5 days down

Summer is boring... I want to actually have something to do. Something productive. Well, I shouldn't complain too much, because I have been filling these past few days with stuff. But still, soooo much extra time. In fact, enough extra time to fit in 11 movies. In the past 5 days... 11 movies... Yea, that bored...

Well I might as well talk about these movies, no? A list should suffice. I like those.

• Once- About undiscovered Irish musicians who run into each other and have a week to record together. Great music. At least I think so. I love their accents. You can hear it in some of their songs. It's rated R, but just because they use the F word about 10 times in the first 30 seconds. They're Irish... It's what they do... Here's one of their songs. This one actually won an Academy Award for best song this year.
  
• Secondhand Lions


• Artificial Intelligence:AI- Weird, weird movie. Didn't really like it. Spielberg kinda freaks me out sometimes...


• The Sixth Sense- I was having a Haley Joel Osment marathon, if you couldn't tell... I can't really talk about this movie, because I'd ruin it if I tried. It's good though. I don't normally like thriller/horror films, but I really enjoyed this one.



• The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian- One of few I saw in theaters this week. I think it was Tuesday we went... Can't remember. But my family and I ran into some familiar faces while we were there. I liked the movie, mostly. More than I thought I would. Liked the actors a lot. (Right Sheena?)



• Edward Scissorhands- Strange movie. I bought it myself a little while ago, but I just watched it again. And the whole time I kept saying to myself- What a weird movie! Some things he did were just creepy... Ugh, ew. But it's still good.


• 27 Dresses- The character was just too dramatic. Everything that occurred, she had a problem with. Even if it wasn't a big deal. That was the only problem I had with the movie though...


• The Bourne Ultimatum- Action movie. I guess it was good. I liked a few of the scenes. It kinda sucked that you didn't really know what the plot was until the last 3 minutes of the movie.


• The Hunt for Red October- History geek movie. Only got to watch half of it today though.


• Kung Fu Panda- Saw it in theaters today. Actually ran into Anthony from Clarinet Choir there. The one who played Bass. That was pretty cool. He recognized me too. It's not like I had to walk up to him and explain myself. Anyways, about the movie. It was funny when it was trying to be funny. But when they tried to be serious with it, it wasn't very good. Normally, Jack Black drives me crazy. But I was okay with him being the voice of the Panda, because I couldn't see his face. That helped.


• Can't Buy Me Love- Quite possibly the cheesiest high school film I have ever watched. My family and I just finished laughing at it. It was really stupid, and really predictable. It bothered me. But I started it, so I had to finish.
  

So my total is 11. Ten plus the half of Once I watched again, and the half of Hunt for Red October. Yep, that's bored I've been.

I'm gonna go backwards, back to my cousins graduation in Stockton. She showed us this short film she had to do for one of her classes. It's pretty funny to me, just because I know the cast/ director/ setting. So I liked it. Here it is.

Okay, back to my boring summer. With this free time I've decided to take up knitting. Well, re-take up. I started a scarf a while ago, and I'm trying to finish it. I sit in my pool room, listen to vinyl and knit. Pretty lame, I know. But that's me.

This last Wednesday Marcea and Priscila came over. That's when we watched Edward Scissorhands and 27 Dresses. (Thanks for bringing it over Pris.) Then we played a couple of board games, including Life. I lost miserably. Some $400,000 while Marcea was in the millions. Those arrogant rich. Priscila was rich to, but she was still nice. Our kids have play dates together. Then we had some dinner, and I had to make Priscila Mac and Cheese, because she's so difficult like that... Then she left and Marcea and I made brownies and played the 5th grade version of Brain Quest for 2 hours. Good times...

Off track again- My sister showed us this new band today. It's called Vampire Weekend. I'm debating if I like their music or not. It's kinda strange. Their songs are really short, and repetitive, but it's still okay. I'll put up a song, and gather opinions? Here's "Campus".

Just to prove my band geeky-ness I went to my old middle school last night for their final concert. It was great. I came early, brought my tuner, and was put to work. Well, basically. I got to talk to some kids before that. Ones coming to QH. A trumpet/ french horn player I'm really excited about. Because he really likes band, and he's good, and he started talking about band camp and asking questions and stuff. So I think he's really gonna like marching band. I hope he does. Hope he sticks with it. I like this kid! So yea, they sounded really good. Jazz band honestly was sorta falling apart during a couple of songs. But you could tell the ones they rehearsed, because they sounded great. Cadet band was.... ehhhh, it was cadet band. Concert band sounded really good too. They played the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey, (Still have to see that. I've seen 2010, so I might as well see that one) and Indiana Jones something. I thought that was kinda ridiculous, but I guess it was fun for them. And then they played some other songs. It would've given me goosebumps if they filled the room more. They almost did though. It was good. Then I was very proud when they all decided they were going to Coldstones afterwards. They said it was "tradition". I was glad. So the whole night I felt like a loner and a nerd, but I guess it was worth it. Again, lame. I know.

Okay, that's it I think.

-Julia