couple of thoughts for the day.
another successful 24th of july fireworks show. no cops. and! griff and i jimmy rigged what i bought to set off 8 of the big fireworks (some single some multi shot) to all go off at once. it was a great finale!
aside from that i've been thinking about my friendship ring and how it seems to go through waves of changes depending on what i'm doing with school or work, etc., and also just in general as I get older and grow up. granted i still have my core set of friends like griff, stacey, jules, mel, and ben who i can go days, weeks, or sometimes months (years in the case of griff) without seeing or hanging out with and we just pick up where we left off. i like those kinds of friends. i sometimes get frustrated with people when they say "why are you never around anymore?" "are you ditching us?" blah blah blah. jr. high crap like that. the fact of the matter is right now with a new job, two shows to prepare for, and a new semester of 18 credits to look forward to in the fall, my "me" time is precious because there's not much of it.
i'm really starting to realize who my real friends are. i like that. i'm finding out more and more that as much as i have the characteristics of an extrovert, i'm really an introvert in disguise who would much rather have five or six close friends rather than 20 "friends."
ok and now to the point of the friend thing. i see one of my friends as a huge extrovert, and this person has many different friendship circles, but i see people who are trying to be their friend getting upset because the friendship is more of a "when it is convenient for them" kind of thing. i sometimes wonder if in the past i've done this to my own friends, and i'm 100% sure the answer is yes. it sure is a mean thing to do. and i'm going to work on it, just as i hope my friend works on it as well. wow, those last few paragraphs would be great for a drinking game. a shot for every time the word "friend" is used.
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i'm really excited for this job to begin. tomorrow i'm going to go and fill out the official paperwork to be an employee. i'm also being "briefed" to be brought up to speed on the way the office works, what's expected of me, and then i'll just take off from there. yes, the actual show i will be helping to produce is quite cheesy. google: byu broadcasting living essentials. that will be my project for the next few months as we are preparing to shoot the next 12 episodes. (i'm in charge of 6.) i will do my best to take as much cheese out of the programs as possible, but also as I have learned from doing byu speeches, the crowd for day time kbyu programming is the demographic of older people with nothing better to do. so some of the cheese is a necessary part of the programming.
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i went boating with jules and her family down at utah lake today. every time i get in the water i never want to leave. there's nothing better than cruising around in the boat, during the hot summer months, having tube wars. california would definitely be a great place for me to live someday. hopefully i'll have a nice job so i can buy a nice house with enough rooms for all my family to come and stay and visit. depends on what life has in store for me after i graduate in a few years.
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i was talking to jon about this the other day. i think it's a decent discussion to have just to see what others' responses are. okay...the question is:
do you think there is a difference between an r rated book and an r rated movie?
i don't feel like i can accurately answer this question because i don't read for pleasure. haha. i don't read books at all actually. i try. that's a post for another day. so i'd like other's opinion on the question as stated above.
25 July 2007
a few thoughts that have been in my head
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My response, you might wonder? The consensus by me was that you have to be careful EVERYWHERE--there are books that are every bit as pornographic as a movie that you might watch. However, there's just something different about reading the words of, say, a violent encounter and watching them on screen. Eyes and ears are sensitive sensation gatherers.
Drinking games, huh? What were you doing last night? ;)
not drinking! but lighting off the most AMAZING fireworks. seriously. i one up-ed myself this year. it was a great show.
You know my opinion about r-rated movies..if there's anything in the film that gives it that rating, i just know it's too heavy for my memory bank. aka I will remember only the yuckiest parts and it will be VIVID in my mind for days and years afterwards. Therefore, I just know to steer clear, for MY sake.
Interestingly enough, I differ a little from starmaster in that when something is IN PRINT, then the WORDS ARE IMPLANTED IN MY BRAIN IN BOLD CASE, to be brought back, say, when i'm trying to go to sleep or just have a moment of chilling or something. dang that photographic memory. So it's just as bad for me, in most cases.
I actually think when I became an "un-book reader" was when I realized how yucky lots and lots and lots of books are. Who knew they weren't all wholesome and "Anne of Green Gables"-like.
So yeah, it's g-rated michelle, in books and movies. sorry.
A side note: I realize that some things in life are just HEAVY...take schindler's list for example. some would say that lessening the heaviness/sick in the pit of your stomachness would trivialize the circumstances. I am very aware of that, and I'm not saying that by avoiding all of the r-rated stuff I'm trying to pretend that things like that didn't happen. i think I just experience very heavily already the history book version..I have been very disturbed by reading quite g-rated material...i don't necessarily need the EVEN MORE GRAPHIC version to drive home the point to me. I hope that makes sense.
Okay and one final note. There is just so much GOOD entertainment out there. GOOD movies, GOOD books, GOOD TV...why would we ever want to waste time on the other stuff? (yes, I think Survivor is good tv. so I know this paragraph has NO clout.)
You have a photographic memory, Michelle? Holy crap I didn't know that. Why didn't I get some of that action? So can you repeat, word for word, a page of text?
maybe a paragraph. but only if it's vulgar, apparently from my earlier post. ;)
it's how I memorized all that music, I think. I would just have nightmares because parts of the page would be blank right when I needed it. so it's not what you would call reliable. :)
Brandon here...
The real question: Do words or pictures have more impact? I'll answer with a cliche axiom, pictures speak a thousand words.
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