Thursday, January 29, 2009

Quick on the Draw

So today in my Intro to Film class we were talking about International Film, and the TA decided to make a point about subtitles vs. dubbing. To do so, he showed us a clip from The Simpsons, then showed us the same clip again, this time with English subtitles and dubbed over in a language he didn't think anyone would understand. You guessed it. Czech.
After the clip was finished, he made fun of not only the dubbing, but the language, and instructed the class to laugh at anyone they ever heard speaking Czech.
What I said: Hey! No Czech jokes!
What I wish I had said- Hele! Nemluv takhle o Cestine, ja te ZABIJU!!
Translation: Hey! Don't talk about Czech that way or I'll kill you!
So yeah, I've just gotta be quicker on the draw.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Funny Story

Okay so last night I was trying to watch a movie when all of my roommates' really really loud friends came over, so I retreated to my roommates' room to watch it on her computer. We were trying to get it working when we overheard this conversation:
Guy: I'll give you a hundred million pesos if you can name the person on this bill.
Girl: I don't know, who is it?
Guy: Only the most famous Mexican in the whole world!
Girl: I'm an idiot, I really don't know.
Guy: Fidel Castro!
Amanda and I just stared at each other. Even for BS, that's pretty bad.
Amanda and me in unison: FIDEL CASTRO IS CUBAN!!
Guy: Oh...

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Four Things


1) Four Places I go over and over:
The HFAC (Theatre Building), the library, the Wilk, the grocery store

2) Four people who email me regularly:
Mike, BYU, Kvasnickovi, the MTC

3)Four of my favorite places to eat: Carabbas, Olive Garden, Arby's, Little Ceasar's

4)Four places I would rather be right now: Czech Republic, Hawaii, home reading a fun book, at a movie theater

5)Four people I tag: Anyone who hasn't done this already

6) Four TV shows I watch: House, What Not to Wear, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Charmed

Thursday, January 8, 2009

New Semester

Okay so the play went off fantastically, even some of the family got to see it, so that was great fun. I was home for Christmas, which was fantastic until New Years Eve when I became deathly ill, and stayed that way until I got back up here to Provo on the 5th. But Momma was very nice to me, let me have drugs whenever I wanted and didn't shoot me when I asked her to.
I just want to say that I pity everyone who was not a theater major in college. Do you realize that i watch movies for my classes? For my intro to film class this week we watched two films, one called "The Man who Planted Trees" which was awesome, and the second was "On the Waterfront" with Marlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint, which is one of my all-time favorite films anyway. For my Narratives class we have to read a play and watch a movie every week, so this week we watched "The Sting" with Robert Redford and Paul Newman, which was a whole heck of a lot of fun, and read "The Importance of Being Earnest", which was also awesome. And I just keep thinking, Am I really getting credit for this? This is, what? Homework? Hey man if this is torture chain me to the wall!
I'm also not doing a play at the present time, so I spend a lot of time hanging out with my roommates and friends, two nights ago we watched Hitch with a bunch of people from the apartment complex, last night we watched a movie and a half and ate pizza, and tonight I'm having over a lot of mission buddies for homemade pizza. So basically I'm just having more fun than ought to be legal, I think.