Sunday, March 28, 2004
I just saw Dawn of the Dead...scared me out of my mind! ... Well not out of my mind, but it creeped me out.
I have seen Resident Evil and 28 days later, but they were not like this. This movie was much worse for 3 reasons
1. The virus is not contained. In resident evil it is in a beehive underground (course at the end it gets out, but then it is only on that continent.) In 28 days later the virus is only in England, so the rest of the world quarantines England and all is well (we loose the BBC, but life as we know it can still go on) In this movie however, the virus is all over the world! Everywhere! Every city! Every state! Ever country! Every continent! There is no escaping it!
2. The movie does not end in an uplifting way.... mostly. Resident evil ends with her waking up and there are no doctors etc. etc. she grabs a shot gun and heads outside where there are lots of crashed cars. For all we know, the city has been evacuated (probably not! but at least we don't see the vile things) 28 days, the three remaining people find a farm out in the middle of nowhere where there is no one (i.e. no one living or infected) and live happily until plains can come and pick them up. Also, in 28 days later the infection dies after a while...the things can only live for a certain period of time without feeding and so eventually the things starve and that’s the end! Not in this one though! Ha ha! At the end of the movie the remaining 4 sail away in a boat...that might have been ok, but there is footage shown during the credits too! While on the boat one of the remaining 4 finds a camera and so you see bits and pieces of what is going on. They find an island, and decided to see if anyone is on it! Is there? Yes! Lots and lots of "dead-ish" people! Do they live from this experience? I DON'T KNOW! No one does! The camera cuts out! There is footage of the horrible zombie things and then there is nothing! (Which makes you wonder, who is watching this? I mean everyone in the world is basically dead or on the road to dying because there are no safe havens, and even if there was, there is no energy to power a vcr and the camera battery would be dead by the time the thing was found...and they would have been eaten by the living dead before they could even get to it....) BUT ARE HEY ALIVE OR NOT? That’s going to keep me up all night. All I can say is thank god my roommate stayed here this weekend because I would not be able to get any sleep at all if I knew I was alone in this apartment after seeing that!
3. The things are everywhere! In 28 days they show up once in a while (except for one seen when they start running towards the car as they are trying to get the tire changed) in Resident Evil they show up every once in a while again…but in this one! On this one! They are everywhere! The live people are in a mall and there is a huge crowd of these things outside! And everywhere they go there are tons! Swarms! Huge gigantic bunches! They can never escape them.
So, my rating on the movie (as a movie), 1-5 (five being best) ... 3 1/2
My rating on the movie (as a horror film) 1-5 (five being best) ... 5 (I jumped and started talking to the screen, "get on the boat get on the boat get on the boat!" "don't go in there, no no no no no no no no, DON'T go in there!" ... good horror)
I have seen Resident Evil and 28 days later, but they were not like this. This movie was much worse for 3 reasons
1. The virus is not contained. In resident evil it is in a beehive underground (course at the end it gets out, but then it is only on that continent.) In 28 days later the virus is only in England, so the rest of the world quarantines England and all is well (we loose the BBC, but life as we know it can still go on) In this movie however, the virus is all over the world! Everywhere! Every city! Every state! Ever country! Every continent! There is no escaping it!
2. The movie does not end in an uplifting way.... mostly. Resident evil ends with her waking up and there are no doctors etc. etc. she grabs a shot gun and heads outside where there are lots of crashed cars. For all we know, the city has been evacuated (probably not! but at least we don't see the vile things) 28 days, the three remaining people find a farm out in the middle of nowhere where there is no one (i.e. no one living or infected) and live happily until plains can come and pick them up. Also, in 28 days later the infection dies after a while...the things can only live for a certain period of time without feeding and so eventually the things starve and that’s the end! Not in this one though! Ha ha! At the end of the movie the remaining 4 sail away in a boat...that might have been ok, but there is footage shown during the credits too! While on the boat one of the remaining 4 finds a camera and so you see bits and pieces of what is going on. They find an island, and decided to see if anyone is on it! Is there? Yes! Lots and lots of "dead-ish" people! Do they live from this experience? I DON'T KNOW! No one does! The camera cuts out! There is footage of the horrible zombie things and then there is nothing! (Which makes you wonder, who is watching this? I mean everyone in the world is basically dead or on the road to dying because there are no safe havens, and even if there was, there is no energy to power a vcr and the camera battery would be dead by the time the thing was found...and they would have been eaten by the living dead before they could even get to it....) BUT ARE HEY ALIVE OR NOT? That’s going to keep me up all night. All I can say is thank god my roommate stayed here this weekend because I would not be able to get any sleep at all if I knew I was alone in this apartment after seeing that!
3. The things are everywhere! In 28 days they show up once in a while (except for one seen when they start running towards the car as they are trying to get the tire changed) in Resident Evil they show up every once in a while again…but in this one! On this one! They are everywhere! The live people are in a mall and there is a huge crowd of these things outside! And everywhere they go there are tons! Swarms! Huge gigantic bunches! They can never escape them.
So, my rating on the movie (as a movie), 1-5 (five being best) ... 3 1/2
My rating on the movie (as a horror film) 1-5 (five being best) ... 5 (I jumped and started talking to the screen, "get on the boat get on the boat get on the boat!" "don't go in there, no no no no no no no no, DON'T go in there!" ... good horror)
Sunday, March 21, 2004
I was walking back from the Baskin Robins with Rainbow Sherbet when a girl in a car driving by yelled out "slut." Instantaneously I replied in the loudest voice I could "judgmental BITCH."
