- bab’aziz and wristcutters (06/04/06): today lenny and i went to watch the movie “bab’aziz: the prince contemplating his soul” and “wristcutters: a love story.” both were excellent films, both at the neptune, BUT!!!! the thing was that “bab’aziz” was playing off of a really scratched dvd, and we didn’t get to finish it… sucky. there was about 20 minutes left of the film before they stopped it. they even attempted to stop it and clean it off, but that didn’t work out either. we got free movie vouchers from it, but i would have liked to see the end. it was a cool movie… great cinematography, particularly considering the camera was not very good quality… and the sound synching when they were singing was a bit off, but it was interesting. it was primarily following around a grandpa and his granddaughter who were in the forest, and they were searching for a desert party with “dervishes” (i’m not sure what they are). the stories follow people around who they meet along the way, and it was cool. one particularly awesome story was when one character named oslam (or something) said that he accidentally dived into a well at some point and emerged in a castle. i dunno, it was cool. the only bad part about the movie was the acting of the little girl in the movie, but she was a little girl, so whatever. one part in particular was super trippy, when they got really close up to this singing lady, and it made me feel like i was high or something. lots of singing, and lots of GOOD singing. but yeah, that film started scratching really bad 3/5 of the way through, and we managed to get through 1/5 of the movie or so with a few scratches here and there, but in the end, it had to be stopped because it got so bad that the screen just froze entirely. too bad. :[ after that, lenny and i went to eat at thai65, cause there really isn’t that much stuff to eat on the ave, and my meal was pretty freaking yummy!!!!! but then we went home, i played some zuma and then took a nap, and back out we came for “wristcutters”… which is a black comedy about suicide and death. essentially, everyone who dies from suicide goes to this foreign land, and the main character kills himself via wristcutting, and he misses his ex-girlfriend a lot. basically, the suicide people world is exactly the same as reality, but a lot more bleak, because people are missing things and people from the normal world. essentially, this guy searches and searches along the way in that life for his ex-girlfriend, but she cannot be found, and when she finally is found, she had turned into a nut job. job from arrested development is in it as a cult leader, as well as the moosy guy from “e.r” (with a really bad austrian accent), and a few other celebrities, as well as very quirky characters who are most notable with their unique speaking patterns… a few retarded-sounding ones, a russian guy (who is a musician in the movie, but is a musician in real life as well, and they use his last album’s songs in the movie, and it just fits really awesomely), a mute lady, etc. both of the girlfriends of the main character are HOTTTTTTT, particularly the brown-haired one. the movie is pretty amusing in little, cynical ways, and the director was funny (he was there after the show) because he made all these parts that he thought no one would find funny, but everyone found them hysterical. lol. makes me wonder why he wrote those scenes in the first place. it was interesting to see the dynamics of the crowd — all the poeple who watched “bab’aziz” were older folk… late thirties or later… lenny and i were the only non-old people, and some guy sitting in the row behind us. some guy next to me also kept getting up to leave but then the movie would start again, so he’d sit back down… two times this happened, it wouldn’t have been funny if he had completely stood up, but his butt was just in the air both times 
when “wristcutters” came on, the age of the audience was extremely varied, and a lot of the younger crowd came… i’d say mostly around late 20s or something. wewt. anyway, i want to watch “nacho libre”… it looks rather amusing, even though it is from the director of “napoleon dynamite,” but he didn’t WRITE it — the “school of rock” guy did, so it might be OK.i dunno, i’m really kind of depresed lately… because everything is just so negative, i guess… hopefully it will get better. work is alright, i guess i’m getting more used to it, but i’m still going to look around for other positions, because well, i should. i’ve just been coding on this language they developed in-house lately, and it’s whatever, alright… alright, alright, alright. time goes by faster when you’re coding than when you’re doing graphic design, which is weird… working from home on fridays is awesome, however. too bad the language they developed functions exactly like PHP. if only it actually WERE PHP — then i could actually learn something U-S-E-F-U-L… -__-
hoping to launch the sushimonsters site by the end of the month, so that i can run an ad in redefine. why not, right? that’s the smart thing to do. it’s gonna be kick ass, i hope, i hope.
wow, i haven’t written in this thing since april 24th… that’s a fucking long time :0 i really have a lot i should probably do for redefine, but i just don’t feel like it… cruahhhshing… my soul.