When I started this blog, I made a promise to myself to never let my posts to degenerate into schizophrenic lists of random miscellania. But alas, I realized it was a futile limitation as there are so many debatedly trivial details in my life that deserve a mention but not 500 words of mention. The Hit List is my flighty recap of (brilliant) highlights and (sultry) lowlights of my life.
As Levine's Spectrum article so cheesily but accurately reminded me, high school is about hanging out with your friends. And what better place to hang out with your friends than at Spectrum layout? So layout was amazingly fun and even more amazingly, it was efficient. During certain times at layout, the estrogen level spiked and the (very small) male population became visibly annoyed, but what do we care? SPECTRUM RULES!
After layout, we got some food at Sorrento's--an impossibly good and impossibly greasy chicken fajita--and crashed Maya's place for our second weekly Friday Night Dinner. Gossip was spewed and dirt was dished as the DVD player refused to work for us despite incessant bribing. It ended up more like a therapy session than a dinner, but I guess that's...therapeutic? Still way better than sitting at home with homework.
There is nothing more annoying than being forced to watch a hated commercial over and over again. This usually happens when I try to watch a some sports and end up seeing Maria Sharapova relentlessly mugging the screen with her Canon camera in a short pink skirt. My usually active annoyance toward ads makes it all the more remarkable that I have watched Wes Anderson's AmEx Commercial at least 20 times in the last 3 weeks. The ad is rife with insider jokes and references to Truffaut's Day for Night (I won't pretend I picked up any of that until somewhere around the 10th time), and Wes Anderson is utterably..um adorable? Anderson's signature is all over the ad--and not just because his real signature appears at the end. The blogsphere, being hip, has drooled all over Anderson's commercial, but anyone unfamiliar with his style will merely be perplexed for 2 minutes. Perhaps that is the charm of Wes Anderson.
Speaking of Anderson, his The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou writing buddy Noah Baumbach is pretty cool too. Kicking and Screaming is coming out on Criterion and I'm tracking down a copy of The Squid and the Whale. Anderson and Baumbach would make a nice intellectual threesome, no?
Who says downloading illegal software of seedy websites is bad? That's how I discovered DVD Shrink--the fast and easy way to rip DVDs. Of course, being an utterly moral person, I do not plan to use this powerful resource for anything other than my own personal amusement. The first thing I ripped was Band of Outsider's jazzy opening sequence. See? No commercial motive at all.
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