I am the freaking BOSS, YOU ARE NOT

The only thing I hate about Fosters is that I get treated like absolute shit from some adults. Not from Fosters employees, but from people that work at places we do bakes at. Yesterday I was in charge of an event at Kennebunkport. The bake was for a family reunion, and they were staying at this mansion. This one lady working at the mansion was the bitchiest, nastiest human being ever to walk this planet. The minute we stepped out of the truck she thought she had the right to boss us around...why? Because we are younger. She complained about everything we were doing and tried to tell us what we are doing is wrong. Ummm thanks I think I know what I am freaking doing here, you on the other hand have no clue. Then this other lady comes in and she is so sweet and told us how wonderful everything looks and then she introduces herself as the owner of the mansion. That made me laugh a whole lot, because then who the hell was that other lady?! She was not the owner, just some random worker there.

So then nasty lady comes up to me again and I tell her what is left over for food and she shushes me! WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE LADY!!! You are not in charge of this crew, I AM! And you are sure not in charge of me. That was probably the most disrespectful thing I have ever witnessed. Then I hand her the receipt from the bill and she starts bitching at me about how she already took care of this, because I guess she doesn't know what I receipt was.

After that I ushered everyone into the truck, I was done with her shit. So while we were packing a member of the party came out and gave us a tip...I wish he did that right in front of nasty lady.

It just makes me so angry that I am not treated like a professional sometimes, because I am. I know I am only 18, but I am in charge and I know what I am doing. Nobody has the right to tell me how to do my job, except for the bosses at FOSTAASS


Have a fabulous day
LC

I must leave now, so I did not read this over....Kill me Cranky Man

I can't think of a title.

Today I tried to clean my room, but I think I just made it messier. You can see some carpet though.

I'm dedicating my summer to watching movies. I'm going to watch all the free on demand movies. All of them. Plus some others. So far my favorite movie is still The Chumscrubber, if that changes you will be the first notified.

I'm obsessed with this band. They make me want to get wasted and party forever.

Mo

people are stupid

I miss Period 2 English class

So today I went into Fosters just to return tables and chairs. As of right now the restaurant part is closed during the week, and it is very apparent it is closed, for the lights are all turned off and NOBODY is around. However I go in (wearing normal clothes) and there are two ladies standing at the register. These two ladies see me and they start bombarding me with questions. (Umm excuse me? How do you even know I work here, and WE ARE CLOSED!!!) So I answered all of their stupid questions, and then they asked how late we are open until. I told her we were closed today and she was amazed.

Conclusion to this story: I am sick of tourists already

Have a fabulous day
(I also hate rain)
lC

Auntie is home

My aunt is visiting this week, she is from Laguna Beach, CA. Every time she comes home she has really awesome stories. My new favorite is when my cousin graduated from Long Beach State and sat right next Stephen Spielberg!! Now I looked this up at imdb and it did say that Spielberg attended Long Beach State, but I didn't see anything about him going back, but I do not doubt my Aunt. Apparently the news crew went wild and showed my cousin graduating just because he was "The person to graduate right after Spielberg!!"

I also love to hear the stories of her running into the MTV cameras. She says she ran right in front of one, so I want to go back and watch all of the episodes to see if I can spot a blond fro pass by the bottom of the screen.

Have a fabulous night/morning

LC

GO SEE THE HAPPENING! It is TERRIBLE, but so awesome at the same time.

Time To Blow The Speakers!

Today is my eighteenth birthday!

Rooney was fun, except practically everyone in the crowd was twelve. And it was wicked hot. I was literally two feet from the lead singer, Robert (brother of Jason Schwartzman). It was great. They didn't allow flash photography though, and the mics were too low. Our apartment was right across the street from the venue so we felt supra cool. We spied on the bands all night. People kept throwing beer bottles off the roof of our building, and a kid from a local show (which some kid chased us down the street to invite us to (because we're so fly)) kept yelling "Hey cock licker, throw another bottle, I fucking dare you!" And a crazy man who couldn't speak right was also yelling, but it was impossible to tell what he was saying. It was a very eventful night.

Guess what I bought myself? A CANON DIGITAL REBEL! Not the new one though, because I didn't feel like spending 900 dollars for more mega pixels and features I don't even know how to use.

-Mo

I say baby, babe I've loved you a long time

Guess who LC and I are going to see tomorrow?

