mydarthestkader

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:46:35 GMT

Movies I have watched

1.(500) Days of summer- August 2009
2. Trolls 2- August 5, 2009(Alison)
3. The Science of Sleep- August 6, 2009(Zerlina and Lesley)
4. Kabluey- August 6, 2009(Zerlina and Lesley)
5. The Island- August 8, 2009(Tia Maggie's house)
6. Hercules- August 15
7. Aladdin- August 15
8. Harvey- August 20
9. District 9- August 23
10.Ikiru(Akira Kurosawa 1952)- August 21-24(why did it take me so long to watch this movie, I have no idea.)
11. Inglorious Basterds- August 28(with Amber and Sara)
12. Natural Born Killers- September 3(In film history class)
13. Time Crimes- September 3(with Sara)
14. The Great Train Robbery(1903)- September 10( in class)
15. The Cheat(1915)- September 10(in class)
16. Waltz with Bashir(Ari Folman2008)- September 13(by myself)
17. Birth of a Nation(D.W. Griffith 1915)-September 17(in class)
18. L'efant(Belgium)- September 27(with mom)
19. Bringing up Baby(1938)-October 8(in class)
20. Zombieland- October 10(with Alison)
21. Public Enemy(1934)- October 15 (in class)
22. Paranormal Activity- October 16(with Tariq, Sammy, Sara, Mahdey, Yasmin)
23. Noodles(6 min short film)- October 17 (by myself)
24. Song of Freedom
25. 400 Blows
26. The Graduate

Again, It's been a while.

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:58:33 GMT

Hello world. Or rather, hello Livejournal community. It's June now. Let's catch up.

I got a job at my school's theatre building. I'm an usher. I sometimes rip tickets. Mostly, I show people where the bathrooms are. It's a simple job, I like wearing all black, and the people I work with seem nice so far. It's probably not a permanent position, but it is just fine for the summer. 7.15 an hour. I don't care about the money; I really just wanted something to occupy my time. If you think about it, I'm getting paid to show people where the bathroom is: that is pretty bitchin'.

We got a new home computer. It's a Mac. 17 inch screen makes everything look pretty. Even fat people. And poor people. We still have to get used to using it. And now I have to share it with my little sister. She's the kind of person who believes that she is wasting time when she isn't on AIM telling her friends everything that is on her mind at every second. I'm not exaggerating. When she isn't on AIM, she is texting people constantly. It's terrible.

With my new Mac, I got an iPod touch. I never really liked touch screens before, but this is nice :). I haven't put that many songs on it yet, but I will soon enough. Doesn't really matter, I really only listen to "Strangers" and "This Time Tomorrow" both by The Kinks. I've been obsessed with those songs since I watched "The Darjeeling Limited" really interesting movie. But not as funny as I expected. I think it was marketed wrong. They marketed it as if it were a comedy. The Darjeeling limited has funny parts but it is more dramatic than comedic. The soundtrack is AMAZING and I can't wait to get it from the library. Long waiting list :(

Last Saturday, I went to the MoCCA art festival with my friend Andrew. It was like a mini indie comic con. Very nice people and the merchandise was very interesting, too bad I couldn't afford much! I bought two books but I haven't read them yet. I've been reading Philip K Dick's "Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep?" It was okay, I've read too many dystopian future novels to really be taken with it. I do really enjoy the title. Can't wait to watch "Blade Runner", the movie based on the novel.

This Saturday, I got a haircut. A bob, much shorter than I have ever cut it. Pictures are on facebook if anybody wants to see. That night was my cousin's engagement party, I had to look good. I felt good that night. I have never danced before at family functions. I have never wore high heels neither. So doing both at the same time made perfect sense to me. I am a terrible dancer but I tried not to think about how foolish I looked. I focused on having a good time. And it worked! I didn't feel uncomfortable at all that night, I felt wonderful. It was a little weird trying to dance to both American and Arabic music at first, I tried to move with the music. Not so easy with heels on. And the fact that my bra strap kept slipping didn't help much.

