ask me no questions, i'll tell you no lies.

[rkt]

i went on a movie spree this weekend.

hustle and flow= 4(/5) stars

the wedding crashers= 3(/5) stars

the arisotcrats= 3(/5) stars

also, coke has a new "commercial".

remember (and, i realize some of you may not) the new seekers song - "i'd like to teach the world to sing/and furnish it with love" song? the one they used once upon a time in their commercials? the hippies surrounding the hills....

yeah, well, they've revamped it to "i'd like to teach the world to jam/and chill with it awhile"; "urban" youth on a rooftop somewhere singing/jamming... which could have great potential, but just doesn't live up to it. it's just... off. i haven't put my finger on it, yet... and i'm not saying this as a purist, which i can be. or someone who hates coke the company but has a fondness for coke the drink, which, again, i am. but as someone who is otherwise all about the cover song and thus quite disappointed.*

this was really the biggest disappointment of the experience. and i wasn't even expecting it. and then i experienced it twice.

as far as the movies themselves: i expected more from the aristocrats. (i'm not sure how i was expecting more, i just wanted more from it.) a lot less from the wedding crashers. (but it *is* a christopher walken flick... which was the appeal.) and a little bit more from hustle and flow. (or maybe, not so much more as a little bit less of the misogyny and violence.



*i may have lost 99% of my college writing, but goddamn, if my mp3s didn't survive my computer crash of 05.

Comments

hi...and a question

[xmorningxrosex.livejournal.com]

I'm spamming your LJ with off-topicness to try to get some info. I know your job is something to do with a shelter, but now I can't remember if it's a homeless shelter, or a women's shelter, or DV shelter or what. I've got some questions I'm hesitant to post online in say the socialwork comm re: teen dating violence and the chance of filed charges sticking and thought you might know the answers, or someone/some resource online who does...or is it completely state to state? I can email if I'm too vague, but I'm trying to figure things out for a client and for my own mental sanity. :\

Re: hi...and a question

[rkt.livejournal.com]

charges are generally state to state. but i might be able to direct you if i have a firmer grasp on the question.

if it has to do with the shadiness of police officers/etc. your client may not have much hope. (this has been a recent theme at my shelter. though, not currently involving any of my clients.)

i do know that wisconsin (in appearance) tends to be more lenient in favor of the ;woman' (it should be survivor, but let's face reality, the leniency is in favor of the female depicted as victim, which makes her in need of protection) in dv-type cases. i'm pretty sure they, or at least more local jurisdictions, tend to have a "must-arrest" law, where one person HAS to be arrested in dv-type calls.

if any of this is unclear. or if it doesn't answer the question you have, email me. @ yahoo.

Re: hi...and a question

[xmorningxrosex.livejournal.com]

I emailed you!


thanks