DeMizio's Journal

You're loyal to your

You're loyal to your friends and family. You try not to let people know when you don't like them, because you try you best to treat everyone equally. You're not a leader, you tend to follow orders and respect those who tell you what to do. You're smart and a quick thinker. You take life as its handed to you, and try to make the best of it. You're constantly surrounded by friends and family, and you're a respectable person.

Back to La Salle. The room seemed to be cleaner than I left it (thank God.) Made the 115 mile trip up I-95 in about an hour and a half - a new record for me - Thank You EZPass!

I got back to La Salle, relatively early today, and it felt cool to seem people moving back in again all around me: like a mini freshman move in day. Surprisingly, a couple of people still aren't back (or are doing a damn good job of hiding tonight )

Anyhow, the summary of break was like this: I didn't go into Baltimore City. I went into DC and took an awesome picture of the White House (well, awesome, because it looks pretty good for the quality of the camera that I have and the effort that went into taking the photograph. This is it, for your viewing pleasure:

Other stuff during break: Saw "Crossroads" (YES, I KNOW. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have. I won't do it again. I promise. Grounded? Two weeks? Awww!) with Lauren. We had a good time; we weren't able to Peanut it like we wanted, but it was a good time anyhow. It's depressing as anything though; nothing really goes the way its supposed to - the summer road trip goes horribly wrong. (It helped a little that I didn't have to pay for it, I guess, being home and all.)

Actually, now that I think about it, the movie was pretty darn annoying. Dan Aykroyd tries to pull off a southern accent, and fails miserably (not that his role depends tremendously on his dialogue: "It's all right honey, I forgive you...now we have to just get you back home, and everything will be all right.)

The other intensly annoying thing about the movie was the random intermixed subplots that didn't go anywhere: the character of Kit, played by Zoe Saldana (I looked it up!) has an entire "pre-movie-life" that doesn't get explored that somehow STILL shapes her entire life - of course the only lead-in to this that the audience gets is what she directly states to the camera. The same is true of all of the characters: their backstories aren't adequately explored enough for anyone but the pre-teen audience that this movie is aimed at to gain feelings for them on their cross-country, "life-changing" journey. And that is what the film is aiming to be.

Yeah, that and Britney & Company butcher "I Love Rock & Roll" in a karaoke contest...

Actually, y'know what? I hated this movie. Some moments were outright laughable - when Britney writes poetry on the journey, it turns out to be the lyrics to her new "hit" song "I'm Not a Girl (Not Yet A Woman)" (which leads to the amusement at the end of the credits when the musical selections are displayed and Britney hasn't even written the damn song!)

Wait...why am I spending so much time on this stupid movie? I have no idea...

Oh well, I have about 10 chapters of a book to read for class at 10am tomorrow, and have friends to find who are hiding in the woodwork.

Posted by Matthew at March 11, 2002 12:00 AM