A few days ago, I watched "Being John Malkovich" If you want to watch a funny movie that really makes you think, I suggest both "Being John Malkovich" and "Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind". Both movies bend reality in such fascinating and different ways. I'm a bit tired now. So I am sorry for not giving both movies the full reviews that they deserve. Maybe another time.

Sat, 30 May 2009 18:33:02 GMT

The pool's open! yes!

Fri, 22 May 2009 03:48:33 GMT

School's over! Totally failed my French final, but who gives a &*^#*^?! SCHOOL'S OVER, OH YEAH!

So I watched a movie called Schnectodoche, New York and it depressed the hell out of me. If the spelling is wrong, sue me. Phillip Seymour Hoffman starred in it as a stage director. It was confusing, extremely complex and unbelievably depressing. The main character wins the MacArthur genius grant where he is given a shit load of money to do something creative. He decides to use the grant to create something large. A play in a warehouse. He recreates the city outside and hires a whole lot of actors to act in it. Eventually, the actors start reenacting scenes from his own life, and the line between reality and fiction blurs. He hires someone to play him and his friends and family. Soon, they hire doppelgangers to play themselves and so on. There are scenes where their are 3 sets of the same people in the same place. It was really bizarre. Eventually, he hires someone to take his place as director and he takes her place as a maid. He becomes a minor character in his own life.

The concept is amazing. The amount of detail and effort put into this movie is astounding and I appreciate it so much. Unfortunately, the plot is muddled and confusing. The time period moves so rapidly, it's hard to determine how long something has been going on. And it is amazingly depressing. I was miserable until the next morning. I believe it was worth watching though. I learned so much and the movie really affected me, whether it was the director/writer's intention or not to make me completely miserable.

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:53:00 GMT

Yesterday, I had my final play critiqued for my play writing class. Surprisingly, the people in my class did not set me on fire. I have about 20something critiques in my folder, most of them a grammatical mess. My play was mostly about a guy on a couch. He doesn't leave the couch to the very end of the play and winds up getting back on the couch at the end. Robert is on the couch. He has just been dumped and refuses to leave his couch for days, ignoring most people and watches TVLAND all day. His best friend, Mark, is kind of a douche but a caring douche and tries to cheer Robert up. Robert's sister, Jen, and his roommate, Casey are frustrated with Robert and both want him to get up and move on. They are really close. Or maybe, a bit too close. "The Boys" are a group of young men who pick up Robert's couch and move him to where the other characters want him to go. Clubbin'!

That was my basic premise. It is odd. Some of my classmates enjoyed it but had trouble reading it because it was in the wrong format. This is how I had it

Robert: his lines.
When it should have been like this

Robert
His lines.

And the time frame was off. I had characters complaining about Robert being on his couch for six months.

Overall, the response was better than I thought it would be. And now I have everything I need for the rewrite. And one person got angry because some lines were seen as racist. For example, Mark says "We have a black President now." Robert says nothing. Then Mark says "That Pixies song is about dating a black dude, how funny is that?" Obviously, this guy has never listened to the Pixies. It's actually a funny song when you listen to the lyrics "Gigantic gigantic gigantic, our BIG BIG LOVE...What a big black mess, what a hunk of love" I forgot to add that last line in. And two of the characters are lesbians and it would have seemed OK except that the last line of the play is pretty much Robert walking in on them in his bedroom and he completely freaks out, goes back on the couch. It pretty much makes homosexuality a punchline, something I really didn't want to do, but couldn't think of a way to get Robert back on the couch.

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:57:24 GMT

I fell asleep around 9:00pm with gum in my mouth. I woke up to hear my mom have a talk with my younger sister about how much she hates her generation and how much it scares her. This talk is actually scaring the hell out of me. It is very chilling.

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:10:46 GMT

So today, I had my first driver's lesson. I was really nervous, so I didn't speak much. At 8:30 in the morning, we drove around Father Cappadano, Hylan, Richmond Road and down New Dorp lane. For a full hour, since I was the only driver's student. I liked not being in a group, I felt like I could focus more. At the end of our lesson, the instructor told me that I drove really well for a person who had never been behind the wheel before. Super confidence boost =)

I haven't updated this in FO'EVER, really just thinking out loud.

