True Romance movie thoughts

So I'm going to try to do mini reviews or something similar for the movies I watch. I've been reading markwatches.net a lot lately and I love them, and it's inspiring me to start writing more.

Spoilers ahoy.

So I didn't know anything a out True Romance except that David had seen it before and remembered it. I recognized a good amount of names at the beginning, so that made me a bit more interested. It's written by Tarintino, but not directed by him. But there are so many lungful references and just..weirdness that it does make me think of him. I'm unsure if I would've made the connection without seeing his name thou.

The plot is surprising at first and makes me think of natural born killers, but not as crazy a couple. Still pretty crazy. Getting married after one night? Love so soon? I don't know if I missed the wedding or it s skipped, which is a surprising thing to not show on the screen. I like how it seems very natural almost. It feels unplanned instead of a standard movie plot. Usually I can guess what's going to happen but I wasn't sure.

I loved the random crazy Elvis talking to Clarence. I know it's Val Kilmer but I'm pretty sure you ever see his face, because he's not Val Kilmer. He is Elvis, and he helps Clarence. In the credits he is listed as Mentor. It makes me happy.

There were a few times when I shouted at the TV. Sometimes the characters need to just to listen to me!!

The climax was good. Everything coming together. The image of the room covered with floating feathers and coke and blood made is seem fantastical.

The ending was good and happy and funny. Life goes on, and I love her narration about what she would have done if he had died. She would have wanted to die, and then that would have faded, and she would've moved on with her life. A movie called true romance, that is HONEST! Makes me think of Tim Minchin and his song if I didn't have you... I would have someone else.

Overall a good movie. It fits somewhere above the "only watch on TV if it's on" and "would be cool to own" rating

I'm extremely sleepy from my long happy weekend, but I should blog because I said I would. And because I see something on twitter that makes me happy.
Amanda Palmer somehow started a twitter tag for #FuckPlanB. One of the quotes that makes me happy: 

@gemini_scorpio ...because even failing plan a spectacularly is better than half-assing it from behind plan b.

I saw another that said something like 'once I figure out plan a first...' which feels way closer to what is going through my head. I'm too cautious, I worry about what if this or that doesn't work, I don't think I even look at plan a unless I have plans b c and d, and by that point I'm so tired and worn out from plan 'get by while i figure out a plan' that I need to start over. I want to stop that. I want to sit down and figure out what I want to be when I grow up. What would make me happy. There is a big part of me that is dying to run out and jump into something head first w/out looking behind me and being scared, and the rest of me is terrified at all the what-ifs. Job, love, family, friends, everything, I want to figure out what i want and run for it without any fears. Plan b is all those fears. Fuck plan b.

Going to start blogging again. Will aim for every few days.

I forgot how much I used to to do this. It's very odd going back and looking at my GIST stuff, it feels like a different person wrote those.

I wonder if i should limit this to just friends. Should I link it on twitter. Will people click it. Questions, questions.

So this weekend I saw Lost Boys, that famous 80s vamp movie w/ the Coreys. It was pretty typical 80s, funny, cheesy, action-y, random sex scene w/ wispy curtains-y.  I can understand why people like it, but it almost seems like a novelty in some ways. I like... funny movies, but with a heart. This was... like a short story that was neat but I didn't really care what happened. I'm not sure if that's cuz it was old and doesn't seem..serious or not. It's similar to what I feel when I watch orig star wars. It's so big and famous and...so known that it makes me not get invested in the movie at all. Even if I don't know what's going to happen, I feel like I do and I'm over it. Part of me greatly dislikes this attitude since it means I'm not getting 'into' the movie, and I really like escaping and feeling like I'm 'in' it.

But it was still fun to watch regardless. And the company was good.

Schedule for life

So I've been insanely intensely depressed lately, and I need to fix it.  I don't know how, because I just don't like to talk about it with anyone.  All they could tell me is default crap that I already know.  I will get over it, just need time, this is life, other people have it worse, bla bla bla.  I don't want to hear it, I tell it to myself and it doesn't help, hearing it from others is just condescending.

So I want to change.  I don't know how, cuz I just sit and watch tv and get sad.  So I will make a schedule and stick to it.  I have no clue who reads this, but if you do, yell at me to stick to this.

