movies part 7: punch drunk love and narc

i rented these two tonight. the people at blockbuster all know me now, seeing as i go in twice a day.

punch drunk love: i really liked it. i didn't so much at first. watching the main character is cringe-inducingly painful at many points. i don't know if i'd say adam sandler is a good actor after watching this. he's still the same soft-spoken, exceedingly nice, rage-suppressing, socially inept lunatic he always plays in his more slapstick movies.

god, those 7 sisters. i would've either killed them all or died myself well before adulthood, in his position. too horrible to contemplate, even.

but despite the slow moments (at one point, i saw the time on my dvd player and wondered how 50 minutes had passed without _anything_ _happening_), i laughed out loud during a lot of other moments. and the movie is touching in the offbeat, -crazy people need love too, just from other crazy people- way.

will watch narc tomorrow. and get more movies. i am on a roll.

movies part 6: the glass house

leelee sobieski is kinda hot. but also kinda not. she's one of those i have trouble deciding on. man, i better figure this out in case she asks me to sleep with her.

diane lane, on the other hand. goddamn. you're so fucking hot. and you're 39 years old! outta control. she definitely didn't used to be as hot as she is now.

movie was ominous and creepy. very creepy. but it kind of peters out at the end. it kept building up and at some point realized it had nowhere to go. i guess. i'm not sure if that analogy works.

maybe worth watching, if you've got someone you want an excuse to cuddle up with. otherwise, i would leave it on the shelf.

movies part 5: the day after tomorrow

definitely worth four dollars. maybe worth 7 or 8. i would not pay 10 though. much less 14, with the subway fare and all.

the movie is ridiculous. the premise is laughable. but jake gyllenhal is funny. dennis quaid is a lovable rascal you just can't stay mad with. the japanese nasa chick is professional japanese hot. and jake's love interest is incredibly cute and pretty. maybe beautiful. i gotta look her up.

so the acting is good, and the hot girl is hot. and the special effects, which are the main pull of this movie, are special.
the VP is sufficiently Dick Cheney stupid and Dick Cheney asshole: "fuck the environment!" and "listen you asshole scientist. i'm not going to listen to you because i'm an asshole" (those two lines are paraphrased, or taken out of context, i forget which). i got a real kick out of shaking my fist and saying "Cheney..." in a threatening tone everytime he appeared on screen.
and the president looks pretty damn stupid, which is about right. i got a real kick out of commenting on how impressive it was that he was always at the actual white house in his scenes, instead of taking some hard-earned vacation time at home in texas.

swill

i went to the field near the high school and blockbuster today with howie to toss before seeing "day after tomorrow" (is that it? funny, i saw it and i don't even know its name) at 4:25 ($4 tickets!). the wind was brutal, killing almost everything we threw. so we did that for a while, and some little kids (i would say 8 years old) wanted to throw. and then we played 2 hand touch football, me and howie vs the 3 of them, and owned them. pretty sad. then we tossed some more til we noticed a few kids throwing a frisbee at a field nearby. so we went over there.

it was a motley collection 11th graders. none of them were over 6 feet, i doubt more than 2 were over 5'8". we played about 8 vs 9. howie and i got picked for different teams... he was 3rd pick and i was 4th, sadly. the offense was "spread out and don't move, while someone who thinks they can huck throws it away." everyone had this weird backhand on their right side because no one could throw a forehand. and the wind ate that shit up every time. it was painful to watch. i don't know how many times i said, "i'm right here" when a kid on my team picked it up, and then threw it away before i could say "if you need it." none of these kids were on the frisbee team (LHS has a frisbee team now, i heard they're not good, although they beat the amherst HS girls 11-1).

i'm getting way too in depth. i mainly was bringing it up because i wanted to complain about my hip. i landed right on the damn bone on my right side diving for some awful throw. i must've dove 2 or 3 times in each direction overall, but that's the only one that still hurts. although, i am happy about my diving, because each time i did it without thinking first. not really much time to considering these throws were coming from 10 feet away, but always a foot or two to my left/right and a few inches off the grass.

