This was so difficult...

because I have lots of favorites.

1. Pick 20 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDB, find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them in a note for everyone to guess. [via comment]
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDB search functions. That's cheating and it ruins the fun.

1. If you speak my name, I vanish. What am I? Silence (Life is Beautiful via Genevieve)
2. “Tell me, do you know a guy called Mario who lives around here?” “There are a thousand Marios around here.” “Yes, but this one is a thief.” “There are still a thousand.”
3. Beggar: Sorry madam, I don't work on Sundays.
4. [P] was right all along. [CM] was fired on a Saturday. (The Chorus via Genevieve)
5. One minute you're defending the whole galaxy, and, suddenly, you find yourself sucking down Darjeeling with... Marie Antoinette and her little sister.
6. Now the snarfblatt dates back to prehysterical times when humans used to sit around and stare at each other all day. Got very boring. So they invented this snarfblatt to make fine music. (The Little Mermaid via Grandma)
7. What do you want me to do, dress in drag and do the hula? (The Lion King via Genevieve)
8. Oh... That's nice. Ash on my tomatoes!
9. I killed a man... with this thumb. (Ratatouille via Becca)
10. Oh, by the way. When in doubt, I find retracing my steps to be a wise place to begin. Good luck.
11. I'd like to thank you all for coming to my wedding. But first I'd better go in there and propose to the girl. (The Beauty and the Beast via Genevieve)
12. One family reunion comin' right up. (Mulan via Genevieve)
13. Ya can't rush art.
14. John, get ready to have some kids! (Wall-E via Genevieve)
15. I don't believe it... Bruce Willis is a ghost! (50 First Dates via Grandma)
16. He won't sit back in his chair for fear of setting wrinkles in his shirt. (The Village via Genevieve)
17. I don't know if you're aware of this, Josephine, but African parrots, in their native home of the Congo, they speak only French. You're lucky to get four words out of them in English, but if you were to walk through the jungle, you'd hear them speaking the most elaborate French.
18. Life is worth the scary parts.
19. [“They're gonna kill themselves... wanna watch?” “Yeah, all right.”]/ [“We'll either die free… or we die trying.” ”Are those the only choices?”] (Chicken Run via Genevieve)
20. When a poor man eats a chicken, one of them is sick.

Why I think it is so darn good!

So during a French movie watching thing we had going on (because of me), the roomies and I watched a movie called Le Fils or The Son. Nobody liked it except me. Becca and Genevieve were thinking, "What is this crap of a movie!" I couldn't find the words to defend it (because I'm Mexcian...jk), and after writing a review on it for my French & Italian Cinema class (FREN/ITAL 217), I think I can finally present my case. I don't think the review I wrote completely or most adequately represents what I think of the film or why I liked it, but it's better than nothing.

Le Fils (France., 2002)
From the very beginning, the main character Olivier shows a strong interest in a boy. The reason for this interest is not known until it is revealed by Olivier’s ex-wife and mother of their late son. The film presents the simple yet complicated story of a man meeting and interacting with his son’s murderer. Unlike the killers presented in other films, the murderer is another boy and not a typical troubled or malevolent man. She asks Olivier a question which any good viewer would ask; why has he taken in Francis? What are his intentions? A long pause later I find out that he doesn’t know either.
I was eager to know as well why Olivier easily interacted with Francis. It hit me at some point that Olivier had an unsatisfied curiosity about the character of his son’s killer. He had questions for him which I asked myself as well; why did he kill the boy? How does he feel about it? How is it possible for a child to become a murderer? There are so many reasons that come to mind but the Dardenne brothers show how it may be less complicated than one thinks.
The Dardennes amazingly step away from the much exploited theme of revenge and instead present a story of forgiveness through an untraditional style of film. Olivier Gourmet’s acting was very simple and neutral which was a necessary balance for the emotionally charged situation. Any emotional expression could have been too much.
The same goes for Morgan Marinne who plays Francis. There was little or no emotional expression from his part as well. Both characters expressed neutrality, from their looks, movements, and voice. In the film, Francis says that it’s a shame that he spend five years in prison, but he doesn’t realize what he’s done. It occupies his mind and he feels guilty about it, but he doesn’t fully understand the impact this had on another person, the boy’s father.
The Dardenne brothers do an incredible job with Le Fils of portraying exceptional circumstances in such a simple way that makes the whole story believable. The simplicity of the film’s presentation is one of the many aspects that empower it. Jean- Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s choice of style and actors is another credit to them. The actors appropriately bring to life two characters that are terribly lonely; each troubled by a death. However, the death of Olivier’s son unexpectedly brings together the father and his killer who then becomes a son.

