Not a whole lot to report on from me, so I imagine this won't be the longest post of mine. I just finished writing all the words to my long essay (finally - 6,200ish total) so now I'll take a break for a few days before I go back and do some actual editing. At least the hard part is over. Otherwise my other work is coming along fine. I had an interview with Adam Stephen Kelly on Saturday last week; he's a columnist on Ain't It Cool News, an "all things movie and more" website. So I'll be typing up a feature on him in the near future. I'm extraordinarily jealous of him: he's been in the journalism game for four years, film writing for the last two or so and a writer for a great international website. And he's 21. But he was a nice guy, willing to talk of just about anything I wanted to, so the article should write itself.
Let's see, beside continuing schoolwork it's just been movies, movies, movies. For any interested I would definitely recommend: Young Adult staring Charlize Theron and Patton Oswalt, The Ides of March staring George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Paul Giamatti, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei (I felt I had to mention all of these excellent actors), The Graduate staring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft (I rewatched it while writing my paper and it's easily one of my favorite films). There were a few more but I'm not allowed to talk about them just yet This week I'm seeing War Horse (Steven Spielberg), Shame (Steve McQueen) and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher) all of which I'm pretty excited about. Otherwise I also hope to catch Moneyball (Bennett Miller), Another Earth (Mike Cahill) and Hugo (Martin Scorsese) this week but we'll see if I make that happen.
It's only a little more than a week now before Tori's family gets here. I know she's really excited about it and I'm looking forward to it as well. It will be nice to see a few familiar faces. Plus we'll be making a trip down to London and I'm really looking forward to that. We may not be leaving the island just yet but at least we're doing a little traveling.
Well, as I just about finish my cup of instant coffee (mmhm...cough cough) I think I've run out of things to talk about. Let's see, in terms of what I'm actually doing today I can tell you I'm meeting up with a friend from my course for a little bit and most likely he'll give me shite for going to see War Horse tonight rather than Another Earth. I may transcribe another 5-10 minutes of my interview. And, OH, it's Tuesday so that means 2-For-1 price pizza at Papa Johns. Tori and I haven't had pizza for a few weeks and I think it's time we did it again. I don't feel it will be too difficult to convince her to go for it. I think that's it for today. I'm still working on a good sign off so here's another style attempt; it's a little movie trivia for the competitive child in all of us:
In The Graduate, Elaine Robinson is getting married at First Presbyterian Church? On which street is First Presbyterian located? (This is probably way too difficult to be the first one but good luck anyway).
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