Gobble Gobble Gobble

Thanksgiving. The day we (in America at least) sit down and stuff our faces with truly ludicrous amounts of food under the guise of being thankful. This is the only American holiday commemorated by a nationwide televised parade, and the only one that requires a mass genocide of exceptionally plump turkeys. We should all be at least a little thankful we have the opportunity once a year to throw ourselves wholeheartedly into the tastiest of the seven sins: gluttony. See you in hell everyone!
P.S.,
Save me a leg.

Originality

I find that almost every movie out today is totally unoriginal. I will support this from the analysis of ten different movies, and movie types, today.
1. Paranormal Activity: a blatant ripoff of Amityville. Haunted houses are nothing new.
2. 2012: apocalyptic disaster movie #2317852
3. Amelia: The Aviator style biopic about a pilot, this time a woman
4. Disney's A Christmas Carol: This isnt even a variation on the story done countless times, this IS the story done countless times.
5. Anything based on a book: This has been done ever since there have been movies. Try something else. (See: Harry Potter, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs, Angels and Demons, and on and on and on)
6. Sequels: Trying to soak up more money from a franchise that shouldve ended after one (See: Transformers) or never existed at all (see Twilight)
7. Reboots: It is in no way original to reinvent a franchise by throwing everything previously established away and starting again (See Star Trek and The Dark Knight)
8. Pixar movies: These need to disappear. Every Pixar movie ever: something cute learns a valuable lesson.
9. Anything with Seth Rogen: Get over him. He, and his movies, SUCK. Make an original comedy and leave his fat ass out of it.
10. Anything based on a video game/cartoon/comic: This is filmifying a story (often with horrendous results) into a movie. With a few exceptions (See Spider-Man, Dark Knight) these movies are met with a thundering 'meh' at best (See: Superman Returns, Resident Evil, Dragonball)

After the Exorcism

The play has finished and it was a relatively big success. My piece (the mantlepiece to be precise) was an epic success, destryoing stage left every night. Now strike has begun (which is striking down the set so the next one can be built). As for the winter, I am undecided as to do forensics or stage crew. Forensics is good in that its incredibly creative and kinda fun, but stage crew is also really fun and involves manual labor which I don't hate as much as I thought I did. The crew hates forensics (for reasons i don't entirely understand) but forensics doesnt care. I will have made up my mind soon, but let me know what you think.

Spirited Away

Remember how I said that I was building a set for a play? The play is called the Blithe Spirit and premieres this upcoming weekend. This next week will be full of hard work, free admission, dinner on campus, interactions with the actors, Big Boy, and the cast party. The play itself is kind of like 'Ghosts of Girlfriends Past', only British, set in the 30s, and exponentially more entertaining than anything Matthew McConaughey will ever come out with. It has a beautiful set (not just a stage crew bias, it is quite lovely) and the acting is promising, if not in need of slight improvement. I was delighted to find out that the mantel piece (that i built from scratch myself) is both gorgeous and holds stuff well without showing the slightest strain. All in all, should be a good show. By the way if anyone involved with the show reads this and is offended, I am deeply sorry if I insulted you.