Freaking the fuck out

This is insanity. Holy shit. This is beyond cool.



Slightly bittersweet, because I had Button, Vettel, and Kubica on my fantasy F1 team. Damn I was close!

My favorite quotes of the night:

Reporter: "Jenson. Well, can you do this?"
Jenson: "...Yes."

Reporter: "Piquet outbraked himself and Lewis stuck himself into a gap that was only ever going to disappear."

Reporter: "You see Massa locking his fronts again... they'll look like 50-pence pieces if he keeps doing that."



Reporter: "It's like you can only drive for Toro Rosso if you're named Sebastian."

Freaking out

It's less than 2 hours until the Australian GP and I am way too excited. Last night was one of the most amazing qualifying sessions ever, made even more so because the BBC reporters were hilarious. Some of the highlights (paraphrased, since I can't remember things word-for-word):

Eddie Jordan: [after being asked what he would do if he were McLaren right now] "Well you know, you just have to keep him [Lewis Hamilton] happy and motivated. You have to put your arm around him and tell him that everyone's working hard and that it'll all be fine. You know, things that a parent would say to a child."
David Coulthard: [trying not to laugh]

(Patrick Head was being interviewed, but still one of my favorite parts.)
Patrick Head: [after being asked to comment on Williams' performance in testing/practice] "Well, it's true that we've been quick. But it's best not to be too optimistic, so you won't be disappointed."

Reporter: "Jenson Button is simply FLYING through Sector 1!" ...later... "Jenson Button is absolutely FLYING!" ...later... "And Jenson Button is just... easing off...? Interesting."

Reporter: "And Kimi Raikkonen might get a glimpse in his mirror... Of course the mirrors on a Formula 1 car are about as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike."

Reporter: "AND JENSON BUTTON HAS JUST GOTTEN POLE POSITION! UNBELIEVABLE! JENSON BUTTON, POLE POSITION! THAT IS INCREDIBLE! AMAZING!"
Other Reporter: "Well, we have to wait and see how the other drivers come in... There's still Sebastian Vettel..."
Reporter: [short silence] "NO, NO, JENSON BUTTON HAS TAKEN POLE POSITION!"

Also the part where one of the reporters gets cut off by them broadcasting a radio transmission, because he's way too excited to stop talking.

This race is going to be epic.

Side note... here's a picture from Jenson Button's website, basically congratulating him and Rubens Barichello for claiming front row. You can see that they showed no love for Sebastian Vettel, who got #3 for Red Bull:

Another great movie from Film 50

This past week, we watched Murmur of the Heart. One of my favorite sequences:



I love how this is pretty much the same as how students are today... Throwing parties and making a mess while their parents are out of town. This is perhaps one of the more innocent parts of the film. There were quite a few people in the audience who were shocked, disgusted, or some combination of the two. But I thought it was fantastic.

In other news, being at home is not doing great things for my productivity. Maybe tomorrow I'll actually do something.

Blogger shout out

I have thanked him numerous times already, but I'm going to do it again. Both of the washers in my apartment building were dead today, but I desperately needed to do laundry... so Eric let me use a washer and dryer in his apartment. Woo clean laundry!

Also, I am currently loving Jenson Button.



What a cutie. ;) We shall see what happens in two weeks...

In other news, I am dying of stress. I have reverted back to my day-by-day to-do list in an attempt to prevent myself from going completely insane.

Random band meme I found while Facebook stalking

(original photo here)

HOW TO PLAY:
1 - Go to "wikipedia." Hit “random... Read More... Read More”
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to "Random quotations"
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 - Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.

I think I just have a thing for swooshy hair...

This past Wednesday, we watched The 400 Blows in my film class.



While I was watching it, I couldn't help but notice that Jean-Pierre Leaud was a pretty cute kid. I thought to myself, "I bet this kid grows up to be a hottie." Just look at this face:



Tres adorable!

So then I went home and googled some images, and can I just say... I WAS SO RIGHT.







Look at how perfect his hair is! I'd hit that, for sure.

I think I'm going to have to watch the rest of François Truffaut's Antoine films now, just so I can get more of this Jean-Pierre hair glory.

Side story... When I was in high school, I remember there was a guy from a rival Speech & Debate team with the most spectacular swooshy hair. It was hot. His hair, I mean. He himself was kind of mediocre.