A train that will take me far away. I know where I hope this train will take me, but I can't know for sure. Hopefully it will be away from people who talk during movies.
I love movies. I watch them all the time. I quote them all the time. I try to make my life one as much of the time as possible. Every afternoon, when I come home from school, I do two things, always: get a snack and start a movie. If it's a movie I know very well, I can just listen and not watch. This makes it perfect for background noise as I do my homework. If it's a movie I don't know that well, or that I'm watching for the first time, I tend to sit there transfixed for two hours. No work gets done, but it's definitely an enjoyable experience.
I can't start a movie and not finish it. I feel sad, lonely, and incomplete. I can't handle people talking during movies. I'm trying to hear the dialogue for possible quoting opportunities, okay? We agreed to watch this movie, not to have a conversation during this movie. I can't concentrate on other things during a movie, unless I know it very well. I sit in my chair, hugging my knees, focused, with my mouth ajar, for two hours. Sometimes I might even drool.
I'll watch any type of movie. Action, drama, romcom, horror, animated, foreign films, anything. If you were to ask me what my favorite movies were, it'd be one of the most random collections. The only kind of movie I cannot stand, however, is one where everything goes wrong. They all usually follow the same pattern: start out promising, there's a misunderstanding -- or something trivial like that, and then the entire movie just flops for me. There's a very simple solution to this problem. It is not to wait until the end of the movie to reveal that there was a misunderstanding so that everything can magically return to normal. It is to admit the misunderstanding immediately and save an hour and thirty minutes of my time. I tried to think of a popular example, but I must have suffered through them so badly that I blocked them out of my memory once they were over.
My favorite place to watch a movie is, of course, in a theater. In a perfect world, I would visit a completely deserted movie theater every day after school. It would be great; I could get Sour Patch Watermelons, sit in the best seat (a middle row, a little to the right), laugh and cry as much as I wanted without anyone around to see. Unfortunately, I hardly ever go to the movie theater by myself, as that has been deemed "lame" by nearly all of my friends and family, nor do I have the 9 dollars to spend every day after school. The movie theater is never deserted, and I have to sob obnoxiously with everyone around me. This is particularly frustrating -- the Dobby death scene WAS sad, and that was NOT an overreaction.
If I see a movie, and I like it, I will watch it repeatedly. No exceptions. I saw Inception in theaters 8 times. I've watched it at my house many more than that. I'm watching it right now! Lord of the Rings, Spirited Away, The Prestige, Labyrinth, Pride and Prejudice, Clue, Help!, The Sting, Marie Antoinette, Ocean's 11... only a few examples of movies that I've seen upwards of 10 times. A lot of things can draw me to a movie. The most important thing would probably be the storyline, but in addition to that, the cast, the soundtrack, the costumes. There's even a period of time where I like every movie that I see. Eragon included -- and before Edward jumps on me, I'm not proud of that one.
Man, did this one get long, and I had so much more to say! I am beyond crushed, but I have made the decision not to continue this any longer. To sum it all up in three words, I love movies. The end!
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Sitting in the dark, eating mixed nuts.
I am by no means a morning person, nor am I a night owl. There is nothing particularly great about the afternoon. No mysterious force draws me to the midday, or the early evening. In every twenty-four hour period there are countless ups and downs, and I can't bring myself to pick one time of day that I like the best. Thus, I classify myself as an "all day" person.
I love to watch the sunrise. I like to sit in a canoe on a quiet lake in the early morning and listen to loons and watch fish jump in the distance. I like to cook breakfast and eat it outside in an early morning breeze while perusing a magazine. Morning is a peaceful time, where everything should be soft and quiet, the graceful dip of the paddle in the water, the little pop of the toaster, the wind ruffling up the leaves, or the gentle turn of a magazine page.
I love to be lazy in the late morning and early afternoon. I like to sit on the couch in my pajamas and watch Grey's Anatomy with a cup of tea, not doing anything, not wanting or feeling like I need to do anything. As waking up to watch the sunrise usually results in a headache, this time of day usually brings an ibuprofen and maybe a quick nap.
I love to be "out on the town" in the afternoon. The afternoon makes me feel like I should be doing something. For me, it symbolizes activity. I don't mean hardcore partying in all of Chambana's hot spots, just being in a car. I like to go to the store, to the bank, or to a restaurant for a late lunch. I like to ride horses in the afternoon. I like to see my friends.
I won't say I love to be busy in the evening, because I don't, but I inevitably will be. While the afternoon is usually about frivolous activity, the evening, for me anyway, is about getting things done: homework, cleaning, the un-fun things. I'm not one of those people that can be productive at 11 AM, I always do everything I need to in the evening. I don't like to run errands in the evening, I don't like to be out -- it's getting dark and scary, and to me that means stay inside.
I love to stay up late. I don' t like to stay up late working, I like to stay up late without a reason to stay up late. I like to sit on my bed and read, the Pride and Prejudice soundtrack playing softly in the background (Colin Firth version only, please). I like to eat popcorn in the basement and watch the end of a good movie with my mommy -- it makes me feel like I'm in a secret club. However, perhaps most often, I usually like to find myself sitting in front of my laptop in the dark, munching on Planter's mixed nuts, now more than 50% peanuts!
I love to watch the sunrise. I like to sit in a canoe on a quiet lake in the early morning and listen to loons and watch fish jump in the distance. I like to cook breakfast and eat it outside in an early morning breeze while perusing a magazine. Morning is a peaceful time, where everything should be soft and quiet, the graceful dip of the paddle in the water, the little pop of the toaster, the wind ruffling up the leaves, or the gentle turn of a magazine page.
I love to be lazy in the late morning and early afternoon. I like to sit on the couch in my pajamas and watch Grey's Anatomy with a cup of tea, not doing anything, not wanting or feeling like I need to do anything. As waking up to watch the sunrise usually results in a headache, this time of day usually brings an ibuprofen and maybe a quick nap.
I love to be "out on the town" in the afternoon. The afternoon makes me feel like I should be doing something. For me, it symbolizes activity. I don't mean hardcore partying in all of Chambana's hot spots, just being in a car. I like to go to the store, to the bank, or to a restaurant for a late lunch. I like to ride horses in the afternoon. I like to see my friends.
I won't say I love to be busy in the evening, because I don't, but I inevitably will be. While the afternoon is usually about frivolous activity, the evening, for me anyway, is about getting things done: homework, cleaning, the un-fun things. I'm not one of those people that can be productive at 11 AM, I always do everything I need to in the evening. I don't like to run errands in the evening, I don't like to be out -- it's getting dark and scary, and to me that means stay inside.
I love to stay up late. I don' t like to stay up late working, I like to stay up late without a reason to stay up late. I like to sit on my bed and read, the Pride and Prejudice soundtrack playing softly in the background (Colin Firth version only, please). I like to eat popcorn in the basement and watch the end of a good movie with my mommy -- it makes me feel like I'm in a secret club. However, perhaps most often, I usually like to find myself sitting in front of my laptop in the dark, munching on Planter's mixed nuts, now more than 50% peanuts!
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