it might be sad, but the bookends of my last few days were movies: on the one hand, star wars episode 2, and on the other, a significantly lower-quality movie called orange county.
i saw the new star wars movie at 12:01am wednesday night–the first showing on the west coast. it was at one of those mega-plex 45-theatre compound things, so the lines were amazing. one of our group had been there since 2pm, however, braving the crowds, so we walked right to the front of the line at 10:15pm, carrying in ‘n out burgers for our diehard compatriots. it was an event–a lot of dressed up people as you’d expect, and we were even interviewed the stanford daily newspaper, and made it in two days later (our whole ancient greek class was there, so it was a novelty).
i really liked the movie. with star wars i am very willing to lay down any high-minded notion of filmmaking and just sit in childlike awe of pretty colors, flashy scenes, and cool spaceships. so it was a bonus for me that episode 2 was so much better than that–a deepening, brooding, and more mysterious plot beginning to surface, a cheesy yet honest and sincere love story, sweet battle scenes, and of course yoda kicking ass. i was also happy of the knowledge that ep2 added to the ‘expanded universe’.
i went and saw it again thursday night, because one of my friends who had a ticket couldn’t go and he gave it to me for free.
friday i skipped all my classes because i was sick and couldn’t talk more than a whisper (something to do with my throat i guess). i read berkeley’s principles of human something-or-other. a good read, but sleepy after 20 pages. dan left friday for yosemite, to go climbing all weekend, so i had the room to myself. i played computer games, did homework, and watched half of blackhawk down.
saturday i did something new–i woke up early (11:45am) and went to the IM fields to play softball for our crusade softball team. i’d never played before, but it was quite fun. i actually batted 1000 and scored a number of runs. if you’d asked me before, i would have sworn i hated the game. but i guess that’s what happens when i judge something before i experience it. that night a bunch of people went into the city to watch our friend serena play her first live gig in the city, at a cafe/art gallery. it was a neat place, cool atmosphere, and she did a great job. then everyone dragged me (and some other guys) to a swing club, where we capped the night looking like fools on a waxed wood floor amidst a bunch of hardcore swingers.
today it rained, and i felt like it looked outside–grey and monotone. i can’t even remember what i did after church. i went and saw orange county at flicks–it’s a movie about a kid from o.c. who wants to get into stanford but doesn’t, because of his retarded college counselor’s mix-up, and he goes to stanford to try to get in. it was funny because nothing was ever filmed at stanford. so all the scenes at “stanford” were shot at night at some other college, which looked very little like stanford. i wonder how many people will end up thinking that actually was stanford. the story itself was not too bad, and it was humorous at times. but not really worth noting, all told.
i’m going home on wednesday for memorial weekend. i can’t wait to see my friends and family.
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