sorry, everyone, but i had to post again...

another catch-up post...thursday night i chilled at ze apartment but went back home after not too long...not much went on...wednesday i went to class, then watched The Simpsons twice (afternoon and the new Halloween episode...) in case anyone missed it: while referring to humanity's great accmoplishments, Homer mentioned "THE GLORY HOLE" that's all...i almost died...then i frantically did my calculus "homework" (it was actually 1/4 of our next exam...the take-home part exists because the stuff we're doing now is far too time consuming to be able to do many complete problem durring a classtime, so there'll be an exam of partial problems and a that take-home part of full problems...) i couldn't finish the last problem...i got like 2/3 or 1/2 of it, but i couldn't figure out what to do for the next part...it seemed like integration by parts should've worked, but that got too complex...i plugged it into Maple and it got something involving the square root of 3 and arctangents and whatnot...i don't know if that's what i should've gotten from the normal procedures or just one of Maple's odd answers...there was also an ln...it had the same thing i did for the parts i was able to do so i don't know...it did have the denominator of what i had left still intact (i remember for sure it was w/in the ln...) [shrug] i believe that most ppl in the class weren't able to do that one either...i also had some algorithms homework to do today, but in having procrastinated the calculus as well, i wasn't able to get to it at all...oh well...good news though: on my algorithms midterm that i was talking about, i actually got a fucking A- (13 out of 15...) woohoo! don't know how that happened, but i won't question...more good news: i'm now making $13/hr...i got my paycheck, which also included the added money i would've gotten from my last 2 paychecks at $13/hr...that's mighty nice...(of course, i only work around 5 hrs/week, so it's not like i'm making a lot of money, but ummm...more money is good...) and i just watched The Simpsons again and here i am...i must make some time to study for the spanish exam i have tomorrow tonight...lots of subjunctivo pasado y los mandatos y condicional y whatnot...another note: Psychocandy is fast becoming one of my favorite albums ever...it's making its way into the ranks of albums such as Marquee Moon and The Clash's first album (and any SY, of course) where i canNOT listen to it w/out cranking the volume all the way up...it gives me such a good feeling inside...that's all...yay distortion...

me likee Film Threat

PAY IT FORWARD (PG-13)
negative *
(http://www.payitforward.com/)
Hopefully, this review will prevent three people from seeing this film, and
then they will each prevent three other people from doing the same. If it
goes far enough, maybe someday we can all go to a multiplex free of shallow,
sermonizing Hollywood horse-shit.
That thumping sound you just heard was me taking off the kid gloves to throw
down the gauntlet. This ain’t gonna be pretty. I’m sure the studio and the
producers thought they had a real winner on their hands. After all, the movie
has a MESSAGE. It also has a pair of Oscar winners in stars Kevin Spacey and
Helen Hunt. Haley Joel Osment is the real star, though, and even he got a
nomination for “The Sixth Sense”. The kid’s got talent. Too bad the poor guy
is in such horribly over-rated films, LIKE THIS ONE.

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Unfortunately, the movie’s heavy-handed lessons are presented through so much
bullshit Lifetime-Channel psycho-drama that the biggest favor I could do for
the rest of the audience was to hold down my lunch during the excruciating
final hour. For one of his favors, Trevor attempts to pair up his teacher
and his mother. Eventually, his drunk, absentee father (Jon Bon Jovi, no I’m
not kidding) turns up, as well as his drunk, homeless grandmother (Angie
Dickenson, still not kidding). Of course, personal healing and strengthened
self-esteem ensue.
I could have dealt with the rampant mediocrity and underwritten characters if
it hadn’t been for one thing: the ending. I became more pissed off the longer
I thought about it. Now we at Film Threat might give one or no stars to
movies that are merely bad. When films cross the line from bad to offensive,
we drop down into the negative zone (If not properly reflected above, this
film should be negative one star). To properly express why “Pay It Forward”
is so bad, I will have to do the one thing that I’ve sworn never to do,
reveal the endingÖ [ ** SPOILER ALERT ** ]

i guess the spoiled ending's just on the website and not in my "newsletter" email thingie...sorry, just quite entertained by that review...