Cold
Life, Watched March 19th, 2008I’m sick. AGAIN. Literally about three days after recovering from my previous cold, I’ve been invaded by more viruses (or something). While the previous one was a sore throat -> losing my voice -> non-stop coughing type, this new one seems to be scratchy throat + clogged/runny nose + sneezing + constant tiredness. Blargh. I feel pretty crummy about this new cold too, not only from the frustration of being sick and tired again, which does affect my study, but for the past few days I’ve been behaving and feeling really short-tempered and irritable at the people around me, which is just general crappy behaviour.
Other than that, I’ve been a relatively good student! I’ve been doing most of my readings, participating in class and what not. My Cyberspace Law research plan assignment thing is due soonish, and I’ve got to come up with a topic for what I want to write about. There are so many interesting internet issues out there! I’m thinking about writing about net neutrality, or maybe the proposed ISP-level filtering. Or maybe something entirely more fun, such as the interaction between internet law and MMORPGs and other online games. Or maybe online privacy and freedom of speech in relation to blogs. Must… decide soon. o_o
I watched Glitter yesterday due to feeling too ill to do my readings and wow… THAT’S A HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE MOVIE. It was just so… trite, contrived, bland and juvenile. It was about as meaningful as those really dramatic Korean music videos (for example) except that Glitter took over 100 minutes to express itself. The worse part though was hearing the awful “ballads” and pop songs in the movie, all of which were horrible dragged out and pedestrian. I am comfortable with admitting that I like Mariah Carey’s old music and her voice, but ugh, the songs in this movie were lyrically and melodically weak. It was a definitely poor choice on my part to be watching this movie in the hope that it would make me feel better.
Also, watched 10,000 BC the other day, that movie was also not very good. It was mostly nonsensical in terms of history, and the storyline was rather mundane for a Hollywood flick.
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No shame in liking old school Mariah. That movie should have never been made and I don’t know what’s up with Mariah sings/song writing these days.
Being sick again after only three days of recovering from your previous sickness sucks. Hope you get well soon!
Ack, sorry to hear you’re not well again :(
I’ve had more colds this year than in all my years of life altogether :(
Maybe you are running the same luck. I’m sorry that you’re not feeling well. *hugs*
I’ve only heard bad things about Glitter, so your “review” is now my 100th reason for not bothering to watch it :D
Being sick is definitely frustrating.
And Glitter - god, what a disaster. I actually paid to watch that POS movie, and regret it to this day. Not only was it a horrible plot, but it was all so predictable.
I convinced my friends to go to 10000BC on the premise that it’d be terrible and we could laugh at it. A 9% on rottentomatoes did not disappoint in that respect. Even if I hadn’t enjoyed it MST3Kishly, it was actually better than the reviews lead me to believe. I liked it better than 300 or King Kong, but I think that was mostly because those movies were supposed to be good or at least enjoyable, and they failed in both respects.
I just got over my last bout of illness. I had the flu for a week before I came down with pneumonia. Now that really sucked. I really do hope you feel better! Sorry you had to watch Glitter. That is the worst movie ever. I couldn’t get through it all. I’d rather watch the grass grow than finish watching that movie.
Hope you feel better soon!
RE: Mariah…I’m disappointed in her. Mariah of the 90s definitely had her own flair, some of the best songs of that era were sung by her. Her recent stuff though…have you heard her latest song? She’s so exceedingly generic now, that it makes me sad!
Though to be fair, apparently Glitter was her worst acting role. I’ve heard good things about her minor roles in other films.
Get some chicken soup darling and feel better soon!
I’ve been hearing nothing but bad news about 10 000 BC. Seems like a car wreck.
I know what you mean about trite Korean music videos. My drama-obsessed friends would NOT stop sending them to me, ugh.
Aww I’m having a cold right now too. :( But I’m recovering. Hope you get well soon too! I’m looking forward to doing law stuff related to the Internet. There are so many interesting issues on the Internet. Good luck with it too.
I had a cold a few weeks ago but I’m slowly feeling better. ^^ I’ve never seen Glitter but it seems like a bad movie to me, but I hope you enjoyed watching it as well. As for 10,000 BC, I’m still planning to watch it. Seems like a good movie to me.
Feel better! Everyone is ill recently, I’m just waiting for my turn.
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And I’ve never had to suffer watching Glitter. Some movies are so bad that they’re funny, Glitter doesn’t seem to one of them.