so yeah, i can dive. and i am a monster on the field, against 11th grade girls and boys who can't throw a forehand, or even a decent backhand. not to mention two hand touch football against kids younger than 10 years old. i feel pretty good about myself.

movies part 4: final destination

i rented this last night (friday) because raj said it was good. and i have an appreciation for devon sawa, after seeing idle hands. and i have an appreciation for ali larter, because of her acting talent.

ridiculous. i do enjoy the premise. and i love how candyman the mortician was there to handily explain it to the main characters. but come on:

1 teacher puts water in kettle.
2 stove won't light, teacher uses match.
3 teacher uses dish towel to pick up kettle, throws towel casually on knife rack nearby.
4 teacher pours hot water into mug, sees mug is from high school (bad memories), throws water out
5 teacher takes vodka out of freezer, pours in
6 mug cracks
7 teacher walks to living room, dripping a trail of vodka out of crack
8 teacher leans over computer, vodka drips into monitor
9 vodka drips into something that explodes??
10 shard of monitor impales teacher's throat
11 teacher stumbles back into kitchen
12 fire from computer explosion follows teacher to kitchen
13 fire reaches stove that for some reason has residual gas even though she lit it with a match
14 stove explodes
15 teacher is on ground with shard still in throat, reaches for towel
16 teacher pulls towel down, manages to pull down knife rack, is impaled by knife
17 something else explodes, chair falls onto knife, knife goes in deeper

i originally meant for my list to convey how transparently intricate all those inane little steps at the beginning are, and how they somehow each contribute to the dying in some farfetched manner. i don't think i managed to do that so well. whatever. the movie kind of blew. ali larter started the movie with nappy brown hair and bangs, and then for some reason is blonde and hot by the end of it. why?

iiiii caaaaaaaaaan't liiiiiiiiiiiiive heeeeeeeeeeeeere

god fucking christ. who wants to take me in for 27 days?

i can't live here

good god. i've spent at least an hour mediating an argument between my crazy mother and my inconsiderate, jackass brother who thinks he can argue like a lawyer. for all of you who think my mom is nice and cute, you haven't seen her like this. the best part is that ed is particularly good at bringing out this part of her.

i've given up, and now i'm blogging while they continue to argue upstairs in the kitchen.

this is pure hell.

today is may 28th. is there a 31st in may? fuck. 27 days until i can move into jillian's apartment. until then i'm going to keep a low profile and not bother trying to help.

movies part 3iii: stand by me

right after the fat kid (vern) drops his marshmellow into the campfire and his friends are laughing:
(i looked up teddy's name on imdb)
vern: it's not funny! what am i supposed to eat?
teddy: why don't you cook your dick?
chris: it'd be a small meal!

movies part 3ii: stand by me

holy shit. jerry o'connell is the fat, stupid, cowardly kid in this movie, and he does a good job. if i was on a bridge with a train about to run me down, i would _run_. i would not clutch the slats for fear of falling off the bridge... seems to me like that the train running my ass over takes priority over the possibility of falling 100 feet into the river.

2 really good

gordy: you think i'm weird
chris: definitely
gordy: no man, seriously. am i weird?
chris: yeah but so what? everybody's weird.

corey feldman (i forget his character's name): i'll be waiting for you on the other side, relaxing with my thoughts.
gordy: you use your left hand or your right hand for that?

movies part 3: stand by me

i'm watching stand by me right now. really weird: thinking a picture of the main character's older brother looks like john cusack, and then seeing a flashback of the older brother (who actually is john cusack). and seeing keifer sutherland walk out of a store as a hooligan asshole.

