Trailer: The Illusionist

Speaking of movies I love, I love this one. I just need to see it.

St. Trinian's - Official Trailer [HD]

Rupert Everett as a lady? Colin Firth as a scheming minister of education? Gemma Arterton as an emo? Russell Brand as . . . something? Everyone’s favorite rising British actress Talulah Riley (who I think looks like Anna Popplewell)?

I am a hopeless cinephile, and, in an effort to find good movies from the past decade that I might have missed, I came across a delightful movie called “St. Trinian’s.” Based on Ronald Searle’s cartoons, “St. Trinian’s” follows the doings of a dysfunctional school filled with less-than-rule-abiding girls.

Annabelle Fritton (Riley) is dumped at the school after her father secures a discounted tuition from the headmistress (Everett). She is quickly acquainted with the schools various cliques (Posh-totties, chavs, first-years, geeks, emos, etc.,). Although she despises the school at first and wants to leave, she eventually starts to fit in with the others as they band together to save their beloved school from being shut down after it is found to be heavily in debt. It sounds a little cliché, I know, but it really isn’t. Here’s why I loved the movie so much:

1) They weren’t a bunch of normal trouble-making schoolgirls. They wield explosives, cheat ingeniously at field hockey, learn useful Spanish phrases like “Honestly officer, I’ve never seen them. these aren’t my suitcases,” have a firing range for anger management, and plot an intricate heist.

2) The Soundtrack. It was just cool (especially the duet with Everett and Firth singing “Love is in the Air” 0_0). Go watch the movie and listen to all the songs to see what I mean.

3) It’s downright hilarious; I’m not going to explain how. Just watch the trailer.

4) It’s English, and I’m an anglophile.

5) Stephen Frye, Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Gemma Arterton, Lily Cole, Talulah Riley and that lady who plays Agatha Christie in that Dr. Who episode, “The Unicorn and the Wasp.” Enough said.

6) Colin Firth. I will automatically love ANY movie with Colin Firth (a.k.a. Mr. Darcy) in it.

Anyhoo, if you now feel inclined to watch it, do it now before someone removes it from Youtube. While you’re at it, watch “St. Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold,” which has David Tennant in it (Yay!). Also, they’re planning on making a third movie, and while you wait for it to come out, you can watch the original St. Trinian’s movies from the 50’s and 60’s.

Wow. I can’t believe I just wrote an entire post on this. I must really like this movie.

Bananas and Memories

Okay, so there are many little weird things from my childhood that I remember - watching the big multicolored "Face" on Nickelodeon, putting on a T-shirt by myself for the first time, playing with my Pound-Puppies play set, watching the "Pound-Puppies" tv show on Sunday morning, making an in-home mail service where all the cards were written by me (I gave up that tiresome venture after a few hours), and watching cotton candy clouds with my brother on Thanksgiving (or was it Christmas?) eve and noticing that one of them looked like Goofy - but I had completely, and mercifully, forgotten one little detail until less than ten minutes ago: bananas in pajamas. I can still hum the theme song from the commercial and it seems that the picture of two bananas (in pajamas!) walking down the stairs together is forever ingrained in my memory (pity me, please). It was weird. Not just the bananas, I mean. It was weird to suddenly remember something so trivial from the past; it makes me wonder what other amusing and completely inconsequential things are lurking in my brain just waiting for the right smell/google image search/song/feeling/sight to pull them to the light of conscious thought.

It also makes me wonder how long they'll be there. Will my mind one day bury them with other information? Will I one day form new associations that permanently replace the old memories from my childhood?

Speaking of new associations, I was Googling random things and ran across this delovely picture of two bananas dancing (the waltz of potassium) and just had to include it in my post.

One more thing - I was thinking about this blog and how I barely update it and how there's nothing much to update it with when I realized something. I realized that update-worthy stuff doesn't just happen most of the time; you have to make it happen, you have to see it in something normal-looking and show how it is interesting or turn it into something interesting.
All that to say, "I'll be updating more often now." Not that it really matters. I'm well aware that I'm the only person who reads this blog, but that's okay. :D

BTW, in case you haven't noticed, I like writing with long sentences. Blame Dickens and my occasional desire to be a grammatical rogue.