry will be utilizing the horoscope and movie reviews forms. And it might be long depending on how soon earthlink will keep me on hold, which, since I'm trying to cancel my account, might be forever in an attempt to get me to stay which won't happen since I finally got DSL. I installed it last night and the form said it could take up to 60 minutes to complete. I did it in 10. Probably because I never actually read those terms of agreements and just click "I accept" assuming that I can get out of any contract. But anyway...
Weekly Horoscope:
You want to make your mark on the world, RAYMOND, that is for sure. But you are not certain about what is the best way to do so. Or rather, you have some idea, but you are a little worried about whether you have what it takes. Saturn in your sign is making you very determined to get it right. You want to have it all sewn up, but nothing is ever perfect. You may not realize just how much you do have to offer that others would be willing to pay for, or would love to be involved with. Saturn is doing you a real favor, as this planet is showing you how your capacity to doubt yourself is causing you to wait, when you have everything you need to enable you to go ahead. This week Jupiter and Mercury in Virgo continue to encourage you to talk, and get in touch with those around you. Don't hold back, as you could miss out on some fabulous chances to shine. If you write, teach, or work in sales, administration, or the media, you have what it takes to flourish. So don't look back, don't dwell on your fears, but do be prepared to take your life in your hands and make something of it.
I got my official acceptance letter from Antioch yesterday along with a packet and the mandatory blue form I must return by October 7th that is actually orange. I wonder if they ran out of blue paper or if my application has a special flag. I'm paranoid that way.
In order to guarantee my slot in the program, I must send a $250 deposit. I thought I had to send $750 and was freaking out about having to decided without hearing from my other two schools. But I'm willing to take the gamble with $250 since I might not get into the other two schools OR I might get in but I'll decide on Antioch anyway. It will be nice to have the reassurance that I'm going SOMEWHERE for school in the near future. Not that I really have $250 to just throw around, but here's to student loan money hopefully appearing sometimes soon.
Last night I finally saw the movie "The Shape of Things" which I've wanted to see since I saw the preview but missed it's run in the theaters. I'm big fan of Paul Rudd and the director Neil Lebute and I heard good things about Rachel Weisz's performance.
dommeyourass came into the room at one point and complained about the bad acting. I think it was more a combination of Neil's characters always engaging in painfully awkward dialogue along with her hearing Gretchen Moll speak. She's totally the poor man's Charlize Theron. I'm simultaneously annoyed and intrigued by directors who make movies about themselves, either as rebuttal statements or underhanded insults to critics and/or fans. It's so self-serving and egocentric, yet I also love how it plays as an inside-joke or a statement within a statement. I hate it but I can't look away. Todd Solondz's Storytelling seemed like a "response movie" and at the time I watched it, the second story seemed stronger, but Miss Rook and I were talking the other week about how now, a couple years later, we don't remember anything about the second story but remember everything about the first one, the one about the professor and the student fcking.
The Shape of Things wasn't exactly that type of commentary within a movie, but there's certainly a way that he made the manipulating sadistic main character fascinating and sympathetic to watch and the ending had lots of statements and speeches about art and her duty to show how fcked up people can get. I sort of spaced out. Mostly when the movie ended I thought "wow, it was just like the preview, only longer." I have this reaction a lot to movies lately. I'm not sure if it's the fault of marketing campaigns revealing too much or if movies just don't go in depth enough for my taste. For the most part, I love watching previews, but only if the movie is coming out so far in the future that I won't remember what I saw by the time it came out. Or if it just adequately teases without revealing. I know a lot of people wanted to go see "Whale Rider" after the trailer, but I felt like I'd already seen it -- they showed almost everything in abridged form, including what looked like a happy ending. It seems like trailers used to have a different problem, where great movies had horrible horrible misleading previews that made me want to run away but later I was convinced by trusted friends that they were actually pretty good (e.g. "Three Kings" and "The Slums of Beverly Hills" and "Election"). I'm not sure which is better -- too much or too little.
Maybe I'm starting to prefer preview for foreign films because they don't include any dialogue, since Americans don't want to read during the commercials.
