Here comes a lion, father..

The moment Chandler babysits his duck while it's swimming in the bathtub.. is the moment I want to hold up season three of Friends and go: NAAAAAANTS INGONYAAAAAAMA BAGITHI BABA!

Ambition for: September

I want to finish:

* Castle, season 3
* Max Payne/Bodyguard/Primal Fear

I'd like these to be our picks for the Chocolatebunnymovieclub this month:

* Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
* The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

And finally, I want to watch:

* Snatch
* Mirror Mirror
* Chances Are
* Only You 
* Strictly Ballroom

Home

I would like to preface this post by stating that I in fact AM adventurous when I travel and that I often do cool things like.. well, I'm blanking now, but [insert "cool things that one does when one is all alone in a city where one doesn't know anyone" here]. Now, keep that image of me doing those cool things in your mind, while you read on..

I just feel so at ease in the cinema. And that was my saving grace on Wednesday when I went to Umeå to take part in some introductory shenanigans at the university. I felt uneasy, tired and hungry the entire day but when I finally got to make myself comfortable in one of those red familiar chairs, I immediately relaxed. Unclenched my jaw. Almost fell asleep. Those 12 years I spent working at (and watching close to every movie we showed) our local movie theater must have conditioned me like one of Pavlov's dogs! Not that I'm complaining..

My nirvana

OTIFHCILTB (One True Inspiration For How Carefree I'd Like To Be)

 Solo: [carefully places himself on a sofa, upon realizing he's been drugged]

Victoria: What are you doing?

Solo: I've been here before and last time I fell rather badly and hurt my head..

The Man from U.N.C.L.E

In the spotlight: August

First, I turned 31 and due to the stress of having to finish my summer course (the gods of Olympus) I couldn't really enjoy it. Upon completion I was left semi-scarred and stressed out (almost to the point of twitching every time I heard the word "Aphrodite" (still do)). Then, I got in some weird downsizing mood and did nothing but clean out stuff and watch movies until I was hit with the mother of all movie hangovers (i.e I wanted to watch everything/nothing, all at the same time). Finally, at the end of the month, everything turned around when I learned that I'd been accepted into university! Yaay! (also, credit goes to Inside Out, for bringing me out of my movie slump)

Inside out
This was amazing. Amazingly amazing. I'm gonna watch it in the cinema again on Saturday.    

Schindler's List
I felt the tears building up like a wave until I was struck with an explosive cry-attack that left even me stunned. You know, the kind where you have to laugh at yourself because you're crying/howling for 10 minutes?

The Age of Adaline
Oh, Blake Lively. How you impress me! <3

The Man from U.N.C.L.E
This was surprisingly good! The story itself wasn't really my cup of tea but the way it was shot/the humor/the acting really made up for it.


I was also able to check these off from my challenging 2015 list this month:

A movie with a one-word title: Avatar
A movie longer than 3 hours: Schindler's List 
A mystery or a thriller: Skyfall

Miguel; my spirit animal..

 

Miguel: We'll follow that trail!

Tulio: What trail?

Miguel: [chopping at vines with sword] The trail that we blaze! 

[the vines fall down revealing a solid wall of rock] 

[long pause]

Miguel: [pointing in another direction] THAT trail that we blaze... 

The Road to El Dorado

Movie night: The Man from U.N.C.L.E

My sister Julia picked me up, we drove for an hour, picked up our friend Mattias and then headed for the beach to meet our sister Sara and her fiancé Henrik. It's been unusually warm in the north of Sweden this week, but it still drops back to normal temperatures at night (around +5ºC). Consequently, the water was freezing.

After some pizza, we watched The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Henrik and Sara were THIS excited for the movie:

I really liked it! I felt like the plot was a little too confusing and predictable, but the acting/way it was told, more than made up for it. Sara + Julia really loved it and Julia even went as far as naming it one of her "all time top 10". 

Currently watching, yo!

Phu! I'm finally done with my exam and the aftermath of it (i.e stress-related anxiety). Just in time for the first (and probably only) heatwave this summer! This does not mean I watch less movies, however, just that I watch them at night:

* Castle, season 2 (starting season 3 very soon)
* The Man from U.N.C.L.E (in the cinema tomorrow)
* Schindler's List (a Chocolatebunnymovieclub pick.. I'm NOT excited!)
* The Bodyguard/Primal Fear/Max Payne  - I'm sort of halfway through all of them..

R.I.P brain

I'm taking a course in classical mythology this summer. Why did I choose this? WHY? It's about equal parts interesting/frustrating/like reading Tolkien. Don't tell me Hesiod, Homer, Herodotus, Hera, Hermes, Hades, Hephaestus, Hector, Harmonia and Heracles couldn't just as easily be characters from The Lord of the Rings?! How am I supposed to memorize this?  

I'm taking the test on Friday. When I'm done with it, I'm: 1) Sleeping for a week 2) never again reading anything that requires me to learn the names in both English AND Swedish and 3) never ever watching the movie Troy. EVER.

Ambition for: August

Even though I might have developed an allergy to grass this summer, I'm thankful for it! So much so, that I'm determined to go swimming at least once before it gets too cold. It's a little unclear how catching a cold will help pay homage to this summer but I just want one swim outside really, so I'm going with it. Here are some other things I want to do/watch this month:

* Watch Funny Face
* Finish my summer course
* Pick raspberries, cloudberries, blueberries and bake something using rhubarbs
* Rewatch season two of Elementary
* Celebrate my 31th birthday
* Watch something starring Gregory Peck
* Spend at least one day by the sea
* Take the canoe out on a stream somewhere
* Watch Crossroads (2002) with my mom and Julia
* Clean out my parents' garage
* Cook with more variation
* Watch Paper Towns in the cinema