7 posts tagged “film”
I've been a good girl today and walked two miles. It's not a lot, but at least it's better than taking the bus all the way.
So instead of going to the sangha, I bought a film to watch. I needed action, and they had The Fast and the Furious on sale. I thought "why not?" and bought it.
I like fast cars, and I enjoy cool stunts. If I'm in the right mood. And I was tonight - and got plenty of both.
What I realized, though, as the film neared its end, I've seen it before. Obviously it didn't make that big of an impression on me then since I couldn't remember until thefilm was almost over. It's not an artsy or really intelligent film. It's all raw action. 100% testosterone, but I like that every now and then. And I'm not going to object to seeing Vin Diesel in a lead role. I felt like I'm back in highschool for a moment admiring his muscles like that. I would never have fallen for him in real life - at least not unless I fell for his personality, but sometimes just watching is good. It doesn't nessecarily mean I wanna eat the cake...
I was wrong this time. The BBC series wasn't better than the film. Although I did like the actors - it seemed colorless. Emma Thompson altered a few things in the film - but she did it in such a Janeish way I didn't really notice. She sort of needed to do this as she had a limit of time (a film is shorter than a series!) to tell the story. She needed to add a couple of things to highlight the relationships in the story in a short way. These alterations gave the film color and life. The BBC version have also done a few changes, but these changes I felt were not necessary - at least not taking away Marianne's and Elinor's younger sister, Margaret, from the casting altogether. In Emma Thompson's film Margaret is actively used to give contrast to the other characters which really works. In the BBC version she does not exist. And there's so much more comedy in the Emma Thompson film than in the BBC series. I felt that the BBC version was too serious in a way. I absolutely love Jane Austen's wit and subtle humor in this book - in all her books actually, and Emma Thompson embraces the humor and use it. I love that. It's not supposed to be so serious!
It is a good story, though. And I don't regret seeing it!
Books, movies, music; what's in your top 5 right now?
Books:
1. Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The little prince - Antoine de Saint Exupery
3. Wind up bird chronicles - Haruki Murakami
4. The Tibetan book of living and dying - Sogyal Rinpoche
5. Phillip Pullman's "The Dark Materials" trilogy
Movies:
1. Star Wars IV-VI
2. Any of Tim Burton's films
3. Tristram Shandy - A Cock and Bull Story
4. The Hours
5. Girl with a pearl earring
Music:
1. REM
2. Led Zeppelin
3. Linkin Park
4. Madrugada
5. Frou Frou
I don't really like Wednesday. It's not in the beginning of the week, it's not at the end of the week. It's limbo land. It's especially hard to get out of bed on Wednesdays, and today was definitely no different from any other wednesday. Ofcourse it didn't help that I had an early morning meeting with this economy-guy from the university to go through my routines when it comes to money at work.
That, and the fact that it's still pitch black outside when my alarmclock rings, made it nearly impossible to get out of bed. I spent at least half an hour waking up, and I bet I hit the snooze button at least 5-6 times before getting out of bed. Oh and another reason why it's so difficult in general to get out of bed these days is that I sleep with the window open, and these days it's close to freezing point during the night. I think the temperature is 2-6 degrees C at night now. And it's SOOO warm and cosy in my bed. Let's just say it doesn't get any easier to get up in the morning. And even after I haul myself out of bed I spend half an hour in the bathroom just waking up. I don't think I'm totally awake until I'm actually on my way out of the door - after breakfast, shower, brushing teeth etc. It's a wonder I don't put on my clothes inside out. There's not much chance of mismatching my clothes since I have an all-black wardrobe. But I wouldn't be surprised at all if I came to work with my clothes on backwards or inside out. It hasn't happened yet, but it's just a matter of time...
of course the economy guy was satisfied with my routines, and stayed only for 15 minutes. What a waste! I could have explained it all over the phone, and faxed him the copies he wanted. But at least it got me to work on time...
Wednesdays are kind of quiet at work too, and I was bored a lot of the time today. Until I discovered this game. It's totally addictive - I warn you! It killed a couple of hours at work... I finally figured it out though. And I tried out all the other small games at this page.
There's three things I HAVE to have at work. 1. my computer - with internet - or I would be bored to death. 2. Ginger tea. Since I don't drink coffee any more I need another pick-me-up and I found that Ginger tea is great for that! In addition to having the same effect as coffee, it tastes good, it helps prevent colds and it's warm! It's still freezing cold at work - they didn't manage to fix the boiler, so my radiator is still cold. brrrr! 3. My extra harddrive containing 60GB music. I'm addicted to music, and can't survive a day at work without music. But isn't it strange that even with all that music I still can't seem to find anything I'd like to listen to? at least that was the case today. So I listened to the radio instead...
