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Gigi (1958): ends up being a really bad hallmark movie. one of the first songs in the movie is, 'thank heaven for little girls' which incidentally is the theme song for a number of my friends. they have terrible green screen effects. i swear i've seen better green screen prior to '58. another song is called, 'its a bore' which sums up all of gigi. i'm not making up these song titles either. the movie went completely overboard with colors. i know its a musical set in france but this was extreme. i hated the guy staring at the camera who narrates the film and sings to us. both the storyline and acting are not believable. there is a reason why there wasn't a single acting nomination, even though this won best pic. it was a nice touch to end the movie back on the old guy singing to us about little girls again. the movie was awful and not worth seeing. and like i think i said about her in an american in paris, the french girl is fugly.

Gentleman's Agreement (1947): they start off with some terrible wastes of green screen or whatever color it was in the black and white days. almost like just taking and cutting film and overlaying on top of other film. anyways, it got really boring. la-dee-da, so people treat jews bad. try being black for six months or mexican. these people get crapped on but there isn't a movie like this for them. the movie white chicks might have been the closest. i didn't like the acting much. if this movie won best pic that year, i would have hated to have seen the ones that didn't win. must have been a crappy year. i actually have a complaint about the lighting also, being too unrealistic and sucky. and the guy didn't really have to try and find reasons to tell people he is jewish. he could have just walked around saying 'oh vey!' good point though made about the fact that we call jews 'jews' like its a race or something. i counted and they smoked sex thousand and twelve cigarettes. the chick in the movie is the most romantic talking girl ever! the lead guy is a big, whiney, grumpy child (sound familiar?). they make the wife of him look terrible and she was one of the nicest people in the movie. its way too idealistic. only see the movie if you are a jew.

WWI and WW2 didn't really involve us like it did other country's. it was really britain's, france's, and germany's war. we of course played a huge part of it, but we just sent over massive amounts of troops. aside from pearl harbor, we were not being attacked like the other countries. the way we feel about russia's involvements in the war is probably what the global opinion of the US's involvement is. so when we think of the wars, i bet we don't look at it like brits do. but for all these years, i really would think the world's thoughts on the wars were the same as the US's. of course these were our biggest wars, so on a US scale they should be up there. however globally, our involvement was less than others.

for the past few weeks i've been having movie nights with myself. i basically stay up on the days where i can sleep in, and watch movies until sometime between 3 and 6. its 2 right now meaning i'll be able to at least finish the hour of the one i'm watching now. this will only last until classes start next week for summer. this summer is not going to be pretty. five weeks of classes each day of the week. i added a ton more shifts to my schedule at work and also gave my 'notice' for august 21. i'm tired of the rain and clouds, not because i don't love rain and clouds, but because the time for that should have been at the beginning of this month. now should be the time of nice weather transitioning into shatty heat. something is going to have to be skipped over once this rain goes and no one has the good luck that it will shave a few boiling days off the calendar. my bet is that since this is the time for good, the rain is taking that time away and the sun is just itching to evap that little rain up and keep us a desert.

i've gotten 2 A-'s and 1 A. i feel retarded because on one hand, i'm pretty disappointed with the A-'s because so far those two have actually brought down my gpa. but of course i'm being an idiot because A-'s are of course wonderful to receive and i know that many people work their tail feathers off and still can't get A-'s. i should be happy about it all. those A's would have been nice though.

i bought some 'tom approved' jeans today that i must say are mighty fine. a new pen is what i want. the one that i believe clive owen has in closer. its strange to think that after so many years, california is not where i consider myself from. i don't recall how long its been that colorado has been my baby. in fact, now that i look back on that dusty, smelly town i came from, i'm not sure i would want to represent it anyways. i'm not knocking my fres peeps, but you all know how it is.