Musings of a cigarette smoking woman (original) (raw)

Mermaids, 1990

Happily, this is one of my favourite childhood films. I haven't seen it for a few years and it was pretty neat. But of course, neat is the word - it's not very dramatic, not extremely exciting, has normal teenager VS mom problems and a very catatonic love interest (seriously, that dude is like dead). I love its nostalgic ambiance. Favourite scene: probably when Christina Ricci is wearing the pumpkin. Love! <3

The Hard Way, 1991

I had no idea this movie existed and more so, I was surprised at Michael J. Fox being in it! However, it was just not good at all, hahaha. At times it was hysterically bad and I kept waiting for Ricci to show up and she did, for a whole 10 minutes or whatever it was in the middle. She was very cute, though. Seriously good child actress. If anyone ever have seen this atrocity, have you noticed the clear link to the Back to the Future music? I was baffled.

Addams Family, 1991

Classic. Seen it a hundred times. Always worth it.

Addams Family Values, 1993

Actually, the next movie on Ricci's resumé is "The Cemetery Club", but it was nowhere to be found, so I gave it up and watched the second Addams Family instead. It was awesome! I love Joan Cusack and she will be on my list of actors, hooo yess.

Casper, 1995

Aaaah, Casper. One of those movies that I watched when I was too young to understand English properly and learned every line as sounds, not words. Watching it now unravels so many things! And also, Eric Idle?! Not to mention the Ghostbusters reference! And our childhood megacrush, Devon Sawa. Sigh. What happened to him anyway? And Ricci's name is Kat ;) Amusingly, in this one, her dad moves around searching for ghosts and in Mermaids, her mom is moving around, running away from...something. I wonder if she has any other runaway films.

why hello there, livejournal!

Posted on 2010.11.20 at 23:27

i haven't seen you in months! or longer! very lovely to see you, old chap!

thing is, i have this new fun project that i'm doing and i couldn't figure out what arena to use for it, because it's not so important that i need to Publish A New Blog and Tell Everyone, but it's still so much fun that i'd like to tell someone, at least. tumblr sorta kinda works, but it's a hassle when you're writing text and there's no true continuation there either. facebook is impossible for blogging and so, i have concluded that my good old friend, mr. livejournal, is perfect for this kind of thing.

my new, fun project entails watching movies in a certain kind of order. that is, following actors and directors, i'd like to watch every movie they've starred in/they've directed that i can get my hands on easily. it means i don't go out of my way to rake the internet, but if it's readily available, i'll take it. tv-shows won't be considered, just because it's too much to get familiar with a whole series just for that one or two episodes.

and so, it begins =D

geekery

Posted on 2010.05.18 at 21:44

i am a member on a hundred million networking sites and i couldn't figure out where to write this particular piece of mind, so i chose you, LiveJournal.

but if you watch the lord of the rings extended edition with commentary of the cast, everyone sounds inexpliccably gay. especially orlando bloom (listen to him describing viggo mortensen and ian mckellen, someone's in luuuuurve). there's just no simple way around it. even the gracious ian mckellen sounds very tender when describing everyone. they're all so gay and i'm SO JEALOUS. i want a fellowship too =(

and i think i realized that i have never heard the commentary on two towers and return of the king before, so i'm giddy. yay!

tl; dr

Posted on 2010.04.02 at 22:23

man, it's been a long time

it's not that i don't check and read LJ, i do it every day. but i have in some way lost the need to write or i haven't felt anything real in ages.

now, however, i'm feeling something quite real and it makes me so happy to know that i can feel things, that i'm not empty just yet

we've been in japan the last couple of weeks, first time since kos left to live in norway and it's been an incredibly social trip. we've been meeting people nearly every day and doing so much stuff, i don't know where we got the energy.

i have also been interviewing people for my master's degree, about japanese work life, it will be a gender studies of men to put it shortly.

anyway, yesterday, kos and i were going to meet one of our friends that recently got depressed and took a year off of work. since i felt maybe it would be quite a sensitive issue, i decided that kos should be there as well, so we could kind of have a talk rather than a one on one interview. but before long, another friend appeared out of nowhere. luckily, i hadn't interviewed him yet, so i thought he might just as well join in on the chat. after a while yet another friend came and we had a really fun and productive interview-based talk that lasted for a couple of hours. since we were drinking beer and the atmosphere was quite happy, we were constantly joking and laughing and saying bullshit all over the place. after a while, we decided to continue to record the bullshit we were saying, it was simply hilarious.

what was so special about this for me, was that until this point, i've had kind of a hard time getting all the humor or adding comments to a fast-paced conversation in japanese. i've always listened and had fun, but it was very hard to manage to keep up since my japanese wasn't so great. just one week ago, we were on a trip to a place called Nasu and i had such a hard time keeping up that i gave up in the end and fell asleep first out of everyone.

but somehow, yesterday, i overcame some kind of wall or barrier or something and was completely in my element. i haven't had so much fun with people in ages, including my friends at home. it's like things have become stale and normalized back home and i feel like i haven't had a proper laugh in years, seriously. and what's more, not only did i laugh incredibly much and could understand everything everyone said by, i could make funny comments constantly. i listened to the recording we made again and it was completely hysterical and somehow my funny, drunk self was faster at catching the atmosphere than my hungover, slow self today.

at this point, i'm feeling both really happy and also kind of panicky, because i will have to leave, but also because i realise more and more how much i envy kos his group of friends and how sad it is that he (and i) can't be around them all the time. my friend situation at home is great, i have tons of friends and can trust so many of them with my life, but somehow, there's a big piece missing lately: pure, stupid humour. last time i feel we had that, was when maren and i made that magazine. we need more of that. we need more bullshit. anyway, i can completely appreciate and respect kos' big decision of going to norway, not because moving to another country is especially hard, but because leaving these people is really quite depressing, not to mention the fact that i totally understand kos' hopelessness about not being able to make funny comments and be a central figure in a social situation, like he is used to being. of course, we can comfort ourselves with the fact that if we'd have been in japan, they wouldn't have time to meet anyway, since they're working like madmen, and that anyway we'll be there at least once a year, but still... it's difficult.

so now i'm sitting here and i'm gonna have to go through all of yesterday down to the last detail for my research and i'm feeling quite nostalgic and my head is full of complicated things. but feeling something is frankly like magic. fucking hate emotional stagnation.

