Forcing myself to watch Twilight, part 2

This is late, but god damn it if I’m not putting it on my blog. Click here for the first entry in this blog series. I actually watched this movie back during the Christmas break and I tweeted my way through it. Here are those tweets. Hint: I didn’t like this one either.

Alright, starting up Twilight: New Moon for the first time. Let’s see how bad it is…

Wow, that was sure a gentle “shove” across the fucking room that Edward gave Bella. Matrix time and all.

Edward has actually been passable so far and I like how he just laughs at Bella’s fear of aging at age 18.

That’s her entire motivation. She wants to stay young because she thinks that Edward won’t love her otherwise. She has no other worthwhile..

..features about herself, at least in her own opinion. How fucking shallow can a writer be? A female writer at that! #antifeminism #twilight

The whole crux of this series is the shallowness, the entire lack of motivation behind any “love”/whatever. How can women over 15 like this?

Fuck yes, now Edward told her off for her own good. If the movies ended here, that would be fucking awesome! #twilight #newmoon

Is this when she goes into that debilitating depression and doesn’t want to live anymore?

Two books

Hi there. Been a while. Moving along.

I’ve started reading two books and I haven’t really gotten that far into them, but I still wanted to post a tidbit about them.

The first one is called Remainder by Tom McCarthy and it’s really got its own voice. I’ve never really read a book quite like it in how it talks directly to the reader in a more personal way, instead of just being a generic narrative. The voice of the novel reasons back and forth and tries to include the reader in almost casually conversational ways. It’s about a man who’s gotten a huge court settlement because he got a head injury in a vague accident and became semi-amnesiac. Supposedly he will start spending money to recreate memories, but I haven’t gotten that far yet. I really like it so far though.

The second one is a book that I started reading over a year ago. It’s Douglas Coupland’s The Gum Thief and I recently picked it back up again. I started reading it the last time before I started writing my English thesis paper, but I ended up writing about Coupland’s Generation X instead of The Gum Thief, so I put TGF away until now. It’s about two really cynical people, Roger and Bethany, who work at an office supply store and start communicating through a diary. Roger is older, pretty much a failure at life, while Bethany is young and intrigued by Roger’s experience. At least that’s what I’ve gleaned from it so far. As with Remainder, I haven’t gotten that far into The Gum Thief yet. But it’s written in Coupland’s signature, witty prose and the sarcasm is tangible on every page.

There, now I have a reason to write more about them when I’ve finished them. I’ve told myself that I should read more books this year, so hopefully this can get me going. I’m also working on updating the Top 300 Games list.

Forcing myself to watch Twilight, part 1

My nephew and his girlfriend has been telling me that I’m not allowed to whine about Twilight being piece of trash movies or books until I either watch or read them. It doesn’t matter if the general consensus of everything I’ve read about them is that both the movies and books suck ass in every conceivable way. So I’m watching the movies. I caught the first one, Twilight, yesterday. Just for fun I decided to tweet my reactions the whole way through. Here they are, all of them. Just click this post to expand it and see all of them.

Decided that I should watch Twilight and give it a shot. 6:28 in and I’m already annoyed by the horribly bad characterization. #twilight

Paused the movie, as soon as I got it going again, that annoying Asian dude actually said “chillax”. Kill him! #twilight

If you want to see GOOD characterization and amazing portrayal of alienation at school, watch Bang Bang You’re Dead w/ Ben Foster #twilight

Worthless fucking piece of trash movie, but I will endure. #twilight

Top 15 books

Just to get some content up here, I’m copying this from an old blog. It’s a list of my top fifteen favorite books. I made the list in June 2009 and it’s apparent to me now that I need to make a few changes, but that’s for another post.

1. Charles DeLint – Trader
2. Nick Hornby – High Fidelity
3. Max Brooks – World War Z
4. Henry Rollins – Black Coffee Blues
5. Douglas Coupland – Generation X
6. Henry Rollins – Smile You’re Traveling
7. Alice Sebold – Flickan från ovan (The Lovely Bones)
8. George Orwell – 1984
9. Philip K Dick – Minority Report (short story collection)
10. Douglas Adams – Liftarens guide till galaxen (The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy)
11. Elin Lindqvist – Tokyo Natt (Tokyo Night)
12. William Gibson – Neuromancer
13. Tracy Chevalier – Falling Angels
14. John Ajvide Lindqvist – Låt den rätte komma in (Let The Right One In)
15. Andreas Roman – När änglar dör (When Angels Die)

So this is a start. Let’s see where this can go. I still have a few things and thoughts to iron out, but I have a pretty good idea about what I want this to be.