Foamy - Foamy's rant IV

I had to post this one too...Nuria this is for you, particularly the part about film critics ;-)

Foamy - Foamy's rant

The original rant by Foamy. See also rants 2-5, and Dating Advice. You won't regret it.

Warning: he's a potty mouth. Don't show this to your kids, unless you want them to enjoy Kevin Smith movies in the future.

10 Items or Less

I just watched this movie last night with Courtney and Pam. Most people would probably label it as an overly minimalist movie with lofty intentions. Not to mention utterly impossible.

But I personally thought it was clever without being pretentious and sweet without being saccharine.

Basic premise: Morgan Freeman plays himself as a washed up actor who hasn't had work for years. He gets a ride to the Latino side of L.A. and winds up on some busted supermarket where one cashier is banging the manager that never comes to work, and the stand-in manager is a loopy old Latino man who moves at snail's pace. Anyway, he meets Scarlet (Paz Vega), who is this snarky, restless cashier in the 10 items express lane and they strike up a friendship. It all unfolds from there. I'll tell you now, the movie ain't plot heavy. It's one of those movies that wouldn't be any good unless some high-profile Hollywood actor were behind it. And who's got more clout than Morgan Freeman?

Anyway, it's wonderfully quirky and I recommend it. Paz Vega and Morgan Freeman have really fun, unexpected chemistry. I tend to be pretty optimistic about most things...food, music, movies, etc. But I think if you're in a philosophical mood and a little down on your present state of affairs, this movie's a good up-lifter. It'll at least make you chuckle.

Cool trivia: It was shot in 15 days. Talk about minimalist!

She's back...

non sequitur; "it does not follow."

non-sequitur is defined as a statement that does not follow logically from what preceded it. Barring the awesome pun that is attached to my name because I have a soft spot for puns, I'd say non sequitur is the story of my life right now. A life with no relevance to the previous stage of my life.

It is - a rather optimistic interpretation of the phrase - a new beginning?

I'm a recent college graduate, hence the clever heading of this blog. I hope to remove "traumatic" from it in just a matter of years, but who's counting?

I kid, I kid...for those of you that know me personally, I'm a very happy camper most of the time. I'd say that right now I'm just going through a rather unstable phase in my life where I don't exactly know what I want to do.

Yes, I am applying to med school. No, I don't know where I want to go. No, I don't know what specialty. Primarily because I don't know if I will get in this time around, or even if once accepted, that I'll really want to go. Bottom line is, that stage has not arrived yet and I'm firstly focusing on showing the MCAT no mercy in July. After that, the decisions will come a' knocking.



But anyway, the point of this blog was not to tell you about every nitty gritty thought in my head, but more for artistic license. Simply put: I'm a closet artist. I love black and white photography, I love songwriting, singing, playing guitar, and I like creative writing. Unfortunately, once I got to college, I drowned in schoolwork, social networking, and $2 rails at the Fe. Not to say I had any issue with having a good time in college, no no, but come on, artists are supposed to be pretentious, sitting in cafes pontificating, smoking, and being pissed off! That's where the creativity flows! (Please tell me know you I'm joking..)

So yeah. Point of this blog. Right. I'll be posting original black and white photography as it accumulates and actually gets developed, writing, music as I record it, whateva. I'm a college grad. For now, I've got lots of time and no money. Which means, I can get CREATIVE! :) And to go back to the very title of this blog, consider everything you see here probably the most irrelevant, brief moments in my professional and social life -- which, invariably, make them the most valuable and worth documenting.

Jess out.