Virtual Paper

And via some spankin' new machinery

Well hello there!! It's been quite a while. I could make a whole long list of lame excuses, but I'll stick to my biggest two. 1. I was in Cincinnati last weekend having an awesome time with Josh, only to come back to Pittsburgh on Sunday night to see DMB in concert (I look forward to this all year) which lasted til pretty late, which gave me minimal sleep, only to be topped off by yet another open mic extravaganza on Monday night, which also kept me up late, leaving me to be ridiculously exhausted for the remainder of the week until now. (I've managed to take some naps.) 2. I've received my brand new Dell laptop in the mail, and quite honestly, I've been far too busy playing with screen savers, wallpaper, colors, fonts, and all that fun pretty stuff that comes with the purchase of a new computer, to get back to my normal computing routines (ie blogging.) Special thanks to Mat and Isaac for giving me the information I needed to make an educated computer purchase. As techno-phobic as I am, I was so afraid I'd buy the wrong thing and end up with some piece of junk... but so far, in the few days I've had this bad boy, it seems to be quite handy and super fun. So yay. Mat and Isaac must have advised me well.

So anyway... hmm... what to talk about.

For one thing, I finally saw Garden State after everyone in the universe told me that I absolutely must see it or else my body would just dissintegrate on the spot one day from lack of deep meaningful movie experiences. I was all set to hate this movie because I had heard so much about it, so when I sat down to watch it, I watched with a skeptic's eye. But you know what? It was pretty damn good. It was a lot different than I had expected. It had moments of comedy in it. It wasn't trying too hard to be deep and meaningful, which I greatly appreciated. The philosophy in it is relatively understated, and I didn't get that impression from those who told me about the movie.

I Heart Huckabees, on the other hand, was an awful movie. (I watched that one as well.) I had heard that this movie was good, so I got it on Netflix, and lemmie tell ya... I was watching this movie, and the whole time I was waiting for this amazing Fight Club-esque ending in which the whole mystery of things is revealed and you discover that one or more of the characters is a figment of another's imagination, or that the whole movie was a dream, or that there's some kind of huge enlightenment reached, or it proves that we're all just aliens or something. But this whole bizarre move just led to... the end of a whole bizarre movie. And the whole time, the writers of this movie were basically trying to show off to the audience how smart they were by using big words and talking about philosophy as much as they possibly could, until the viewer really just didn't give a shit anymore about the characters or about philosophy, we just wanted to GET TO THE FREAKIN' POINT. And then... there was no point. It was all pretty retarded.

Also, who else thinks Natalie Portman is really super pretty? I do.

I don't really know what else to say. It feels good to be back on a blank blog screen. I've noticed that my friends have sort of given up on their blogs... and that makes me sad. I plan to carry the torch, dammit! I will continue to blog until my fingers are bloody stumps! Yep.

That is all.