Some Dreams
I’m at work and didn’t get to finish what I was writing at home yesterday. I am tired of the sad, sorry blank space so I thought I’d put up some plans for the coming days.
1. Discuss my thoughts on Brittany Murphy’s recent death (so sad).
2. Get up my Avatar review
3. Talk about some new blogs I’ve been reading
I think that’s it. I would really like to get back into the habit of posting regularly. If you read this, is there anything you’d like to see more/less of in the coming year?
Megan
Packing
The packing isn’t
Done, but oh so very close
Maybe one more day
The Handicapped Bathroom
I go into the
Handicapped bathroom just to
Get away from you
The Power of Stories
Blog Write to Done recently featured an article by freelance writer and creator of beplayful.org David Masters. His post uses anecdote and historical examples to prove how everything in our lives takes shape through the stories we know. David’s article is an excelent example of the power of imagination. Understanding the power of stories applies to any creative outlet you may have: writing, blogging, painting, film (the list goes on…).
If you’re in a medium where you’re doing a lot of writing I suggest putting Write to Done in your RSS feed. They provide a lot of great tips and support to the writing process from a variety of different sources.
Back in the Saddle [Watching this Weekend]
My personal life has been pretty busy for the last couple of weeks. I’m pretty sure that I’ve already mentioned how I’m in the process of buying my first house (which I’m super excited about!) and applying for grad school (keep your fingers crossed!!). With the holidays and starting to gear up for the new school year at work my hours at home have been mostly devoted to recuperating. Of course, that has included watching some flicks, but I haven’t been writing like I want to.
Somewhere up in the dream cloud of new couches, paint colors, and MLA formatted papers I’ve also been dreaming about seeing Duncan Jones’s Moon. I missed it in Scottsdale last weekend, but it is still showing in Mesa. It’s farther away than I would want, but I’m willing to drive to see this movie. I really REALLY hope it’s worth the effort.
Last week a new episode of True Blood came out. So far I’ve been really enjoying this season. I’ll refrain from talking too much about it – I’ll do a full review of the season when it comes out on DVD but I am definitely looking forward to seeing another new episode on Sunday.
On the TV front I’ve also been watching So You Think You Can Dance. One of my coworkers and I love to watch this show and I’m considering looking into tickets for the tour if it comes to our area. It’s been a really good season so far with some great dancers – as always. I have the bad habit of missing about half of every episode but what I’ve seen has been good TV. The Top 10 were announced yesterday and I think it’s a great group. The show always picks way up at this point in the season so I’m looking forward to a good next couple of weeks.
We have a documentary Roving Mars in from Netflix this week. It’s been waiting around for almost a week or so, so hopefully we’ll get around to it this weekend. The grad school application is in but we’ve still got house stuff and a good friend’s birthday to contend with, so Moon might be all we get to. Either way, this weekend is going to go by in a blur, I just know it. I’m still trying to decide if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.
Do you have any viewing plans over the weekend? Let me know in the comments.
I’m a Little Busy [Weekend Openings Preview]
So I’m a little busy this week – I have to have my application to grad school finished by next Wednesday. Here’s a brief preview of what’s coming out this weekend:
Wide Release
My Sister’s Keeper – The premise of this movie really bothers me. Parents have one kid who gets cancer or lukemia – one of those terrifying horrible diseases no one wants to see children afflicted with. So naturally, they decide to have a 2nd child – as a backup so that Kid #2 can function as a doner for if/when older sister needs replacement parts. I understand that this was also the premise for a book of the same title. Wow, that’s a pretty fucked up premise. And this is supposed to be the uplifting feel good movie of the summer? I’m not interested. The Tomato Meter at Rotten Tomatoes is a 40%, but the top critics are giving at 60%. That’s not really enough to get me into the theatre.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – Not. Interested. I didn’t like the first one. There was always too much moving on screen during the action sequences. Half the time I had no clue what I was supposed to be seeing. The story was completely unimpressive, I don’t like Shia LaBeouf, I don’t think I like Megan Fox and I was just pretty much bored. A movie about freaking awesome transforming cars should be freaking awesome. Not visually confusing and boring. Now they’ve made a 2nd one? It’s going to be more of the same stuff. Nothing new. Not. Interested. From the looks of the Tomato Meter the critics weren’t interested either.
So it’s another slow week (at least as far as I’m concerned) at the box office. We had a great start to the summer season and we’ve officially hit the slump. I hope things start to pick up soon.
