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     Recently, I watched the ridiculously popular film "Bridesmaids" and, as usual, it fell a little flat for me.
     Maybe it's due to the lack of films I've seen over the years, but there haven't been too many current movies that I've really enjoyed.
There's an interesting thing that happens and I'm not positive you'll be able to relate in the way I'll try to explain it, but here goes:
     So, like... you know when you drink something, a juice for example, and there's, what feels like, a hole in the flavor of the beverage? And you can guess that some form of alcohol would best fit in that 'flavor hole', if you will. Does that... make sense?

     Anyway, that's how I've viewed movies lately. I watch them and I try to get engaged, but sometimes there's a gap in a spot that's supposed to be funny or moving or exciting and I see it... but it doesn't evoke anything in me. I just... see it for what it is.
     Prime example was a scene in "Bridesmaids" where, essentially, the main cast of comediennes, for a lack of a better phrase, shit themselves in a public setting. Oh, there's vomit too. Vomit and shit escapades. And I see where the audience would see that as comical and I understand the nature of the crude humor but... it just seems so blatant. Like, trying to be funny.
(Side note: the writer of "Bridesmaids", Kristen Wiig, is someone I don't find very funny in the first place.)


(Side side note: there's also moments in the film that are total buzzkills and it put me in such an off-color mood that I couldn't laugh at any of the later comedic moments.)

     Shifting gears, National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo) for September ended and I finished a bit sloppily yet I commend myself for making an attempt at blogging everyday and even reminding myself to blog when it slipped my mind (also thanks to friends and even the boyfriend giving an encouraging word now and then).
     It seems the prompts have continued on into October, giving me the assumption that NaBloPoMo is... well, every month, so I feel as though said prompts could potentially be used in future entries.
     AND, on the topic of writing projects, National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is next month and not an idea has crossed my mind as to what to write a novel about. Still, I'm going to go for it and hope to write more than the previous years.

(...those poor, unfinished documents...)