I saw Lakehouse last night. The movie with Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock being in love but living two years apart and are only able to communicate through a magic mailbox type thing. I actually thought it was good. Not great but good but I don't think the other people I saw it with liked it very much. (E:jill) called something at the very beginning that I wish we wouldn't have realized right then but still it was good I thought.
Anyway, it made me realize that I am very able and willling to suspend disbelief for a movie. I don't need to think about like "oh could this really happen" or "this doesn't make sense if that happened". I just get caught up in the emotion and don't care if it doesn't make sense. Movies aren't meant to always be realistic, I like ones that are realish with some whimsical senselessness thrown in. Sure if you work out all the times and the action maybe it doesn't make sense, but why bother, why not just bask in the emotional goodness!!
oh and i want a Lake HOuse
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Lakehouse Realization06/18/2006 13:35 #29001
Certified CowboySo yesterday me, (e:jill), and jen went to Shawnee Stables on Grand Island and rode some horses. It was super fun! Not something I would do every day, but I would do it again. Of course my horse, Molly, was a little bit of a devil. She liked to run even when I didn't want her too. And she liked to eat which theya ren't allowed cuz they choke because they have the bit in their mouth so I had to keep pulling her head away from the plants and I tihnk she wasn't too fond of me because of that. Mine and JIll's horses were referred to as the "witches" by the lady riding with us. And thye were the ones that like to kick! Needless to say the ride was little painful cuz it was all bouncy bounce smack down on the horse. Hopefully I can still have children one day!
And of course my horse had to be troublesome and try to go in the wrong direction. Though we were going in a circle the whole time, me and jill who were usually in the lead did not realize this and never knew which direction to go in. I thought the leader yelled go left but she said Don't go left but Molly wanted to and she took off to the left. ANd i was trying to stop her and the lady was yelling HOLD ON< JUST HOLD ON! so i thought she had just given up on me and was like just hold on for your life, your horse going wherever it pleases. But she meant to pull harder on it to stop it.
Well its fun, now I am a certified cowboy, so watch out little doogies!
And of course my horse had to be troublesome and try to go in the wrong direction. Though we were going in a circle the whole time, me and jill who were usually in the lead did not realize this and never knew which direction to go in. I thought the leader yelled go left but she said Don't go left but Molly wanted to and she took off to the left. ANd i was trying to stop her and the lady was yelling HOLD ON< JUST HOLD ON! so i thought she had just given up on me and was like just hold on for your life, your horse going wherever it pleases. But she meant to pull harder on it to stop it.
Well its fun, now I am a certified cowboy, so watch out little doogies!
theecarey - 06/18/06 21:27
I love horseback riding!! I usually end up with a laid back kind of horse wand wishing it was more feisty. Not sure if I will wish for that any longer, after this post :)
Did you like Shawnee stables? I mean, would you go back there?? I might check it out as it seems it would be closer to me than some of the others I have been to.
I love horseback riding!! I usually end up with a laid back kind of horse wand wishing it was more feisty. Not sure if I will wish for that any longer, after this post :)
Did you like Shawnee stables? I mean, would you go back there?? I might check it out as it seems it would be closer to me than some of the others I have been to.
06/17/2006 11:06 #29000
Rendezvous with Billy GilmanFirst off, me, (e:jill), (e:mk) (e:libertad) and a few others went to Rendezvous on Niagara Street. I really like that place. The outdoor patio is so nice, especially when they have all the fires lit which they didn't last night but it is still so nice! I really like it , it is so cool looking. You think little dive bar but you get faboulous patio in the back. I don't know, I just want to say I really like it....
Now on a more important note, me and (e:mk) were obsessed with trying to find out what song Billy Gilman (like 12 year old boy circa 1999ish one hit wonder) sang. Luckily as we walked through Delaware Park we ran into the embodiment of Billy Gilman in WNY, and he had sang the song in highschool for a talent show and was able to sing us a little of it. Though we were still lacking in remembering the rest of the song even though I feel like at one point all my friends probably knew all the words to it. Anyone else remember the song? LIke i think it was about a school shooting or something like that.
Now on a more important note, me and (e:mk) were obsessed with trying to find out what song Billy Gilman (like 12 year old boy circa 1999ish one hit wonder) sang. Luckily as we walked through Delaware Park we ran into the embodiment of Billy Gilman in WNY, and he had sang the song in highschool for a talent show and was able to sing us a little of it. Though we were still lacking in remembering the rest of the song even though I feel like at one point all my friends probably knew all the words to it. Anyone else remember the song? LIke i think it was about a school shooting or something like that.