And there you have it. I later talked to my professor about it and he pointed out how it has strong Christian symbolisms and undertone like the fact that Olivier is a carpenter, and the whole story revolves around sin and forgiveness. He also mentioned how the movie poster is symbolic for Christ bearing the cross. Christ bears that burden and Francis bears the burden of had taken someone's life. I found a separate review on the film and I liked this particular paragraph.

“Now you must absolutely stop reading and go see the film. Walk out of the house today, tonight, and see it, if you are open to simplicity, depth, maturity, silence, in a film that sounds in the echo-chambers of the heart. "The Son" is a great film. If you find you cannot respond to it, that is the degree to which you have room to grow. I am not being arrogant; I grew during this film. It taught me things about the cinema I did not know.”
-Roger Ebert

Rotten Tomatoes gave it an 88% on the Tomatometer and the consensus was "Austere, finely crafted, and compelling."

I realize it is a tough movie to watch, but it was worth it. At least for me it was.

"Oh I just can't wait!.."

So there are a couple of things I could be working on instead of blogging, but if I do them my brain will explode thus sending bits and pieces of it everywhere in the room... and I don't think Genevieve would appreciate it, especially since Charlie is visiting. So I was 1 minute or a few seconds away from not applying to the Media Arts major, but I made it. Yay! The minutes leading up to that time felt like a vampire slayer was mistakenly putting a stake through my chest and shoulders... (I've been exposed to Twilight trailers). I turned it in and everything was ok, except I was still nervous for the pending presentation and results. I also realized I had turned in the wrong report. Luckily all that was fixed. Now my stress comes from the source of two late papers, a pending project, a quiz, and an upcoming midterm... AHH!! (and then some).

On different news, I discovered that the Mexican soap opera which I watched before coming to BYU is rerunning on Univision right were I left off! And Grandma really like a very bad soap opera called Fuego en la Sangre, or Fire in the Blood. It's ridiculous, as is the one I was watching, but the difference is that I actually enjoyed it.

Anyways, I should really get working on some homework. So I'll probably update this later.
Ok, mind boggling discovery. Check what happens when you click Ctrl + Alt + (the left, down, or right arrow). It's so cool!

Significant Friday marked by Biology Test... among other things.

So another Halloween come and gone... (sigh). This is the second Halloween I spend away from home. I must say however that it was better than last year's (which I spent dressed as a hobo). I spent my evening asleep on the couch since I had stayed up way past the recommended time. This year was better in that I liked my costume better, even if I didn't know what I was. I went to a stake dance which was not the best of dances I've been to but a dance nonetheless. Later I went to watch the 11:00pm showing of Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at the Castlerock Theater (ampetheater, idk) in Provo. It was a cool and unique experience. Although by its end I was tired, sleepy, somewhat wet, cold, and a bit pissy from a bug bite I got on my knee. I think it was a spider.

My brothers however had a more... scary, Halloween. Before my brother had left on his mission, he had put up a haunted garage sort of thing. The following Halloween was marked by some trick or treating with my brothers and questions from strangers outside our house about the missing haunted garage. Now that my brother is back, he set out to bring back the haunting of our garage (which in fact is not a real garage but 5 metal poles holding up a roof). I got calls the next day from one of my brothers telling me how awesomely scary the garage was. Apparently some squirmish trick-o-treaters would only glance at the garage and walk away.

