Showing posts with label Fucking Amal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fucking Amal. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

I think I've neglected you long enough...

This has been one hell of a crazy summer. My husband (weird) got laid off in May, I decided to go back to school about a week before that, then we got married, went on a honeymoon, came back and I quit my job for something part-time and started school the week before last. Needless to say, I've got about a million things I would like to catch you all up on, but now there is no time! So, let's take care of the highlights:

The wedding was beautiful, easily the best day of my life, if anyone was wondering, but I'm sure no one was.

I've read a few novels since my last posts (which were regretfully not even as recent as May I realize). I recently finished Brave New World as part of my continuing effort to read all the books I should have read in high school and enjoyed it very much. I also finished American Psycho and just started The Wind Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami, which is already fantastic just 7 chapters in. I would give American Psycho a 4/5, it was a great story and seriously grossed me out. I think soon I'll re-watch the movie and write a double review. Brave New World gets a 4.5/5 from me. I liked it a lot, but I think I liked 1984 just a tiny bit better. Although I do feel that the themes of Brave New World were much more developed. Once I've read Fahrenheit 451 I will do an entry on all three I think.

I also watched a TON of movies... Mammoth is probably my favorite of the movies that I've seen recently. I really love Michelle Williams. This is Lukas Moodysson's first movie in English and you should go see it. 4.5/5. This is a great story about mothers and their daughters and the things they do for them to give them lives they couldn't have. He is an amazing story teller and if you like Mammoth, you should immediately see Show Me Love (or Fucking Amal, which is the Sweedish title) and Lilya 4-Ever.

Ok, that's all I've got for now. Hopefully I'll be back with more frequency and be able to speak with more depth about the billions of things I do in a week.