Lazy sunday

Today could have been slightly more enjoyable. It started quite well, I slept in and then went to see a movie, which I missed about 15 minutes of due to public transport. It was neat because I went alone and there was NO ONE in the theater! Then again, who goes to the movies on a Sunday? I spread out nicely and enjoyed myself. Afterwards I decided to indulge and to finally try out those infamous queue-de-castor. Silly me, after waiting 10 minutes for my beaver tail, I decided to walk out of the theater rather than having a seat and eating it up. Big mistake. I had chosen chocolate as my topping and so as I walked out of the theater it was melting and then when I bit into it, the chocolate was all over my face and shirt! So embarrassing.. I sat on a bench outside and had to deal with the chocolate going everywhere (including inside my bra!) while strangers walked past. It wouldn't have been too bad if I was with someone.. 

Anyway, onto the movie! I went to see The Art of Getting By. I had seen the trailer and thought it might be a good movie. It was, but I could tell it wasn't meant for my point in time of life but I could relate it with what I was going through in my late teens and early twenties. The cinematography was obviously well thought-out and beautifully executed, I also enjoyed the editing very much. I had certain small issues however with how the female character was being portrayed as essentially a ping pong ball that gets thrown around between the male characters which I guess is unavoidable since we are experiencing it from a male's point of view. Yet certain scenes bugged me like the one where George (main) and his artist friend/mentor are walking around a gallery and one painting catches George's eye which is of about 20 some odd slices of cake on separate plates on a table top viewed from an above eye-level perspective. When the friend notices he says: "You love this. I can see why.. fetishizing an object, it suits you." My problem with that line is that it means George's love interest (Sally) is an object, and that cake, is an object, which it isn't, it's a food. Also, I never got the sense that there was fetishizing going on, that would mean that George saw Sally as an object, which was definitely not the case. It was more about allure and desire. The build up and contextualization of the story was great but the development and the ending felt a bit strange to me and a bit too "viewer friendly". It had the potential to dig deeper and to leave a non defined open-ending. It was a nice film nonetheless. On a last note, I very much enjoyed the music in this movie and am looking forward to the soundtrack!

The chihuahua guard dog, he basically barks maniacally at anything that moves.

The movie theater wasn't far from the airport so I got a shot a plane going to...somewhere, which made me wish I was on vacation!!

My lazy Sunday outing ended with a view of the sun setting behind some trees.

Moi César, 10 ans1/2, 1m39

Here is a movie I paid 2$ for. It isn't new, it was released in 2003 and is truly a gem. Lately I've been having bad luck with purchasing movies. Mind you I'm not spending big bucks, but it has accumulated and I wish I could have some of that money back..but not for this one! Looking at the cover and reading the synopsis I imagined it would be sort of a quirky tween film, which it is, but it had so much more depth and heart than I expected. If this were a Hollywood film, it would be absolutely horrible. Luckily it is raw, funny and painful, like much of the memories I have of my own in-between years.

like a floating pixie in the sky

Here's to twiddling thumbs and aimless spend-less shopping.

Can't quite explain myself at the moment, I have spouts of ambition and I feel that there aren't enough days in the year for me to conquer the world and I have moments that I have absolutely no idea what the hell I am doing or where I am getting at.

I wasted my time today standing around an aisle of juices. So many people rushing to buy things, I had no reason to buy anything at all. Why was I even there? I was the one with music in my ears but people should really watch where they're going.

You should look on both sides before crossing a junction, I just might body slam you.

One of my favourite movies:

"Better Off Dead" from 1985, it is a laugh and a half oh my.

A movie I'm currently watching is called "Bright Star", so beautiful yet so empty. I'm trying really hard to like it but it's tough. The acting is making me gag and there's something I can only describe as constant pms, all over it. It is often unbearing, but so beautiful *_*.

Despite feeling bored and like I have nothing to do, I actually do and should get moving fast.

Instead I'm finding blogs devoted to Japanese dolls and holy crap there's some intense doll clothing on it I wish I could make, but what use is that skill in the world? Yet I can't help it, I want to do this sort of ridiculous thing.

I've been working on a video compiling work and research on a set of plates a fellow designer and I designed as well as submitted to this year's One Off's Food Design 6 competition. As the time going by increases so my confidence of us winning decreases. I was just as sure that my jolly rancher candy wrapper would win me a meeting with Hanson over a decade ago, but after a few months of no word I realized it didn't matter how much I believed it. This time will be different! yes?

Monday is movie night?

Tonight my friend and I went to go see a movie called "The Proposal", it was quite spontaneous. I had seen the poster and it didn't lead me to think it to be a good movie but when we were deliberating which movie to see, she sent me the trailer and I was pleasantly surprised, I really wanted to see this movie all of a sudden!

So we made plans to meet tonight and when I arrived at the movie theater, I found my friend in the middle of a huge line! Who would've known Monday night was THE movie night!

It was nice and lively at the theater and I realized that the last few times I had gone it was rather sullen and quiet, it's nice to see people laughing, smiling and enjoying themselves, it's very contageous.

Which makes a great movie even greater. Although the plot line isn't exactly new, it is done in a believable way and I believe that is due to the amazing performances and direction given by all who were involved. I truly loved this movie to bits and cannot wait to see it over and over again:)