That yearly survey =)

Posted on 2009.12.30 at 03:57

best of 09

Posted on 2009.12.29 at 07:51

Posted on 2009.12.26 at 04:10

me writing here truly has been declining this year and i don't actually mean to, but i have had less and less need to express myself on such a forum for no apparent reason i can think of. but i think it's in part because i have had less wish to portray my life in an undiplomatic, ugly way. i just want to handle whatever there is to handle by myself, privately. and so, written self-therapy becomes less necessary. but putting that aside...

this has been a really lovely christmas. it was kos' first and showing it to him went really great. loads of fantastic food and drink and songs and games and tons! of presents. we've seriously never had that many presents yet. this *could* be due to the fact that the family keeps growing every year. last year, we had the addition of mom's boyfriend kalle and this year, kos. i wonder what kind of insanorama heap of presents is gonna be piled up under the piano (yes, indeed, because already this year, there was no more space under the tree) when us siblings start having children. holy shit i say!

i also decided that for next christmas, i'm actually gonna make a wishlist =P ever since i came home, i've thought of a ton of small, relatively inexpensive things that i'm just too friggin lazy to buy myself or forget. at least i got my mom to buy us new duvets.. =P

the next issue on the list, now that the ordeal of presents is over, is packing to move out of this place. we have to move, you see, but we still haven't found an apartment. since it's christmas, it's been difficult to get in touch with the landlords, but from monday on it's war. we have to be out by 15th of january. SHIT!

not working until january 3rd and no school until 21st of january. loads of time to pack, move and get used to the new place, get everything in order, do stuff i don't normally have time for. wonderful. i almost don't wanna sleep there's so much to do! <3

oh and... the last couple of years, i've made a collage of the best pictures that represent my year. this year i wanna do that AND i wanna do a whole decade one. maybe that's gonna be tomorrow's project =)

things are pretty good

Posted on 2009.12.09 at 01:04

i wrote what i was looking forward to on facebook, but i simply have to elaborate with more stuff, because there are so many. these are all things to happen before new year's eve. <3

finish this essay
clean myself and the house up
start watching all seasons of buffy with some friends, our long awaited christmas project
buying the rest of the presents and packing the bunch and giving them away
the lord of the rings marathon with sturla and helene
being able to play wow without feeling guilty
finally give back to kos for making dinners and cleaning up for me seriously every day for a month now. without him, i would have been a stinking filthy student, feeding on frozen pizza and expensive take-out
mashing up a top 2009 photos and top 2000-2009 photos here. plus reviews. =)
eddie izzard show!! (INCIDENTALLY, IF ANYONE WANTS A TICKET, WE HAVE ONE 625,- ON MONDAY 21st)
dinner at reiko's nesodden house
last choir party
wow nerd party!! haha it's gonna be classic!
having a cat over for two weeks!
possibly a christmas party at work, if they'll get that far in planning. otherwise, party with the driver's somewhere =)
christmas times at mom's house, having kristjan over
possible christmas huge dinner at rakel's parent's place in lillehammer
new year's eve, where i will once more wear that magical green dress =)

i'm sure there's more. but basically, this indicates that i'm quite happy. i just need to finish that DAMN ESSAY and everything will be gooooood.

an excess of phlegm

Posted on 2009.10.19 at 12:12

i am seriously fed up with being sick.
i've had about 3 days of healthy condition since july and i'm going crazy. i don't even remember how it feels like not coughing, not sniffing, not having to blow my nose every five minutes.
i have quite a lot of things to do regarding school, but i am considering just staying in bed and doing fuck-all. for at least a week.

i come home from iceland tomorrow afternoon. i have until then to either get completely healthy or decide to just crawling under my blanket until there isn't a drop of sick left in my body.

kos is gone for a week, he's off to sweden. maybe that's a sign for me to just disappearing from the face of the earth until he comes back and then start living again.

a 180 just happened

Posted on 2009.09.14 at 14:22

so, i am stubborn and i went to see my potential future master's degree supervisor again and for some reason i cannot fathom, he was suddenly quite interested and positive to my ideas. i don't know what happened, but i'm just gonna take his word for it and write an awesome project proposal.

feeling a lot better to say the least

also, i'm seeing reiko on monday, she's coming over for dinner, so i'm gonna get the chance to discuss it with her as well.

and i'm gonna badger rakel and sigurd about it on friday too. mwahaha.

my next step now is to write several proposals for essays and the master's degree itself.
i've stocked up on books and i'm constantly skimming through newspapers online, not to mention thorough searching through articles in databases. ofcourse now that i'm actually facing writing it all, i can't help but procrastinate.

i'm feeling slightly chaotic still, but far more calm than only yesterday. i don't have any solutions, but things are quietly falling into place. i sincerely hope they will keep falling where they should be falling.