daniel craig, hugh jackman, gerard butler

I would make out with any of these guys in a second. Can you tell my type? haha. Anyway, that comes from an ongoing convo I've been having w/ a guy friend of mine, and I watched Wolverine and Quantum of Solace this weekend.

ready for boise

I'm SOOOO ready to go to Boise and eat Colette food and watch Bollywood and get away from school and some recent drama. Thanksgivings recently seem to be rather cathartic.

Water 3+ years later.

Little did I realize when I watched Krrish 7 months ago that it was in fact not the first Hindi movie I'd seen. I don't say Bollywood b/c Water, the movie I rewatched tonight after 3+ years at International Cinema is not Bollywood, but is still in Hindi.

Sarah and I had a mad summer attending many indie films at the Ross Theatre back home in Lincoln once upon a time. The summer was of 2006 and we experienced John Abraham and little Chuhiya together. We were blown away, by the themes, the story, the acting and of course, John Abraham.

Three years later I am still v. impressed, but like the movie for much different reasons. I will say that the acting is much shallower than I'd originally thought, but the story overall seemed a little rushed, or rather short for a Hindi film, so that might have had something to do with it. I could swear the announcer at IC said it was 170 minutes, which isn't far fetched for a Hindi film, but it ended after two hours!! I couldn't exactly remember what all happened, but all the sudden we're chasing Gandhi's train and it's over!!

Anyway, so yeah. Now that I've seen John in other things, I'm not a huge fan, mainly b/c he's too hairless and musclebound, but even though we had to believe in the "falling for a girl merely b/c she's beautiful and pious" schpiel, I still found him endearing, and loved his dhotis.

Meanwhile I'm pretty sure (I'm too lazy to imdb right now) that the music was done by the same guy who did Jodhaa Akbar and Slumdog. I don't remember what I thought of the music when I first watched Water but I sure liked it this time.

Before Water I watched 2 1/2 hours of Army of Shadows, in French about resistance in France during WWII. It was labeled War Noir or something. I wasn't blown away, but it wasn't bad, although those I watched it with labeled it as the worst movie they'd ever seen. They've never experienced Brazilian realism, or whatever wacked out Italian movie Genevieve and I watched last year.

Winter '10 Sched

BYU's started this new thing where we don't use add/drop cards anymore. It used to be you got an official piece of paper that you'd fill out and have your prof sign for upper level and special classes, or when a class was full but they let you add it anyway. This worked great for me b/c Janet could basically sign off on all of my classes then I'd just turn it in. Now we have to enter codes online after we email/talk to our teachers to get them. However, many teachers are having trouble actually getting their codes. They've also added this other deal that upper level classes, that could once be registered for online, now need 'departmental approval' which is basically emailing your teacher to get on the role, then actually being added once classes start.

All this being said I'm only signed up for one class for next Winter so far, World Religions, for which I'm STOKED. My other classes will include...

Advanced Costume Design
TMA 396 (Theory and Lit or something)
History of Eastern Costume
Jewelry and Armor
Blood Wedding

V. busy, but full of loveliness. If you didn't figure it out, that's all theatre classes but one, and Blood Wedding is a lot of work, but not actually a set time, although I will need to spend certain amounts of hours in the shop. This is the last year w/ our grad students, so even though I was planning on taking intermediate make up I'm foregoing it until next year to take the Costume History AND Jewelry/Armor class. The second block of the semester I'll also have a 1 credit London prep class, to prep me for London.

Exited, I think so.

Of horror flicks and commercial shoots.

So on Friday I went to Dark Water w/ Genevieve, her friend Ben and my friend John. fun was had by all. The movie was ridiculously scary in a very Japanese way. John and I were scared out of our minds. Genevieve and Ben stayed for Ringu, John and I got gelatto.

On Saturday!!! I wardrobe supervised a commercial shoot!! The commercial had Israelis and Palestinians and was shot at a run down mill south of Eureka. It was amazingly awesome!! This being my first time on a set I was nervous, but it was really the best possible first experience. Since there was fighting and guns and explosions involved the worse the costumes looked the better. All I did was give them their costumes (the director got everything together) and then rub professional dirt on their face and spray them w/ glycerin water (it doesn't evaportate so it looks like sweat). I drove down at 7 am and drove away at 7pm. I got home at 8 then struck the opera at 9. Fun times!!!

Halloween this Saturday. I'm going on a temple trip to Manti then making chili, then going to a scary Swedish vampire movie (Let the Right One In) with John. Friday night is a tri-ward ice skating/hockey activity. Hopefully I won't bash my head open like I did the last time.

I haven't watched a Hindi movie for over a month I think. Ug classes!!!

I've updated fashionephemera w/ some of my recent projects.

Midterms!! Technically none of my classes really have midterms, but projects have piled up this week.

Genevieve and I still haven't watched New York. We're planning on watching it tonight, but I don't know if I can in good conscience w/ all the homework I have.

Genevieve and I went to Psycho at the International Cinema last Saturday. I'm in love w/ Norman Bates. He is so ridiculously attractive and endearing, it isn't fair. Needless to say I screamed my head off. Fun was had by all.

Friday night I'm going w/ some friends to IC to watch Japanese horror films Dark Water and Ringu. So scary!!!

The week before my birthday IC is showing Straight from the Heart w/ Salman, Ajay, and Aishwarya. I'm stoked and am planning a party.

Time to go to work!! Since the opera's running and we're super productive w/ Children of Eden there is very little to do.

OPERA

Instead of being at work right now, I've been trying to do my homework, and it's done...for the most part.
Last night was the first dress rehearsal for Tales of Hoffman, our fall opera. I think in all it has around 60 cast members, which is unheard of. Last year Don Giovanni had maybe 30, as did Millie. Also last year, Don Giovanni's first dress went pretty badly. The performers were hard to train to be theatre people and the rehearsal started an hour late and went on forever. I didn't have high hopes for this year's opera and was gearing up for a long night. Said night started at 5 for me (I'd already worked 2 hours yesterday morning to get ready for it). The performers (I'd say actors, but they're not, they're vocal performers for the most part) were to arrive at 5.30, but most didn't get there until 6 or so. However, I was pleasantly surprised when the show started around 7.20, when 7 was our goal, not bad. The show ran smoothly, there were many many stops, but all in all no costume disasters. Even though the show is projected to run 2.5 hours, somehow it stretched until a quarter to midnight. Huh...
All in all the performers were pretty great and my dressers were fantastic. I can't really give an opinion on the opera in general b/c I didn't really watch it, and had no idea what was happening, but it sure looked great.
I got home a little after midnight and was in bed by one. I didn't do any homework yesterday and since I can't go over 20/week for work I opted out of working today so I could do my homework. Tonight I'll do makeup hours for the opera from 6-8, then I have a production meeting from 8-11. How excited!!
I'm most excited for the Hoffman potluck at work this Friday, with French food!!