film rocks. period.
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katekat(last week)
monday....
D, Joel, Christy & Greg and I went to see Cloverfield. I went expecting to be annoyed or dissapointed, and honestly, was heartily surprised that I wasn't! Not that this film is, in any way, ground breaking. I wouldn't call it the cinematic masterpiece of moster films or anything like that, but as someone who was going in expecting to be underwhelmend I was actually surprised.
I think the hand cam addiction is both good and bad. Fantastic, because it allows for special effects to feel real because clarity is obscured. There is no good tape - there is only the "real" of the record. And it allows for exclusion, strips the narrative down to a single point (unless, of course, you have multiple tapes, but that's not the case here). It works really well in a film like this. Really well.
tuesday...
Oh class. Fantastic wonderful class. And my professor, when I suggested I would try to restrain myself a little so others could talk, stridently told me not to censor myself in any way. Period. That was pretty fantastic validation :D
wednesday...
I know there was one.
thursday...
stuff happened, i'm sure of it. it was cold. Neil built a fire.
friday...
a day filled with errands! Meeting with the advisor (who quite liked reading The Last Samurai, one of my favorite all time books, even if she did have a different take on it than I), class, and oh dear, I went to the conversation group for Japanese. 16 people who wanted to practice their japanese, and about 4 people who were native Japanese. I didn't really get to do more than introduce myself. And walk home through the cold.
saturday...
D and I went wedding dress shopping with a friend - and she got her dress!! And it's so beautiful that both D and I were amazed, pleased, happy, overjoyed. She's going to look beautiful. And then we bought the boots to go with. It was that kind of a kismet type day.
sunday...
Sadly, I actually had to face the globalization homework for real today. Words cannot express how painful some of the essays were. Luckily, after having to put my darling man on a plane to LA, D and I treated ourselves to whole food goodness... and it wasn't even that expensive! And now we're watching Btvs S4! Buffy & one night stands! heee!!
and that's all from the world of kate, i think. :D
monday....
D, Joel, Christy & Greg and I went to see Cloverfield. I went expecting to be annoyed or dissapointed, and honestly, was heartily surprised that I wasn't! Not that this film is, in any way, ground breaking. I wouldn't call it the cinematic masterpiece of moster films or anything like that, but as someone who was going in expecting to be underwhelmend I was actually surprised.
I think the hand cam addiction is both good and bad. Fantastic, because it allows for special effects to feel real because clarity is obscured. There is no good tape - there is only the "real" of the record. And it allows for exclusion, strips the narrative down to a single point (unless, of course, you have multiple tapes, but that's not the case here). It works really well in a film like this. Really well.
tuesday...
Oh class. Fantastic wonderful class. And my professor, when I suggested I would try to restrain myself a little so others could talk, stridently told me not to censor myself in any way. Period. That was pretty fantastic validation :D
wednesday...
I know there was one.
thursday...
stuff happened, i'm sure of it. it was cold. Neil built a fire.
friday...
a day filled with errands! Meeting with the advisor (who quite liked reading The Last Samurai, one of my favorite all time books, even if she did have a different take on it than I), class, and oh dear, I went to the conversation group for Japanese. 16 people who wanted to practice their japanese, and about 4 people who were native Japanese. I didn't really get to do more than introduce myself. And walk home through the cold.
saturday...
D and I went wedding dress shopping with a friend - and she got her dress!! And it's so beautiful that both D and I were amazed, pleased, happy, overjoyed. She's going to look beautiful. And then we bought the boots to go with. It was that kind of a kismet type day.
sunday...
Sadly, I actually had to face the globalization homework for real today. Words cannot express how painful some of the essays were. Luckily, after having to put my darling man on a plane to LA, D and I treated ourselves to whole food goodness... and it wasn't even that expensive! And now we're watching Btvs S4! Buffy & one night stands! heee!!
and that's all from the world of kate, i think. :D
