I don't know if I was immediately smitten with Whip It tonight simply because it opened with Knocked Up, the best Kings of Leon song ever (and one of my ALL TIME favorite songs), or if I fell head over heels in love with the film as soon as I saw Ellen Paige's blue hair. I do know that I am a sucker for good first impressions, and the film de-livered. More than that, it continued to deliver for the short 2 hours that followed.
I do have to say that the soundtrack carried the movie and kept me onboard, with music from the Kings of Leon, The Raveonettes, MGMT, The Ramones, Tilly and the Wall, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, PEACHES, The Ettes, and much much more.
Even if the soundtrack had sucked, the movie was funny and endearing enough on its own. The story of a passive girl who finds something that she truly loves enough to break out of her comfort zone is completely awesome. Girls need to have things they are passionate about that empower them, and it really was uplifting. I came home and hooped for an hour.
In other news:
-I went to the Brother Ali show on Friday, and had a blast. It was at In the Venue, which is small enough on its own, but apparently they were having two shows one the same night and so the bigger room was given to Coblie Callait, and the Brother Ali fans were stuck in the smaller room. It was alright because we had a fairly small crowd, so it just made it more intimate. Brother Ali did "Walking Away" which has significance to this part of my life. All in all, it was an epic night filled with dancing and drinking and singing and wandering through Temple Square at midnight. Wonderful.
-My house is clean. It feels so freeing to say that. I am going to say it again. My house is CLEAN!!!!
-I told my father about my failure to do the one and only thing I need to do right now. School. It felt good to get it off my chest, and have him validate me in some ways. But there are certain aspects of why I have failed that I can't tell him right now, and his disappointment in me is justified. I hate disappointing people. Especially my dad. I'm hoping that this break from school will end up being a good thing. I have some things I need to figure out, and though I hate my self-sabotaging ways, maybe this will enable said figuring out.
I think there is more, but I am not sure what it is right now.
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