Netflix.

As I mentionned in my last post that I posted a few minutes ago, I was watching The Great Escape. I fucking love movies, so much so that I'm very intertested in persuing a career in them. Now I'm not too sure exactly what I want to do when I'm 'older', all I know is that I need to be around movies.

Like in Rocky when Rocky asks Mick for a job at the Gym and Mickey tells him that he'd lose his dignity letting rookie fighters watch someone Who almost beat the champion of the world carrying spit and Rock says ''I gotta be around it.''

See? I love movies...

So, it must be clear to you all that a movie-buff like myself MUST have a Netflix account, and you're right. I do. and I love it. Honestly I think Netflix is a fucking incredible service and anyone who complains about them not having a wide enough selection are full of shit! Just because Netflix doesn't have the movies YOUUUUU like, doesn't mean they don't have movies!! You should all broaden your horizons and watch the movies they DO have (which is a lot!).

I just realized that approximately 3 hours ago a put a TV dinner in the microwave for 4 minutes and completely forgot about it... fuck...

Back to the topic of films, I'm in college (or cegep for us canucks) and I'm in my second semester. My first semester was WASTED on a little program called ''pathways to business'' the fact that I wanted to be in that program in the first place makes me slightly nausious (?). I wanted to go into that program because I thought I'd be a good lawyer (which to be honest I probably would) but I don't think it would make me happy. Before that I tried to enter John Abbott College's ''Police Technology'' program but I failed that exam and I'm god damned glad I did! (I failed the physical testing, but not because I'm a fatty, I'm actually in rather good shape, I just didn't put in a single training session and I got massive cramps in the middle of the 400m swim) I guess it's because I just wasn't passionate about it. I knwo what you may be thinking and you're wrong, I didn't want to be a 'cop'. I wanted to be a forensic investigator.

Like Dexter Morgan in Showtime's hit show Dexter of which I am an avid watcher.

But it turns out that going through ''Police Tech'' was not the way to get that Job, I had tyo go through Sciences and there was no way I'd do that because I didn't have the best grades in High School Science. So I ended up turning to the one thing that has always been there for me, film (and television I guess).

I have to thank my dad (you'll probably hear a lot about him in this blog because he's probably my biggest inspiration for anything) for giving me my interest in film. When I was a kid (I'm 17 now so I guess I'm still sort of a kid) we would go to the movies pretty much every week and we'd usually see movies that he wanted to see which gave me a particular taste in classic movies and GOOD movies. I remember seeing Gladiator in theaters with him in 2000 (I was 6, almost 7 because it came out twelve days before my bithday) and being amazing at the scene where the Romans fight the Germanians. I remeber vividly the scene where the Romans shoot their flame-tipped arrows. I can still picture sitting in the seat and watching them fly through the air in incredible clarity as if it were yesterday and every time I watch that movie since then (Which is a lot because it's one of my all-time favorite films) I still see that scene through the eyes of a 6-year-old. When I was 9 he snuck me into 2004's The Punisher. We tried buying tickets to it but I was clearly too young so we ended up buying tickets to The Alamo and sneaking our way into the movie and since that night The Punisher has always been one of my favorite movies. Not only because I fucking LOVE that movie! But because I can still remember getting up from my seat in The Alamo, walking out the big theater doors and checking to see when the doorman would stop watching the doors to the theater that The Punisher was playing.

But now, after that one semester of Business, I'm in a program where I'm taking classes like ''Filmmaking'' and ''Video production'', I was hoping to also take ''Film Studies'' and ''Script Writing'' but they were already full...

I guess I don't have too much more to write, you already got a little taste of who I am so I guess I'll write in this again too, until then I'm going to rescue that TV dinner and watch some more movies

Ciao.