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[30 Jul 2007|01:14pm] |
i feel like i want to read the new harry potter but I also feel like I would rather just get the spark notes.
Does that make me a bad person? or just your run of the mill american.
Nick
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[20 Jul 2007|01:52am] |
my tongue has not stopped bleeding for the last 12 months
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[25 Jun 2007|01:54pm] |
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This is my first entry in about 3 months but I figured now was as good of a time as any to post.
My life right now is in an amazing place. I have just got back from a month in italy. It was amazing, the people, the food, the wine, and the cities all made me feel so alive every night and day. Everyone is so fucking beautiiful there and they love life so much. I really feel that I have a lot in common with the Italian culture. People there are so passionate almost to a fault a times but its a major part of what defines them as a people. I am already making plans to go back in a year. At the end of my stay I was really beginning to miss the feeling of being home. Not so much the place itself but just the emotions attached to belonging and I really am glad that I was missed by everyone.
I came back to my house in fitchburg to see that 2 of my best friends are living in my room right now and I couldn't be more happy. My room is a little crowded but I wouldn't have it any other way right now. Every night I come home from work and they are there just makes me happy. Being home has also made me realize how much the people in my life right now mean to me and how quickly this time is passing. I really wish I could preserve these moments I guess thats why I have become even more attached to my camera. I dont want to miss another moment I want to capture and remember it all.
My life is beginning to take shape in front of my eyes and it is really starting to make me feel good about where I am headed. This is the first time in my life that I can remember actually believeing the phrase "everything will work itself out in the end."
Lets hope that its true.
Nick
p.s. If i haven't seen you in a while please contact me I want to see everyone. I mean Everyone
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[05 Mar 2007|01:24pm] |
More and more frequently I am finding that I am more moved by music lacking in any vocals. The new Explosions in the Sky album is giving my chills right now as I write this. I guess thats why I never really could memorize lyrics to songs, because I really doont care so much what kind of emotion the singer is trying to convey as much as the emotions that the actual music cause me to have.
Everyone do yourself a favor a go listen to some insturmental music and if you're not ready for that leap at least invest in a good atmospheric cd.
Nick
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[28 Nov 2006|03:07pm] |
I am in psych class right now. this class is kind of a joke, the teacher kind of treats us like 5 year olds but still i manage to get 65s on the tests coonsistantly. This morning was awesome because I got to sleep in till 11. I thought I skiped my graphics class but ended up actually having the class canceled. fuckin a right doggy.
Nick
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[21 Oct 2006|09:50pm] |
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I crashed my car. It was pretty awesome in a, "i didn't die so im happy" kind of way. This development will definitely change my life in the coming months. But i feel this crash has kind of opened my eyes and made me realized i have been doing things in a very half-assed, underachiever manner lately and i want to stop that.
To think it only took me completly destroying my car to understand that...
Nick
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[05 Oct 2006|02:28am] |
since when does everyone take themselves so seriously? lighten up a little.
Nick
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[01 Oct 2006|09:26pm] |
its amazing how school changes me so much. i finally have something to schedule my life around. I am really glad I came back this fall. A lot of people didn't actually know that I was contemplating not going to school this fall but surprise i did. lately things have felt like my life is coming together again. finally getting back on my feet after about six months.
Nick
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[03 Sep 2006|05:39pm] |
i had my birthday last monday. but nobody really remembered.
Nick
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[01 Sep 2006|10:10pm] |
I do stupid and immature things when i feel ignored or forgotten...
I have been acting out a lot
Nick
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[19 Aug 2006|06:25pm] |
in response to my last post. I am sticking by what i said because i feel that the makers of snakes on a plane were counting on the fact that everyone feels the movie is so rediculious that it will achieve "cult" status.
snakes on a plane cant have a cult following for the following reasons:
1) Cult films generally "...fared poorly at the box office when first shown, but then achieved cult-film status, developing an enduring loyalty and following among fans over time, often through word-of-mouth recommendations. Sometimes, they were revolutionary, brilliant films 'before their time' (i.e., Fantasia (1940) and not bound by the conventions of their day."
Snakes on a Plane is expected to gross 17.3 million from fridays opening to sunday night. Film Director John Waters cult classic, Pink Flamingos, grossed only $70,188 in its first weekend and only 413,000 since it was re-released in 1997. Strike one for snakes on a plane.
