Look up, Kid - Day 66

Hi everyone. After a sleepy filled Sunday I decided that since there's not much else I can do I should probably give you guys some content to look at. I've actually been getting a lot of kind words about my blog and its really motivating me to come up with stuff to write about. I tried to come up with a list of my Top 10 movies, but I could only think of seven that I really consider to be my favorite movies, so I'll just put them and write about them. I also used to post a lot of music, and I stopped doing that, so here's a few songs of varying category. EDIT: YouTube embedding sucks because YouTube sucks so I'm just going to have to post links :\

Rap

The happiest EDM song you'll ever hear

Modest Mouse (I can't stop listening to this song)

Pretty Lights (Saw him last week, enjoyed this song thoroughly)

That's probably good enough for now. On to movies!


TOP 7 (In no order)


Jeff, Who Lives at Home

I just saw this movie on Wednesday, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. The movie is a comedy with a bit of dark humor that deals with cosmic destiny and the "everything happens for a reason" mentality. The movie also has some surprisingly emotional moments with lots of "life sucks" moments that you are sure to relate to because you too live an underwhelming life!




The Living Wake

An older favorite I first watched a couple summers ago on Hulu. As some of you may know, my favorite actor is Jesse Eisenberg, and this movie is one of the reasons why. The movie is about a man who finds he is to die on a specific day and so he holds his own wake while he is alive. The movie is light-hearted, humorous, musical, and at times dark. There are very many quotable lines and easy to love characters, and I would highly recommend this movie.




Poetry

Poetry is a korean movie that is so fucking good. The movie's central character is an old woman battling Alzheimer's who begins to take a poetry class. The movie has many themes and subjects, and they are honestly hard to put into words. The movie is definitely takes its time, and at 2 hrs and 20 mins that may be a deterrent to some, but please trust me when I say that at the end you will not regret it at all. The movie is haunting, deep, and of course poetic. I give this movie all of my praise. If you like well thought movies, or if you just like korean people, this is definitely worth looking at.




Adventureland

A movie that a lot of you probably already know, this is one of my all time favorites. I'm a pretty big sucker for a good teenager movie, and this is my personal favorite. Taking place in the 80's, Adventureland details the teenage romance of two amusement park workers. I really love everything about this movie. There isn't too much to say, it is what it is. Hopefully if you haven't seen this movie you'll like it as much as I do.




God Bless America

This movie was just released on Netflix, and if you haven't seen it, I would suggest you do so. This movie follows a middle aged man who decides that before ending his typical american middle class failure life, he wants to go on a killing spree murdering people that he believes to be detrimental to society as a whole. This includes mostly TV personalities, but also includes all those annoying people we run into day to day. This movie is a dark comedy, which is just my kind of movie. I loved this movie so much when I watched it. So much.




Humboldt County

A film about a med student who is failed by the head of the department, his father. He is then whisked away to a remote plot of land, on which the owners grow pot. The movie is about his journey to discover what his priorities in life really are. While weed is a primary subject of the movie, it is in no way a stoner movie. Watch this movie if you enjoy counter culture and the idea that there are many ways a person can live and be fulfilled.




Leaves of Grass

Edward Norton plays two twin brothers, one a classics professor at a prestigious university, the other a small time pot grower in a small hick town in Oklahoma. Leaves of Grass is a very philosophical movie and one of my favorite movie scenes is from this movie. I really need to rewatch this movie, because I can't think of anything else to write about it, but its really good!




Zombieland

Zombies. I love zombies. And Jesse Eisenberg. I could watch this movie forever. Sometimes I'm not sure why I enjoy it so much, but I really do. Most people have heard of/seen this movie, and its just a zombie movie anyway, so I'm not going to say anything about it.




Anyway, that's it. Seven of my favorite movies. If you want to check them out, please look them up on rotten tomatoes or imdb or something, my blurbs do not do them justice!




Anyway, I guess I'll talk a bit now. I've been in Springfield for the weekend and I actually feel like I wasted a lot of the weekend, but I also had a lot of fun with some people I haven't seen in a while, so it was nice. I also really wish money wasn't a thing, because I hate having to always worry about it.


That's all for today.


Marcus