WOW

-World of Warcraft.
It has never been a temptation for me to play. I've seen it suck in a few of my close friends for periods of time, but it's never been able to affect me.
UNTIL NOW.
Don't worry, I'm not playing it.
However, my dorm room just so happens to be on the other side of the wall of the computer lab and about 10-15 WOW gamers are in there and they're giving me a very play by play of their experiences.. I love when some of them yell at the other person who's sitting right next to them that they just cheated. This WOW virus is starting to turn into a real problem. Sometimes, I walk in there in the middle of the afternoon to print a paper and all the computers are taken by WOW addicts.

Parents talk to your kids about WOW.

-Moving on, I've decided to make myself a little list of things to do this summer:
1. Make money
2. If enough money is made, buy a digital SLR camera (probably a nikon d40)
3. Make some videos, even if it is just more of the ridiculous stuff I always make
4. Write some scripts
5. Watch a lot of films, especially the classics I've never seen.

-I made my roommate get a blogspot tonight: http://andineedmoregracethanithought.blogspot.com/

-Well no one commented on my blog about the color/bw although my mom said something about on facebook. But according to Guitar Hero, your mom does not count as a fan. But what the heck. I like the photo in bw and color, but prefer it in bw. The boy's face is pretty exposed and the shadows cast from the fence stand out on his face. There's just a lot of contrast in bw. Also, it reminds a little of the cover for the film the 400 blows, except from more of a side angle...and with a younger boy...who doesn't live in Germany...or in the 50's...and who's life doesn't completely suck...but besides that I'd say they're practically identical. It's a good film, watch it.

-I'm going to start a movie section on this blog, for reviews and reccommendations and whatnot.
It'll be called:

WATCH AND DON'T WATCH
And even though it's called Watch and Don't Watch, I'll always start with Don't Watch because I always like getting the bad news first.
DON'T WATCH: Fighting
Well to be honest with you, I can't give a full review here because I only saw an hour of it while I was on my break (I work at a theater). However, to me it seemed like this year's version of Never Back Down (which admittely I didn't see either...nor did I want to see). Pretty much Fighting seemed like a formula movie to me. There was a fight every 20-30 minutes, and they weren't even very good. In between the fights it felt almost like a chick flick set in a different atmosphere than normal chick flicks. Just felt kinda girly. And of course most of the girls watching were just there for Channing Tatum anyways.

Watch: Paris, I Love You
The format of the movie is pretty cool. It's 18 short stories, each about 5 minutes long, all put into one movie. Originally, I thought every story would be a love story about how this couple first met in Paris and quite a few of them are, but not all of them. There's a huge range as far as style and subject in the stories, since every story had a different director (the Coen brothers even direct a story). Some of them are very realistic, some are extremely ridiculous, some have got elements of fantasy to them. There's a lot of French and English mixed together into the movie and several American actors such as Natalie Portman, William Dafoe, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Elijah Wood star in some of the stories. I can almost guarantee you're not going to like every story, I know I didn't. One of them was about a dude hitting on another dude and another was just so absurd it didn't make any sense. It was about this old dude selling Asian hair products to these salon people, it was so ridiculous...but intentionally so. Anyways, those were some of the low points. But for the most part I really enjoyed most of them. A couple that stood out to me was the one with the Mime, Natalie Portman's story, and Elijah Wood's vampire story, just to name a few. Another reason I really liked the movie was just because they were all short stories. As a student filmmaker, that's all I can really realistically do right now. I don't have the kind of funding or experience (or even script for that matter) to make a feature length film yet. But these 5 minutes shorts are just perfect for me, it's great to watch how these professional filmmakers can develop these stories in such a short amount of time. I have a problem with always making my stories too long, and so these are great to study. Anyways, I'd reccommend the movie to anyone who's into film.

-Okay I'm going to go now, no more ranting tonight. I'll go to bed now...and hopefully avoid any next door WOW gamer induced nightmares...