February 2005

2-28-05, 3:37am

Big night.  Just got done having an extended late night chat with Katie and Katherine.  Call me crazy, but it's nights like tonight that make me so thankful that I have such amazing friends.  I love you guys.  Just a quick note to tell you guys that I will always be there for you guys, no matter what... if you ever need to talk or a shoulder to cry on or someone to rant to... whatever.  All you have to do is ask.

Anyway, no more sappy stuff, I'm drained.  Oscars were tonight.  And they suh-ucked!!  First, Chris Rock... not funny.  Second... what was with the awards from the audience, and the whole not showing clips thing?  How am I supposed to decide on the lesser categories without pre-prepared snippets?  Third... what was the Academy smoking when they screened Million Dollar Baby?  Morgan Freeman was good, but not nearly as good as most of the others in that category.  And seriously, I thought Clint must have slept with everyone in the Academy to even get MDB on the nominee list (damn, shoulda bought stock in Viagra), but best freakin' picture?  Give me a break!  That was seriously the worst of the five, and that's not even counting the movies that should have been nominated (aka Eternal Sunshine, Hotel Rwanda, Garden State... I'm sure you've probably all heard this rant before).  It makes me even more disillusioned with the Academy and movies in general.  This is seriously the most disappointed with the Oscars that I've been in years.  I think this may be worse than Fellowship getting snubbed.  Yes, Million Dollar Crack Baby sucks that much (a phrase, I feel I must note, was originated by Brandon, not me).

I am happy, however, for Jamie Foxx, Charlie Kaufmann (Eternal Sunshine!  whoop!),  Cate Blanchett (although I am sad for Natalie Portman, it was a good year for her), and most of the artistic awards.  They were kind of overshadowed by the horrible travesty that is MDB.

Yeah, I'm definitely skipping my 9:10 class tomorrow morning.  It is way too late.  More updates later... Night all!

2-21-05, 1:09am

I have been so deprived of all the kistenet sites!  I should be sleeping, but the sites are up now, and they may not be tomorrow, so I have to read everything Brandon and Ryan have posted.  Kistenmacher, you should fix the sites, or I'm gonna fail all of my classes, get kicked out, wind up on the street and have to turn to prostitution.  Do you really want that on your head?  That'd just be sad. 

You know what else is sad?  The Academy.  How the hell can you nominate something like Million Dollar Baby and neglect Hotel Rwanda.  That's absolute crap.  We watched it tonight, and I seriously think it's one of the best movies I've seen all year (well, all of last year, technically).  I might take back what I said about it being better than Eternal Sunshine and Garden State (I was still a little weepy from the ending at the time), but it's right up there with them.  I definitely need to put it in my top 100 soon.  I'd definitely say that it's better than all of the Best Picture nominees, and probably better than the ones I haven't seen yet.  The Academy is really on my bad list... even more so this year.  First Eternal Sunshine gets snubbed, then this amazing movie doesn't get recognition... BOO!

I also watched Requiem for a Dream this weekend.  And I didn't cry like everyone said I would.  Does that make me a bad person?  I did like it though.  I thought the acting was amazing, and the imagery was great.  It'll probably end up on my top 100, but toward the lower end.  We'll see.

This weekend at home was probably one of the more boring ones.  The highlight was probably playing with Baker or comparing boob size with Katie.  Oh, and I got some new clothes while being called an anti-slut... that's always good.  But other than that, it was same old Friendswood boredom.  Blah.

Oh, and I've noticed that Brandon and Ryan have totally stolen the idea for googled pictures in their rants from me.  Not that I mind... just an observation. (Hm, Brandon seems to disagree.  Funny, I remember telling him about how I got pictures from google and he then started using them regularly.  Whatever.  I'll be 'flamed on his website'.  Like I care.  At least I know I'm right about Seth and Summer dying.)

Ok, I'm going to bed now.  I'm very tired.  More updates soon, hopefully.

2-19-05, 9:07pm (whoop!)