Weekday:
6am : wake up and eat breakfast, leave for work no later than 6:40
do that work thang here
home by 4:30-5, lets assume 5
5 - 6 exercise in exercise room by apts (1 hr)
6 - 6:30 shower (.5 hr)
6:30 - 7:30 cook & eat, maybe start cooking before shower or something (1 hr)
7:30 - 8:30 study programming (1 hr)
8:30 - 9 clean (.5 hr)
9 - 9:30 self improvement (.5 hr)
9:30 - 10:30 overage/games/tv

Tuesday is Glee day, so all this is skipped.
Thursday is Langels day, exercise is cut to half hour so I'm not late
Saturday is the same, everything just starts at noon, and MUST include some kind of social interaction somewhere, even if it's only a phone call.
Sunday is planning day. Shopping/prepping meals for the week, meal planning for the next week.

Plans can change any day to include whatever, just try to stick to the exercise and study prog at least. And the eating thing.  That helps.

explanations:
exercise will include podcasts/books on tape via mp3
study programming will be reading python books, playing w/ my own personal website (dev, not content or anything), basically learning linux and coding
clean will be cleaning apt, decorating, vacuuming, dishwashering, whatevers. hopefully this will decrease as i get better at it
self improvement means blogging, writing reviews (vain goal), crafting (x-stitch, papercraft)


So yea.  That'll work.  I just have to stick to it.  Must stick to it.

I want to be positive and post more grace in small things, and hopefully remember to always cross-post on the other side (blogger and ning buttons that automate my copy/paste would rock. I should make that).

Today I am happy about:
1. Getting more sleep and having my head/tummy feel way better by the end of the day
2. Jim feeling better and sleeping through the night finally
3. Being right about the # tag in jquery not being ajax-related, though that doesn't fix the problem
4. Watching some Burn Notice on tv and liking it's style a lot
5. Organizing my kitchen using and old desk organizer

Tomorrow my work will be in a whole new office. One next door.

I work for an awesome company and we live in our 'parents' basement (our corporate company).  We've been pretty full for awhile.  Some guys have their desks in the warehouse area, one new guy just got a laptop on top of a teeny weeny desk and he got some filing cabinets so he had some more surface area.

So we bought the place next door, woot!  It's way bigger and has room for expansion.  We are still right next door.  Our servers are still there, the cafeteria is there (I will reiterate, wednesday's 'Thanksgiving Lunch' was amazing, loved the stuff, go Tom!), and the big conference rooms are there.  The new building has plenty of desk room, but not much space for a conference room or anything.

My stuff is mostly all packed, expect that I'm helpdesk so I'm not sure how that will work.  I'll be working till everyone else is moved and setup and then I think I'll finally move.  I hope it doesn't rain.  We're just walking our stuff over cuz it's so close.

ZOMG i'm so excited and nervous.  I hope it's awesome.  I'm sure it will be.  We will make it awesome, go Provinet!  And to top it off, maybe I'll eat a salad tomorrow and like it.  Maybe.  It's possibly.  Probably.

So I'm gonna go watch Clerk 2 the Documentary till I fall asleep.  I'm going to wake up, move into a brand new office, and then hang out with Mike and Kimberly saturday.  Today really sucked, but hopefully the next few days will make up for it!

Jim and I have discovered the most amazing entertaining show.  It's called You're Cut Off.  Jim and I call it 'that rich bitch show'.  ::giggle::

Ok, so I'm flipping through the channels and see a buncha rich ladies complaining cuz their credit cards don't work.  The guy they're yelling at looks like he's about to flip, but he just tells them 'Everything will be answered if you go into the room behind me.'  So they go in, and theres a lady and a tv.  They are part of a reality show, where their dads/husbands/whoever cut off their credit cards and try to make them grow the hell up.

They get driven to a normal suburban house in a minivan, and forced to open bring one bag out of all their luggage into the house.  And they are astounded by the box of wine, they constantly complain about how this girl is a whore cuz she's 'new money'.  Zomg it's awesome and makes me giggle so much.

I don't know why I enjoy this one more than any other reality show.  Usually reality shows are boring, just people bitching a lot.  But to watch these rich girls get shoved into a normal middle class life is just so Awesome!!

The last episode they made them take off their makeup for a photoshoot.  ZOMG they were freaking out.  So awesome.

VH1 has all the epis.  I highly recommend it.  Especially drinking cheap beer on the couch with friends, for better laughing with.