If I'm Being Honest...boyle

Despite what I hope is impeccable grammar, I am very drunk right now. The last time I posted while this inebriated resulted in a post so personal, it still hurts my heart to think about it.

So, right now, before my liquid courage drains away, I just want to say that I want you desperately. You know who you are. Of course, it would be brain-dead stupid of me to say that I love you, wouldn’t it? But I’ve wanted you with me so much, for so long, my desire is like another person in the room with me…, an evil person who is actively torturing and tormenting me.

Wow, terrible fucking simile.

I’ve written enough. Not completely sure what I’m thinking…

∞09:08 pm, by lebrainboy ∩2

As I’m driving home from work, I’m enjoying thoroughly the glorious day. Outside, nearly perfect weather; warm, but not too hot, a cool breeze, but not too brisk. The sky is the perfect shade of blue, the sun still high and hot. I glance at my clock, and I’m startled to realize that it’s already after 7:00 PM, and then I remember why I love this season. And then I try to remember what normal people do on a Friday night…

∞08:16 pm, by lebrainboy ∩2

[personal] [Brian] [Boyle] [lebrainboy] [what is normal]

I’m all set, totally prepared for this week’s new episode of Doctor Who; I have my sonic screwdriver and my TARDIS (it’s larger on the inside).

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∞04:41 pm, by lebrainboy ∩3

[Doctor Who] [Whovian] [TARDIS] [Whovian Wednesday] [Doctor] [The Doctor] [Who] [BBC] [BBC America] [sonic screwdriver] [sonic] [screwdriver] [lebrainboy] [personal] [me] [brian] [boyle]

bunny-gal:

oh my lord i am in love

She reminds me very much of L, my second love. I fell harder for L than I did for H, my first love, harder than I did for M, my third love (whom I should have asked to marry me) or T, my last love (it’s kind of sad and depressing to think that I’ve been without love in my life for over, what? 25 years? good lord).

Regardless, L was the first and the last woman for whom I ever wrote poetry. She loved poetry, and I loved writing, so writing poetry for her seemed like a natural fit. And I wrote pages and pages of the stuff, enough to literally fill a huge 3-ring binder.

I don’t want to go into too much more detail, but the way she broke up with me was to walk out to my car and, without ever once saying a word (or, indeed, talking to me ever again) simply handing me the binder of my poetry, turning around, walking back inside her house and closing the door on me. Forever (at least…, so far).

(Source: modelcult)

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∞05:51 pm, reblogged by lebrainboy ∩3038

[personal] [lebrainboy] [brian] [boyle] [love] [lies] [truth] [relationship] [loss] [honesty] [rejection] [reject] [poetry] [writing]

Me.

(Source: theremina)

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∞01:24 pm, reblogged by lebrainboy ∩565

[GPOY] [personal] [lebrainboy] [garbage] [Red Hot Chili Peppers] [Nick Cave] [Brian] [Boyle]

Gaze upon the knitted magnificence now resting upon my brow, sheltering my brainpan. Drink in its luxe acrylic beauty and its finely woven perfection. Shiny!

Yes.

Yes, my officially-licensed version of the Firefly Jayne hat has arrived from ThinkGeek.

Pretty cunning, don’t you think? A man walks down the street in this hat, people know he’s not afraid of anything. Damn straight.

I am never taking it off. That is all.

∞08:54 pm, by lebrainboy ∩16

[Firefly] [Serenity] [Joss Whedon] [Adam Baldwin] [Jayne] [Jayne Cobb] [Whedonverse] [Browncoats] [ThinkGeek] [cunning] [shiny] [brainpan] [personal] [lebrainboy] [Brian] [Boyle] [Brian Boyle] [GPOY] [me]

This is probably only funny if you've ever seen a Round Table commercial

Me: As of today, I am never buying another Round Table pizza, ever again! $22 for a large pepperoni?! That's insane!
Me: RANT RANT RANT RANT RANT RANT RANT
Me: ...
My Friend: So..., I guess you've had your last honest pizza.
Me: ...
Me: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

∞02:58 pm, by lebrainboy

[Round Table] [brian] [boyle] [brian boyle] [lebrainboy] [personal] [pizza] [pepperoni] [round] [table]

GPOY.

Every damn day.

(Source: mrgolightly)

∞09:24 am, reblogged by lebrainboy ∩1583

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I am ALLOWED to have expectations & I GET to be disappointed when they’re not met. Fuck you for being a bad friend & treating me so poorly.

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∞04:54 pm, by lebrainboy ∩1

Recently, a friend Tweeted this…

Robert Merk @MerkRobert
I understand we live in competitive time w/ deadlines, but can anyone really digest & form an opinion of a film within hours of seeing it?
Source.

I’ve been thinking about the question he posed with regard to the amount of time one needs to digest properly a film. That’s a real puzzler, all right, and I wonder if you’d receive the same answer twice in a row from anyone. On the one hand, the pros waiting allows you are the advantage of a thorough analysis, complete with comparisons to contemporary films and filmmakers and references to cinema’s long history, as well as (possibly) a polished critique gifted with a viewpoint elevated by time and erudition. The cons all seem based in the immediacy of modern-day media, in that “new” and “fresh” are the order of the day.

For myself, the immediacy is based in my own needs…I need to collect my thoughts and feelings right away and then encapsulate them for immediate emailing and posting in order to free myself from the burden of obsessing over the film. If I allow myself to go more than a day or two without shedding the experience of the film from my psyche, I find that I’m lost in a morass of over-thinking and over-analyzing. At that point, I’m almost never able to re-coalesce my ideas into a form suitable for consumption by others; by the time a few days have passed, it all devolves into a shapeless mess, and then I need weeks (or, in extreme case, even months) to hammer my thoughts back into shape.