The day ended really good, though. The weather when I finished work was great, and I decided to skip going to the meditation centre, and walk home instead. As I forgot my camera today, I'm posting photos I took a couple of weeks ago. They show a few of the places I pass when walking home from work. The first photo is a little pond with a white wooden bridge over it, and it's a part of the summer residence of the former King. Noone but the royal family is allowed in there, so I just took a picture through the fence. I just love that spot, and would've loved walking there... The second is a 1000 year old church which is part of the museum next to where I work. It's called Gol Stavkirke (The Stavechurch from Gol), and is one of my favorite buildings at that museum. I used to work as a guide in that museum a few years ago, and I still miss working there. The last photo is closer to the city even though you can't see the city. Walk for about 20 minutes from here and you're in the middle of town. Pretty amazing, huh? The water you see is part of the Oslo fjord.
And then I rounded up the day with this film:
It's a really sweet Japanese anime film I saw for the first time a month or so ago, and I fell in love with it. It's a great story about two sisters and their father moving to a new house while their mother is in the hospital. The video is the song from the film as played on Japanese MTV..
It's been a LONG time since I laughed so hard from watching a film... The start of the film is wonderfully absurd - let's just say there's a discussion on teeth color..
OK - it's detox time again. I've been slipping out of my new years resolution of not drinking caffeine, and I'm paying for it now. I have a pounding headache daily, stomach aches, heart pounding etc. Time to lay off the coffee and coke again. The heart pounding is most frightening, and I'm going to walk even more often home from work. It's time I took myself seriously. It's time I listened to what the body have been trying to tell me for a while. Time to get out of the chair. Time to get back to meditating daily too. I miss it.
One week left of long opening hours at the museum. One week left until my vacation. Two weeks in heaven. Long anticipated vacation. I'm not doing anything in particular, I'm just going to not go to work. I'm going for a long weekend to Copenhagen with some friends, and I'm going to celebrate my mom's birthday. Other than that I'm staying home. I have several friends who have their birthday in October, and I'm treating two of them to a three course dinner - vegetarian of course - on Tuesday Oct. 3.rd. Since I have the day off I can make it a really good one. Take my time with it - enjoy it. I really enjoy making dinner for others. Also - another friend of mine is coming to the dinner. It will be the first time I see her after she had her baby this summer. The baby will come to. I'm looking forward to seeing him! I have already bought a panda for him. It's so soft and cuddly - and I hope he likes it. Oh I love the smell of babies... It's been a while since I had the possibility to smell a baby now.
Have not done a thing all day. Been surfing the net, playing my nintendo, having tea with my room mate, watched a film (a Japanese anime film), reading a bit, done some laundry, cleaned the bathroom. Outside it's raining. It's getting colder, and the fall is most definitely here. I love it!
Oh - and I have seen the entire first season of "Rome" this week. What a great series! I'm looking forward to the second season. It was interesting to see - since a lot of it is historically correct. Of course not everything is absolutely correct, but the surroundings, the clothes, the hair etc was really fun to watch. A bit too much profanities used, but OK. I love history, so a tvseries about a historic period is prefect... and a nice change from all the SciFi stuff I've been watching lately.
Watched two films this weekend. Since I don't have a TV, I watch a lot of DVDs.
The first one I was was "prime" with Uma Thurman, Bryan Greenberg and Meryl Streep. It's a romantic comedy (I know - total chick-flick...) where Uma plays a 37 year old newly divorcee who goes to therapy (who doesn't in NY??). The therapist is Meryl. Shortly after the divorce is final, Uma meets Bryan, and they start dating. He is a 23 yo jewish artist whose mother is a therapist. And yes - his mom is meryl... That's actually a funny plot, although I think they could've done a lot more with it. It's a cute film, though, and exactly what I needed while being sick. I didn't have to think much - which is good sometimes.
The other film I watched was "Million Dollar Baby" with Clint Eastwood (still kind of a hunk!) and Hilary Swank. I had heard a lot about this film, and most of what I'd heard was praise. I was sceptic, though, since I hate boxing. I think it's a cruel and violent sport that has no positive effects on anybody. Nothing anybody says can change my mind about that. I really don't understand what's so great about pounding on someone else with gloves on your hands. I really don't. And the boxing-part of the film - well, they're not pretending it's something it's not. Apart from the boxing theme, though - it's a great film! It's the story behind the boxing that's really great. The story of the friendship between trainer and fighter that develops. And the ending was surprising and left me snffing and red-eyed.. Hilary Swank does an amazing job in this film, and definitely deserved the Oscar.
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