I had less sugar than expected, unless you count the various s'mores I had previous to the 31st. Now it is the 2nd and I have already seen some Christmas decorations. It is as if Thanksgiving didn't exist! Although I must admit I am very excited to see the Christmas lights on the Brigham Square trees to go on. I realize I will soon have to put up the Christmas lights from last year on my window. I look forward to Thanksgiving and Christmas which I know will include family visits, ridiculous amounts of great mexican cooking, a filled, blissful and possibly sick self as a result form the previous, and best of all (esp during Christmas)... no school!

The Walls Converge

RULES:1. Put Your iTunes, Windows Media Player, MP3 Player, or whatever on Shuffle. 2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer. 3. You must write down the name of the song no matter how silly it sounds! 4. Put any comments in brackets after the song name.

If someone says, “Is this okay?” You say?
Bombón de Azucar *Sugar Marshmellow*(Ricky Martin) [I guess if a recipe calls for more]

How would you describe yourself?
I'm With You (Avril Lavigne) [I guess I'm a people person]

What do you like in a guy/girl?
This is Your Life (Switchfoot)[I guess guys that are who they want to be, living their life... wow this is deep]

How do you feel today?
Anakin's Test (Star Wars I) [Life is a test... I feel like this everyday]

What is your life’s purpose?
Make You Whole (New Testament Video Soundtrack) [Have someone say, "You complete me" ok, this is creepy]

What is your motto?
Scherzo in F Major (Sergei Rachmaninoff) [I knew I should've taken this out for this list thing]

What do your friends think of you?
Hungarian Dance No. 1 (100 Classical Masterpieces Vol. 1/Brahms)[I'm Ethnic... and I like to dance]

What do you think of your parents?
Faceless Man (Creed)[I'm pretty sure they have a face... but I don't see it when I talk to them on the phone!]

What do you think about very often?
Faking the Code (Star Wars VI)[Honor Code? How can you fake it, or any code for that matter]

What is 2 + 2?
Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92: Allegretto (Beethoven)[I like it just as I do classical music, but sometimes it's just so freaking complicated like the titles they give to the different pieces]

What do you think of your best friend?
Soy Como un Diamante *I'm like a diamond*(Calo) [They're hard to get but totally worth it?]

What do you think of the person you like?
Rockstar (Nickelback) [So cool, hot, and sexy? We'll see]

What is your life story?
Fighting the Guards (Star Wars I) [certainly feels like fighting bad guys sometimes]

What do you want to be when you grow up?
Mazurkas Op.30 No.4 in C sharp minor (100 Clasical Masterpieces, Vol. 5/ Chopin) [I need to make better sens of this... I want to be a professional Polish folk dancer, feel like 30 years old for the rest of my life, have 4 kids, have pets like (C)ats, be sharp as a tool, and stay short?]

What do you think of when you see the person you like?
O Sole Mio (Oh My Sun)(The Voice of Italy Disc 2/Eduardo di Capua)[Certainly lights up my day]

What will you dance to at your wedding?
Bamboleo (Gipsy Kings)[Sexy!]

What will they play at your funeral?
Omen Sore (Era 2) [Since it's Latin I don't know what it means, but sounds ok for a dramatic-type funeral]

What is your hobby/interest?
Junior's Farm (Paul McCarney) ["Down to junior's farm where I want to lay low... Everybody tag along" sounds about right]

What is your biggest fear?
Terrorist Plot (Rainbow Six) [This is creepishly fitting]

What is your biggest secret?
We Will Rock You (Queen) [I'm highly competitive? I guess it's not much of a secret after playing craphead]

What do you think of your friends?
Georgiana (Pride & Prejudice Soundtrack)[They're like 15 year olds that are unsuccessfully courted by a gambler and they instantly like me when they meet me]

What will you post this as?
The Walls Converge (Star Wars I) [All this is garbage that needs to get squashed by two gigantic walls]

Whatever the heck I want

I think it's funny how this blog was created by accident and continued through peer pressure.

