wildseven

So this has been a pretty uneventful last while. I'm just composing my letter to the college board to grant me a year's leave of absence. Apparently it's a sure thing, due to the circumstances. So once I email that, it'll be sent in on my behalf. And that will be the end of it! At long last. I can finally breathe a long-awaited sigh of relief. Starting to get my head back together, I think Just relaxing all day and participating in things when I feel like it is a good thing. No stress, for once in a long time. Boring sometimes, but I can let the dust in my head settle for a while. I think it's already helping. Just a sort of mellowness that seems to be replacing the constant stress. I can even extend by another year at the end of my break if I like. So I don't have to worry about that side of things for a while. I've started a project to keep my fastidiousness sated I'm reorganising all my hard drives, consoles, everything. Scrubbing the media on my PS3 and redoing it from scratch. Properly. Something about organisation just seems to settle my head a bit. Weird, I know, but...

In the past week I've been watching more films! I'm watching a lot of new ones, that I haven't gotten around to seeing in the past. I thought they were all excellent! Except the second half of The Abyss. It got reeeeeeeeeeeeeeally corny. So, here goes:

Vanilla Sky: I loved this film. So damn confusing! A total headfuck from start to finish. Didn't know what the hell was happening right up until the very end. Which is good, in a way. Brings into play the divide between dreams and reality, and how hard it can be to tell the difference sometimes. Like waking up and, for a split second, thinking your dream is still happening. But in this film it's totally blown up, 'til you can't tell dream from reality. I really enjoyed it.

Blazing Saddles: Hahahaha. This film was ridiculously hilarious!
"Well, gee, thanks Hedy."
"It's Hedley, damn it!! Hedley LaMarr!!"
Not really a whole lot to say about this one... Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder make another brilliant film together! I regret not having seen it sooner.

The Abyss: OK. This film starts out amazingly. Ed Harris and, AND the guy from Terminator. Michael Biehn, I think... Kyle Reese, anyway. Snappy sarcastic dialogue. Stereotypical "bitch-of-an-ex-wife" character. Straight out of a Steven Seagal film. And it was good! The action scenes were perfectly timed and spaced out, so it didn't get boring. The mysterious creatures were a great idea. Their mastery of water. And the fluid breathing system?! I love that whole sci-fi side of things. Breathing through liquid, like time travel, gets my brain churning out buckets of ideas. Love that type of stuff! And for a good two hours it was a great film. Until it got to the home straite. Mr. Cameron... Please learn to end a film properly. Fell flat on it's face, just near the end. So close to being a memorable classic.

The Descent: This was an amazing film! Scared the fuckin' shit out of me. I watched it on my own, in a bright room and it still totally got me going with the jumpy bits. It's set in an underground cavern (I know technically all caverns are underground ) and follows a group of spelunkers exploring a cavern system in the Appalachian mountains. They get cut off from the surface and have to try and find their way out. But they're not alone. The main part of the film takes place in a tiny, cramped, pitch-black cavern. It's an English film that came out a few years ago, and it lived up to it's reputation. I thought it was great. The camera-work was done excellently; really made the experience realistic. Crawling through cramped tunnels without knowing what lies ahead. Spooky shit, but totally enjoyable.

I got a super-limited edition of Bioshock 2 the other day. Even comes with a 12" vinyl of the soundtrack So today I finished the first one. Which means I can now play the new one! Tomorrow is going to be fun And I've a bucketload of new CDs to rip. Haven't done it in a good while. Letters are coming along swimmingly too! Bah for now chumps and chumpettes I'm doing a comedy blog soon of some of my favourite comedy clips! Mostly Monty Python, I'd say. But you never know