Buy Or Don’t Buy

BuyOrDontBuy isn’t my first blog. Clearly. I had a xanga back in the day. And looking back over that xanga page, I realize I was awesome. (Granted, a bunch of those entries are about how I hate myself, but, hindsight is 20/20.) Anyways, I feel that me being older and potentially wiser makes me miss out on what I would have loved if I was the same person from 2004.

While looking back on my past entries (like writing a poem for my English class (check after the jump)), I realized that my quirky-cool exhibited on xanga was often pop culture based. When I described a party as “phat,” I made sure to mention that it would also be drug and alcohol free. I remember getting choked up to Adam Sandler’s 50 First Dates, loving Mandy Moore in Chasing Liberty, finding Crash extremely deep, and dismissing The Notebook as a chick flick before watching it and falling in love with that too. My television was always on  MTV and Nickalodean. (Now that I am older, it’s VH1 and Cartoon Network, naturally). But, I completely digress…

Basically, 2004-Sara in 2008 would be psyched for the joke that turned out to be Twilight. And even though that movie is apparently bad (I have not seen or read the books), I would be even more psyched for Adventureland, a movie starring the same actress, Kristen Stewart of Twilight. Yes, Kristen Stewart, the girl who ruined the film adaptation of Speak, my personal favorite at the time, a story of teen angst, loneliness and drama. The same Kristen Stewart that appalled David Letterman by having nothing to say on his show. Hell, if you can’t even act yourself into something of interest as a person… then… how can you make a career out of acting? But that’s my current self speaking. Let’s get back to my 17 year old self. Well, I’d be pumped to see her in the next movie that came out.

Think back, oldies, and try to remember what you would feel if you were 14-17 again? Would you be excited to see a movie about a summer that seemed doomed turn out to be filled with fun, friends and love?

Adventureland trailer

Yes, you would. Will I endulge myself in seeing this when it comes out? Maybe. I have to pay for things now, the economy is not hot, and I know how to use the Internet for other purposes than to check xanga, like streaming movies at low quality for basically no cost. But on the other hand. It does look kind of funny, with 2 SNL allstars, the dude from “Freeks and Geeks” and Mr. Van Wilder/Mr. Scarlett Johansson

As promised… the poem:

So for English class we needed to write a poem in response to another poem

the poem was asking this girl to have sex with him before they both got old and died. so veronica and kelly and I wrote back as an older brother.

we thought it was hilarious, but for someone reason, no one else in the class did.

so with out further ado:

I heard you talkin’ to my sis
I’m her bro, listen to this
Don’t play her like a ban-jo
What? you think she is a big ho?
Just wait until I tell my dad
You were working on getting bad
He will tie you into a knot
He won’t give you what you sought
So listen here, Homie Gee Slice
You and my sister? Ain’t no dice

— I knew you guys would appreciate it more than the rest of hte class. we laughed hysterically for the whole time. i guess you had to be there. (Source)