My $0.02, anyway…

∞02:24 pm, by lebrainboy

LeBrainBoy's 420-Character Film Review: Seven Psychopaths

Seven Psychopaths
Rarely does one experience the heady thrills of a film that takes such delight in its own hyper-articulate, hyper-intelligent viciousness. Director McDonagh constructs a clever, twisty caper around a concept that out-metas even Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: screenwriter McDonagh’s attempts to pen a clever, twisty caper script. An exuberant joy bursts out of every performance & Walken delivers his most textured acting in years.

UPDATE: The best part — the absolute best part — is watching McDonagh’s skillful sleight-of-hand as he weaves several seemingly unrelated, unconnected storylines into one cohesive, unified narrative, all Is dotted, all Ts crossed. It is really something to see. One of the smartest scripts to come down the pike in a very long while. And the performances! There’s just so much joy in the performances.

You will not be disappointed, my friends. I caught the film with a very diverse crowd last night, and the whole theater erupted in applause when the credits rolled.

Updated Tuesday, October 9, 2012

∞03:31 pm, by lebrainboy

[Seven Psychopaths] [420] [420 characters] [film] [review] [lebrainboy] [Brian] [brian boyle] [boyle] [Martin McDonagh] [Colin Farrell] [Woody Harrelson] [Sam Rockwell] [Christopher Walken] [Tom Waits] [Harry Dean Stanton] [Olga Kurylenko] [gofobo] [gofobo.com]

LeBrainBoy's 420-Character Film Review: Looper

Looper
Visual spectacle dominates sci-fi cinema, but smart sci-fi always exists in the realm of ideas. This must-see film is an intelligent, honest effort to deal w/time travel’s paradoxes in a believable way. Even so, the sci-fi element isn’t the story. No, the story is two men, one old, one young, neither obviously a good guy & how their “reunion” both affects them as individuals & affects their connection to each another.

UPDATE: This was a film filled to overflowing with nice surprises: Jeff Daniels…, simply…, talking; Paul Dano’s performance; how actions taken on the young Loopers have catastrophic consequences on the old Loopers; Emily Blunt’s performance; the hard left turn the narrative takes after we meet Emily’s character, and her little boy; how Garrett Dillahunt exits the film…, I could go on and on. There were so many wonderful moments in this film.

Seems to me as if Joseph Gordon-Levitt is Rian Johnson’s muse; I loved the hell out of Brick, but I couldn’t remember The Brothers Bloom two seconds after I’d seen it.

Updated Tuesday, October 9, 2012

∞12:58 pm, by lebrainboy

[420] [420 characters] [film] [review] [lebrainboy] [Brian] [brian boyle] [boyle] [Looper] [Rian Johnson] [Joseph Gordon-Levitt] [Bruce Willis] [Emily Blunt] [Paul Dano] [Jeff Daniels] [Piper Perabo] [Garret Dillahunt]

LeBrainBoy's 420-Character Film Review -- Resident Evil: Retribution

Resident Evil: Retribution
To call the fifth entry in the RE series “preposterous crap” would be to imply that there existed any expectations of quality or coherence for this movie, at all. Even so — in addition to common sense, good judgment & logic — director Anderson has clearly abandoned making actual films in favor of filming live-action video game cutscenes. All the smokin’ hot Milla wire-fu badassery in the world can’t redeem nonsense.

UPDATE: Hot chicks, firing guns and fighting in slow motion…, what’s not to love, right? Nothing, as long as you expected only that, and no more. Were that the case, you’d find this sequel perfectly entertaining.

Look, my deep, burning love of all things Milla is legendary, but come on…a film has to be a film.

Updated Tuesday, October 9, 2012

∞11:40 am, by lebrainboy ∩2

[Resident Evil: Retribution] [420] [420 characters] [film] [review] [lebrainboy] [brian] [boyle] [brian boyle] [Paul W.S. Anderson] [Milla Jovovich] [Sienna Guillory] [Michelle Rodriguez] [Bingbing Li] [Kevin Durand] [Oded Fehr]

LeBrainBoy's 420-Character Film Review: Here Comes the Boom

Here Comes the Boom
Does zilch to advance filmmaking as art, but succeeds as an entertaining crowd-pleaser. James’s schoolteacher fighting in UFC is the only well-developed narrative, as the screenplay saddles its high school students w/half-baked storylines filled w/lame platitudes & clichéd banalities. The love story barely makes an impact; Hayek has little screen time & little to do. Those issues aside, still a pleasing popcorn film.

∞07:40 pm, by lebrainboy ∩1

[Here Comes the Boom] [420] [420 characters] [film] [review] [brian] [boyle] [brian boyle] [lebrainboy] [Frank Coraci] [Kevin James] [Salma Hayek] [Henry Winkler] [Bas Rutten] [gofobo] [gofobo.com]

LeBrainBoy's 420-Character Film Review: House at the End of the Street

House at the End of the Street
Unremarkable performances from Lawrence & Shue are this ineffective thriller’s highlight. The screenwriters deliver no shocks, no scares, no surprises; anyone who’s ever seen a horror film can predict each twist & turn. A howler of a third-act storyline revision, clearly the result of post-production focus group feedback, completely eviscerates what few emotional stakes the filmmakers managed to raise. In short, yawn.

∞07:31 pm, by lebrainboy

[House at the End of the Street] [420] [420 characters] [film] [review] [brian] [boyle] [brian boyle] [lebrainboy] [Mark Tonderai] [Jennifer Lawrence] [Elisabeth Shue] [Max Thieriot] [Gil Bellows] [gofobo] [gofobo.com]