movie recommendations

I meant to make this post a while ago6), but never got around to it. I just wanted to recommend some fantastic movies to check out/read up on/watch. I'm kind of a movie buff, and I have watched some fantastic movies. Here are just a few of the great ones I watched this year. A lot of them should be available on netflix, in canada at least.

• SLC Punk (1998)
• Chatroom (2010)
• Sidewalls (2011)
• Seven Psychopaths (2012 - Just released in theaters recently, actually! ) 
• Savages (2012,  as a side note, I actually recommend the book a lot more) 
• Paranorman (2012)
• Frankenweenie (2012, Tim Burton is a genius)
• The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
• The Bang Bang Club (2010) 
• Senior Skip Day (2008 - ferris bueller fans will like this one)
• Leslie, My Name is Evil (2009, interesting as hell)
• Burning Palms (2010 - Very dark, very intriguing. 5 stories in one as well!)
• Cashback (2006)
• The Beautiful Person / La Belle Personne (2008, french film)
• I Killed My Mother / J'ai Tue Ma Mere (2009, french film)
• Never Let Me Go (2010, this one will most likely make you cry for a very long time)
• Beware the Gonzo (2010)
• We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
• Hard Candy (2005)
• Student Bodies (1981 - a great, ridiculous parody for horror/slasher fans)

And that's all I have for now! I'll make another list later on down the road, probably. I'm always watching and finding more movies. I'd recommend things like Ferris Bueller, The Breakfast Club, The Avengers, and The Hunger Games, but I mean... Everybody who hasn't been living under a rock knows what those movies are. Not everybody has seen them, of course (I only saw the breakfast club over the summer), but everybody has heard of them. I do still recommend them of course. Especially The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. The Avengers was fantastic too, although superhero movies aren't for everyone. 

On High Fashion

I can't possibly be the only one who sees how inconsistent the high fashion world is. Some pieces are manic and virtually unwearable, while others are actually practical and stylish and appear to be comfortable to wear (as I, personally, feel they should be, however that's just my opinion)

For example, you might see an outfit  like this strutting down the catwalk:

And let me make this double clear: I'm not talking about the lady, I'm talking about the clothes themselves, and this is just my personal opinion. It's just so pink and frilly and sparkly.. I honestly cannot picture someone wearing that in real life. And I feel like fashion, high or not, should at least make sense. You should be able to wear it in the real world, right? 

All I'm asking for, honestly, is somewhat of an inbetween. Let your designs reflect you, and be creative and trend-setting, or whatever you like to do, and don't make things too normal. Any old local clothing store can do that. Go wild, sure, but know when to be tame. I want to see something in the fashion world that dares to be normal, but in the most vibrant, explosive, in-your-face way, if that makes any sense at all... 

I just got really pretentious

So.. I started a blog. Yep. Not something I ever thought I'd actually do, one of those superficial, pretentious blogs wherein the writer thinks people actually care enough about their life to read it. I used to a long time ago, until I started to realize the above statement and I was like, "oh, man, I better stop." So I did.

But then I did it anyway. Don't worry, I won't give anyone my life story or anything boring like that. I'll try and keep my posts as relevant to the real world as possible, partly by understanding that my world is not the real world, if that makes any sense without making me sound like a psychopathic schizophrenic maniac.