Jybil - a film blog

so let's see...i'll now be updating this movie blog more and adding less movie entries to my zenbetty blog to make everyone happy, or at least less bogged down (or "blogged" down ~ ha!) with my infatuation with films...

this week, i watched:

Love Story (waaah!)

What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant? That she loved Mozart and Bach, the Beatles, and me?

Powder (double waaah!)

And how beautiful they really are. And that there's no need to hide, or lie. And that it's possible to talk to someone without any lies, with no sarcasms, no deceptions, no exaggerations or any of the things that people use to confuse the truth.

yesterday i checked out from the library:

Adaptation (i love it. i should just buy it & own it. i love Spike Jonze.)

i love it mostly because that is exactly how my brain works, at times, exactly like this:

Do I have an original thought in my head? My bald head. Maybe if I were happier my hair wouldn't be falling out. Life is short. I need to make the most of it. Today is the first day of the rest of my life. I'm a walking cliche. I really need to go to the doctor and have my leg checked. There's something wrong. A bump. The dentist called again. I'm way overdue. If I stop putting things off I would be happier. All I do is sit on my fat ass. If my ass wasn't fat I would be happier. I wouldn't have to wear these shirts with the tails out all the time. Like that's fooling anyone. Fat ass. I should start jogging again. Five miles a day. Really do it this time. Maybe rock climbing. I need to turn my life around. What do I need to do? I need to fall in love. I need to have a girlfriend. I need to read more and prove myself. What if I learned Russian or something, or took up an instrument. I could speak Chinese. I'd be the screenwriter who speaks Chinese and plays the oboe. That would be cool. I should get my hair cut short. Stop trying to fool myself and everyone else into thinking I have a full head of hair. How pathetic is that. Just be real. Confident. Isn't that what women are attracted to? Men don't have to be attractive. But that's not true. Especially these days. Almost as much pressure on men as there is on women these days. Why should I be made to feel I have to apologize for my existence? Maybe it's my brain chemistry. Maybe that's what's wrong with me. Bad chemistry. All my problems and anxiety can be reduced to a chemical imbalance or some kind of misfiring synapses. I need to get help for that. But I'll still be ugly though. Nothing's going to change that.

the movie spoke to me. cuz that's how i think, how i ramble in my head constantly. and with similar ideas even. speaking of which, i'm going to learn how to knit this sunday. yep, the writer who knits. watch out! wanna join me?

Devil's Playground (which looks like this great documentary about the Amish kids and how they're allowed to "experience" the other world outside of their community at the age of 16 for a year to see if they want to resist these temptations of the modern-day world and commit to the Amish ways for the rest of their lives...)

Freaky Friday (the original, 1976, with little hottie Jodie Foster)

Tatum O'Neal was on Oprah yesterday [rerun]. man, she hates her father (& Farrah Fawcett) but it nicely tied in with my Love Story theme of the week (Ryan O'Neal). i've seen Freaky Friday, but it was a looong time ago. and if i watch the original then i can watch the remake with Lindsay Lohan and call it "film research" ~ ha! i really do want to rent Mean Girls someday soon though, perhaps i'll have a Lindsay marathon. and no, i am *not* obsessed, thank you very little...

The Name of the Rose (an old Sean Connery classic, i swear it was just an answer on yesterday's Jeopardy! and i had never heard of it before)

Shine (i haven't seen it yet, yeah i know, academy award winning film & all)

i bought fake meatballs from HEB last night. i'm gonna go make me a "meatball" sub and watch me a couple of movies. only one more day off work, then it's back to the ol' grindstone again on monday. i think tonight UberShauna & i are hittin' the alamo downtown for Drunken WuTang @ 9:45. join us if you'd like!

i added the comments field to this blog. it only went back a few entries though.
we'll see if they work (i.e. test them out!)