Saturday, January 15

revue
I'm feeling lonely this weekend. Not so much lonely in the 'there's no one here but me' sense, but more like a friend has just left me. It's a feeling of malcontent that creeps into the hole where something that is now gone has been.

Why am I lonely? If I tell you, you'll laugh. I often get this feeling after I've finished reading a book or watching a tv or movie series. It's all over. The story is gone, done and complete. It's left me and all I have is the memory. The feeling can range from bad (even depressed) if the ending to the story is poor, incomplete or dissatisfying to a sort of dull, lustful ache if the ending was particularly good.

This time, I've just finished Full Metal Alchemist, a rather long (50 episode), involved anime series that was popular while I was in Japan. I've been watching this show since the beginning of last term, rationing it out to myself like a drug, and now it's all done and gone. The show did a good job of wrapping up nearly all the major loose ends and avoiding major plot holes (personal pet peeves of mine), but the ending still leaves something to be desired. Though the characters were developed beyond what I would have expected, I don't think they'd learned the lessons I though they would learn by the end of the series. Poop.

Now I'd better start on Ebichu- the Housekeeping Hamster as a pick-me-up. >_<

Last night I also watched The Bourne Identity for the first time. It was one of those movies that had been SO hyped to me by friends and family (everyone said it was absolutely great) that there was no way I couldn't have been disappointed. I just don't see what the big deal was. So Matt Damon managed to ACT. Woo-HOO. The movie was like a poster for the male fight-or-flight response.

Matt Damon: AGH! What the fuck is going on?!? I don't know! I'd better kill some peopel!!

The US Government: AGH! What the fuck is he doing?!? We don't know!!! We'd better kill people!!!11oneone

The whole thing was bloody stereotyped if you ask me. And was there a single creative use of rationality or good, old-fashioned communication? No, and that's why it's meant to be entertainment! God, sometimes I hate cinema. I can already guess the entire plot of The Bourne Supremacy: Matt Damon has a good time with his girlfriend-for-no-reason who has nothing better to do than be a fugitive... someone who isn't supposed to come after him comes after him and kills his girlfriend-for-no-reason... Matt Damon is pissed and takes revenge... Matt Damon discovers secret of past identity that has been kept from him... Matt Damon pursues secret to past identity while uncovering goverment conspiracy and actively taking revenge... Matt Damon makes amends with past identity without really finding out anything concrete. The end. Wait for third movie in triad, repeat.

... exciting.

And in other news, I dreamt I was selected for a reality TV show featuring webloggers. Was this a good dream or a nightmare? I can't be sure.