movies part 2

i rented you got served last night, in anticipation of concurrent heavy drinking. however, zhu was wrong about how late the liquor store was open (NYC does have beer 24 hours a day, thanks to rite aid, oh and appletree and edward norton (edward norton?) university supermarket) so we were dry. zhu was pissed off about the movie choice and went to sleep on the couch, waking up every 20 minutes or so to mutter a racist comment about the damn blacks. steiner suffered through it, i think. i, on the other hand, enjoyed it. i wouldn't say i enjoyed it a lot. and a big reason i was entertained was the incredibly cheesy dialogue. true that, you was smokin them fools, tight, tight, fo real, and so on. i was worried that it would be wire dancing instead of break dancing, but i think all that shit they did was real. and some of it was "off the hook." seriously, those kids are ridiculous. but for some reason, i was engaged throughout the entire movie, wanting to see what happened next. i was not bored at any point. and i must have laughed at least every 10 minutes at something super corny. the prize for that goes to the two main characters, doing their training montages in parallel because they ain't boys no more, after one of them started hooking up with the other's sister behind his back. for no reason they started training in the rain, which looked really cool with the water effects, but made no sense. and they both ended the montages on their knees. what interested me the most was how much catherine wanted to see this. that girl takes some sort of white prize, and i would loooove to see her dance, but she is so into break dancing and whatnot. i'm sure she would've loved this movie.

love actually worked out a little too well for all the characters. i think they should have had at least one person be flat out rejected, to lend a touch of reality to the movie. but i guess these kinds of movies aren't about reality, they're about feeling good and loving christmas.
favorite story: the guy and his cleaning woman who couldn't speak the same language.
cutest story: the little kid, of course
saddest story: sarah and carl (the only characters whose names i remember in the whole damn thing)
weirdest story: keira. the scene with the wedding tape... i knew exactly what was coming and it was just as painful as i thought it'd be. goddamn, keira knightly, you're so fucking hot.

i just rented stand by me, and return of the king (my brother's choice, thankfully he's run out of old bond movies). i saw stand by me in target yesterday and almost bought it ($10), before i realized i could watch it first for free.

review later tonight

movies movies movies

my brother got one of those blockbuster movie passes yesterday. good deal: can have 2 movies out at any time, for whatever length of time, and you can exchange those movies as often as you want. including new releases. $25 for 30 days.

i've already rented club dread and love actually.

i liked club dread. it was entertaining, which is all i really expected. nowhere near as good of super troopers, but that would be asking a lot. it was missing the super hot charlie's angel, but it made up for it with tons of hot girls in bikinis, and copious amounts of upper body nudity. penelope was incredible, as well as being a hymnast. i laughed the hardest at the beginning when i saw each character from super troopers without his mustache.

love actually was really sweet and cute and nice. at the end, anyways. that whole countdown to christmas was incredibly ominous. at 3 (i think) weeks to christmas, i was feeling quite grateful for not being in love, with anyone, anymore. shoot. more thoughts, that i will forget by the time i get back, but howie is finally back, and a bunch of us are going to eat. RIBS. more later.

on my list of rentals:
about schmidt
punch drunk love
you got served
master and commander
stuck on you

movies i've already seen that i might rent anyways:
return of the king
the last samurai

anyway, i have a title field

this new blogger really is nice. i think i could get to like it. i enabled blogger commenting as i don't feel like redoing halo commenting, however that works.

anyway, what have i been up to recently? not much, really... let's see, movies:

anyway, i rented the cooler from blockbuster. i liked it a lot. alec baldwin was a badass, and he had a girl name, shelly, which was cool. i like william h. macy a lot, but i _dislike_ seeing his bare ass. i feel a kinship with his character. anyone who's watched the guy i'm defending in frisbee inexplicably drop the disc would understand.

anyway, i saw shrek 2 in the theater, it was really good. much much better than i expected. laughed through most of the movie, thanks to antonio banderas as the voice of puss n' boots.

anyway, i rented scary movie 3 from blockbuster. not so good. it is really missing the wayans bro. magic touch. they didn't even get a farewell episode! parts of it were funny. the star of the series is really pretty in this wide-eyed, open-mouthed fashion. she was also in lost in translation and friends. can't remember her name.

anyway, these were all on separate days, so i'm not entirely pathetic.

anyway, i updated my facebook profile. lots of movies i like. and books. but they ought to have dork sections too, like anime and video games. and porn. eh. i guess i wouldn't want to know what kind of porn other people like. since it would be just guys answering. yes, i take that back entirely. also, that is all too true that entirely too many girls check off "random play" and "whatever i can get" when they don't really mean it. if they did, guys like me (and steiner) would be a whole lot happier. it's too bad for me (and steiner) that most girls have something called "standards," whatever that means. but that's what alcohol is for, i guess.

