August 29, 2015

Today was a pretty laid back day, filled with a lot of Nicolas Cage movies and a bit of school work. I've had a itch to watch a Nicolas Cage movie for awhile now and today I decided to scratch it in a major way. I watched Outcast, Rage, Seeking Justice, Next, and Lord of War. I hadn't seen any of those movies except Lord of War, not counting parts of Next when it was in theaters.

Out of all of them, Rage was probably the most ridiculous. Cage plays a former criminal turned legitimate businessman. His daughter is kidnapped and killed and he gets the crew back together to find who killed her. They think it is the Russian mob so they go after them, which pisses them off, as it would. In the whole process the Russians find out that Cage and his crew was responsible for the death of the Russian boss' brother way back in the day so they turn their sites on him as well as the mob he used to be a part of. The Russians kill one of Cage's friends and then Cage kills the other one because he thought he ratted him out. Turns out he didn't. Cage eventually learns that his daughter hadn't been kidnapped. She and her friends were playing with some of his old guns and one of the friends accidentally shot her. They hid her body in the woods and tore up the house to make it look like a kidnapping. So the entire movie, the feuding mobs and the killing of friends, was all based on a single lie told by a teenager to save his own ass. Maybe it sounded better on paper.

I also started my day by watching The Machine, which is not a Nicolas Cage movie. It involves building human-like robots and it was interesting. Not great but interesting.

As for school stuff. I wrote several responses to discussion posts. And that was about it. It required a bit more effort than can be conveyed by that short description but basically, that is what I did. I'll have to do it again tomorrow as well to insure I get full points.

I think it was today that I watched a Buzzfeed video that had people going back and looking at the first email they had ever sent. That inspired me to check my old Yahoo! account. For some reason it didn't go all the way back to the beginning of the account, at least I don't think it did. Maybe I ran out of space at some point and it deleted old sent messages. Anyway, it went back to 2006 so I started reading through some of them. One contained a document of an old message thread I had going with one of my old friends who was briefly my girlfriend. The messages were before we dated but were leading up to it. It was back when each message could have it's own title and all of our titles were two words that started with the same letter, and often times they actually made at least a little bit of sense in the context of the message. I am a big fan of corresponding with people, especially people I like, and just writing in general so it was fun going back and reading through them. Prior to those messages we had a long string of messages that always contained a random number corresponding to a reason why we couldn't be friends, like my false perception of her cooking ability was reason 43. It was fun. I don't know if I got all of the messages with the double letter titles but I'm glad I got the ones I did because that was part of the fun and during one of the updates to Facebook they got rid of the option for message titles and all of the old ones were erased.

In my relationship after that one we wrote actual letters to each other. They started as short notes and morphed into letters that filled notebooks. That was also fun. I thinking writing witty messages and letters back and forth is one of the things I miss most about being in a relationship. I need to find that again. Someday. Maybe.

Now it is after one o'clock in the morning and I need to go to bed. I should probably try and stick with my weekday schedule on the weekends because staying up late, especially on Saturday, encourages me to sleep in on Sunday, which makes it hard to go to bed at a decent hour on Sunday night, which makes it even harder to wake up on Monday. Maybe next weekend.