Well, this sucks.  Not only can I not see Brandon and Ryan's sites, I can't update my own.  I mean, it's not like I update often, but when I get bored it's nice to have.  Ah, as they say "you don't know what you've got till it's gone."  (Cue cheesy Joni Mitchell/Bob Dylan/Counting Crows/Vanessa Carlton song... dang.  Why have there been so many covers of that song?)

Anyway, I just wanted to talk about how boring Friendswood really is.  I mean, we always say it, but have we really examined every aspect of its intense boringness?  I think I should call up Katie and tell her to set up a ranking system for the boringness of suburban towns, but my phone's dead and I'm too lazy to go down and get the house phone. 

From dictionary.com:  bor-ing.  adj.  Uninteresting and tiresome; dull.  From Middle English boren, from Old English borian.  See Friendswood.

And an interesting tidbit... 'Friendswood' roughly translated into Dutch is 'vriend hout' a phrase that, in the Netherlands is also used to describe a situation or place that is 'ho hum'.  So you see, the name of Friendswood itself actually means boring.  It seems Friendswood was doomed from the beginning.  Damn Dutch Quakers. 

Friendswood's history is also incredibly boring.  Seems there was this guy named Francis Brown (if that name doesn't scream boring, I don't know what does) was the one who founded Friendswood for the Quakers.  The Quaker settlers were too pansy to handle the Central Texas plains and so they sent him to find somewhere a bit cushier to live.  He visited the town now known as Alvin, but found it much too exciting for his tastes (they danced... the heathens).  So he moved down the street a bit so that his children wouldn't be tainted by their gyrating hips.  The Quakers moved in, built their cookie-cutter suburban homes with picket white fences and had themselves each 2.5 kids.  But they needed something to do with their time, and maybe make some money on the side (they didn't really need the money... I mean, come on, this is Friendswood we're talking about.  They could buy you).  So they talked at one of their boring town meetings and decided that the fig was by far the most boring fruit ever and therefore they would start to grow figs.  Then there was the whole oil thing, by far the most interesting thing that's ever happened to this town.  The settlers decided that all this excitement was bad for morale.  So they sold the oil and built more churches and banks.

And that's pretty much how we ended up here, twiddling our thumbs and playing 'Throw things down Katie's cleavage'.  And sitting around writing website rants on the absolute boringness of Friendswood.  Blah, I'm gonna go watch a movie or something.  Here's hoping that the sites will be back up when I get back.

2-16-05 (I guess I forgot to write the time down for this one... oh well, no one cares anyway.)

Yay for updating!  I had a spare minute between doing laundry and studying for my uber-difficult Microbiology exam that's coming up tomorrow, so I figured I'd throw something up here.

First off, I'd like to say that a big congrats goes out to Brandon and Allegra.  I know I, personally, can't wait until you have a horde of children running throughout the halls of Lechner.  Haha!  Congrats again!

Other than that happy occurance, my Valentine's Day was pretty much just a normal day.  Although I did get an awesome Valentine from Brando (a day too late, but who's counting, really?)... It's a picture of the Garden State scene with Sam and Large, and I've already framed it.  It's right next to the collage of chewed gum and the voodoo doll made out of Brandon's hair follicles.  What?  I'm not weird.

I have decided I really don't hate Valentine's Day as much as I claim to though.  It sucks, being single and all, but having good friends to hang out with makes everything better.  Although Physics tests and all those stinkin' propagators can go off and get stuck in a tar pit for all I care.  Boo!

Oh, and while I'm at it, I'd just like to say that I love how The Perfects are progressing.  I can't wait until Brandon becomes a famous comic writer and I get sent the first issue (for free, of course... I'm not paying for that crap).  I just wish I had some artistic ability.  My sketches are merely passable at best. 

Okay, no more procrastinating, I have to go study.  More metabolism diagrams... yay.

2-8-05, 7:22am

I love my friends.

I hate seeing them all go.  I miss you guys already!