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Wow, this is a REALLY LONG entry. x_x
Mar. 8th, 2005 02:36 amWarning: big-ass LJ post ahead. I've been saving it up for a couple of days. You have been warned.
A baby wasp got into my house yesterday and I had to stomp it. WTF, folks? It's early March, and as of a week or so ago it was still getting below freezing. How did the stupid thing even survive? Edit: And I just had to kill a mosquito buzzing around my monitor. WHAT THE FUCK.
( Yep, you guessed it - more Suikoblog )
Yesterday I took my parents to see Bride and Prejudice. I highly recommend it to any of you who are in the mood for two hours of pure, unadulterated fun. As you might guess from the title, it's Pride and Prejudice transplanted to modern day India. It's directed by Gurinder Chadha, the director of Bend It Like Beckham (which was also quite good).
( Some thoughts on the film )
I did have a distressing experience while going to see it though. There were two elderly ladies in front of us as we came up to the theater entrance, who had obviously come to see the movie as well. They took one look at the movie poster and said, "Oh, this isn't the kind of Pride and Prejudice I thought it would be." Then they looked at the line to get in to the theatre, which was exclusively people of apparently Indian descent, took a beady-eyed look at each other, then turned on their heels and walked away.
I, of course, was fuming. What the fuck was up with those bigoted old bitches? In this day and age, racist attitudes like that shouldn't even still be around! Anyway, we went in and got our tickets, and when we got into the theater found another surprise. We hadn't been surprised that the line was entirely folks of Indian descent; what did surprise us was that once we got into the theater, there were no other people of non-Indian descent besides my parents and I and two other people. I don't want to think that attitudes like those racist old biddies' are widespread, but I don't understand why this seems to be perceived as an "Indian people only" film by people. And I'm afraid if it's seen as that kind of a "niche" film, it won't get decent box office numbers, and I'd really like it to do well because I like Gurinder Chadha and would like to see her do more in the future.
Another interesting IMDb factoid: apparently Alexis Bledel is Latina! Her mother is Mexican and her father is Argentinian. Spanish was actually her first language, she didn't learn English until later. :D
Today I did my first driving on an actual street with traffic. I only drove several blocks from our house, but there was a ridiculous amount of traffic for our neighborhood (like, 5 cars in 3 minutes) that I had to deal with. And while it may not seem like a whole lot, I didn't kill anyone or crash the car, so I consider it a personal triumph and a good day's learnin'. XD
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eikitty:
The Socially Retarded Purity Test
You answered "yes" to 44 of 100 questions, making you 56.0% socially retarded pure (44.0% socially retarded corrupt).
It amuses me that it thinks thateikitty is more socially retarded than me, because the total opposite is true. XD
...I've spent the past several hours looking up people I knew in grade school (the now-defunct St. Francis Xavier, which is right across the street fromrathershady's house) on the Internet, for no apparent reason. What floors me is that for about 85-90% of the people I look for I'm coming up with nothing. Dammit, how can so many people LIVE in this day and age and not have their names SOMEWHERE on the Internet? O_o
Still, if there's anyone reading this who knew me (Joseph Rodriguez, I went there from, I think, 1988-1996) then and wants to e-mail me or something to get in touch, feel free to do so. It would be cool to talk to someone who I went to grade school with again after all this time.
However, I did find this article. Though this is the year after I left school (and hence I'm not mentioned; there was an article the year before in which I was though), I was in Mr. Bloch's algebra class the year before. He totally rocked as a teacher, and we adored him. (Plus he drove a Lexus, so that kinda wowed us inner-city kids.) I really admire him for doing that - I don't think I could stand to take a 98% pay cut from $600,000-some a year to a measly teacher's pittance. x_x
A baby wasp got into my house yesterday and I had to stomp it. WTF, folks? It's early March, and as of a week or so ago it was still getting below freezing. How did the stupid thing even survive? Edit: And I just had to kill a mosquito buzzing around my monitor. WHAT THE FUCK.
( Yep, you guessed it - more Suikoblog )
Yesterday I took my parents to see Bride and Prejudice. I highly recommend it to any of you who are in the mood for two hours of pure, unadulterated fun. As you might guess from the title, it's Pride and Prejudice transplanted to modern day India. It's directed by Gurinder Chadha, the director of Bend It Like Beckham (which was also quite good).
( Some thoughts on the film )
I did have a distressing experience while going to see it though. There were two elderly ladies in front of us as we came up to the theater entrance, who had obviously come to see the movie as well. They took one look at the movie poster and said, "Oh, this isn't the kind of Pride and Prejudice I thought it would be." Then they looked at the line to get in to the theatre, which was exclusively people of apparently Indian descent, took a beady-eyed look at each other, then turned on their heels and walked away.
I, of course, was fuming. What the fuck was up with those bigoted old bitches? In this day and age, racist attitudes like that shouldn't even still be around! Anyway, we went in and got our tickets, and when we got into the theater found another surprise. We hadn't been surprised that the line was entirely folks of Indian descent; what did surprise us was that once we got into the theater, there were no other people of non-Indian descent besides my parents and I and two other people. I don't want to think that attitudes like those racist old biddies' are widespread, but I don't understand why this seems to be perceived as an "Indian people only" film by people. And I'm afraid if it's seen as that kind of a "niche" film, it won't get decent box office numbers, and I'd really like it to do well because I like Gurinder Chadha and would like to see her do more in the future.
Another interesting IMDb factoid: apparently Alexis Bledel is Latina! Her mother is Mexican and her father is Argentinian. Spanish was actually her first language, she didn't learn English until later. :D
Today I did my first driving on an actual street with traffic. I only drove several blocks from our house, but there was a ridiculous amount of traffic for our neighborhood (like, 5 cars in 3 minutes) that I had to deal with. And while it may not seem like a whole lot, I didn't kill anyone or crash the car, so I consider it a personal triumph and a good day's learnin'. XD
Stolen from
eikitty:The Socially Retarded Purity Test
You answered "yes" to 44 of 100 questions, making you 56.0% socially retarded pure (44.0% socially retarded corrupt).
It amuses me that it thinks that
eikitty is more socially retarded than me, because the total opposite is true. XD...I've spent the past several hours looking up people I knew in grade school (the now-defunct St. Francis Xavier, which is right across the street from
rathershady's house) on the Internet, for no apparent reason. What floors me is that for about 85-90% of the people I look for I'm coming up with nothing. Dammit, how can so many people LIVE in this day and age and not have their names SOMEWHERE on the Internet? O_oStill, if there's anyone reading this who knew me (Joseph Rodriguez, I went there from, I think, 1988-1996) then and wants to e-mail me or something to get in touch, feel free to do so. It would be cool to talk to someone who I went to grade school with again after all this time.
However, I did find this article. Though this is the year after I left school (and hence I'm not mentioned; there was an article the year before in which I was though), I was in Mr. Bloch's algebra class the year before. He totally rocked as a teacher, and we adored him. (Plus he drove a Lexus, so that kinda wowed us inner-city kids.) I really admire him for doing that - I don't think I could stand to take a 98% pay cut from $600,000-some a year to a measly teacher's pittance. x_x
