Film School.

I got in.

My Progress on the Job Front

I got a job.

I'm washing dishes at the Milestone's in Yaletown. If you eat there, make sure your plate is clean before it leaves the table. Please?
Watched King Kong with Kyra today: it was romantic. It also is the 80th movie I've crossed off the list. Awesome.
My news-feed is being raped by the onslaught of photos from my high school's grad. Unexpectedly, its hitting me with waves of nostalgia and melancholy. It makes me wonder.

More to follow.

My April 28th

Woke up,
drank coffee,
watched Duck Soup,
drank some soup,
got a call from Black Frog Bistro for an interview,
bussed downtown for the interview,
got told my chances are good,
bussed back home,
met up with Kyra (yay!) and Willow (Kyra's dog),
bought groceries with Kyra,
cooked dinner with Kyra for my parents,
ran after Kyra's car as she left,
got called by Chris,
watched the end of the Canucks game at Chris' house,
played ping-pong with Chris and Matt,
Facebooked/half heartedly watched Manswers,
drove with Chris to McDonalds,
reminisced about old times,
drove home,
watched Nardwuar videos.

I wish more days were like this.

My Progress on the List

I have been making my way through what the American Film Institute considers to be the best films of the last 100 years. AFI has ranked what they believe to be the top 100 movies on two occasions (1997 and 2007) and currently I am working through the 2007 list. At the moment, I'm not watching these films it in any particular order as I am going by whats available from the library. I will post my progress on Facebook periodically.


So far, Sacha has seen 96 films as of February 16th, 2013 at 7:19pm.

1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. The Godfather (1972)
3. Casablanca (1942)
4. Raging Bull (1980)
5. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
6. Gone With The Wind (1939)
7. Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)
8. Schindler's List (1993)
9. Vertigo (1958)
10. The Wizard Of Oz (1939)
11. City Lights (1931)
12. The Searchers (1956)
13. Star Wars (1977)
14. Psycho (1960)
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
16. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
17. The Graduate (1967)
18. The General (1927)
19. On The Waterfront (1954)
20. It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
21. Chinatown (1974)
22. Some Like it Hot (1959)
23. The Grapes Of Wrath (1940)
24. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
25. To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
26. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
27. High Noon (1952)
28. All About Eve (1950)
29. Double Indemnity (1944)
30. Apocalypse Now (1979)
31. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
32. The Godfather Part II (1974)
33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
34. Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937)
35. Annie Hall (1977)
36. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
37. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
38. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
39. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
40. The Sound of Music (1965)
41. King Kong (1933)
42. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
43. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
44. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
45. Shane (1953)
46. It Happened One Night (1934)
47. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
48. Rear Window (1954)
49. Intolerance (1916)
50. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
51. West Side Story (1961)
52. Taxi Driver (1976)
53. The Deer Hunter (1978)
54. M*A*S*H (1970)
55. North By Northwest (1959)
56. Jaws (1975)
57. Rocky (1976)
58. The Gold Rush (1925)
59. Nashville (1975)
60. Duck Soup (1933)
61. Sullivan's Travels (1941)
62. American Graffiti (1973)
63. Cabaret (1972)
64. Network (1976)
65. The African Queen (1951)
66. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
67. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
68. Unforgiven (1992)
69. Tootsie (1982)
70. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
71. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
72. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
73. Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969)
74. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
75. In The Heat of the Night (1967)
76. Forrest Gump (1994)
77. All the President's Men (1976)
78. Modern Times (1936)
79. The Wild Bunch (1969)
80. The Apartment (1960)
81. Spartacus (1960)
82. Sunrise (1927)
83.Titanic (1997)
84. Easy Rider (1969)
85. A Night at the Opera (1935)
86. Platoon (1986)
87. 12 Angry Men (1957)
88. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
89. The Sixth Sense (1999)
90. Swing Time (1936)
91. Sophie's Choice (1982)
92. Goodfellas (1990)
93. The French Connection (1971)
94. Pulp Fiction (1994)
95. The Last Picture Show (1971)
96. Do The Right Thing (1989)
97. Blade Runner (1982)
98. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
99. Toy Story (1995)
100. Ben-Hur (1959)

Analogies Kyra and I Use To Describe Each Other

Sacha: You are the Warren Beatty to my Faye Dunaway.

Kyra: You are the Mick Ronson to my David Bowie.