ROONEY! My favorite boyfriends. It's been exactly (to the very day) a year since they've been in Boston (not counting when they opened for the Jonas Brothers because I don't count that as a real show). I'm so excited, I got my bangs trimmed today so I'll look super fly. I'm going to take a million pictures and post every single one of them.

Yippee!

Woohoo! We've graduated! C-man, I didn't see you in that scary gauntlet.. we're you hiding? Yay! for project grad and toilet seat racing!

-Mo

PS. I don't know how to add a blogroll, but I will try...

the sixties, film post #5

During the sixties if a film was up for “Best Picture,” against a musical they were doomed. Musicals dominated the sixties beginning with West Side Story winning the award in 1961. “West Side story was soon followed by “My Fair Lady,” “The Sound of Music,” and “Oliver!” Most of the movies at the time strayed away from violence during this time and were directed more for family audiences, of which musicals are aimed towards. The sixties are known for its anti-war movement and civil rights. It was not a time for mourning, but a time of change and rejoicing, so therefore the Academy was likely to choose films that reflected this. Films like ‘The Guns of Navarone,” (1961) and “Doctor Zhivago,” (1965), which dealt greatly with war had no chance of winning Best Picture.
Although the Academy enjoyed musicals, most filmmakers of the time turned away from musicals. This occurred because of the emergence of Rock n Roll in the sixties, but the Academy still seemed to be head over heels for musicals, which also shows their distaste for Rock n Roll.

Musicals in the sixties introduced a few actresses, which will be forever known for their roles in musicals such as Audrey Hepburn and Julie Andrews. Julie Andrew’s movie “The Sound of Music,” was the most important film of the time, for it saved Fox 20th from bankruptcy after filming “Cleopatra.”
Musicals are certainly not as popular today, one has not won “Best Picture,” since “Chicago.” Probably because when the word “musical” is said one may want to gag. One may start to picture a corny love song (which seems to be a requirement in every musical), dancing in fields (Sound of Music) or singing Orphans (Annie, Oliver!). However there is one musical made during the sixties that breaks free from this, well it does have some corny love songs, and that is “West Side Story.”
“West Side Story,” directed by Robert Wise is a musical based on “Romeo and Juliet.” The musical is filmed in Manhattan’s Upper West Side and shows the rivalry between two teenage gangs of different cultural backgrounds. The musical is much darker than other musicals of the time, with its teenage angst, racial discrimination, Manhattan setting, and fights between gangs. The musical goes completely against the “corny,” label of which musicals always receive. While the two gangs fight they do it in a graceful manner, so as to seem like a ballet of a brawl. While the two gangs walk around the city, they are often dancing, but are still able to do this in a manly way. These men are supposed to be seen as gang members, not ballerinas and Robert Wise does an excellent job of portraying this. The opening scene “Cool,” shows the first brawl between the two gangs, holds the audience’s attention immediately. When watching “Cool,” they recognize “West Side Story,” is going to be like no other musical.


HAPPY GRADUATION DAY!!!!!
LC

I'm gunna start killing people!

Today, everyone in my family must have overdosed on hormone pills because they were out of control. Laughing, screaming, crying. It was insane. But really funny, especially when my mom and brother were fighting really loud in the middle of the street and my brother yelled, "FUCK! Now I have a bloody nose!" I was laughing from my observation window.

Also, my dad suggested we make origami out of flowers. He doesn't really make a lot of sense some times.

Tomorrow, LC and I graduate high school. I'm elated. The existence of college is a miracle.

-Mo

The film that beat Citizen Kane, film post #4

"How Green Was My Valley," directed by John Ford (1941)

I fell asleep twice within the first 20 minutes.
That says it all

film post #3, Citizen Kane

“Citizen Kane,” directed by Orson Welles (1941)

Synopsis: The film traces the life of Charles Foster Kane, which is rumored to really be a movie tracing William Randolph Hearts. The movie shows Kane’s career in the publishing world. Kane’s career stared as an idealistic social service, but it quickly turned him into a tyrant publisher, obsessed with power. Kane’s life is shown through flashbacks during newspaper reporter’s interviews with Kane’s friends and family, in pursuit to discover what Kane’s last words “Rosebud,” meant.
Academy Awards Controversy: “Citizen Kane,” did not win Best picture, for once Hearst found out about the film he was not only outraged that the film was about him, but more so angered by the portrayal of mistress Marion Davies, whom is Susan Alexander in the film. Because of the enraged Hearts “Citizen Kane,” did not receive a golden man, but just loud Boos from the audience.

