Posted by Jess at 4:06 pm on July 25, 2010.
Rolex Sweep (Vandalism Mix) – Skepta
Rules of blogging; don’t blog when you’re angry, depressed, overjoyed, or apathetic. I always break my own rules.
Just so we’re clear, I’m currently rather apathetic. I’m irrationally tired. Its been an interesting week; Tuesday was back to school. I mean, yeah, its all right. We’ve been getting a lot of test results back, and I’ve done so surprisingly well in everything (92% & 100% for maths so far, 90% on my Othello essay and 93% on my History test) which is really really ace. I also had a History report due in Tuesday which I’d done over the holidays, and a speech which I gave on Wednesday. I’ve also finished Software last term which is due this Friday, and Art which is due Friday after next. Though I do have a speech due Wednesday after next for English (on This Is England – its honestly the best related protest text I could find, so much to write about) and then a Geography report in 3 weeks.
Seems like a lot. That was more of a list for me to say to put things in perspective, so ignore me.
Speaking of perspective, saw Inception yesterday. This is probably one of the most incredible films I have seen. Not just because I loved it to pieces, but because it was such a piece of art. It was beautifully made, directed, produced… all ‘film’ aspects were divine. The actors performances (namely Joseph Gordon Levitt and Marion Cotillard) were all top notch. But seriously, SPOILER warning. This was a really plot heavy film, a film which you can have hour long conversations about (which is what I’m doing with Samantha right now). It got really confusing at times, like you’d need to take a break for a second to figure out where you are in the film, but it worked. Especially the parts where they actually try inception, the reminder of the layers with the car & Arthur & Eames & then Cobb was done really really well. The mixing of reality and dreams was the scrambling beauty of the film. As with the ending, I was reading this (basically outlines how Cobb’s ring was his totem, not the top, and how because he wasn’t wearing it at the end, it was reality) and that’s actually made perfect sense to me, so I’m going with that. After I saw the film, I actually did think that Cobb was in his reality, and that Nolan just didn’t show the top falling over. I figured because in their canon, projections in dreams were from your subconscious, so faces you’ve seen, people you’ve known. Cobb had never met Ariadne before he asked her to be the Architect, he was even introduced to her, so she’s a completely foreign figure. So, how could they have interacted if it wasn’t reality? As with Robert Fischer, Jr. and Browning. But throw that into the mix with the fact that the top wasn’t even his totem, it was Mals, makes it clear that his ring HAD to be his totem, therefore the ending reality.
Well, that’s just my rambling at any rate.
But yeah, that took up a part of Saturday. Saturday was actually complete shambles. Trains were out, & we had to figure out the night cos it was Nick’s birthday gathering (for lack of better term). After we saw the film, I had to get flipping changed in a back alley in the city, then met up with Nick and some guy (James, I think he was. I don’t know, he just looked SO much like Joe Jonas, so I referred to him as that), and then find Elisha and Maddy. And then they wanted Maccas, so they did (Australians; seriously, how good is the Apple Fanta slushie thing from there?!). Then we walked for what must’ve been like, 500 years (30 mins?) to find this park, which we chilled in for a bit. Then a bunch of people from my “group” from school came, though I didn’t spend a lot of time with them (Maddy & I needed to use the loo, so we spent like an hour searching for loo’s with Joe Jonas and Dillan), and they soon left once we returned. So it was the 6 of us, some guy came on his bike for half an hour but he left soon too. So it was kind of a “fail party” by terms, but it was actually still alright. I think it would have been better if it were just the 6 of us, but y’know. I guess it was just nice being out & with people & stuff. Something different, its nice.
Anyway, this is really long and I should probably do some more school work or something, I don’t know. I talk too much.
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Saturday… do I even need to explain? We all know what I did. Dillan and I went into the city, saw a film & then faffed about in various KFC’s and candy stores. We saw Knight and Day – not usually my kind of film, but it was Dillan’s pick so. I wasn’t expecting anything of the film, other than a few laughs and some guns, so I was actually a bit surprised by the film. Spoilers – just sayin’. But yeah, it was actually a surprisingly manipulative film, the audience were lead to believe Roy, then the cops, then Roy, then the cops, and so on. This kept the audience engaged, and for a film which managed to engage the audience through manipulation and not something lame like sexual tension, it surprised me. All these “romaction” films are all about the same thing, and the fact that the battery plot was strong enough to distract the audience (or me, at least, and I’m the biggest romantic cynic alive) from the romantic chemistry or cheap humour means that the film wasn’t personally too big of a waste of time.
Anyway, its been the holidays. Which is cool (in both senses, I guess haha). Monday I went over to Dillan’s & we watched the first 4 episodes of Misfits – I’m making him watch it cos I love that show more than myself, but he did say it was cool so I don’t think he minds it too much haha. We were meant to finish it but he got pretty sick over the past few days, so we couldn’t. It was really shitty that a whole week of his was lost, but it was all good (for me at least) cos on Tuesday, my best friend Jess (who lives 2/3 hours away) had come up for a visit. We didn’t get long together, and we were only in the local shopping mall, but my god do I love her and it was brilliant catching up. We bought a bunch of magazines (as in I got 3 – Empire, i-D and NO) and sat in the park and chilled and ate (well she did, I ran out of money haha) and it was really great, only she had to leave early which wasn’t so great. But as it turned out, my other friends Shivani and Naomi were in the shopping complex too, so I saw them & ended up hanging out with them. They were looking for clothes for some goth-themed party, so I helped them all I could. We even randomly went into the city for a bit, which mixed things up a little haha. I don’t know, it was nice being with them, we had a lot of interesting discussions.
Also, it’d be against my school-break tradition to not have seen a film, so yesterday Dillan & I (who else? pmsl) saw Predators. To be honest, I was never particularly interested in seeing that film, it never really stood out as a film I needed to see, but I went anyway and was pleasantly surprised. I mean, there were downfalls (SPOILERS! predictable storyline, very little plot resolve, a soundtrack which was over-dramatic and out of place /end spoilers), but besides that it was enjoyable enough to watch. Adrien Brody and Topher Grace were GREAT to watch, Topher particularly because he’s not only great in general, but because his character had the most going for him (doesn’t mean I necessarily liked the character personally, but theatrically he was the most interesting to watch).
