An Idea Is Bulletproof

My parents took me to go see The Libertine with them today. Woo Johnny Depp. Johnny Depp with the syph, not so hot. BUT his acting, WOW if the directing of this movie hadn't sucked I'd say he'd be up for an Oscar for the role next year. The directing was just... I guess unexperienced is a good word... Anyone who's taken film classes, or art classes has been taught some form of the "golden rule" of how to frame your shots/images. And why centering is often not interesting to the eye unless one does it like Kubrick or at least with some stylistic intent. In this case there were too many shots that were just framed like home movies and while I was into the plot my eyes would wander. The movie has been getting terrible reviews and I think it's much stronger than it's getting credit for... but it could have been filmed in a much more engaging way.

But we did get some interesting previews.

I want to see The Notorious Bettie Page when it comes out.

Kinky Boots looks cute but since it's by the same people who made Calandar Girls I'm hesitant as that movie was cute and then fizzled about 2/3 of the way through.

Also Basic Instict 2 looks not so good at all.. but I did see a hilarious picture of Sharon Stone giving the LoHo advice on gofugyourself... and that's what came to mind when I saw the trailer... that probably isn't the best sign.

On a side note my parents walk like tourists. As though they're seeing TO or the movie theatre for the first time. I hate walking with people who walk like tourists. I still have the best memories of Ashley and I avoiding almost all photos in NYC until her mom forced us to take a picture. We so did not want to look like the typical tourists.

I made a new LJ layout :) It's a pretty simple one but I'm enjoying it thus far. Check it out: HERE. I don't know how my bandwidth will hold out but I'm hoping it does okay :)

I think my mother has resolved to be nice to me for her new years resolution. It's creepy. Also she's not going about it really well. Today she came into my room as I was just dialing the phone and getting ready to go meet my dad and she told me dinner was in 5 minutes. Which was nice but seeing as how I didn't ask for dinner and wasn't consulted at all about it, I can't be blamed for being unavailable when dinner is served. (and actually it's her new trick to try to have me eat early with my brother on the days he works so I'm not around to have dinner with her and my dad when he gets home, I wonder how dumb she thinks I am...) ANYWAYS I was impatient at being interrupted as I was trying to make a phone call/getting ready to leave and so as I was leaving she had this whole speech about how she was trying to do a nice thing and would appreciate it if I didn't yell at her (funny because I never once yelled) etc etc.

Then during the dinnertime that I was around for she started going on about how she had to shovel the snow today. And I asked if she hadn't asked my brother to do it yesterday and she had to conceed that yes she had, but she just did it before he got up this morning. This drives me nuts. She likes to do things that appear to be nice on the surface but she only does them so she can complain and appear to be the poor jilted parent later. It's not even as though my brother and I are kids anymore. No one has to make us dinner, I'm sure that in a house full of food we can cook for ourselves lol. But if food is put in front of us already made we're not saying no.

Also she was complaining about the laundry today... she still does all of my brother's laundry, folds it and brings it up to his room... seriously, if you think you're doing too much larundry then stop dong his. Don't spend 5 minutes complaining that you're working so hard when you're just making yoruself work hard for no reason.