I am in love with this film for two reasons
1) Flashbacks: I love films that tell their plotline in a unique way. “Citizen Kane,” doesn’t just have a normal plotline. It begins with newsreel of Charles Foster Kane, and the audience clueless of who this man is, then newsreel is stopped and the producer of the newsreel sends a newspaper reporter to discover what Kane’s last word “rosebud,” meant. The reporter then sets out to interview Kane’s friends and family, Kane’s story is told through their interviews. The film is not just a biography of Charles Kane, but also the reporter’s quest to discover the meaning of “rosebud.”
2) Film technique: I am not necessarily in love with “Citizen Kane,” for the story, but more so the movie-making techniques Welles’ uses. The movie is often shot through deep focus, this means that the foreground, background, and anything else are all in sharp focus. This deep focus shot is most easily scene during the flashback of Kane’s childhood (I showed it in class, and a total of three people watched it). The flashback shows Kane outside playing in the snow while his mother is inside basically selling him off. Everything is clearly in focus, including Kane outside through the window, and a top hat on the table. This is one the most famous scenes in film history. These deep focus shots were done by cinematographer, Gregg Toland. Toland was determined to have everything in deep focus and so when this was impossible he used an optical printer, which visually layered one piece of film onto another to make the whole screen to appear in focus. The optical printer was used during the scene when Kane finished a bad review of his mistress’s (Susan Alexander) opera, while at the same time firing the person who wrote the review.
Deep focus shots were also a result of in-camera effects. This technique is shown when Susan Alexander tries to commit suicide and Kane breaks into her room. While Kane breaks into the room the medicine bottle and spoon are in close-up in the foreground. The foreground was shot first with the background in the dark, and then this was reversed so the background was lit.
Welles and Toland often played around with lighting during the film. They often shaded characters faces when they were ashamed, or something bad was to occur. This is shown when Kane’s wife discovers he is having an affair and her face remains in shadow. Another incident is when Kane talks about having an “honest paper,” his face is shadowed indicating that this idea will end badly. Welles also keeps the newspaper reporter’s face shadowed the entire time, indicating that Welles want him to remain anonymous, for he is not relevant in Kane’s life.
If any of you intend on watching any of the films I write about I recommend you see “Citizen Kane,” if you have not already done so.

Hey Guys!

I'm at UMass and it's super fun! But it's really, really hot. I only brought jeans so I'm dying. I got my MacBook yesterday, but I can't use it here because the rooms don't lock and my mom is really afraid it's going to get stolen.

I just signed up for classes! I'm taking French, Linguistics, Writing, Astronomy, and Psychology. I'm really excited. It sucks though because you can only take art classes if you're an art major.

I don't have to go to lunch until 11:45 and I finished signing up for classes really early so I don't have anything to do. I could go to my room and pack, but there is no air conditioning there.

Yay for college!

-Mo

"After all war is war," Ayer Film Post #2

All Quiet in the Western Front (1930), directed by Lewis Mileston
Synopsis: The film follows a group of young soldiers, whom have just been told by their schoolmaster to forget everything they thought they were going to be, for they are now going to fight for their country in World War I. The film is shown through a vey anti-war point of view, and for this the film was banned from the country mobilizing war. The film shows the horrific, but realistic events of the war (of which some people were not quite ready to see).

My thoughts: While watching the movie I immediately thought to the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est,” by Wilford Owen. The film incorporated all of the horrors that war brings into this one film.
- There was the haunting speech by the schoolmaster, telling his pupils to give up their lives for war.
- The horror of killing another man for the first time.
-The overcrowded hospitals, of which soldiers end up being ignored and their possessions are stolen, for they are seen as already dead.
-Losing a best friend in the war.

