Turns out I got to do something fun this afternoon! I went to see K-19 and I quite enjoyed it. I liked going to see it without knowing much about it at all. I’ve been very deliberate in ignoring all previews and articles for it, cause it looked interesting. Turns out it was! I think the most shocking thing – apart from a long line of naked rear-ends – was that National Geographic was one of the production studios. I think that’s really amazing.
All in all, I’d definitely recommend K-19, but it certainly wasn’t a “summer” movie. Although it had action and was suspenseful and all that, it made me think more than it made adrenaline flow. I liked that although some of the accents weren’t really authentic, they were consistant and that made them more convincing. The characters were interesting, but because it was Russian I had a hard time remembering several of the characters’ names. (I’m not even going to try and spell them since my spelling has been awful all day in my native language anyway.) But it really put a new perspective on the cold war, and the way the world handles nuclear capabilities as a whole. As I walked out of the theatre it almost felt like, if we came that close to Hiroshima in the Atlantic ocean, do we really know what we’re doing? It seems almost like we’re just a bunch of excited children, playing with our new toys, and racing the other children to the toy store to make sure we have the greater collection to show off at school. We don’t really know how to keep that addiction to the newest toys in control, and do we really know how to use it?
But I don’t feel like getting all anti-nuclear at the moment. I think nuclear weapons are awful, but they’re probably necessary. I think if we were able to get rid of all the nuclear weapons off the planet, then that would be fine. But I think it’s silly for just the United States and Russia to get rid of ours when we aren’t the biggest enemies anymore, nor do we have the biggest stock-piles of nuclear arms. If we could rid the middle east of them, then I’d be peachy keen with Russia and the US getting rid of everything. But I mean *everything*.
It all adds more meaning to what Einstein said, how he wished he’d had no part in its creation. I feel rather bad for him.
Anyway. That got rather serious rather quickly, didn’t it? Especially considering I’m way too tired to be all serious. Dang it, now my happy vibes have waxed philosophical. Time for useless babble to prepare for Daria, otherwise I’ll end up spending the rest of the night wearing black and a beret, and I’ll start writing poetry and finding meaning in David Byrne songs. And that really wouldn’t be good right about now. 🙂
Dang it, found something else important to blog about. Happy vibes later.
I’m stuck worrying about where I’m going to find money again. You know how I blogged about not being able to get that $80,000 a year job? Well, that’s sent me into panic mode again, worrying about how the heck I’m going to be able to pay for school (really funny typo replaced here, thanks to Guan). I’ve even started looking at options besides Courtauld, even though I’ve gone through this search a million times and I’m still in love with that school. I’m really frustrated by it. I feel like crying out, “I need $40,000!” But then again, who *wouldn’t* say that? But seriously, I need money by next fall and I’m not sure how to get it. If my travel show works out, then great, but I’m not going to count on it. That’d be silly to count on that of all things. There’s another out-landish plot I’ve been thinking about, but I haven’t blogged about (even though I’ve been working on it for the past two months.) But again, that’s way too questionable to bet all I have on it. I need something concrete, or I at least need one of my crazy plans to work. Then I’ll be all set.
Or I need to win that screenwriting contest. That’s another crazy plan that could set me up.
Maybe if I get enough crazy plans going the odds of success will increase, thus leading to at least one of them working out. I need more ideas, then. Or, more avenues with which to implement even more crazy ideas. Believe me, I have tons of dream-scenarios that *might* work if I got in with the right people.
But that’s entirely silly and they’re all the products of an over-active imagination. So what am I to do? Business proposals, like that couple did to get their wedding sponsored? Scholarships? Again, those are just as risky. Getting a job at McDonalds? First off, a job like that would never get me enough money. Secondly, I’d be miserable. Can you imagine knowing that you could make a great President and knowing you could make it if it weren’t for just one teensy problem, but then you have to settle for spending all of your time as the Mayor of Hell, South Dakota? That’s what it’d feel like. I’d be stuck in Hell… South Dakota. 🙂 And finally, I’d be working for the enemy, since Alastair and I have placed McDonald’s on our Axis of Evil, since we’re planning on taking over a small European country. We’re getting our policies in order, and no policy is complete without its own Axis of Evil. 🙂
Tee hee.
Oh good! The Happy/Stupid vibes are coming back! Maybe I’ll quit stressing about college.
Naaah. I won’t quit doing that until I have $40,000 in the bank. Or at least promised to me so I know I have access to it.
Holy crap that’s a lot of money. Why does art school have to cost so flippin’ much? It’s art, for goodness sake. Most great artists never had anywhere near that much money in their entire lives! Why spend so much studying them? The college system is so stupid.