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| Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 | | 5:14 pm |
The only thing those anti-drug commercials on TV make me think of is how much I miss doing drugs. Every time one comes on with some sad little kid burning his diploma or building a marijuana cocoon I can only think: Where the hell are these kids getting their weed?! I'm only reminded of how much I am NOT doing drugs and how much I wish I were. :::Sigh::: | | Friday, February 22nd, 2008 | | 10:33 pm |
Persepolis
As far as the books go, I feel they are one of the finest examples of graphic literature I have or will ever read. As far as the movie goes, I personally believe it was an excellent adaptation of those books. Standing alone, though, for one who has not had the opportunity to devour those totally unique and utterly magnetic texts, it drags in the way most movies adapted from books will, having to pick and choose moments from an expansive and beautiful collection to expand upon or extract all together. I hasten to add that I absolutely adored this movie. The simple, evocative imagery coupled with honest emotion make it completely relatable, adorable, and powerful. But I can understand how one without a supreme connection to the basic comic form or to simple illustrations or to deep thoughts having to do with revolution, death and war might feel less inclined to enjoy themselves during this film. My father is an educated man, but he fell asleep. Long animated films which are trying to express something more than bang bang goes the gun do not interest him. This is not a folly, but a simple difference in taste. He spends his days reading about children addicted to heroine and fielding phone calls from parents driven insane by narcotic use. I see no reason for him to go to movies to 'experience life's darker side', as this movie at times achieves beautifully. There were, however. times when the movie shied away from stronger points it might have made about culture shock or depression. Perhaps I read too strongly into the text, but there were moments that I feel the movie glossed over to make it more acceptable for a movie-watching audience, as opposed to the more learned individual that would take the time and effort to mentally play the beautiful composition itself with talent and expertise. If you know Zadie Smith, you'll understand that last sentence. All in all, I recommend definitely both versions, whether or not they lie in your general field of "taste." The books because they are perfect, fascinating, and completely cohesive (unlike this post!) and the movie because it contains in it an essence of that same beauty and magic that draws in the reader so completely to the novels. And it has music! I tried to shy away from any sort of spoiler in this post, but the movie and books revolve around Marjane Satrapi's childhood during the Iranian revolution. In other, less exciting news, or more I supposeddepending on your outlook, I have finished Nobokov's Lolita. Possible review to come. | | Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 | | 4:52 pm |
In order to be a godfather one must be confirmed in the Church. Since my brother has indicated that I am the first in line to baptize his unborn child, I am going to be confirmed in March. As such, I have to pick out a name to be confirmed under, so if anyone wants to help me pick out a name, here is a handy list of saints that you can choose from. http://wordbytes.org/saints/names.htmI'm leaning towards Ignatius (Confederacy of Dunces character) or Augustin (author of Running with Scissors) I don't want to pick my own name because wont that just be a funny mix-up in heaven? | | Tuesday, December 25th, 2007 | | 9:53 pm |
Tomorrow is: 8:00 AM GRE 10:00 AM A Year In Review 11:00 AM Finish Packing for New York! 02:00 PM Go shopping with Mom and Nena! 06:00 PM Get dropped off at airport! 08:00 PM Plane time to Vegas! 11:00 PM Plane time to New York! | | Monday, December 17th, 2007 | | 10:37 pm |
| | Sunday, December 16th, 2007 | | 9:25 pm |
Took my final on Friday! Hurray, my last undergraduate test. I still feel like UCLA bureaucracy stole my graduation from me, but whatever. I did it finally. The exam was surprisingly challenging. Also very, very poorly made. It was the kind of test that you could read through the questions and find answers on different questions. Then came Friday. It was ol Greggers b-day so I called to see what the happy-haps was. We ended up rolling out to Moose's goodbye party. I still can't believe I said goodbye to here, she's one of my best friends. But I'll see her in New York! So it's all good. After that... =( Today I bought 10 books from Borders. Overpriced? Yes. But.. I couldn't say no. They are like crack. Except my REAL problem is... I will go out and buy 10 books, then end up finding another random book on some random errand and read that one instead. Okay that's as good as it gets for this update. | | Thursday, December 13th, 2007 | | 10:27 pm |