2)"When first released, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and Almost Famous (2000) were almost instantly pronounced as cult films, but as time progressed, they didn't really fit the category. They were highly-acclaimed, award-winning films that were prominently shown in the mainstream, and it had been too early to judge them as cult films. The media often labels an unusual film as a 'cult film' when it really shouldn't. It takes time for a film to reach cult status."
Snakes on a plane has been out for two days and people are already hailing it as a cult movie. Much of this status was based on internet hype and stipulation of how horribly it will perform in the theaters (which we know it hasn't).
3) And most importantly, "Cult films have limited but very special appeal. Cult films are usually strange, quirky, offbeat, eccentric, oddball, or surreal... They are often considered controversial because they step outside standard narrative and technical conventions. They can be very stylized, and they are often flawed or unusual in some striking way."
While Snakes on a Plane may be flawed or unusual, I doubt it really breaks any cinematic ground that has not been done to death.
I respect your opinion on movies less if you have invested money into a movie like snakes on a plane.
Nick
p.s. on a lighter note Material Girls is a box office flop
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[19 Aug 2006|12:30am] |
The new movie staring the Duff sisters marks a new low in american pop culture, more specifically American cinema.
I thought that we as a nation had hit rock bottom with Mel Gibson turning out to be an actual anti-Semite (he is the guy who made the passion after all) and a drunk. I was wrong, we can still continue to degrade into a nation thats popular cutlure is based around cheep gimics and the talentless actors that rule our mainstream movies based on astetics and not acting ability. I wish i had grown up in a different time period where good films where recognized and shitty films like snakes on a plane are not alound to be forcefed down my throat.
The only thing i want you to get out of this is that i feel really ashamed to be called an american in yet another respect. I also hope that people from other cultures can understand that not every young person in america plays into the disgusting stereotype that has been portrayed in the media.
Nick
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[18 Aug 2006|04:25pm] |
i want something new
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[11 Aug 2006|02:56am] |
Lately I have been overcome with the motivation that seems to strike me immediately after my midsummer slump. It is almost scary how my body and brain seem to work in such a linear way. I guess I could be reading too much into this new found insparation and it could just be the fact that i have been sitting on my ass (well not my ass) for the last week and a half and feel my skin crawling from being more inactive that i have been in over a year.
I have been taking notes and jotting down ideas of how I want to improve myself as a person and become a more effective member of society. Everyday I carry around a small piece of notebook paper in my wallet that has a list of things I want to do more i.e. read more, exercize througly at least 3 times a week, listen to this cd, watch this movie, etc, etc. I feel that having a tangible list makes my goals of self-improvement more realistic and attainable. I want feedback from outside perspectives as how i can become a better person (that isn't an invitation for attacks on my social, moral and other shortcomings which I am well aware of already) The biggist apprehension i have with this vow of personal improvement is the fear that i will end up losing much of my motivation like many of my goals of the past. i realize this is a little more different than many of my other persuits in the fact that it is a more encompassing and long term goal so it will require patients (one thing i am currently working on)
but at the risk of staying up any later Im going to cut this entry a litter shorter than intended.
Nick
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[08 Aug 2006|09:54pm] |
i am the man at fifa soccer 06. thats all. none of you can beat me.
Nick
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[03 Aug 2006|12:04am] |
not being able to walk is making me miserable.
Nick
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[27 Jul 2006|01:08am] |
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Amusement parks are not as fun as they used to be. I used to love going to Whalom and Canobey (sp?) Lake Park but the inconvience of expenses, lines, commercialism, and heat take away some of the fun. Also six flags is just a giant fucking money sucking entity not an individually owned park.
I miss the times when I was little and went to Whalom Park and ran around feeling invincible but still deathly afraid of the roller-coaster, which now is a dilapidated piece of my childhood. I went on rides today that would make the infamous "Whalem Comet" look like the kiddy coaster. I wasn't afraid like I was at a much younger age. The irrational fear of crashing to my death on a roller-coaster has subsided to the painfully boring common sense of a young adult (and a marginal knowledge of physics). Like so many other things from my childhood, amusement parks do not make me feel excitement that they once did.
Long story short fun day but not childhood nostalgia fun.
p.s. I think I might want to get an english or journalism so I might actually a career when i get out of school.
Nick
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[26 Jul 2006|04:14am] |
John Stewart is probably one of the most amazing people on television today.
Nick
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[24 Jul 2006|01:57am] |
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inequality and indifference ruin my life
Nick
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[23 Jul 2006|03:13am] |
i am too aimless. i give off bad first impressions. and i am too comfortable with peeing in public sometimes.
Nick
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