anyway, this whole anyway thing is my patented oh-so-subtle mockery of someone else's blog. i promise. i'm not retarded.

although to be honest, i'm glad she says such mockable, quotable material. i've gotten 3 solid away messages from her. it's like how don and i were discussing how penny is just walking a-material.

reason #43245 home is better than new york, or in a broader sense, the suburbs beat the city:
the bottle shop has a magic hat 12-pack sampler for 11.99. it's got #9 (really really good), H IPA (really good), hocus pocus (really really good, i think there's honey involved somehow), and mother lager (which i have not tried yet), 3 of each. and the bottle shop is 2 blocks away. and i can drive there. screw you, exercise.

after not posting for 13 days, i've posted 9 in the past 3. why am i pointing this out? is it so i'll have posted 10 times in the past 3 days? no, you idiot. you're stupid.

everyone should go here! jeremyblachman.blogspot.com

he's a 2nd year (just finished his second year) starting his summer internship at some law firm, goes to Harvard Law. funny. he's funny. and i like his perspective.

catherine said she liked my new blog, and it looked snazzy. maybe, 5 minutes after i changed it? i don't remember. or maybe a whole night ago. either way, it kind of creeped me out. you're creepy, catherine.

as for being creepy: i opened up IE and the picture on columbia's homepage is of mi hae. i was unable to close the window until now... about 2 hours later. don't worry raj, i saved the picture to disk.

as for being creepy: eric zhu was browsing around my facebook account and found a hot friend of someone's. so i was looking through her profile, and her cucommunity website. it is incredible how much information i have access to, despite having no idea who this girl is. frightening. i'm not complaining, though. i think.

i feel like posting pieces of IM conversations up here is cheating. i'm not really going through any effort, and a lot of it is fluff. and also, i didn't ask the other person if it was ok. i figure she won't mind, though, as it's not sensitive information. it's not like she's been in love with a girl ever since they first met, or something.

just another deep, life-path, meaningful IM conversation (it just sounds impossible, doesn't it?)

i'm putting it here because. and i use the <--- thing, which i like using. it almost feels like don's thing with the pointing at oneself. e.g. ---> this guy <--- ... and i like the soulless thralls line. and i say something about creepy, so it flows naturally. then why am i justifying it? shuttup.

me talking to a girl who is going into banking after she graduates. she's a junior at NYU with a summer job at some ?banking place?, which, by process of elimination, is not merrill.

ericthehodgeheG: so you're definitely staying in new york
bunkie003: i like ny
bunkie003: i think there are more jobs here
bunkie003: but id kinda have to go where i got a job
ericthehodgeheG: definitely more jobs in ny
bunkie003: but ny is kind of tiring so i don't think i could do it really long term
bunkie003: id need trees and bushes and stuff
ericthehodgeheG: yeah i'm glad to be out of there
ericthehodgeheG: i mean, what would you do
bunkie003: with trees?
ericthehodgeheG: go insane and check into a hospital?
bunkie003: i don't like inch worms though
ericthehodgeheG: haha
ericthehodgeheG: so if you get a job in ny
ericthehodgeheG: you're working, and working, and working
ericthehodgeheG: and no trees
ericthehodgeheG: and you decide you need trees
ericthehodgeheG: then what
bunkie003: after two years
bunkie003: switch jobs
bunkie003: or go to school
bunkie003: i dunno
ericthehodgeheG: i thought satan is kind of loathe to let his soulless thralls out of his terrible grasp
bunkie003: nah most out of college kids work 2 years at a place
bunkie003: and then switch or go to school
ericthehodgeheG: but the soulless thralls?
bunkie003: we wander the earth in despair at having lost 2 years of our youthful lives
ericthehodgeheG: yay :)
bunkie003: exactly
ericthehodgeheG: i like wandering the earth
ericthehodgeheG: that's kind of what i want to do
bunkie003: me too
bunkie003: see a couple places
ericthehodgeheG: lose a couple more years of life
bunkie003: i don't think it would be a loss though
ericthehodgeheG: right, not a waste
ericthehodgeheG: like the satan thing
bunkie003: no thats a total waste
bunkie003: hehe
ericthehodgeheG: would you go to business school?
bunkie003: maybe
bunkie003: i hear its fun
ericthehodgeheG: they always have parties
ericthehodgeheG: with kegs
ericthehodgeheG: at columbia
bunkie003: sounds about right
ericthehodgeheG: that's kind of creepy
ericthehodgeheG: you're kind of creepy
bunkie003: i know
ericthehodgeheG: <--- creeped
bunkie003: whats so creepy
ericthehodgeheG: business
ericthehodgeheG: satan
ericthehodgeheG: you
bunkie003: hehe
bunkie003: yep

