what came first, movies or misery...in this case a movie that caused misery

The movie High Fidelity to me was a big dud. I feel like it was a movie about nothing, we watched a man fall over girls who "played him" I did not find it entertaining really at all. I might have been looking at this too close minded, after the first few minutes I kind of stopped paying attention. If you have ever seen the show Seinfield you know what I am talking about....it's a movie about "nothing". There were so many different plot twists the director could have taken but to me it seemed like he just took the boring way out.

In a way I could see how this movie could be entertaining to a certain crowd but it was not my cup of tea. The whole grunge 90's look, I wasn't feeling it. I feel that the main character was a loser that probably many men could associate with. Just the fact that we could see how he had not changed over the course of all of the "girls" in his life proves my theory. He owns an old vinyl store which no one even comes into and when they do they are insulted. I do understand it. Nor do i understand the fashion statements that the three men who worked in the shop were trying to make.

One thing I can say that I did not totally hate was some of the music in the film. I enjoyed a few of the tracks and Crimson & Clover was stuck in my head for the rest of the day. So props to the person who created the sound track. Other than that I thought the overall out look of the movie was so dull and boring, the colors were blah and nothing really stood out to me as memorable. I was wondering at the beginning of the film why I had never heard of it before, and then it became obvious after the first day we had watched it. I was absent the second day in class when the movie continued so unfortunatly I did not get to see the ending but I talked to a few of my classmates and they gave me an overall synopsis and the general comment was, "well you didnt miss much". I felt the comedy in this film to be average, not laugh out loud funny. I expected a little bit more out of Jack Black but I am assuming this was one of his earlier roles so he was still adjusting.

Overall I do not think I would recommend this movie to any of my friends or for that matter would I care to watch the ending to see what happens. Next time lets watch Gone With the Wind, atleast that is four hours of something worth seeing.

SuperPower Post

Last night was a weird night and I think that the fruit at Schilleter made me sick or something because I had some serious trouble falling asleep. I crawled into bed at about 1:30 after three long and boring hourse of western civ and poly sci homework. After getting into bed of course I was wide awake and my mind kept racing and if that was not enough I had the weirdest dream. It was one of those dreams where you think your dreaming but you are not 100% sure. I do not exactly remember all of it because my alarm for my eight a.m. class went off and basically reset my brain. I hopped out of bed to take a shower and with one blink of my eyes I had already taken a shower, gotten dressed and brushed my teeth. I stared at the clock thinking it was broken because it only said 7:05 and I woke up at 7. I began to think about what could of possibly happened, so I checked the back of the clock and sure enough it was fully functioning and even my phone had said the correct time. I was not quite to sure what was going on so I figured I would go to Schilleter and get some breakfast because my mind was playing tricks on me. Sitting bymyself in Schilleter I took a bite of an apple, one of the apples from the same pile that I had ate the night before. At that point my brain felt like it was going to explode and I wished I was at home in Maryland and I blinked my eyes and sure enough I was sitting at my kitchen table back home. I could hear my Mom and Dad talking in the other room and in fear of them freaking out I wished I was back at school. Sure enough I blinked and I was back in my dorm room and by this time I was freaking out. My roomate Jamie was still asleep and I woke her up and tried to explain what was going on and at first she thought I was making it all up and just kidding. But I took her hand and wished that we were in the Florida Keys and we opened our eyes to the wonderful white sandy beach and the Gulf Coast. I think she almost fainted because she sat down and put her face in her hands. I sat down next to her and said, "I know exaclty how you feel." She replied, "No way THIS IS AWESOME." Her reaction was not exactly what I was expecting but I was thankful she was not freaking out. We both swore we would never tell anyone about my amazing super fast powers.

I became quick witted and fast to act. My mind works at warp speed. From my perspective, everyone else is living in slow motion. I began to get so much done, people have accused you of not sleeping. I was definitely not a couch potato, and I feel a bit crazy if you're not busy doing something. The best part of my ability is that I can turn it off and on, so I do not always have to live in fast mode but it is great to have.

Favorite Song

This is probably going to be one of the hardest assignments ever, and no its not supposed to be 6 to 10 pages long nor does it need 5 sources. Just the fact to have to choose a favorite song is hard enough. I love music, there is not an hour in my life in which a song or lyric is running through my head. I actually had to purchase two ipods because I did not want to have to delete songs from one or the other.

But my favorite song of all time is one that I could play over and over and never get tired of. It is one that my father and I used to sing when I was little and still to this very day break out spontaneously in song. Whenever we would have a party at our house this song would be played atleast once if not twice. Everyone would dance with those whom they loved and of course I danced with my Daddy. This song is very nostalgic and I used listen to it so much that even my best friend Kelsey has learned to love it. Now I just listen to it every now and then when I want to reminisce about good times from the past about be close to the ones I love when they can not be here. The song appears in the movie Animal House and I think that is where my Dad first heard it but I am not exaclty sure.

The song is by Otis Day and it is called Shama-lama-ding-dong.

Here are the lyrics:

If I searched this whole wide world I’d never, never, never find me a girl who’d love me the way that u do Cuz u shama lama In the rama lama ding dong Baby, u put the ooh my my (oh, oh, oh, oh) back into my smile child Hey! That is why, that is why You are my shooby dooby doo You put the shama lama, ding dong You put the ooh my my (oh, oh, oh, oh) back into my smile child That is why, that is why You are my shooby dooby doo And I love, this love we share Its stronger then the other no one else can compare stronger then the highest mountain and the deepest sea Hey! u put the shama lama In the rama lama ding dong Baby, u put the ooh my my (oh, oh, oh, oh) back into my smile child Hey! That is why, that is why u are my shooby dooby doo shama lama, in the rama lama ding dong, baby u put the ooh my my (oh, oh, oh, oh) back into my smile child that is why, that is why u are my shooby dooby doo