DeMizio's Journal

If I say "Quiet hours guys, keep it down" one more time...

...I'm going to scream.

Actually, tonight hasn't been that bad. The entire year hasn't been as bad as I had originally thought it would be. Chalk another one up to the "things that seemed worse than they actually turned out" file.

Today's highlight was going to Best Buy and actually spending money. I wound up getting (begin nerdy drumroll...) a Samsung 52x CD-Recorder and a Belkin Firewire card. The CDRW decided to screw with some software I had installed, and is actually burning at less than it should be now...but it should be fixed soon. Also picked up a copy of the South Park movie that was on sale...such a funny movie.

On Friday, I went with a couple friends to see "Once Upon a Time In Mexico." Its a fun movie; kinda threw me at first, but it got better as it went along. Its a B-movie that knows that its a B-movie and loves it: lots of cheesy dialogue, cheesy plot points coupled with lots of interesting visual effects - including some revolving around knees and eyes that I won't spoil here. Johnny Depp steals the movie with his CIA-agent persona, but there isn't a bad performance in the entire cast - Willem Dafoe, Selma Hayek, Antonio Banderas. The plot escaped me at first, however it quickly sorted itself out as the film unspooled. Its worth a viewing, at least a rental if not a full price ticket now. It all seemed eerily paralell to the Sergio Leone "Man with No Name Trilogy" - same washed out feel to the shot composition, same seemingly inane dialogue in places ("Are you a Mexi-can? Or a Mexi-can't?") and the same spaghetti western feel except it might be a "tortilla western" for Mexico...I'm not sure.

Other than that things are quiet. Its off to the Philadelphia Museum of Art tomorrow morning, and then duty and paper writing into the night.