Sacha: You are the bass to my Barry White.

Kyra: You are the not sexy to my Rod Stewart (completely disagree with her but I let it stand).

Sacha: You are the raindrops to my Burt Bacharach.

Kyra: You are the mustache to my Little Richard.

Sacha: You are little Richard.

Kyra: ...

Sacha: You are the tiny umbrella to my tropical drink.

Kyra: You are the mumbling to my Bob Dylan.

Sacha: You are the long drawn out vowel sounds to my Leonard Cohen.

Kyra: You are the sunglasses to my Bono.

Sacha: You are the arms to my clock.

Kyra: You are the Basquiat to my Warhol.

Sacha: You are the Ginny to my Harry.

Kyra: You are the frustration to my Math.

Sacha: You are the pants to my Jareth.

Kyra: You are the wheelchair to my paraplegic.

Sacha: You are the legs to my Tim Curry.

Kyra: You are the Rocky to my Brad and Janet.

Sacha: You are the giraffe to my zoo.

Kyra: You are the Gandalf to my Middle Earth.

Sacha: You are the mellow to my yellow.

Kyra: You are the weird, jerky movements to my Tina Turner.

Sacha: You're the backup singers to my Isaac Hayes.





We're cool

Interview

I got shortlisted for the film production program here at SFU and tomorrow I'll be meeting with the professors to find out if I get in.

Wish me luck.

Torture

I hate children.
Children are greedy, obnoxious little jerks who haven't grasped the concept that the world does not revolve around them. They are loud, abrasive, and everywhere as if they spawn via abiogenesis from manure.
When I went to university, I thought there was some security that I'd never see a child on campus; however, I am regularly wakened on Saturday mornings by the sound of children screaming in the daycare across from my residence, probably because someone stopped listening to them for two seconds.
Children are the closest the human race will ever come to devolving into ticks.
The worst part is that all of us were children once. So many people, including myself, have, at many times, thought that they were different, they were an anomaly, they were a 'good' child; however, that is a load of horseshit. At one point, every one of us was a little bastard making life frustrating for everyone around us.
I get sad when I see a mother walking down the street with her children, clearly pained by the misery these vermin have brought upon them, and the children just smile as if its rainbows thats filling their diapers. They are clearly making the person who gave them life an agonizing trial, and they cannot empathize at all with their plight. Goddammit, kids suck.

That being said, I take issue with how I saw one parent deal with their problem.
I was walking back through the Academic Quadrangle in SFU last Friday after seeing my girlfriend before she left for the weekend. I was in a good mood as my morning had been child free up until that point. However, after rounding a corner, I saw a stressed mother and a tiny, scoundrel companion beside her. Immediately, my thought was "you poor woman. I can only imagine what you've been through" as the child ran through her legs.
Thats when I saw the leash.
The child was on a leash. A harness practically indecipherable from a dogs leash and the mother was pulling this kid along as she walked. For a second, I just stopped, stared, and considered what I had just witnessed.

To reiterate the first section of this post, I still believe children are little Satan-spawns. The role of parenting plays an interesting part in how this problem is addressed. Even the most unruly of children can be put in their place by a parents iron will and that is a truly noble thing. What I take serious issue with is the neglectful degradation of children by putting them on a leash as this does two things:
Firstly, it makes the child get their way. Leashing a child is a parent subconsciously saying to the world "fuck it. I suck at disciplining this child so I'll restrain them on a rope" and, to me, that is pathetic.
The second thing putting a child on a leash does is potentially do major psychological damage to someone at a very early age. As much as I despise the ground a child walks on, I don't want to hurt them. I would never demean a child because its cruel and humiliating. By putting a child on a leash, a parent is essentially saying "my child is a dog and therefore I will treat them like one" which is terrifying notion. Children, as bad as they may be, are very impressionable and their development is what determines what kind of people they will be. If they grow up being treated like dirt, what will their self esteem be like when they're 13, 18, or 30?

Though my despise for children truly knows no bounds, I have taken something rather invaluable away from this experience. We were all little juveniles at one point or another, but we became adults. As much as Peter Pan would have you believe otherwise, we all eventually grow up and do cool things with our lives. Thankfully, my parents dealt with my with the utmost finesse and I hardly feel insecure with who I am. After all, I'm glad I don't have to look back and say "I was that kid on the leash".