hace mucho
It's been a long time since I've posted on this thing. I recently began filling out that year-in-review survey I stole from Greg awhile back, and realized that this journal actually does help me remember, at least, those little things in life. And hey, those lil guys count. Here are a few random updates: I've been studying for the GRE for the past month and have actually enjoyed becoming reacquainted with Math. I dumped that ho pretty harshly years ago, but now that we're back together, I remember all the things I liked about the bitch. She's like an old lover, with long, smooth division and full supple primes. She challenges me, and I like it. I am finally finishing that last class that I shouldn't have had to take. Tomorrow is my exam, and I'm positive it will be relatively easy. Goodbye Philosophy, you were, at least, somewhat informative. There were several things I learned that I didn't know already, so congratulations community college, you aren't a complete and utter waste of time. As far as Christmas is concerned, I have all my presents picked out. I bought my brother his first Christmas tree. It's plastic, 4-feet tall, and has lights attached. It fits perfectly in their little condo, so props to me. We're all allergic so it's not like I could get them a real tree if I wanted to. I bought my new sister a pair of Peridot (her birthstone) earrings. My actual sister I bought the Wayne's World 2 soundtrack, which is completely appropriate if you know our relationship at all, and a face hygiene kit from Origins. For my mother, a rather stunning pair of amber earrings. Amber is my favorite stone, by the way. Holds an electric charge, and the only "stone" made from something that was once alive, as opposed to the rocky tumultuous innards of the Earth. .... shut up me, you're doing it again. Dad gets some tools. I leave for New York the day after Christmas! Hazzah! A taste of freedom is nigh. Very, very cold freedom. Though I suppose Jean Paul Sartre would argue that all freedom has a little bit of cold attached to it. Thanks Moorpark College, but that one I knew. I'll be staying with Sophia, a dear friend, and will be adventuring for a good 10 days. My twin informs me I'll love the place, so I'm inclined to believe that I wont want to leave. Hey, if Passions decides they need yet another long-lost descendant of Luiz Lopez Fitzgerald and Cheridan Crane, maybe I'll just happen to walk by during the casting call and land myself a job out there. What I do know, is that when I return to Oxnard after my journey, is that I will have no GRE to study for. I will have no Philosophy class, and I will have no more excuses to be bumming around. Don't get me wrong, I don't dislike sitting on my ass all day watching movies and playing with my dog in the sun, but it's not like I don't want to be working. Jayne Cobbe would say that those who can't find work aren't looking hard enough. Buh-zing Firefly reference. I've had a job (usually 2, a few times 3) since I was 16. It's not the money I want. It's not the greens burning a hole in my wallet... its the gas in my car. It's the plane tickets I could buy, hostel stays, Belgian waffles, Korean BBQ, etc. It's the warm side of the freedom that I miss. The money is just what pays for that, and that's the part that's cold. Who am I kidding though? We all want the dolla dolla bills ya'll. If I had a magic card that paid for all of my gas, I would road trip all over the US in a heartbeat and eat McDonald's until I ran out of money. These are unorganized thoughts, but that's what you're here for journal. Thanks for listenin' LJ, until next time. | | Tuesday, November 6th, 2007 | | 9:36 pm |
Denzel... stay out of my Shakespeare. | | Monday, October 22nd, 2007 | | 5:35 pm |
Life at home is boring. You'd think I'd post here more, but nope! I am considering moving to New York with Athenna, but I don't have enough money just yet to handle that. I am also considering moving up north to San Francisco, but that too requires more money than I have. Wilde would say that anyone who lives within their means lacks imagination. I suppose I am not very imaginative. Tomorrow I think I am going to go to a temp agency, just to find work to do here to make money. I still have my job at the Publishing company, but its so part time and so far away that I break even with money spent on food and gas. I'm clinging to that job though, because they are going to publish a kids book of mine, which, hello, can only help me get a job at other publishing companies, and maybe even get into graduate school. My boss is dragging her heels though. This is her busy time of the year so she doesn't know when she'll be able to stick that into the line up. Hopefully soon. Its a tiny, tiny company though, so don't get excited people. I applied to a job in Berkeley that starts in January and lasts until April at a really cool magazine. I don't know when Athenna wants to move to New York, but hopefully it would be after that job ends. I also really hope I get that job. I'm also considering working as an executive team leader for Target because hey, its not like there are publishing companies here so I might as well work somewhere. I have a friend that works there who can hook me up so that might be an option. I think I'd have to stick it out there until at least February though, so hopefully I find out about that Berkeley job soon so I know to pursue it or not. I guess I could always quit though. Quite the boring post, wasn't it? Thank god I've got the GRE to study for or else I'd be going nuts. | | Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 | | 3:50 am |
