Rough Top 10 (Happy birthday to me!)

Because it’s my birthday weekend, and I felt like being a little indulgent.

#. Film title (Release year; Director)

1. Big Fish (2003; Tim Burton)
“They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops.”


2. Fantasia (1940; Various)
“Musically and dramatically, we have here a picture of the struggle between the profane and the sacred.”


3. The Trial (1962; Orson Welles)
“It is said that the logic of this story is that of a dream… or a nightmare.”


4. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928; Carl Theodor Dreyer)
“Are you in a state of grace right now?”
“If I am, then may God keep me there.”


5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968; Stanley Kubrick)
“I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.”


6. The Night of the Hunter (1955; Charles Laughton)
“It’s a hard world for little things.”


7. The Godfather Part II (1974; Francis Ford Coppola)
“I don’t feel that I need to wipe out everybody, Tom. Just my enemies.”


8. Fargo (1996; Joel Coen)
“Two more months.”


9. Princess Mononoke (1997; Hayao Miyazaki)
“Pay attention, everyone. I’m going to show you how to kill a God.”


10. The Mirror (1975; Andrei Tarkovsky)
“And I can't wait to see this dream in which I'll be a child again and feel happy again because everything will still be ahead, everything will be possible...”



[Next time, I'll have an actual piece of writing prepared. Cross my heart.]

The 'Cyanide & Happiness' tribute

Clickage to make them larger is recommended.

That College Business

I honestly have no idea what to think about my college experience so far. It’s kind of like I love it and I hate it at the same time, you know? I mean, it’s everything I thought it was going to be, from the good and the bad perspectives. But for right now, I’d like to focus on one from each category.

First off is the sense of independence. This is really great for me because all my life, I’ve been looking for an opportunity to prove that I can take care of myself, all by myself. And this is precisely what the doctor ordered. More than that, I’m just glad to be away from the stuffy and uncomfortable environment of my home. I no longer have to be stuck under the same roof as a house full of irritable and insensitive assholes. That’s very nice. So yeah, I have been enjoying all the time to myself.

But then there’s the almost unbearable loneliness I’m feeling. Now, I know I just spent an entire paragraph explaining how much I love being on my own. But you have to understand the difference between being on your own, and being totally alone in an area you aren’t savy with in the first place. And don’t get me wrong, I’m not some Franz Kafka, sitting alone suffering. Not at all. I’ve made friends and am being reasonably sociable. It’s just that I don’t have any deep-rooted relationships yet. While it’s not like I was expecting to or anything, I just didn’t realize how much not having anybody to count on could suck. Hell, I don’t even have a roommate, which in theory that sounds cool, and at times it is nice to have some privacy. But there’s nobody around for me to just shoot the shit with. Although it is preferable to the company I shared my previous lodgings with, so there’s that.

Well, it would appear that I have some conflicting feelings to contend with. I s’pose I’ll just have to wait it out to see which one of the two aforementioned emotions I wind up indulging in. Le sigh.

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I come bearing good tidings. There will be an actual piece of writing up by tomorrow. w00t. But until that time, here's some more memetic shit.

The Leo Strut

Because I don't think I've spammed this blog with enough pointless memes yet.











Don't worry, I'll get an actual piece of writing in here... eventually.

Faith in humanity, commence getting lost

There are lots of things I don’t understand in this world. But I'd at least be able to wrap my head around said goofs or just brush them off completely. However, when I came across the following U.S. box office statistics, my mind was absolutely blown.

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World - $29,251,000

Vampires Suck - $33,099,000

According to these figures, more people went to see Vampires Suck than Scott Pilgrim vs. the World theatrically, which makes me a very sad panda. Humanity, you sicken me. SICKEN ME I tells ‘ya. Pointing out the obvious lack of originality in either Avatar or Shutter Island is one thing. Choosing a total and complete waste of time over quality filmmaking is just a whole new kind of evil.

'Inception' memes

Because they're hilarious. Although clickage to make them larger is extremely necessary for some of these.

Funny schtuff.

'cause I can. Click on the pictures to make them larger if needed.

















That last one made me laugh until I started crying.