Okay, so that whole "I'm going to update this thing more often" didn't really work the way I had planned. Granted, it has only been a little over a month... but it has been a little over a month. I guess not a lot has really happened since then. Went to a fun baby shower :). Bought a dress that will hopefully be my bridesmaid's dress because it's cute and comfortable and a very pretty shade of blue. So that's all exciting.
I'm also excited that I'm now learning to crochet. I still have a difficult time reading the patterns, and I only know like 2 stiches, but I'm getting there. I even made a pair of pretty sweet-ass fingerless gloves (sans pattern, I might add, haha. But only because I was too impatient to learn to read the pattern and wanted to start creating!). I will post pictures when I have some. I will say though that my first pair were a little funky. The right one looked fine, though with this weird webbed finger effect due to making up my own pattern, but the left one looked like it had elephantitis. Whoops. Haha. With the second pair, I decided to ditch the fingers all together and just have the glove stop at the knuckles. Much better, haha. I love them. They're awesome. Next project: iPod case.
I'm also really excited about two new movies coming out soon. How to Be and Little Ashes.
How to Be (premiering April 24 & 25, IFC Theater, NYC) follows the story of this 20-something guy named Art, who, after being dumped, moves back in with his parents, and struggles to figure out exactly who he is and how to survive in a world that seems wholly unfamiliar and frightening in an existential sort of way (at least that's how I understand it). He enlists the help of a self-help guru, hiring him to follow him around give him encouragement. Art has one friend who is becoming a hermit, and another who used to be chronically uncool, but has reinvented himself. It's supposed to be a dark comedy, and Lord knows I love me some of those. Go to the website and watch the trailer!
Little Ashes (May 8, 2009, NYC) is about Salvador Dalí in his college years, pre-crazy mustache and dripping clocks. He makes friends with poet Federico García Lorca and Luis Buñuel. I'm a little hazy on the details, but Salvador and Federico apparently begin this torrid love affair in Franco's Spain, though Federico's religious beliefs in regards to their relationship "torture" him. Eventually it ends, Salvador ends up married, they drift apart, and one day reunite, just as Spain is on the verge of war. The trailer shows a lot of military/revolution scenes, so you can probably bet there's going to be some of that in there. It's probably going to be something like Brokeback Mountain, only funnier what with the crazy Salvador Dali face staring at you, 10 feet high. But really -- watch the trailer, it looks really good. I'm excited!
Okay, that's it for now! Until next time...
christinA
