Working Overtime, Wanting to Die, Hilary Duff, Hilary Clinton, and Stanley Kubrick

This first part was at the end of my post to begin with, but I decided just to get it out of the way for those of you who get sick of reading halfway through (that's right - I proofread these posts; I've never proofread an essay for school in my life, but I proofread my blog posts).

Here's something that interests me, and so I will force it upon you - throughout the month of August, the NW Film Center is showing every single Stanley Kubrick movie (in no particular order). Kubrick, to me, is the greatest director of all time, bar none, so yeah, little bit excited about all that, if only because I've always wanted to see 2001: A Space Odyssey and Barry Lyndon on the big screen. I'll be writing more about this as it approaches, but for now, here's the schedule. Tickets are $6 apiece for students. I'll be going to the ones in bold, and have previously seen the ones marked with an asterisk(*) (again, more of all this in the next few weeks), but will happily go to any of the others if, in fact, anyone else actually wants to go (especially Dr. Strangelove and A Clockwork Orange, two of the best films ever made, which I won't go to automatically 'cause I've seen both on the big screen, but I cannot recommend highly enough ALL these films, the ones I've seen anyway - they're a thousand times better than anything that's come out this summer, and you paid more to see those, didn't you?).

Thursday, Aug. 2 - The Killing*
Friday, Aug. 3 - 2001: A Space Odyssey*
Saturday, Aug. 4 - Spartacus
Sunday, Aug. 5 - Paths of Glory
Friday, Aug. 10 - Lolita*
Saturday, Aug. 11 - Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb*
Sunday, Aug. 12 - Killer's Kiss
Saturday, Aug. 18 - The Shining* and Full Metal Jacket* (BACK TO BACK! All for a mere $8! Easily the best money you'll spend all summer!)
Sunday, Aug. 19 - Barry Lyndon*
Friday, Aug. 24 - A Clockwork Orange*
Saturday, Aug. 25 - Eyes Wide Shut*

Aaannnnnnd onto the rest of the post.

Y'know, I was just thinking about how summer is just FLYING by, and then I saw my last post was ten effing days ago! Ten? TEN! How? I'll tell you how...never mind, I don't really know. But I did work a shitload over the last five days, including a 3-11 shift Thursday night followed by a 5:15 AM-6:00 PM shift on Friday after two hours of sleep. Yes, I did want to kill myself. I also came freakishly close to full-on passing out in the middle of the store. I started to feel myself fall but snapped back to it in time. From that point on I made sure to keep moving at all costs. So yeah, life is now restored to me though, and it's my weekend right here, right now.

People have often asked if you ever get used to waking up at 4 or 4:30 five days a week for work, and I always say "yes" but that's only partly true. You do get used to waking up and just wanting to shoot yourself in the face, and it does become easier to move past this feeling. But it never really goes away (man, if anyone who didn't know me was reading this, they'd either think I was really interesting and dark and deep, or just batshit insane).

But summer is FLYING man. No idea where the weeks are going, but boy are they.

I always thought Hilary Duff was kinda hot, y'know, I guess, but man is she hot as balls on the cover of Maxim this month. Their interviews are really, really retarded though. And say what you will about it "just being Maxim," but some of the best pop culture articles I've ever read came from Playboy (a magazine I've admittedly never bought, largely because it's sort of an embarrassing thing to own, but also because I suspect, like Rolling Stone, it's still published mostly because it was so big and so good a few decades ago).

If you haven't seen this yet, you really ought to.

Finally saw Aliens. Sweet.

P.S. I know all of the major spoilers of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and am oh-so-tempted to mention them to random passers-by in hopes that they actually give a damn. But it also makes me excited for the when the movie finally comes out and something actually happens (seriously...besides that one guy dying, which was pretty unceremonious, NOTHING FRICKIN' HAPPENED in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix! NOTHING! The credits started rolling and all I could do was look a little distraught and think to myself, "where'd all that plot and character development go? Surely it had to be there at SOME point!" I'm not really that mad about it, but seriously, come on).