What Have I Been Doing? or Meh...

The lack of updates over the past couple of days stems from my laziness... that and the fact that I haven't really done anything of interest. Well that's not true, as I did go see "City of God" with Jay Tuesday night. Man, that was a crazy good movie. To steal a quote from someone (I think Roger Ebert) it's the Brazilian Goodfellas! If you want to see a movie with 10 year olds running around killing people then this is for you. Granted there are many people not 10 years old doing some killing on screen, but hey, you take what you can get. In all seriousness though, the flm worked because of its visual style that fit perfectly with the chaos happening on screen and the way it presented the realities of street life in Rio (or so I assume). It's almost the mid-term break and I really need to start to work on my final project for Animated Film. I have done some sketches and plotted out the basic storyline, but have not gone beyond that. I am mostly doing this so that I can get more practice writing screenplays and to not have to write a final exam. With there being no exam in my other class this term it's gonna be sweet to finish in the first week of April and have almost 2 months off before the start of spring term (I hope I get into the Filmmaking class.....)
On an off topic (are there really any off topics when you don't really have one to begin with) the more I watch "The Critic" the more I see just how much "Family Guy" owes to it. "The Critic" was the first animated show to really exploit the crazy situation aside that "Family Guy" uses so well. You know, when a character mentions something silly and the scene quickly cuts to a fantasy sequence. I wonder if anyone else has noticed this??? Either way, both shows are funny, so you should check them out (if you haven't already). Back to the nothing!