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:49:10 GMT

Wow. It's been so long since I've updated. I first created a live journal account because all my friends had live journals, including my boyfriend at the time. I thought this would be how we all communicate when we go our separate ways. I have a face book for that now. But this should be fun.

Hmm...where to start? Well, I'm nineteen. I am double majoring in English: Creative Writing and Psychology with a minor in Film studies. I have absolutely no clue what I am going to do with any of those. But some of the classes seem cool, and it gives me more time to think about what I want to do. I don't have a job, I'm looking but no place I apply to ever calls me back. Loser.

I'm single. And for the first time, I'm content with that. =D People say I haven't changed at all since high school. Maybe I am still a clown. I love cartoons and comics, that hasn't changed. Actually, I love both of those things more than ever before. But I think I am different in other ways.

I'd like to think I'm slowly becoming more mature. I think I am, in some ways. Hopefully...
I feel like I've lost friends since high school. But sometimes I wonder, did I really have more friends back then or was I just surrounded by familiar faces for so long, I didn't feel as isolated.

I almost never see the few friends I have left, I rarely hang out. School Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, then the rest of the week off. I mostly watch movies from the library.

Taking film classes have changed how I watch movies. I find myself thinking more about what is shown on the screen. Every little detail is important because every single thing you see and hear was put there by the director for a reason. There are theorists out there who believe that the director is the 'auteur'(french for author) of the movie. That directors are the true authors of the movies they create. But they don't write the movie, screenwriters do that. Screenwriters are the real writers or authors of the script, right? Directors are signed on by producers, so shouldn't the producer of a movie be the 'auteur'? Are the people who choose what sound to put in the movie the collective auteur of it's sound?
But the director chooses what is shown on screen, how it is shown and why it is shown. It's all so confusing to think about. There isn't really a right or wrong answer. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion on the subject.

Strange rant. Well, at least it isn't about Superman.

Hello Livejournal community. I think I'll be posting here more often.

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:21:50 GMT

I haven't posted in a long time. Since my last post, I have become half couch.

Andrew W.K.

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:55:27 GMT

"Party makes me farty, I gotta take antacid so I can keep on party"

...This is a lyric in an actual song.

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:07:43 GMT

If you wear headphones for one hour, it increases bacteria in your ear 700 times.

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:04:01 GMT

Who is Pinktea89?

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:35:31 GMT

I am not the most powerful being in the world. I am an idiot.

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:45:55 GMT

Me bored. Someone entertain me please! For God's sake, I'm watching Lifetime!

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:38:09 GMT

It's still my birthday. And a Muslim holiday. Happy Eid to...oh wait, I don't have any muslim friends.
Well, Happy birthday to me!

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 04:06:25 GMT

Happy Birthday to me. Happy Birthday to me. Happy Birthday dear me-eee, Happy Birthday to me.

God, that sounds so depressing.

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:43:37 GMT

My fortune says; "Your dearest dream is coming true." Does that mean that I am going to wake up in a world where comic book heroes exist and realize that my shitty life was all just a dream?

Foreigners are strange...

