This brain requires mashment.

The history assignment was handed in only four days late, the INGS stands at three days today, if I get it in tomorrow - this is the aim minions, Ive only lost 4%. Which woe-betide ain't so awful.

Without sounding melodramatic, everyone is moving onwards and upwards and Im not. I like being at uni and working crappy part time jobs to travel and see things, but what if I should start being a little more organized? Like applying for internships and finding 'appropriate' jobs? This worries me somedays, what if Im the cheap, failure of a friend who doesn't amount to much and becomes a waitress, rooming with her bestfriend and hoping for better?

On the bright side, that is how Rachel met her lobster, so there is hope in every scenario, ha, ha.

Bad jokes aside, I'd like to send a hearty congratulations to Jen - Lady band VI herself who had just been appointed a brand spanking, high-ranking position with a respected magazine. This coupled with her leaving for Cardiff to present papers, calls for some serious celebration.

Seeing as she is most likely at work, attempting to slow time down to fit it all in, I'll raise my glass to her and congratulate her from afar =) Im sure she'll do us all proud.

In other news, the wedding invitation for BiologyBoy arrived some time two weeks ago. The Three Stooges are all attending and we look forward to pics and glitz from that arena come July 3rd.

Someone annoying once remarked these things always come in threes, the good news', the bad news, the promotions, the dissapointments.

Im counting, two good news', one huge disaster and a girl seeing which side tips first - this April.

Cannot wait to see what May brings, which end of the pendulem will win this race..*baited breath*

Question, does anyone else have a month which they know is disastrous for them, like on the first of it you just want to crawl into bed and wake up on the first of the month following?

Mine is the Atrocious Aprils - nothing ever goes right for me. Its like the Feburay Frazzles? And if you'r shaking your head now, okay, so Im not normal. Bah!

Right, off to get that INGS essay done.. coz tomorrow Anthropology shall be calling my name from the depths of its dungeons.

Tally-ho for now... I see picnic baskets with my name on them.

 

Movies to come hither

Instead of doing my History essay (on plagues, four days late) Ive decided to write a post about movies Im looking forward to in the coming months. Im not sure which months, but my sources, okay Google alerts, have a definite 2010 release net for me. I can work with that.

These aren't in any particular order, just, you know.

Inception, Dicaprio, Ellen Page, Cillian Murphy, Joseph Gordon Levitt and director Christopher Nolan? What kind of a person would miss this?! They've kept the story under wraps, only releasing the very barest of details: expect something a little warped with lots of trippy mind control stuff. The poster speaks for itself..

Armed with this brilliant cast, and a director like Nolan whose blue-black tinge have grown on me mighty fondly, I shall happily venture the cinema halls.

Next, we have Tomorrow: When the War Began. Don't roll your eyes, I really enjoyed the books. Not so pleasant surprise consider I'd previously not appreciated books about war or dystopic fiction. No, I think they may actually have done a decent job with the film. It was always one of those novels that could do well as a film - think of the hundreds of thousands of Australian school children grateful to the production company. Instead of reading the novel, they'll be renting the movie.

Jokes apart, Im not too sure on the cast, only face I recognise is the tall blondie whose dad's a football player and his main claim to fame is being the cute, religous boy from Home and Away. But still. The previews look pretty catastrophic, which frankly is what the book did - bring in destruction three chapters in and never look back.

Besides Ellie was a kick-ass character who grows throughout the novels.. on that note, I wonder if they'll actually adapt all seven (+later three) novels? Also, placing my money on cute-religous-blonde boy playing Homer or Kevin.. could go either way methinks..

Kris and I caught Iron Man II the other day, it was entertaining. I thought it was well done and more or less what Ive come to expect from superhero movies, funny, light and not requiring too much brainwork. Regardless, it was the previews that really caught my attention. There is an Austrian film (finally) coming out here, The White Ribbon.

Ive been looking forward to it since it win the Golden Palm at the Cannes film festival last year. It sounds brilliant and being shot in black-white, I'll feel all old school when I watch it. The plot isn't too cheerful, set in pre WWI German village, it follows the lives of a school teacher and children. When mysterious things begin to happen to the towns inhabitants they look toward the teacher.. I didn't read on but from what I gather it gets kookier.

Im looking forward to this one most of all.

There is also a remake of Nightmare on Elm Street; When in Rome starring Kristen Bell and Josh Dhumal; a remake of the wonderful British film Death at a Funeral - I hope they don't screw this one up. The fourth Shrek installment is coming, I remember early years of high school when the first one came out. Has it really been that long? Wow.

A new Karate Kid is also in the works, with Jackie Chan as Mr Miyagi? Hmm.. Predators, with an 's' so its the sequel to 1987's (?) Predator, but it stars Adrian Brody whom I haven't seen in a looong time, so. Motivation acheived. Beastly starring Neil Patrick Harris and Vanessa Hudgens, yes that shocked looked was my initial reaction as well. But still, NPH.

Scott Pilgrim vs. the world, a really dodgy film no doubt based on an even dodgier set of comic books, but one of the kids I sat for loved it and I was regularly regaled with tales of Scott Pilgrim, the 'coolest' guitarist in The World. Lol, young love. But Michael Cera is cast as Scott, it cannot be all bad.

Going the Distance, a Drew Barrymore film with Justin Long, of He's Just Not That Into You fame, and Christina Applegate, who I haven't seen nor heard of in years, constitutes a Wow.

Lisa Kudrow, (Pheobe from Friends) and Amanda Byrnes are bringing in Easy A, Rob Reiner's Flipped, based on a lovely book I read many moons ago and You Again that has a brilliant chick-esuq cast will help me get to the September months.