I was quite shocked as to how much I enjoyed it. Crankyman recommended it me and I just though “Great… a war film made in the 1930’s, how boring,” but it in all honesty it is now my all time favorite war film. I found the battle scenes intruding, for the audience just sees the battle in neat aerial shot and that is all, which makes these battles seem more believable than those in films like “Saving Private Ryan,” were there is just too many distractions; between conversations, explosions everywhere, multiple different characters dying, but Mileston just shoots a battle, without these distractions.
I also decide how much I like a film based on how much of it I remember a few weeks later, and I remember multiple remarkable scenes. My favorites include:
-The speech by the schoolmaster telling his students to enlist
-When the soldiers face the first death in their group. It is a gruesome scene of a soldier being blinded, and soldiers realizing for the first time not all of them are going to live.
-When the main character Paul Ayer is trapped in shell crater with a soldier he killed. He has a one-sided conversation with the dead body and he says “If we threw away these uniforms we would be brothers.”
-Haunting scenes in the hospital when soldiers are taken to the “Dying Room.” (Hospitals are certainly not portrayed as a safe place in the film; they seem to be just as dangerous as the war outside).
-When Paul arrives home and visits his old schoolmaster. The schoolmaster wants Paul to tell his new class about how great war is, but Paul is unable to do it
-Paul goes back to war and meets up with his friend Kat. Kat hurts his leg, so Paul carries him on his back. However Kat gets shot in the neck, but Paul does not realize this and Paul continues to carry him and talk to him. (I have never cried during a movie, but this scene was the closest I have gotten to shedding a tear during a movie).
-The last scene of the movie when Paul reaches for a butterfly, but is shot when doing so. Since butterflies are a creature that sometimes symbolize freedom, this scene shows that Paul was never able gain freedom from the war. This scene is one the most famous endings in the history of film.


NOTE: I will start talking about trends once I write about films in the sixites

film post #1

Film project post:

A while back a posted a short little rant on Atonement not winning “Best picture” at the Academy Awards. I was ranting because the academy does not necessary pick the “best,” movie, but rather the movie that fits their personal interests, a movie that falls under a certain trend. Since the sixties we have seen how the academy’s taste in films has changed drastically. During the sixties nothing could beat a musical, the seventies were all about crime flicks, the academy had a soft spot for biographical films in the eighties, and then movies that were romantic and inspirational (or sometimes had a corny message) won in the nineties. Now in 2008 the Academy has fallen into another trend. The Departed won last year, and now the winner is No Country for Old men. Not everyone agrees with these films winning the award, however both are very similar, indicating that the Academy once again has a desire for a certain type of film (crime thrillers).

So with this said for the next week (maybe two) I will post my thoughts on the films that I have watched, and discuss how they are similar to the other films that have also won Best Picture in that same decade.


I hope everyone wasn’t too miserable at Senior Assembly
Have a fabulous time at the Banquet
LC
I guess Ms. West does kind of like me…weird

and summer begins

I just doubled my bank account within the past two weeks of work.

I served lobster to 1500 people at Harvard Square, it was crazy. Smart people ask a lot of questions, and I felt super intelligent being able to answer them. I also never realized how beautiful Harvard Square is.

Back to my paper
Sorry it's coming in so late Cranky Man
I do nothing but work


Have a fabulous night

LC

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Somebody PLEASE explain to me how to write on an Adobe Acrobat form. I am about to throw my computer out the window.

mo

J'ai la cafard!

Today sucks. I finished my French exam at 8:20. I can't be picked up until 9:00 at the earliest but it will probably be around 9:30. All the computers in the library are being used. Thank God for Crankyman and his COWS. I really hate not having a car. It's destroying me. I wish you could have pocket cars, for emergencies. You would just pull it out of your pocket and push a little button and Voila! insta-car! Too bad we don't live in a Sci-fi world.

The good thing about today is that I am officially done with any brain-related high school activites. Hooray!

Yesterday I played GTA IV for a good part of my day. I love that game, but I really suck. I had to have my brother help me beat a really rudimentary mission. Then I shot up the strip club and drove around like a madman until the car blew up.

I think I hairline fractured my thumb.

Another thing I did yesterday was watch Shrek the Third two times. It's really good. I'll probably watch it again today.

I think I'm going to Boston tomorrow! The best part is that my mom is taking me. That means she'll buy everything! Yippee!

I love these boys:

almost there

Mr.O has clinched the Democratic nomination

This means...e

One step closer for
Mr.O
and
Mr.RO

Have a fabulous night
LC

senior memory: LC-And-MO

Nobody is answering their phone, I am freaking out. I feel like something bad happened.

I had the Latin final. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh man that test was funny, I am prediciting a 32. I did bring my lawn chair, pillow, and towel....so I was quite relazxed.


So I recently I have gone from not going to miss anything, to missing the chair in the corner of my living room.

I am going to miss MO, I am sad.

Have a fabulous time taking finals?
LC

Oh, Baby Why You Wait So Long?

Today was the worst, most boring day of work ever. And it felt like I was there for five days straight.

Next week is my orientation! Papayas!

I finished my art project. It started out looking really good, but the more I added the worse it got. Too bad.

Yesterday was the last day of my last high school play, and that's really sad.

I painted my left toenails and fingernails blue, but then I got bored, so my right side is blank. I look like an idiot.

Mo