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:12:08 GMT

queenofchaos676 (1:57:35 PM): what gets longer when pulled
queenofchaos676 (1:57:44 PM): looks sexy between ur tits
MyDarthKader89 (1:56:02 PM): uhm...taffy?
queenofchaos676 (1:57:55 PM): inserts neatly in a hole
queenofchaos676 (1:58:06 PM): and works best when jerked?
MyDarthKader89 (1:56:31 PM): taffy!
queenofchaos676 (1:58:20 PM): lol
queenofchaos676 (1:58:21 PM): no
MyDarthKader89 (1:56:38 PM): fits neatly in your mouth hole!
queenofchaos676 (1:58:30 PM): lol
queenofchaos676 (1:58:33 PM): no
queenofchaos676 (1:58:35 PM): it's not
queenofchaos676 (1:58:38 PM): taffy
queenofchaos676 (1:58:44 PM): u jerk taffy?
MyDarthKader89 (1:56:59 PM): and the more you jerk it, the stretchier it gets!
queenofchaos676 (1:58:46 PM): lol
queenofchaos676 (1:58:56 PM): y would u jerk it?
MyDarthKader89 (1:57:20 PM): because it gets stretchy!
queenofchaos676 (1:59:08 PM): and u put it between ur tits?
queenofchaos676 (1:59:11 PM): u fucking nasty
queenofchaos676 (1:59:11 PM): lol
MyDarthKader89 (1:57:27 PM): some people have odd fetishes
queenofchaos676 (1:59:19 PM): loooooool
queenofchaos676 (1:59:26 PM): no it's not taffy what else u got?
MyDarthKader89 (1:57:43 PM): hot dog
queenofchaos676 (1:59:36 PM): no
MyDarthKader89 (1:58:00 PM): alright, i give up
queenofchaos676 (2:00:01 PM): c'mno
queenofchaos676 (2:00:04 PM): u got another one
MyDarthKader89 (1:58:31 PM): i don't have anymore taffy
queenofchaos676 (2:00:24 PM): no
queenofchaos676 (2:00:27 PM): u have another choice
MyDarthKader89 (1:58:42 PM): i give up
queenofchaos676 (2:00:35 PM): no!!!!!!!!!!!
queenofchaos676 (2:00:37 PM): lol
queenofchaos676 (2:00:45 PM): u're supose to say dick!!!!!!!!
MyDarthKader89 (1:59:06 PM): but i dont have a dick
queenofchaos676 (2:01:00 PM): lol
queenofchaos676 (2:01:09 PM): ur ex bf does
queenofchaos676 (2:01:16 PM): anyway
MyDarthKader89 (1:59:26 PM): yep
queenofchaos676 (2:01:21 PM): the answer is a seatbelt
queenofchaos676 (2:01:23 PM): u perv
queenofchaos676 (2:01:25 PM): buckle up

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 23:59:39 GMT

Hey LJ community. I'm bored and my ass has officially been annexed by my couch. Am I even using that word right? Zerlina, help me out! Nobody else on LJ is smart enough!

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:38:18 GMT

This is really only for my friend Zerlina.

I finally figured out why the band called themselves "Joy Division" when they were so depressing; originally called Warsaw, in order to avoid confusion with the London punk band Warsaw Pakt, the band renamed themselves Joy Division in late 1977, borrowing their new name from the prostitution wing of a Nazi concentration camp in the 1965 novel The House of Dolls.

After Ian Curtis' suicide, the band reformed as New Order. Sheesh, Nazi Nazi Nazi.

Can you read this Zerlina? Can you read this from your throne at home?

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:07:29 GMT

One lesbian Vampire says to another; "That was great! See you next month."

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:19:24 GMT

I did not know that it was talk like a pirate day until it was too late. =(

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 02:59:58 GMT

Noticed I made a typo on my last entry; my mom had carpel tunnel SURGERY. She's healing up pretty nicely; she's even driving now. Has everyone been enjoying their Jew-cation? I did absolutely nothing. And my stupid friends are never online to talk, ZERLINA.

Damn, I had "Let my love open the door" stuck in my head for two days now. Catchy. Wish someone could love me that much damn it! Or at least someone love me enough to do me. DAMN IT!!!

I HAVE RETURNED!

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:41:19 GMT

Wow, haven't posted in the longest time. I should start with what's new. College isn't bad, the nursing students are real nice. I broke up with Paul last week, a fresh start. He no longer wanted to put the effort in a long distance relationship, so I broke it off. My mom had carpel tunnel on Friday, she was in a lot of pain, but she's fine now. Heh, she was cooking with one hand last night.

Being single is weird. I actually have to pay for my own food now. That sucks. CSI doesn't have any cute guys unfortunately, so I'm going to paying for my own food for a while xD.
Doesn't matter though, I'm single, sexy and independent. Maybe my next boyfriend will like comics and ska/punk as much as I do...

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 04:55:09 GMT

At 12:50 am, I finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows. I only have one thing to say on the subject; J.K. Rowling is a pussy.