Movies and Dyes
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livingdebDoh! I owe my blog buddy a cookie. Totally forgot about posting yesterday.
Instead I watched two movies.
"Hard Target" is a thriller that is a modernization of a famous short story. It's also the movie that made Jean Claude Van Damme famous. I've heard he is a bad actor and have never even seen him before; at least I didn't recognize him. He is just fine in this movie, though. And I like the way his face is often weird-looking, as if the crazy stuff he's doing is actually hard and takes some of his concentration away from looking suave and chiseled. There's also an actress chosen for her ability to look surprised, as one certainly would in her position. And there's a guy playing Christopher Walken.
The movie is directed by John Woo. There were no scenes I thought were just beautiful like in some of his other movies, but there were definitely some awesome stunts, especially one involving a motorcycle versus another vehicle.
If you like action movies, I recommend it.
The other movie we watched was "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," based on someone's "unauthorized autobiography" with a screenplay by Charlie Kaufman. If it weren't based on a true story, it might be a cult favorite, with lots of funny scenes and interesting juxtapositions. Maybe it is anyway; it certainly attracted a lot of high-profile actors such as George Cloony, Drew Barrymore, and Julia Roberts. And it looks like it was a fun movie to make.
As nonfiction, though, I find it disturbing. Especially the part where the unauthorized biographer is still alive and happily consulting on this movie.
My favorite part was when the protagonist says that when you are young, you have the potential to be anything, but after a lot of time has passed, you have to face what you have actually become.
Before the movies we went to a party where we tie-dyed and un-dyed clothing. I tie-dyed some socks (don't know how they turned out yet, but they have lots of great colors on them).
And I tried tye-bleaching a shirt. I finally decided I should have washed it first to get rid of any chemical coating because the bleach was mostly just demonstrating its surface tension instead of getting absorbed, so I still have a mostly colored shirt. To bleach a shirt like this, you need a bleach-stop chemical so the bleach doesn't eat through your clothing (too much).
One thing I learned is that all clothing is pale orange underneath. Bleached burnt orange is peach, of course, but so is beached black, bleached maroon, and bleached navy. Weird.
Instead I watched two movies.
"Hard Target" is a thriller that is a modernization of a famous short story. It's also the movie that made Jean Claude Van Damme famous. I've heard he is a bad actor and have never even seen him before; at least I didn't recognize him. He is just fine in this movie, though. And I like the way his face is often weird-looking, as if the crazy stuff he's doing is actually hard and takes some of his concentration away from looking suave and chiseled. There's also an actress chosen for her ability to look surprised, as one certainly would in her position. And there's a guy playing Christopher Walken.
The movie is directed by John Woo. There were no scenes I thought were just beautiful like in some of his other movies, but there were definitely some awesome stunts, especially one involving a motorcycle versus another vehicle.
If you like action movies, I recommend it.
The other movie we watched was "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," based on someone's "unauthorized autobiography" with a screenplay by Charlie Kaufman. If it weren't based on a true story, it might be a cult favorite, with lots of funny scenes and interesting juxtapositions. Maybe it is anyway; it certainly attracted a lot of high-profile actors such as George Cloony, Drew Barrymore, and Julia Roberts. And it looks like it was a fun movie to make.
As nonfiction, though, I find it disturbing. Especially the part where the unauthorized biographer is still alive and happily consulting on this movie.
My favorite part was when the protagonist says that when you are young, you have the potential to be anything, but after a lot of time has passed, you have to face what you have actually become.
Before the movies we went to a party where we tie-dyed and un-dyed clothing. I tie-dyed some socks (don't know how they turned out yet, but they have lots of great colors on them).
And I tried tye-bleaching a shirt. I finally decided I should have washed it first to get rid of any chemical coating because the bleach was mostly just demonstrating its surface tension instead of getting absorbed, so I still have a mostly colored shirt. To bleach a shirt like this, you need a bleach-stop chemical so the bleach doesn't eat through your clothing (too much).
One thing I learned is that all clothing is pale orange underneath. Bleached burnt orange is peach, of course, but so is beached black, bleached maroon, and bleached navy. Weird.
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