i'm writing it down here cuz i don't know where else to write it that i won't lose it.

places i can stay:

jillian in DC
as long as i want, extra bedroom, from july -

austin in rochester
as long as i want, ?? house or apt ??, from september - (i think?)

austin in cleveland
2 weeks, ??, ?

corey in NY
2 weeks, couch, ?

john baldwin in NJ
2 weeks, ??, ?

don in alabama
2 weeks, ??, ?

casey in wisconsin
all summer, ??, all summer

anyone care to fill in holes?

i chose a new template, which i don't even like very much, and all the formatting i did before is gone. like the halo comments. i have no idea how to put them back up. email me or something if you want to comment. i'd like it if you did.

i finally wrote letters to umich and ucla. and mailed them today. it's impressive how i managed to do them as soon as i finally got off my ass about it. too bad i didn't do that a month ago, or whenever i received the waitlisted letters. still, the thing took me about 3 hours to write, so i'm confident it's pretty good.

i went to the post office to mail them off, then the bank to deposit some checks. i saw jake there. he's funny.

i went to the mall after that, got my wendy's. i walked over to the movie theater. it was 2:49 on the theater clock, and mean girls started at 2:50. but two adolescent girls were working behind the counter. i was too embarassed to buy a ticket, so i came home.

someday, lindsay, someday...

whoever said new york has the best food is rich. and takes cabs everywhere. and is dumb.

yesterday i drove to quizno's. today i drove to wendy's. tomorrow i will drive to arby's, or the panera bread company, or maybe costco.

fast food >> city food

i forgot to post this earlier, but:

the first time i walked into my bathroom at home, i stood there for 2 or 3 seconds wondering why the light didn't turn on. then i turned on the light.

kinda funny, i thought.

it really is over:

Lyra1231 (10:30:48 PM): eric
Lyra1231 (10:30:49 PM): come over.
Lyra1231 (10:30:54 PM): we'll order saji's
ericthehodgeheG (10:30:58 PM): :(
ericthehodgeheG (10:31:05 PM): wow, that actually made me sad
ericthehodgeheG (10:31:07 PM): good job

funny enough, i was talking to london at the same time, and:

ericthehodgeheG (10:28:38 PM): basic instinct is on tv
SeaOtter16 (10:29:03 PM): never seen it
SeaOtter16 (10:29:12 PM): can i come watch it with you?

funny timing, i thought. seems like people don't want to remember that we don't all live within a tiny rectangle in morningside heights.

i'm watching the friends finale right now, and i'm completely lost. luckily zoe was online and i could ask her who the girl in labor was. that article linked to in raj's blog is pretty good.

i did like the line by joey: "you can't just give up! is that what a dinosaur would do?"

managed to get in an argument with my mom about finding a job on the ride home. and she told me i could live somewhere else if i didn't like home today.

didn't take too long. only 3-15 more months of this.

what the hell? blogger is all crazy now.

i graduated yesterday. my diploma is very plain. really plain. does not look like what i'd think a diploma would look like. oh well. you better be worth it, diploma.

i just logged in to check if i still had a gmail invitation. i do. does anyone want me to register a name for them? i should register 50000000340324932809890 names and sell them. could i get kicked off gmail for blogging this?