A long short vacation...

This was a long weekend for myself. I went home to Boston Thursday night and came back Wednesday morning. During that time I saw many films. The first movie I saw was "Raiders of the Lost Ark". I watched it with my 2nd cousin whos 13 years old. He had never even heard of Indiana Jones before. I realized that watching the movie through him made all the special effects seem supremely dated. He thought the effects were cheesy. Hearing him bash my childhood like that was the oldest moment of my life to date.

Next I headed downtown to hang out with a few friends at Emerson College. After dinner in the north end we came back to their apartment and watched "The Great Escape", This is one of the films I've always been meaning to watch but never did. So we watched as my best friend fell asleep a third of the way through. I stayed up and watched the whole movie. By the end I thought it was one of the better movies I've seen in a long time. Shorty after, I called it a night.

Our last day hanging out we chilled around Boston. Looking to kill some time, we thought screw it lets go see a movie. And so we did, as went to the Boston Common Theater where we watched "Good Night, and Good Luck", one of the few oscar nominated pictures I haven't seen yet. The film directed by George Clooney himself is nominated for Best Picture and I could see why. One of the more interesting things it brought up was the relationship of Television vs Citizens and wether or not it should be used for entertainment or to educate. In the end a whole lot happened in that short time over the weekend.

Until next time...