Will Hadikusumo is the shit. Mostly because I showed up to work drunk, and he just let me pass out for like 2 hours. | | Monday, September 10th, 2007 | | 7:31 pm |
| | Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 | | 9:51 am |
Got tired of waiting for everyone to decide to buy their tickets to New York so I just bought mine today. I had no problems stomping around Europe by my lonesome, so why should I have problems in a place where I already speak the language and have the right currency? Cool Birthday, here I come. | | Monday, September 3rd, 2007 | | 7:44 pm |
Well, I tried reformatting my old computer, and now it wont connect to the internet. Fucking computers. Fucking have no money. | | Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 | | 11:29 am |
I got a $420 paycheck today. Dead even. Is that you God? Trying to tell me to buy something? | | 10:02 am |
decisions.
My boss wants to keep me on staff for the moment. I've pretty much decided I want to move home so I can save money to move somewhere else, though. I really do like my job here, but I gotta get out of this city for a little while. I've decided to move home, and work here 2 days out of the week until I find a job in Ventura, so that I can have something to do, have some money in the meantime, publish my children's book (she loved my story), and help out my boss. This means I'll be here on Mondays and Tuesdays of each week! Who wants me on their couch Monday night? | | Monday, August 27th, 2007 | | 2:48 am |
I feel like I've been in this chapter for far, far too long, and I can't remember why I'm still here. I am desperately hoping that my book job gives me shitty hours, and bad pay, so that I can easily say "No thanks, I'm moving home." I hope that they publish my children's book, though. I don't want the decision to be difficult. Maybe I'm just making it difficult. One day, I want to write something like this, and maybe I should just spend the next year trying: "No fictions, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy words like unicorn and soul and infinity that have now passed into the language. And the particular magic of homeland, its particular spell over Irie, was that it sounded like a beginning. The beginningest of beginnings. Like the first morning of Eden and the day after apocalypse. A blank page." - Zadie Smith | | Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 | | 1:04 pm |
So I think my phone is broken again. I can only make outgoing calls... sometimes... and then when it wont go through I have to turn it off and on in order to get it up and running like normal. When it is like that I can't receive any calls or texts either. Also, I scuffed a guy's car this morning on the way to work. I left a black smudge on his white bumper. I asked him to check how much it would cost and hopefully we'd be able to work it outside of the insurance companies. I didn't see a dent, but there was definitely black crud on the back. Hopefully he just buffs it out on his own. Hopefully he doesn't call his insurance company. Lots of hoping there. Me no want high insurance. On the hopeful side, it should really only come out to maybe a couple hundred, if he doesn't try and dig deeper. So there goes maybe 300 bucks, hopefully Which essentially means goodbye to that new laptop I was trying to save for, and if he digs deeper, there goes any hope of getting a new phone. Blah, money sucks. I need a job. Oh wait, I have 2, and they both don't pay enough. | | Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 | | 12:21 pm |
A time when everything in your life is decided by the question, "Will this look good on my resume?" | | 10:22 am |
hm.
Well, my book company asked me write a book for them. They said any age group, just go for it! Pleasing! I am excited. Also, they said that if my heart was in publishing, there would be a place for me at the office next year. Amazing! Except that all of my friends already have their living situations figured out next year. And I was kind of prepared to move home. Maybe I'll commute and just sleep on my friends' couches during the week. | | Sunday, August 19th, 2007 | | 1:56 pm |
at work wasting my life watching as the world turns on youtube. |
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