April 8, 2004 – 10:16 am
So, I haven’t really done much so far this easter break. You know, just sitting in front of the computer…. Just sitting…. and looking….
On Monday night, I watched the Dawn of The Dead Preview, then I went to the Dawn of The Dead website. For not even seeing the movie, I think I got pretty scared. I got to sleep past 3am, partially because I was worried my sister would come into my room and eat me. That girl at the beginning of the preview is FREAKY! Then, on Tuesday morning, I was woken up at like five thirty because my sister and my mother were leaving for New York City. I decided to come on the ride to the train station, because I didn’t want to be alone. Again, probably from being totally FREAKED OUT by the Dawn of The Dead preview. …. And Adam wants me to see it. Bleh.
Before she left, my mother left me like $40 to buy stuff with, because she was a bit nervous that I wouldn’t get out or eat anything what with being just with my father all the time. So, with the money, I was going to go and buy The Matrix Revolutions on DVD which was coming out that day. One problem, my father said that I couldn’t buy any movies until I got a new power adapter for my computer, since mine is considered a fire hazard. I’ve been using his for a few weeks.
What was he trying to do?! Drive me insane?! No movie shopping? NO movie shopping?! Movies are some of the only things I buy. You can never give me anything less than $100 and expect me to save it. I’d just go out and spend it on movies. Within two years, I think I have bought perhaps more than fifty movies, and that’s just for my own personal DVD collection! That’s more than two movies per month…. is my math right on that? In the last month alone, I think I have purchases about five DVDs. (Of course, some of them were previewed and on sale, I don’t have that kind of money.) So, being so dependent on buying movies, I think it was awfully mean of my father to set down that rule.
Read More »
April 4, 2004 – 11:17 pm
Okay, I guess it’s a bit of a bad title for a post, but it sort of describes what’s seen in the new TV Spot for Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. From the looks of it, every single thing that made the books excellent has been horrifyingly altered until the only thing similar between the books and the movie is the title. Just a few things I’ve notice that are wrong with the preview: 1) Violet isn’t wearing her hair ribbon, 2)Clause isn’t wearing his glasses all the time, 3) Clause’s outfit looks way too modern, 4) Jim Carrey is just too uncreepy and unscary to be Count Olaf.
Maybe I’m overreacting a tiny bit. If what I’ve heard is correct, that this TV spot is meant to air during the Kids’ Choice Awards, perhaps the preview is supposed to be a bit corny because it’s aimed towards younger kids. I really hope that the real trailer isn’t as bad. Obviously, I’ll probably be seeing in theaters the day it comes out, but I really don’t want it to be a waste.
April 2, 2004 – 11:41 am
I haven’t really been blogging lately. Probably because I expected to have my new room done by now and to have a post written about that. But the new room is not yet complete, so I don’t want to get pictures of it up, yet. I can tell you that it might be one of the most unprivate room ever…. at least in countries where people usually have separate rooms and don’t live in caves. It’s a very open space that can basically be accessed by anybody just by going upstairs in our house. There is no door.
Anybody reading this would probably be wondering why on earth I would ever, ever, EVER move into a room that didn’t have a door, much less a wall. Well, in case you didn’t know already, I am a huge neat freak. So much of a neat freak that when my father -being the anti-neat freak that he is- put up a horrible shower curtain in his office to make it so nobody could see his mess, I literally got into my knees and begged to switch rooms with him. So now, my father is in my old, nice, tiny, little, old, cute, old room, and I am in his still tiny, unprivate, tiny, tiny, tiny, old office.
Now, about the whole no-wall thing. I was somewhat inspired by my father’s putting up of a shower curtain in his room- even if the shower curtain was hideous and covered in glittery spirals, and should only be used in a bathroom. I went to the fabric store and bought some really nice green fabric to make two giant curtain panels. Once completed, the curtains should look like theater curtains, and my room should look like a stage. At least that’s what I’m hoping….
