brb, gonna hibernate.

So far, this week has not been the best.
My lights broke at the weekend.
My shoot on Monday was rubbish.
It's costing more than I thought to print out the Gomes photos.
My replacement parts for my lights came a mere five minutes after I told one of my half-Chinese subjects to go home.
It took me nearly an hour to put in the new modelling bulb before I found out that part of the old one was still in there.
I was accidentally late for my tutorial this morning, thinking it was at 10:40 when it was actually at 10:20, my tutor was understandably pissed.
I had to send a grovelling email to the aforementioned tutor.

Swallow me up please. It's these little sod's law annoyances than make up an even bigger annoying picture.

On the plus side, I have a reshoot of Monday's shoot this afternoon (hopefully), and a shoot tomorrow and Friday, as well as one that I arranged ages ago on Sunday. I should have a decent amount of work piled up by next Monday and then maybe next week won't be so demotivating and terrible. URGH!

It's like I only think about the dopeness, but you only think about the wackness.

Wow, "The Wackness" (2008) thinks it's a much better film than it actually is.

Furthermore, despite this...

...being the major reason that people were goaded into seeing the movie last summer - i.e. the "best bit" in all the reviews - it is only a minor, minor role, and Mary-Kate Olsen's character is annoying. Although, granted it is still odd to see her making out with Ben Kingsley, the scene is only a few seconds long, and not that interesting anyway.

The film thinks that it's deep, when really it's just about selling pot and if anything promotes that we all should - given that through one summer this kid makes £26,000. I'm not one to care or preach about things like that but that appears to be it's message... That, and be friends with old people and not their step/daughters. Jesus, and I sat through an hour and a half just to watch these things and Josh from Drake and Josh say, "word" after having sex with a girl "from Juno" (who didn't even have that major a role in it and was pretty stupid anyway).
Maybe if I was from New York and that age in 1994, I would have got it. But it just tries too hard for me. I think the audience can get that "life was tough" but life's always tough, why make a film about something that no one is bothered about seeing.

If you're making a film about someone who is basically a teenage criminal, surely it has to be more edgy than this?