Anyways, It’s amazing how BYU students feel like such good Mormons when getting a good score on a religious class quiz. A thought encouraged by my roommie’s celebration of her perfect score on a NT quiz. Unfortunately some become heathens during the summer when taking no religion classes. No names.

So my highlight of the week/weekend was buying 8 avocadoes for only two dollars. If anything I would think this would only happen in the markets of the streets in Mexico, but it was in the Wal-Mart Supercenter of Orem, UTAH! I was this close to asking an employee, “Ese es el precio correcto del aguacate?” meaning, “Is that the real price?” but I must admit I was afraid of a negative response so I decided to prolong my hope until the girl puts in the PLU number when ringing up the merchandise… and they were .25 each! I felt cheated from the BYU creamery on Ninth where I bought 4 avocadoes for 5 dollars (which at the moment I thought was a good deal) so I basically bought 12 avocadoes for 7 dollars. Considering the regular price of 1.69 each, that wasn't so bad :D I’m still curious and confused as to why avocadoes were so cheap. Needless to say, I still have not eaten any at the moment, but I will soon enough. If I can eat a day old spaghetti sauce, I think I can handle cheap avocadoes.

Last Wednesday, I had a meeting with my TMA faculty advisor. The meeting is required for the Media Arts Program application. I must say it was a good meeting, (although I had met with him the previous winter semester). He commented on my shoes and said he liked them. My self-esteem went up .25 points.

Talking of points… guess who won on the marathon crap-head game! Well Genevieve won first. She slaughtered me with an amazing 10-3. The second game around however we had an additional player in the form of Becca. Halfway through the game me and Genevieve teamed up and I won first with 10.5 points! Becca was sad, very sad. But it was later forgotten and I’m sad to inform that we will not play the game until we buy our own playing cards since we returned the borrowed cards to our 2nd floor neighbors.

I think the highlight of the weekend for me was the jerk competition we had on Saturday. I must say it was very fun. This was a great excuse for my harsh remarks towards others. The reason for these random jerkish remarks is that I’m distanced from my younger brother Ramnses who was the main recipient of these remarks. It was all in good fun I promise, and he knew that. After such a remark we would LOL. He would respond to my remarks in very creative and at times colorful ways and we would LOL again. I miss that relationship, and as a result there are spontaneous, stupid, and mean remarks towards others in the hope that they’ll laugh like my brother and I laughed. For the most part they do, but when I say such things in front of stranger, they look at me as a strange human-like creature that should be caged, trained, and put out in a circus performance. Okay not really but something similar yet not so extreme. :D

Well, I hope this is sufficiently long enough for the entertainment of perhaps my only reader, Genevieve. (BTW the title was my roommates suggestion as my brain was empty of any ideas.)

The things I do

This is pretty much an explanation for the things I do. When I say things I do I pretty much mean the Pin Pon video. It's like a car crash. You know it's terrible but you can't look away. Same thing with the vid, I knew it was going to be ridiculous and terrible, but at the same time funny (at my expense) but I don't mind because it makes people laugh. If I knew poking my nose for an hour would make people LOL I would totally do it... for like 3 seconds, but I would try. So there you go Genevieve.

I don't even know!

So yeah... blogging. I'm new to this. I accidently created an account while trying to read my roommate's blog, Realm of the Pachyderm. I don't really know what to write about so I guess I'll just put down whatever comes to mind.
I'm deep in thought as to the exact research I will conduct for my Nature Experiment which is a big required assignment for my BIO 100 class. All I can think of is bananas, banana seeds, or banana peels. So my brain is somewhat on the dead form, thus why I can't think of anything else to write about.