"my naked cousin"
saturday, july 21, 2001
(note: there are no naked cousins in the text below. the song makes for good soundtrack of a day, though.)
well, the webpage thing went well, of course. i threw something together and they apparently like it so i can breathe and go on my business now. and was again assured that it's fine if i take as many free movies as i want. my mother is worried that the free movie rentals will become my pay for the webpage, and who knows, may be so (i'm too chicken to ask for money right off the bat) but it's not a big concern of mine. it will be something to count as work and, well, free movies to a movie-nut is Very Very cool. so i got three and left.
do you like dance movies? i like dance movies. yes, yes, it probably stems from some lame internal wish that my mother would have sent me off to a ballet boarding school when i was 2 years old (though i must say i'm very glad she didn't) so i could have gotten to wear those neat pointy shoes and stupid lacy dresses. since i also enjoy cheesy movies, i'm doomed to watch anything remotely featuring dancing. so, i rented Center Stage, a ballet movie fromt last year. i really wanted to go see it in the theatre when it was first released, but simply couldn't muster up the energy and courage needed to intentionally go see this cheesy extravaganza in public.
well. i liked it. :) it's actually far better than the other recent teen dance movie, Save the Last Dance with pretty julia stiles (i liked it, except for the part with the dopey guy that was the love interest, a black ex-hoodlum ghetto boy who teaches geeky white ballet girl to dance funkier. the guy sounded and looked like he was 35 and from new england and over-acted so much it turned funny. and julia stiles 'dancing' wasn't all that enthralling because it was so obviously someone else provided the dancing while julia bobbed her head credibly.. just didn't work.).. lots and lots of long dance sequences and okay crap storylines and characters actually worked because they were all actually dancers. that actually helps a lot in a movie (though flashdance worked anyways -- but hello, a steel mill beer bar that hires experimental modern dancers with elaborate set designs who doesn't have to strip -- rrrright..) because it excuses them when the acting lacks a bit. i actually recommend it. a bit. he hee.
what i do recommend though is the next movie i saw -- liberty heights, barry levinsons' latest movie. it's set in baltimore, 1959, and follows a jewish boy and his friends. it's very funny and welldone (note how i say nothing about it -- i don't want to accidentaly explain it wrong) and i just really, really liked it.
tomorrow is the h�kan hellstr�m concert. i'm going to claw my way to the front and thoroughly enjoy his out of tune singing and manic bongo playing drummer. and i'll sing, sing, sing along till i drop. that's a promise. :)
cin cin! (and rent liberty heights!)
