Miscellania

Being a better friend. -M

Sept. 23, 2010 1. The homework I have to do (Algebra II, SAT reading, a chemistry worksheet) 2. How warm it is this evening (Note: I am not happy about this.) 3. My room is very messy. 4. I have to pick up my dad from the airport tomorrow 5. I can't go to the girls' field hockey game because I have to pick up my dad 6. I go to almost every school game. They are fun. I have school spirit all of a sudden. 7. I have a bunch of Netflix tabs open with movies I want to watch (Boys Don't Cry, The Exploding Girl, Dakota Skye, Me You and Everyone We Know, The Vicious Kind, & Two Lovers) 8. I downloaded the soundtrack to a guilty-pleasure kind of good Hilary Duff movie and it's awesome (According to Greta) 9. I really want to play volleyball and I wish my school had a team. 10. Tumblr. (http://miamazzaferro.tumblr.com/)

I've been on a Vincent Gallo obsessive binge lately. My friend K and I watched Buffalo '66, which I absolutely loved and now has taken the place of The Royal Tenenbaums as my favorite film. He's so brilliant in the movie, and I am in the process of forcing everyone I know (my friends, my art teacher, my mom) into watching the movie so they will laugh when I yell "MY CARS ARE LUXURY VEHICLES. THEY SHIFT THEMSELVES, THEY SHIFT THEMSELVES." I have had The Brown Bunny on my 'To-Watch' list for over a year and Yes, I have seen the infamous last scene of the movie in which Chloe Sevigny (Who was born where I live!) performs unsimulate fellatio on Mr. Gallo. I have also learned that Vincent Gallo is an extremely radical conservative republican (Which I have no problem with whatsoever). He is also, however, an extremely dedicated George W. Bush supporter (Which I just don't understand). Regardless of what political party you consider yourself to agree with...

School has started and I'm already learning quite a bit. At least, in some classes I am. I've been thinking a lot about how I construct my sentences, and while on here it's a lot less formal than say, a paper, but I still throw commas in unnecessarily and frequently have fragmented sentences that I leave. I have to write a 2-page-ish rough draft for an assignment that, while not especially challenging or intellectual, is forcing me to get creative and is certainly interesting to do. I have a few poem ideas, but I haven't had much time to write any. I have been reading Eleven Seconds, by Travis Roy (A summer reading book) but I also bought House of Leaves by Mark E. Danielewski the other day and am so excited to read it. I think it has a Raw Shark Texts feel. Check out this web site I found and now love with all my heart. It's called GoodReads and it's an awesome way to track, review, and rate books you've read, are reading, or want to read. The latter op...