sieben: all done.

I would briefly like to say that it seems insane to me that it is already the end of the quarter. thank jc the school year is 1/4 of the way done! I don't know what other people's movie going habits are, but given my time limit and an extreme limitation on cash flow to do this big economy thing, I haven't seen very many movies in the theater lately. I'm more of a Netflix fan. But last weekend I went saw Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist with my parents. On the awkward scale, between Troy with my dad and Gossip Girl with my mom. Extremely good though! Amazingly musical soundtrack, obviously. Good acting, Michael Cera can get me pregnant anytime and Kat Dennings is no slump herself. That plus some surprisingly disgusting moments made it joyful fun for the whole family. Unfortunately, like most of this particular genre, the movie cannot measure up to the book. Their are certain aspects of literature that generally cannot be captured in cinema. The characters thoughts, which are especially important in this book. The wit of Norah and Nick's constant word battles, though they are obviously heard in the movie, it seems more easier to understand when actually written on a page. True it is nice to hear the actual playlist for a story called 'Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist', but in the book the authors actually gives a nice list of songs which could accompany their book. I'll admit, I haven't gotten all the way through the book but I can already tell it's a winner. No obnoxious preppy heroines who complain about their tragic lives even though their rich and meet societies ideals and undoubtedly get the boy of their dreams in the end. Not even the cool kind that have drug problems and become homeless children, because that does get old in the end. No faux-horror element that makes 'average teens' feel like they're going all emo cool because they read a book about say, i don't know, a girl who falls in love with a vampire and a werewolf and the whole premise is her choosing one or the other. So all in all, a very good start. One of the other things I love is the stlye and literary technique in which it is written (ha)! It's done from the switching off point of view of heroine and hero, in this case Nick and Norah. Nick's writing is always more poetic and makes good use of alliteration and rhyming. 'I am puncctuating and I am puncturing and I am punching the air with my body as my fingers press hard into the chords. Sweat, malice, and hunger pour from me. This is release, or maybe it's just a plea for cease.' A little melodramatic, but overall just beautiful. Then Norah takes on a whole different style. ' I'm not that girl who randomly meets a guy one night and has her life change. i wear cords and flannel shirts. I don't have the killer body like Tris or Caroline. Sometimes I don't wash my hair for three days and sometimes I don't floss. What's this Nick guy doing here with me?' I love that she's so insecure, but she wouldn't whine to her friends because she's too busy taking care of their self-centered problems and she wouldn't tell Nick because she's too busy pretending she doesn't care about him. It's also funny because I get the feeling Nick would die if he didn't wash his hair and comb it every day, just the way he likes it. I think opposites only attract in science. But I guess we'll both have to read the rest and find out! wooh. 

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist-Rachel Cohn & David Levithan