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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Yesterday I finally saw a film in theatres, which is something I hadn’t done since Iron Man. Yes, its only been two weeks, but for the past 2 months I’ve been seeing HEAPS of films. Anyway, Dillan and I saw Robin Hood. It was actually a lot better than I anticipated. Yeah, Russle Crowe’s accent was all over the place, but the direction of the film was great. And the sets and stuff. AND MARK STRONG OMG I OFFICIALLY LOVE THAT MAN. He is SO GOOD. Other than that, though, there wasn’t much going for the film. At times you couldn’t figure out exactly what the film was about, what the main focus of the plot was on, which annoyed me. But its ok. I like it like I liked Avatar, it was a good film, just not my favourite.
The rest of Saturday was great, too. It did rain after we left the theatres (walking around the city in the rain is actually great, though, so I don’t mind), but Mountain Dew made up for that. It was also the night of Yasmin’s/Danielle’s/Elisha’s birthday celebrations. The three of them just bunched their birthdays together, and celebrated at Yas’. It was fun, we had bonfires & trampolines & cake & stuff. It did get cold, though. But it was great, I haven’t seen Stacey or Maddie at a party in ages and those two are great, so it was nice being with them. And Danielle. She’s so nice, it was great when she came to sit with us.