New Hampshire

This little apartment that I've spent so much of my past week and a half in just got a little more cozy today as the five boxes of my stuff that my parents shipped me a week ago finally arrived. With little bits of creature comforts and touches of my "home" my room seems a little less desolate.

I have been told that my stuff will be here on Thursday or Friday...which as much as I want to believe it, I'm taking that with a grain of salt. And as much as I want to get upset and raise hell about how it was supposed to be here sooner, I know that wouldn't accomplish what I want. My stuff won't get here sooner just because I want it here sooner. So I might go out and grab a cot or a camping mattress from Walmart when my roomies go again just so that I'm not sleeping on the ground.

New Hampshire has proven to be a tad lackluster, and living in a small and quiet town has been largely what I anticipated it being. One thing that I have truly loved is reflective mood it puts me in as I meander around the streets. That is one of the reasons I came here and I'm happy to report that, at least in that sense, this move is accomplishing what I want.

In other news, the "Watch Instantly" feature of Netflix is earning its worth for my monthly subscription...I'm watchin' all sorts of stuff. Today I watched a movie called "Were the World Mine" which is a movie that I'd been anticipating. Its basically a little gay indie flick that uses Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as plot and the focus. For the private boys school in a small town, the use of this play shakes up some homophobic reactions and for Tim, our dear lead, it's served to ecacerbate the existing teasing he's gotten. He gets roped into auditioning for Puck and after wow-ing his teacher with his singing talent he is soon delving into what it means to be portray a Shakespearian character. As he's reading the text, the recipe for teh tricksters love potion reveals itself to Tim and soon enough, he's concoting and spreading the potion amongst the town people so that they can see exactly what torture he's been going through.
So you see, we also have "A Midsummer Night's Dream" becoming the plot itself as Tim gives some of his biggest critics a chance to walk in his shoes.

The movie is visually quite rich for what must have been a very small budget, and Tanner Cohen (Tim) has an incredible singing voice to take the wonderful melodies added to make it a musical and really bring the plot to life. As most reviews have said, there's a lot to like about the film. The biggest issue is in the plot itself. The idea isn't really the most original and the content isn't overly surprising. But there is an endearing honesty that speaks to the viewer at points. That is where it's greatest failure lies. There are moments where its is truly breath-taking and moments where it falls right on its face. This movie could have been utterly spectacular, but it really just didn't push itself the entire distance. Worth viewing, but still leaves us wanting.

And so I bid you adieu my dear blog, I'll hope to be back again soon, perhaps not too soon as what I have to report, but soon none the less.