The Wonderful Things in My Universe

So of course I have not written in my poor neglected blog for far too long. Many times I have thought of something I desperately wanted to write about, but realized I NEED TO STUDY. So, life this semester has been very strange. I have never had to THINK this much in my life! It is not just medical school interviews, or hard-as-crap classes, it is the future and the now. I keep envisioning the scope of my life, and also trying to just live in the moment. I think this year has been my most formative yet. Along this train of thought, I have also been thinking about the things in my life I love and how my interests distinguish me as a person. And I realized, I am passionate about some things no one else gives a shit about. Really. I like to talk about my disturbing dreams, debate the relative hotness of random actors and actresses, talk about how I love accents, etc. I recently read an article on cracked.com about the top five things you think are interesting that no one cares about. I think I’ll make my own amusing list of THINGS I LIKE TO DO/THINGS I OBSESS ABOUT THAT NO ONE ELSE CARES ABOUT !!

1) How awesomely cute, funny, charming, talented, and underapppreciated Chris Lowell is!

Literally, no one I know has any idea who this guy is, other than “the cute guy from Private Practice”. I was obsessed with Veronica Mars, but I thought the third season kind of sucked it hard. People might disagree with me, but I think Chris Lowell’s character Piz was the sweetest, funniest part of the third season. Sorry to Logan+Veronica fans, I am a diehard Piz+Veronica fan. Anyone remember the short-lived, original dramedy “Life As We Know It”? Kelly Osbourne before she lost weight and became blond? Chris Lowell was the cutest guy in that show, hands down! The only dilemma is whether he looks cuter with long or short hair…I am so torn.

2) Annoying my roommates by OBSESSIVELY playing these amazing songs which they think are kind of mediocre.

-”I L U” & “Windstorm”, School of Seven Bells

-Anything by Vanessa Carlton.

-”Sitting Down Here” & “Playing My Game”, Lene Marlin.

-Anything by Hilary Duff.

-”Dream of Me”, Kirsten Dunst.

3) Heights is STILL one of my favorite movies ever. Seriously! Why can’t I convince any of my friends to watch it?

- This movie is a complex, thrilling yet urban and subtle human drama. Literally, you could watch it for the opening scene alone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pma2fEkFO-M

Jesse Bradford is actually cute AND talented in this movie. I really gained a new appreciation for him. Glenn Close is brilliant and dignified and broken. This is the only movie in which Elizabeth Banks does not annoy me. The camera work, the visuals of New York, and the story itself all add up to make a really unique movie unlike most others I have seen (and yeah, I watch a lot of movies).

4) Memorizing poetry is fun! Listen to me recite it! LISTEN.

-Okay, obnoxious and posery as it is, I love to memorize random poetry so I can feel cool and educated as I recite it perfectly from memory. Also, poetry is all about the beauty of language, and the only thing more fun than reading poetry is reciting it. Unfortunately, my friends don’t think it is especially fun to hear my recite random poetry with multiple errors. I recently mastered the wonderful ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”. That is such a lyrical poem to memorize, and literally love acting like a mad person and muttering this poem to myself.

http://www.bigeye.com/donotgo.htm

5) Gay/interracial romantic movies can be way way more interesting than straight ones.

-Okay, this may be due to my recite obsession with anything gay-themed (Shelter, Watercolors, the absolutely wonderful My Beautiful Laundrette), but I am going through a phase where heterosexual white love stories are just boring. I am SO not saying that the million amazing love stories out there are not worth watching over and over and over again (Um, ever heard of Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth? ‘nuf said. Wait no, how about Brief Encounter!?). It is just that the standard, rom-com, white boy meets white girl and cutesy antics ensue plotline has been done to death. LIKE REALLY. Oh my god, does the world not have enough of self-obsessed mainstream unimaginative unsincere love stories out there? The thing about interracial/gay love stories is that they are something different. Maybe Something New does not have the most wildly original storyline, but the movie explores the complications of interracial attraction and relationships in a way you don’t usually see. This movie actually pushed some buttons! Also why I love gay movies to death. The dynamic of two men or two women is so refreshingly different. (And there is just something about two men kissing…:)

The Kids Don’t Stand A Chance

Excellent excellent song. Did not even realize it was a Vampire Weekend cover. Sorry Vampire Weekend, I love you to death, but B.o.B. really did this song justice. I Know this because I heard Vampire Weekend sing it and completely forgot it in an instant. Then I listen to the B.o.B. cover, and listened to it about 10 times in a row. That song would be ironic on the soundtrack of The Kids Are Alright. I am dying to see that. I have had a bit of a wild summer. Wild as in stressful. Life really stares you down the summer before your senior year in college. Medical school applications flood in, take all my money, and make me write bullshit proclamations. Sounds like the rest of my life. I find myself increasingly disappointed with the world around me. Not because of med school apps. I am actually looking forward to med school…especially if I can go in New York. That would be a dream. No, this disappointment comes from realizing the harsh reality of things. I will not get political here, because I find the Flame War video by College Humor quite amusing, and I don’t want to be one of those people. I am speaking more abstractly here. With all this “anti-incumbent” talk, Tea Party people, Prop 8, the Islamic center that is supposed to be built near ground zero, general wars going on everywhere, etc, I just want to scream how much everyone sucks.  I can see how people have become so polarized. When you see people spewing hatred, and turning everything you believe to your core to dust, it really makes you want to be completely radical in the other direction. Damn, I went and got all political. SORRY. But I can’t just become some crazy liberal either. I can’t tote the evils of war, the necessity of religious freedom, the deep racism and homophobia that live in this supposedly equal country. There would be no point. I don’t really know enough about politics to talk smack anyway. But when I see people preaching hatred as some way of protecting this country, it confounds me. How can we live in a world where people are still so prejudiced? Duh, I said to myself, wake up to reality. When I get this way, movies are a deep comfort. Watching a better world makes you believe that it can exist. People create movies because they have a vision of how things could be or should be, or reveal the true face of how things are. The Siege is one great example. This movie predicted the anti-Islam wave that would hit this country after a terrorist attack BEFORE 9/11 even happened. Way to tap into the vein of prejudice. I do not speak to get into politics, or even discuss that Islamic center being built…I am not here to argue anything. I just am deeply saddened and disappointed by people’s reactions. Milk is another excellent example of a movie that reveals something about society. This movie is based on the true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to hold public office. I don’t need to tell you how inspiring this movie was. And it came at an essential time in this country’s history. Seeing what Harvey Milk could do, even at that time, inspired me to want a better world, where citizens of this country of different sexual orientation are given the rights they deserve. In this country, “gay” people (gay is an annoying word, just an observation) are treated like second class citizens. In this day and age, in the words of Margaret Cho, we live in a facist state. But there remains hope for “society”. Prejudice in all forms towards all kinds of differences will eventually be defeated. It just depends on how long it will take. When I have stopped and allowed myself to think about the state of things, it is almost too unbearable to comprehend. It hurts, but it must be comprehended. So, sometimes a rambling, mildly incomprehensible blog post is needed for a cathartic release. Ahhhhhh. That helped. Movies and music next time!!!!