Sunday, September 19, 2010

I Miss Back When

I am 20!!! It is so crazy and I can't believe that I am now out of my teenage years. I am still in shock over it actually. But, I have come to the realization lately that I am very old fashioned when it comes to certain things. One example is definitely 3D movies. I do not get them. I understand economically the theaters have to come up with a new 'thing' so people will still go to them and not sit in their basement, but 3D? When I watch a movie, I put myself into it; it doesn't need to come to me. Really, when it is a good movie I don't even notice the 3D cause I am so focused on the story line. And everything is coming out in 3D! Step Up, Toy Story, Despicable Me, Avatar, Alice in Wonderland, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the second part of Harry Potter!! And the list goes on and on and on! All completely unnecessary and just more expensive for my poor college student self. The only good thing that has come from 3D is the fact that my mom and sister were pretty amused at my annoyance at the previews for all the 3D movies when we went to see Eclipse.
Also, a new popular trend that annoys me is the ebooks. I read an article a week or so ago in the New York Times about how couples are having to buy a paper copy and an ecopy of books cause they can't agree. I totally and completely side with the paper book copy person. And then, Sunday in church and in my religion classes, I noticed there are a few people who use their blackberry/iphone or whatever to read scriptures. That is so weird to me. Then you can't write a million thoughts and cross references in the margins! I love the smell of books, the feel of the pages in my hand, and look of a full bookcase. I don't care if in a few years we just insert books into our brains on a little chip, I am still going to have a library in my house full of books and oversized chairs!
So that's it. I am now an old stuck in the rut complainer going on about the youngin's new technology that I don't understand.

Thinking of a wish for my 20th year!
(And no my candles are not lit. My roommates couldn't find matches that worked... but its probably for the better as my hair was full of hair spray and we know what happens when I hairspray my hair on my birthday!)

2 comments:

  1. New York Times??? Did you do the crossword too? Dad

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  2. yes...avoid hairspray and 3D movies at all costs...unless they make Jacob and Edward pop in your face. that would be the exception.

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