Be a Collector

All right, so we saw Batman and it was pretty great. Worth the wait, but man, I was so tired (it was a midnight showing) and it had been a looong day before that. I’m sure I’ll see it again and appreciate it even more when my eyes can focus straight.

Then yesterday we did a double feature with Hellboy and then Wall-E. I did something I’ve never done before, something very bad and something I’ll never do again. Don’t do this at home kids, er, um, at your local cinemas. I snuck into the second show without paying. After seeing Hellboy I thought, what the hay, and said “Let’s just go see Wall-E” and didn’t think anything really of it, other than a little “woohoo, I’m being sneaky”. But once we were in the theater I started to feel SUPER guilty and was waiting for the cops to show up and take me away. In fact, even though I was sucked into the movie from the very beginning short beforehand, I looked over to Matt with sad eyes, hoping he was feeling the same way I was and hoping he’d say “Let’s leave”. But nope, he just gave me this look like: “what is your problem? You are disrupting my movie going experience.” I enjoyed the rest of the movie and only had a mini panic attack that once were were leaving they’d have guards at the door checking tickets for the two that snuck in, handcuff us and take us off to prison. Friends, this kind of tells you how rebellious of a person I am.

Anyway, I think it was a good order to see these movies in. I have to say Wall-E was my absolute favorite. Beforehand, I’ve had plenty of people saying “Robyn, you MUST SEE Wall-E” and after seeing it, I have to say I think those people know me pretty well. This has instantly become my new favorite Disney movie. I just can’t stop thinking about it, it was that great. Matt and I have decided that I am the Wall-E in our relationship and he is definitely the Eve, which is kind of funny because he is the PC user and I’m the Mac user, so that part is backwards. Also, it’s kind of backwards as he’s more the romantic one, I’m more sentimental though, if that makes any sense. This film is just so beautiful in the way it was illustrated (at times I even forgot that it wasn’t film photography, yeah, I know) and in it’s story as well. Afterwards, while were discussing the movie, we both came to the same conclusion at the same instant; We want to have Wall-E in our home, as our pet or friend or what have you.

Last week I read about this girl who posted a youtube video of herself last winter, crying as she watched and reacted to the trailer for this movie.Her crying watching it, made me just about cry.  Here is the link, it’s a pretty cool story, apparently her video was seen and appreciated by Pixar and some pretty cool stuff came from it all. Haha, I just found this link that proves that Wall-E, like myself, is a law breaker!

So, one of the great things about Wall-E, and one of the reasons I related to him was that he was a collector, which brings me to Keri Smith. I just read on her blog that she is releasing a new book “How to be an Explorer: The Portable Art Life Museum” and straight from the page of her new book, “When I look closely at the work of all my favorite artists & designers, I notice they all have one thing in common… They are collectors.”