Thursday, August 19, 2010

As usual, a list. :)

1.Reading
Totally rereading the wheel of time series at the moment. It's so completely epic. I can't believe the first book is almost as old as I am.

2.Writing
Still have loads of fun working on writing projects. Still up for any side project your mind might be tossing around. Also, my mind has been really up for writing poetry lately which has been delightfully refreshing.

3.Blogging
I've slacked, I know. I'm taking part in a private blog with the two people I'm co writing with, so that's taken up most of my blogging skills lately. Don't hate.

4.Fonts
I had this fantastic idea for a font. Some of you might have seen letters 'L' and 'E' already, I now have also finished letters 'F', 'H', and I'm currently working on 'O', 'Q', and 'G'. The whole font is based on houses. I'll upload the 2 new letters and post them to facebook soon... or I may just wait till I have more of the alphabet. It's been a lot of fun and I love the possibilities I have with this.

5.Punctuation
I am well aware that in American culture a period or a comma goes inside the parenthesis or quotation marks. However, I prefer the European method of placing them on the outside of either of those marks. So, get over it. :P

6.List
I'm almost half way done with my things for 2010 list. :3 And once I'm overseas the rest of the list will be a piece of cake. And now that I've made that remark about my list being a piece of cake, I'm tempted to make that literally true. We'll see if I can do this.

7.Drawing?
No, I haven't started sketching all over the place and drawing full blown versions of the creases in the living room curtains. I have however started making fun patterns and cute little drawings for greeting card type stuff. I don't feel like I'm explaining myself correctly, so I'll eventually post something up here when I remember to upload the pictures. So, some time this year. :)

8.Movies
I realize that recently I've seen a lot of movies. Whether in the theater or other less honest ways. >.> I also realize I have opinions about said movies. (What a surprise!) So, I'm just going to roll into it. (Warning: Some spoilers.)

-Eat, Pray, Love- Not as good as the book obviously. Aside from that, it had beautiful scenery and I felt it depicted the other countries, and the view of the other countries from the main character's perspective really well. The script was lacking, I felt they spent too much time explaining the beginning, didn't come full circle at the end, and did an extremely bad job of showing any actual development of the main character through this soul searching journey. Julia Roberts was, as usual, absolutely amazing and did a fantastic job of bringing the character to life and the leading man who comes in towards the end of the film was phenomenal. I don't know what his name is, but I felt more emotion watching him talk about his family for 2 minutes than in the 2 hours of the rest of the film. Overall, it's an okay film, but not impressive.

-Inception- One of the best movies of all time. Period. Smart, witty, humorous, thought provoking, interesting, and perfect in absolutely everything it tries to accomplish. Like I've said before, the costumes, the music in each of the scenes, the acting, the story, it all correlates, and fits together uniquely to tell a fantastical story. There were absolutely times during the movie that I would forget that I was watching an actor and I would slip into the scene. That's how good it was. Extremely well done, all around. No complaints. None. Love, love, love, love this movie. So much.

-Salt- Angelina did a great job, even if the guy who played her partner did not. He barely had an emotion at all, throughout the entire movie. Not in his voice or his face. It was depressing to watch and a constant reminder that I was watching a movie. The story was relatively predictable and I didn't like the open ended ending. (Seeing a pattern with me and movie endings yet?) The action was great and again Angelina was fantastic at showing all the right emotions at all the right times. Good movie, not great. What can I say? Call me a tough critic?

-The Kids Are All Right- Okay. Let me start by saying that I can understand both perspectives when it comes to this movie. I think this is very much one of those films you'll either be able to look at the way it was intended and really appreciate the it, or not. I personally really liked it. No, I don't advocate for cursing every five minutes, but I felt it was appropriate in this film for the people it was portraying. Which it did perfectly, portray this semi dysfunctional family, and before you even so much as wonder .. no, I'm not talking about the fact that they're two women in a relationship. I'm talking about the relationship in itself. I think was very well done and I'd actually like to see it again to get a deeper look into the movie's message. And no, I don't think the title is misleading. The movie isn't centered around the kids per say, but it's the meaning that really drives it home. Another one of those makes-you-think films. Go ahead, call me a nerd.

-Charlie St. Cloud- I cried so much. It was such a beautiful movie. Zac Efron surprised me with his acting, I didn't know he could be that spot on. He did a really wonderful job at portraying all the emotion, in everything from his voice to his face. The story was great and I definitely felt it did the book justice. It really draws you in and makes you wonder so many things and by the end of the movie all your questions are answered. I loved this one. I would totally see it again and buy it on DVD.

-The Other Guys- This movie was plain out bad. I just don't go for stupid humor. It's not my thing. So, maybe if that's something you're into you might enjoy this one a lot more than I did. And I'm a big Will Ferrel fan, so I was pretty disappointed. I half chuckled at some of the scenes that The Rock was in, and the rest of the movie was just blah.

9.Egypt
Recently stumbled across my Egyptian history posters, articles, and things of that nature. Let the re-obsession begin! If you have or find -anything- Egypt related, you should totally send it my way!

10.Grammar
This is me finally admitting that I'm a Grammar Nazi. There. I said it. It's out in the open now. Judge me with your judgey eyes.

Hope that everyone is doing well. :)
You should totally send me an email, just because.

Peace, Love & Pancakes
-Liberty

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