I had been in my apartment studying and relaxing after a full weekend when I got a craving for ice cream. The Baskin Robins is all of a block away so of course I walked and because I was hanging around my house I was wearing a comfortable white tank top and jeans.... I couldn't believe someone would yell that out at me! Particularly since what I was wearing was no very revealing.
Don't judge people by the way they dress, the way they walk, they way they talk. You don't know them, so don't judge them!
I had been in my apartment studying and relaxing after a full weekend when I got a craving for ice cream. The Baskin Robins is all of a block away so of course I walked and because I was hanging around my house I was wearing a comfortable white tank top and jeans.... I couldn't believe someone would yell that out at me! Particularly since what I was wearing was no very revealing.
Don't judge people by the way they dress, the way they walk, they way they talk. You don't know them, so don't judge them!
Tuesday, March 09, 2004
The Vagina Monologues
Today I saw the Vagina Monologues at CSUN. I had never seen it before, it was very uh….Feminist I can’t say I really enjoyed it because frankly some of the things that were said made me feel a little uncomfortable, but then other things were…absolutely fantastic.
Mattt came. I told him he didn’t have to, I was glad he did , but he didn’t have to. I even gave him the option of leaving at intermission in case he was feeling uncomfortable, but he stayed. He was uncomfortable though. Had I been a guy, I probably would have been too. I was a girl and I was uncomfortable for parts of it. I think I might have been more comfortable had it been “just he girls,” but I was more than happy to have Mattt there anyway.
The actors did a wonderful job though, and the play was good…just slightly unnerving.
Today I saw the Vagina Monologues at CSUN. I had never seen it before, it was very uh….Feminist I can’t say I really enjoyed it because frankly some of the things that were said made me feel a little uncomfortable, but then other things were…absolutely fantastic.
Mattt came. I told him he didn’t have to, I was glad he did , but he didn’t have to. I even gave him the option of leaving at intermission in case he was feeling uncomfortable, but he stayed. He was uncomfortable though. Had I been a guy, I probably would have been too. I was a girl and I was uncomfortable for parts of it. I think I might have been more comfortable had it been “just he girls,” but I was more than happy to have Mattt there anyway.
The actors did a wonderful job though, and the play was good…just slightly unnerving.
Monday March 8th,
Well, it was supposed to be just a swim. I dragged Mattt along and met Beth and her friend Brandon (a very nice young man) at the dorm pool. I was running late and Brandon and Beth were already in the pool and they told me to get on in...so I jumped in...I did not know that the pool was ice cold! and of course I never tested it first! need less to say I was not in the pool long. So there the four of us are sitting at a table in the warm 80-degree night air in nothing but out swim suits...with the exception of Mattt who was wearing sweat pants. Around 9 or so we decided to go back to Beth’s dorm room and watch Zoolander...except that mattts car had to be moved, and he was tired and needed coffee...so we went to Beth’s room so that she could change. Well Brandon was only wearing a Speedo...and a towel...so we gave him a skirt...and a corset...and a hat, and scarf, and cow backpack ( he was already wearing what he called lesbian sandals) and we headed over to starbucks for some coffee. Brandon was stared at, and we heard comments like "it has to be a Frat thing." But it wasn't, it was just for kicks, and there were a lot of kicks. After getting coffee we drove by the shop once more so that Brandon could wave and blow a kiss to all the people inside. It was so very fun. We got back to the dorms at about 11:00 and mattt and I had to leave at 11:45 so that we would not get parking tickets so we never watched the movie, we juts hung around and enjoyed ourselves and it was a wonderful time
Well, it was supposed to be just a swim. I dragged Mattt along and met Beth and her friend Brandon (a very nice young man) at the dorm pool. I was running late and Brandon and Beth were already in the pool and they told me to get on in...so I jumped in...I did not know that the pool was ice cold! and of course I never tested it first! need less to say I was not in the pool long. So there the four of us are sitting at a table in the warm 80-degree night air in nothing but out swim suits...with the exception of Mattt who was wearing sweat pants. Around 9 or so we decided to go back to Beth’s dorm room and watch Zoolander...except that mattts car had to be moved, and he was tired and needed coffee...so we went to Beth’s room so that she could change. Well Brandon was only wearing a Speedo...and a towel...so we gave him a skirt...and a corset...and a hat, and scarf, and cow backpack ( he was already wearing what he called lesbian sandals) and we headed over to starbucks for some coffee. Brandon was stared at, and we heard comments like "it has to be a Frat thing." But it wasn't, it was just for kicks, and there were a lot of kicks. After getting coffee we drove by the shop once more so that Brandon could wave and blow a kiss to all the people inside. It was so very fun. We got back to the dorms at about 11:00 and mattt and I had to leave at 11:45 so that we would not get parking tickets so we never watched the movie, we juts hung around and enjoyed ourselves and it was a wonderful time
Wednesday, March 03, 2004
I ate a pint of sherbet in one day. It was good, but suppressing especially since it is WINTER... though I would not exactly call an LA winter hazardous. I like ice cream, but not as much as Sherbet I love Rainbow Sherbet from Baskin & Robins (or Batman and Robins as my little brother used to call it)
Monday, March 01, 2004
So after driving mattt home this evening (as I do every Monday night around 9 or so) I happen to be stopped at a red light. Now, everyone knows that I enjoy singing and dancing (sort of) in the car, well at this moment I happen to be changing radio stations so there is no music to dance to, but I look to my right and there is a boy in the next car, 17 maybe 18, dancing in his car, but not just dancing, dancing and smiling at me. Then he gives me a thumbs up.... well I start laughing.... and laughing and laughing and laughing (because it was funny) His face fell and he looked away, and then when the light turned green he speed off as quickly as he could... it was really funny.
