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Thursday, 12 April 2007

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    Grindhouse
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    i'm going to eat your brains and gain your knowledge.

    Yeah....so i'm thinking of changing my name to either Osymandias or Psychadelic Mango Cherry Crush. A lot of people don't know how to pronounce Osymandias i guess...they ask me a lot at Subway how to say it. (Oh yeah did i mention my name tag now reads Ozymindias?)

    i saw Grindhouse, i invited a friend to go with me for once, because i didn't want to see it by myself. For all his bravado i think it traumatized him. It was pretty wretched, Terror Planet was pretty yucky, full of bloody goo and dismemberment, but Death Proof i thought was of exceptional quality. (and only one dismemberment if i recall correctly.) For those of you that don't know the orginal meaning of grindhouse.  i've taken the liberty of using an excerpt from wikipedia.


    A grindhouse is an American term for a theater that mainly showed exploitation films. It is also a term used to describe the genre of films that played in such theatres. Grindhouse films are also referred to as "exploitation films." Grindhouses were known for non-stop programs of B movies, usually consisting of a double feature where two films were shown back to back. Many of these inner-city theatres formerly featured burlesque shows which included "bump and grind" dancing, leading to the term "grindhouse." Beginning in the late 1960s and especially during the 1970s, the subject matter of grindhouse films was dominated by explicit sex, violence, bizarre or perverse plot points, and other taboo content. Many grindhouses were exclusively pornographic.

    On a more intellectual note Amy Tan is the guest speaker at Kachemak Bay's writers conference down in Homer this year. i really hope i can go but i seriously doubt it. Hey guys, all you wonderful Barclay people. Less then two weeks until i can grace you with my presents, and yet run like from the undesirables. i'm so excited...i want to stay up late and watch the night fall. And cry because i'll be so happy, and sad and scared all at the same time. i can't wait!!!!!!!!

    love, Osymandias Psychadelic Mango Cherry Crush 

    Oh yeah i almost for got...
    Here's the poem that the name came from:


    Osymandias

    I met a traveller from an antique land
    Who said:—Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
    Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
    Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
    And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
    Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
    Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
    The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
    And on the pedestal these words appear:
    "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
    Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
    Nothing beside remains: round the decay
    Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
    The lone and level sands stretch far away.
                                         -Percy Bysshe Shelly



Saturday, 03 March 2007

  • Currently Watching
    Stranger Than Fiction
    By Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah, Emma Thompson, William Dick (III), Guy Massey (III), Martha Espinoza, Christian Stolte, T.J. Jagodowski, Peter Grosz, Ricky Adams, Denise Hughes, Peggy Roeder, Tonray Ho, Tony Hale, Danny Rhodes, Helen Young, David Pompeii, Linara Washington
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    Aren't you relieved to know that you're not a golem?-Stranger Than Fiction

    So lately i've been working up the nerve to watch Last Kiss, which i heard will leave even the most stoic of movie viewers curled up on the floor in a fetal ball of grief and depression. Much like Garden State did for me. The thing is with movies and books and music and the like, is it tends to bring back all the things that might've have been, and remind us continually about how things are now.

Wednesday, 21 February 2007

  • and a cry arose across the xanga: UPDATE.

    So i got a ZUNE for Valentines day.
    i'm going to be a brides maid in a friends wedding. (A shoo in i assure you...) Apparently she can't find the other girl.

    i amattempting to read and keep a record of at least Fifty books this year. while i'll probably exceed the book count, my records will most undoubtedly fall short.
    i'll probably watch the WickerMan tonight, but that's about it.

     

     

    DEATH TO SUBWAY CUSTOMERS!!!!

Wednesday, 20 December 2006

  • Currently Watching
    Mysterious Skin (Deluxe Unrated Director's Edition)
    By Chase Ellison, George Webster (IV), Rachael Nastassja Kraft, Lisa Long, Chris Mulkey, Elisabeth Shue, David Lee Smith, Bill Sage, Riley McGuire, Ryan Stenzel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Richard Riehle, Michelle Trachtenberg, Brady Corbet, Larry Marko, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Jeffrey Licon, Bruno Alexander, Forrest Fountain, Zane Huett
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    I thought of all the grief and sadness and fucked up suffering in the world, and it made me want to escape. I wished with all my heart that we could just leave this world behind. Rise like two angels in the night and magically... disappear.-Mysterious Skin

    So this is one of the most depressing movies i've ever seen. It takes place in Hutchinson KS, for all you Barclay peoples...But i don't recomend you watch it, because it will freakin' depress the crap out of you.

    Merry Christmas

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