06/16/2006 01:14 #28999
Ooops...don't arrest meSo this Thursday at the Square was super fun in the old school last year kind of way. Hung out with (e:amanda), (e:terry), (e:lilho), and (e:paul) at the squrae and then went to McMonkeez with (e:amanda) and andre afterwards. Three for one drinks you can't go wrong except the cover charge went up from 2 dollars to 3 dollars. ANywho, I had had enough to drink but I still had two drinks so we started talking to this guy next to us and gave them to him. Needless to say a few minutes later we see him being forced to the ground and dragged out by security and police officers arresting him. Oops....that was our cue to slip out. HJopeucflly it wasn't our drink that [pusehd him over the edge to insanity.
Headed over to skybar where I hadn't been since last year. ALways a good time......I think this might be a good summer after all...
Headed over to skybar where I hadn't been since last year. ALways a good time......I think this might be a good summer after all...
amanda - 06/18/06 12:27
Ha ha it was super fun walaboo! Although the next day was a bit rough for me. i'm not as conditioned as i used to be last year...but i think we can fix that, right? ;-)
Ha ha it was super fun walaboo! Although the next day was a bit rough for me. i'm not as conditioned as i used to be last year...but i think we can fix that, right? ;-)
hodown - 06/16/06 09:12
i love how you say old school is last year- its so 2005, im going to start saying that in honor of you.
i love how you say old school is last year- its so 2005, im going to start saying that in honor of you.
06/14/2006 23:48 #28998
Run Away to Palestine?Have you guys read about the like 13 year old girl or something who got her parents to get her a passport saying she was going to Canada but secretly fled to Palestine to meet the guy she met on the internet? Who does that? Ok it is kinda cool but a lot of crazy. Like I think Palestine is probably the last place I would run away too alone without telling anyone if I was a 13 year old girl. There is soo much wrong with this situation. Luckily the parents caught her when she landed in Beirut (maybe the second last place I would run away to alone as a 13 year old girl). My question is, how do you punish a daughter who did this? Or namely how do you punish yourself for letting your preteen trick her way over to Palestine?
metalpeter - 06/17/06 19:45
The way you punish her is by not doing anything and just leting the autohorties there know. What if it is true love, you can't stop that. She is almost an adult and soon will make her own discions. You have to let her learn from her mistakes. If she seems to be in danger then she can call the cops. Or if they moniter her they can bust the door in and arrest charge her for prositution then when or if she calls home or after she has been locked up for a few days drop the charges.
The way you punish her is by not doing anything and just leting the autohorties there know. What if it is true love, you can't stop that. She is almost an adult and soon will make her own discions. You have to let her learn from her mistakes. If she seems to be in danger then she can call the cops. Or if they moniter her they can bust the door in and arrest charge her for prositution then when or if she calls home or after she has been locked up for a few days drop the charges.
ajay - 06/16/06 18:34
Of course it doesn't make it OK, as my previous posts about that BuffSem teacher have amply demonstrated. But there's a difference between a 13-year old (which would be paedophilia) and a 17-year old (when the age of consent is 16 in Michigan). I'm not saying it's OK, but correcting the age here.
Of course it doesn't make it OK, as my previous posts about that BuffSem teacher have amply demonstrated. But there's a difference between a 13-year old (which would be paedophilia) and a 17-year old (when the age of consent is 16 in Michigan). I'm not saying it's OK, but correcting the age here.
jenks - 06/15/06 15:49
ohhhh! 16. Well that makes it ok. ;)
ohhhh! 16. Well that makes it ok. ;)
ajay - 06/15/06 01:26
She is 16, I believe (and about to turn 17).
Kids that age don't always think straight.
She is 16, I believe (and about to turn 17).
Kids that age don't always think straight.
I admit that dosn't seem like a movie I would be into. But I do agree with the fact that in a movie you have to suspend disbeilf. If you didn't do that James Bond Movies would be no fun.
It would also elimanate all science fiction movies and a lot of American Horror movies that are Based on Japanse Horror movies like the Grudge and The Ring. In fact that often what is fun about a movie.
oh mike i love you. you crack me up.