most of my posts are either about solitude or how i've befriended stuffed animals/tv show characters, or all of the above. this one is no different. i've been home alone for about a week since my parents went to hawaii. i spent all of last weekend sitting on the couch, pigging out on food and grading papers. i guess i could be doing that even with my parents at home, but it's a different level of sloth when ur half-naked and by yourself.
a more detailed recap of my weekend is as follows:
harry potter. they were playing the first 3 potters on consecutive nights, and i happen to catch all of them. (what's more pathetic is that on the second and third nights, they played the previous nights' movie(s), so by the third night i watched all 3 potters in a row). anyway, i've said this before and i'll say it again.... the third installment, the prisoner of azkaban, is by far the best harry potter movie to date. i think the first two were too expansive in plot whereas the third one was relatively simple. also, the tone is more mature and there are actual scary moments. the only bad thing about the prisoner of azkaban is that every time harry faints, the screen goes black, and that happens about 20 times in the movie. also, harry is frequently offered chocolate by professor lupin whenever he wakes up from a fainting spell (no pun intended) with no real explanation other than, "it really helps." why does it help???
bourne identity/ultimatum - i rented the bourne ultimatum on itunes and watched it one night. it was totally hyped by everyone who said it was the best bourne movie and really entertaining and all that. yeah it was okay but after i rewatched the bourne identity on tnt this weekend, i really think that's the superior movie. i know i know, bold statement, but by the third installment we already know bourne is going to kick major azz, whereas in the first movie, we don't really know what he's capable of and we're figuring it out as he does. granted, the movie falls flat after about an hour in, but that first hour sure is cool.
the cavs - they are awesome, and i can't wait to get danny gibson back to shoot them threes. there was one particular moment of awkwardness/hilarity during the bulls/cavs game after wally z hit a clutch 3 pointer. he hits the shot, then runs down court screaming in glee for the whole length of the floor. i mean, i understand an emphatic howl or something, but he just looked a little kid running to give a gift to his dad (minus the kid tripping and falling and breaking the gift.... that was the saddest moment of my life).
van helsing vs underworld vs blade - tnt had some kind of vampire movie marathon this weekend and i happened to catch all three of their highlighted movies... multiple times. i'd say i enjoyed all three equally, so it was great being able to switch from van helsing on TNTHD to underworld on regular TNT and then to blade on TNTHD after van helsing ended, back to blade 2 on regular TNT. watching two vampire movies concurrently is a great and easy way to pass 6 hours of what otherwise could have been a productive day.
i don't really remember the other shows i watched, but those will do for now. next weekend ought to be a little more eventful.... i told my friends at davis that i can afford an expensive trip to colorado for a weekend cuz i don't spend any money sitting at home every other weekend. man.... this post is really sad. oh well!
6 comments:
haha ur too good with the song recognition.
dude i want to watch planet earth and the and wire!
and lastly, chocolates need no explanation.
which reminds me.. chocolate chip pancakes. YUM!
- great post! it reminded me of college, when i would come out of the shower to change, but get sucked into a cable movie i'd seen a million times. an hour later, the movie's finished, i'm still in my towel, and i'm like 45 minutes late to a class.
- i like the new cavs, but they're only a slight improvement over the old cavs. it all depends on whether people accept their role (that means you, sasha) and try not to do too much. we have an insane number of average-to-decent players that give mike brown pretty much the same things...will it all fit together?
- i think the third bourne is more impressive since it's incredibly hard to make a great third installment of a trilogy (see karate kid, back to the future, and the godfather). the editing in the third movie was way better than the first, as was the acting and the character development. how many sequels feature character development?
- you dropping the pottery behind your back was the saddest moment of my life also.
kris this was the saddest post ever! so how many movies DID you watch? and of those movies, how many were on TNT..?
also, ditto john. you breaking the pottery was the saddest moment of my life as well.
you sure did a lot of "happened to catch all of them"s.
actually, i want your life. let's switch
lol. i only read the first para, and i'm sure the rest of your really long post gets better.
lol (again)... that was a pretty sad post. hopefully you had more fun sitting on a couch in your sister's san francisco living room staring at your computer screen this past weekend.
the convo on Saturday night about LOST to be the highlight of the year so far...no? i kid. (or maybe not).
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