the 3 Miyazaki Movies

Hayao Miyazaki usually adds something into his movies that relates to his life. The scene from Spirited Away when the girl is helping the giant stink spirit in the tub was related to Miyazaki's life. When Miyazaki was little he lived in front of a river. It was drained and while it was empty workers went into it and pulled things out of the mud.
In Totorro the two girl's mother is sick in the hospital. Miyazaki added this because his mother was sick in the hospital with spinal tuberculosis when he was little. She was sick for 8 years.
Also if you notice, many of Miyazaki's movies take place in some sort of war. In Princess Mononoke Iron Town is in a war with the Samurai.
In most of Miyazaki's movies girls are the main characters. In Totorro, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, KiKi's Delivery Service, Howl's Moving Castle, and Nausicaa Valley of the Wind, the main character is a girl. If a girl isn't the main character in one of his movies, then they are usually really outgoing and are almost manly.

Waking Life and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Both of these movies made me think more about life. For instance after I saw Waking Life I started thinking " What if my whole life is just a dream and I'm already dead." or " Is free will real? Or is my brain planning all of my actions ahead of time?" Waking life was also a really well made movie. I like how they painted over everything. It makes the movie seem more like a dream. The people were exagerated depending on their personality and how they spoke. For instance, one of the character's eyes always grew when he exagerated his words. I also liked the music in the movie. It fit with it good because it had a mysterious sound to it.
Eternal Sunshine was also a good movie. At first I was completley lost, but I finally figured it out. The only thing that bothered me in that movie was Jim Carey. I'm so used to him playing a hilarious character, but he was the exact opposite in this movie. It was weird seeing him like that.
The plot in Eternal Sunshine was good. I liked how most of the movie took place in Jim Carey's dream. It was cool how they were trying to escape from being erased. The lighting in the movie was also interesting. It made the movie look like a dream. Most of the settings took place in a dark place with only a spotlight on the main characters.
I need to see this movie again so I can really understand it. I think I got the gist of it though. He met this girl and they fell in love. But after awhile they both ended up deciding to get eachother erased from their memories because they weren't happy with their relationship. While Joel (Jim Carey) is having his mind erased he realizes that he loves Clemetine and doesn't want to have her erased from his memory. So Joel tries to keep his memory of Clementine from being erased while trapped in his dream. In the end she gets erased and he wakes up without any memory of her and all memories from the past couple of days. He ends up meeting her again, but they figure out that they had both erased eachother from their memories. This is shocking and they are about to decide to never see eachother again when Joel runs out and stops her. He asks her if they can just try to be in a relationship. She agrees and then they live happily ever after (hopefully).
Waking Life is about a guy who can't stop dreaming and tries to figure out why he can't by talking to people in his dreams. As the movie progresses he realizes he may in fact be dead (which he is). In the beginning he is walking across a sidewalk and he picks up a sheet of paper that says "look to your right." He looks and a car hits him. I don't think this was actually him dieing but I think this may have been a memory of how he died. Only he didn't pick up a sheet of paper that warned him.
I also need to see this movie again because a lot of the time I wasn't paying attention to what the characters he interviewed were saying. I was looking at the weird animation. I'll have to rent both of these movies and watch them again.

Sigur Ros

Sigur Ros

That video was really weird, but cool at the same time. I’m not really sure what it meant though. The whole thing was a bunch of kids gathering and walking through Scotland or something. The end was the weirdest. They all charged up a hill and jumped off a cliff and started flying. I’m not completely sure, but I think that was saying to not hesitate. He who hesitates is lost. The last kid who jumped off the cliff couldn’t decide if he was going to jump or not and when he did he fell. It also reminded me of Peter Pan. Those kids were like the kids who lived in the tree houses.
After we saw this video, we saw another one by the same band. This one had old people instead of kids. The old people were acting like kids though. They were playing ding dong ditch and fighting each other with wooden swords and water balloons. I guess this one was about old men and women wishing they were young again. I can’t really think of anything else that it would be about.

Obsessive Compulsive

My dad's side of the family have always been packrats and sadly I inherited that trait. I can't get rid of my old stuff. It feels like I'm losin a part of myself...it's really annoying. Even if it's just a stuffed animal I can't get rid of it. I have to get my mom to get rid of it for me.
I also have to leave the t.v. on when I leave a room because I don't like to walk into a quiet room. I like to hear sound. If it's completley quiet I go crazy.
I'm extremely obsessive comulsive about my hair. Everyone knows this about me. If the wind blows I have to fix it. Every morning I have to take a shower because I think my hair looks bad. Also I hate it when ppl touch my hair.

my advantages and disadvantages

One of my disadvantages is that I'm shy. I don't like to talk to people that I'm not very good friends with. This is always a problem because when I'm talking to these people I usually act really lame or I can't think of anything to say.

One of my advantages is that I like to look at other people's perspectives. This is an advantage because I usually know how people are feeling so I know how to act around them or I understand what they're trying to say.

Thesis Statement For Research Paper

My research topic is Hayao Myazaki. I think my thesis statement will be someting like " Hayao Myazaki is one of the greatest animated film directors of his time." I will edit it later on and add on to it. Also I don't necessarily want to base the whole paper on how he is the best animated film director, but more of a biography of his life. I am having trouble finding information on databases though. I think I am going to use google. I will have to find other sources though. I don't think I will be able to find many books, but I may be able to find at least one biography on him. I will probably have to buy it though, if I find one. If this topic is not successful, I think I will switch to Japanese Folklore.

a-z autobiography

I have never liked Artichokes. When I was little I fell down my Back stairs and Cut open my chin. I used to think Dinosaurs were awesome. I like hard boiled Eggs even though they smell horrible. I used to own 2 Frogs, but they died in the first 2 weeks I had them. I also owned a cannabalistic Goldfish that ate my other goldfish. We Had to give her away. I am a boy. My sister wanted to name me apple Juice when I was a baby. I used to think that Kangaroos wore boxing gloves. I Like dark chocolate more than Milk chocolate.

Cadaverous

When I die I want to be cremated. After my body is cremated I want it to be placed in a golden box. Then it should be buried in Decatur and there should be a giant golden statue of me riding a panda.
I'm not really sure where our souls go when we die...I mean it's hard to imagine it going anywhere. But it's also hard to imagine that when you die nothing happens. You just don't exist anmore. I hope we go to heaven when we die. I mean that sounds alot better than just not existing anymore.