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Dec. 17th, 2007 04:27 amIt's sort of funny, making yourself breakfast at 4 am just to convince your body that it's a normal hour. Ignore the darkness outside! Or that cold, cold gust of winds coming from Riverside, whistling up the empty, dark streets.
Once again, it's a chemistry-related feeling of doom this early in the morning. Exam at 9,in 4.5 hours, and going over some last minute review problems.
Of course, the real problem is that I'm tired, it's now 4:30 am and I'm no closer to getting some sleep. We saw No Country for Old Men over the weekend, which everyone I know seemed to like. I wanted to like it too, because I know someone who did the marketing for it.
But I couldn't help but feeling at the end of it that it was something like the Emperor's New Clothes. No one actually really "got" it, but it felt like it was deep, and they didn't want to feel stupid, so they just raved about how deep it was.
Not to say that the acting wasn't great, and I got the whole point about futility and cycles. But to end a long, invested movie with a sort of "And so it goes"? I was left unsatisfied. Didn't they learn anything from the season finale of the Sopranos?
Speaking of lessons learned, don't eat the candies from gingerbread house kits. Just FYI.
Once again, it's a chemistry-related feeling of doom this early in the morning. Exam at 9,in 4.5 hours, and going over some last minute review problems.
Of course, the real problem is that I'm tired, it's now 4:30 am and I'm no closer to getting some sleep. We saw No Country for Old Men over the weekend, which everyone I know seemed to like. I wanted to like it too, because I know someone who did the marketing for it.
But I couldn't help but feeling at the end of it that it was something like the Emperor's New Clothes. No one actually really "got" it, but it felt like it was deep, and they didn't want to feel stupid, so they just raved about how deep it was.
Not to say that the acting wasn't great, and I got the whole point about futility and cycles. But to end a long, invested movie with a sort of "And so it goes"? I was left unsatisfied. Didn't they learn anything from the season finale of the Sopranos?
Speaking of lessons learned, don't eat the candies from gingerbread house kits. Just FYI.
