lights! camera! action!

yes, a little action would be god here... but you see, i was spending hours roaming blogmad! two or three entries from now (time is relative, or did you forget?) here or there (yeah, space is relative too, especially online) when i suddenly stumbled upon the one and only smash who doesn't love me nearly as much as i love him as evidenced by the much more frequent linking of him by me rather than by him of me (or something like that) which is why we blame him and lay these massive guilt trips on him, not that guilt works on him, but it does amuse him so he is affected, you see, somehow, subconsciously, through the ethers and subliminalness of literary osmosis...

or something like that...

anyway, there i was browsing the blogmad sites that's blogmad! <--- your chance to join and discover what it's all about for yourself and give me kudos cuz i sent you and they'll welcome you with fanfare and a parade - or you could just slip in unnoticed since they probably forgot who i am since i haven't been there in a couple or few years) when who should pop up in the blogmad! window after several hours of clicking between writing, but smash (see?... another link... i'm winning the link wars, so there... i get the prize, whatever it is... last year it was the meaningless bowl of rotting fruit, but i felt gypped cuz somebody stole all the worms and maggots... there were a few dead flies though, but we digress) and i just had to visit his smashing website to read all about his outrageous antics and ridiculous escapades (or are they ridiculous antics and outrageous escapades... i always get those confused... but then, he'd never be caught dead driving an escapade... wait, i think i meant escolade, never mind) and a few entries back, along about here in the scheme of warped time-date stamps, i found the following test and took it... twice...

see (yeah, again), I was torn between the walk into the horizon ending and the big song and dance ending... and a few other questions had me wanting the test to allow more than one answer because there was more than one right answer for me, so the test couldn't actually categorize or judge or whatever it was supposed to do to me as accurately as it should have cuz i had to choose between answers that were both right, at least a few times, at least both, even... so i present the two results below... i didn't take it a third time because, well, why complicate things (yeah, wide eyes and all)... so this was the song and dance ending with a little more sentiment in the answers that were dually-correct:

Your result for The Director Who Films Your Life Test...

James L. Brooks

Your film will be 55% romantic, 47% comedy, 52% complex plot, and a $ 55 million budget.

Filmography: Terms of Endearment, Spanglish, As Good As It Gets, Broadcast News, etc. He also is responsible for bringing The Simpsons to TV (from when he produced The Tracy Ullman Show). It's likely that the audience will cry if Jimmy makes your film. In fact, the Simpsons writing team gave the name "Jimmies" to those sweet, tender, loving moments that end some Simpsons episodes. Also, that's he who says, "How about some sponge cake? With a brandy glaze! Muwahaha!" Seriously, though, he knows how to tap into the humanity of his characters and draw out Oscar-nominated quality performances from his actors.

Take The Director Who Films Your Life Test at HelloQuizzy

and this was the walk off into the sunset ending with a bit more laughter in the answers where there was a choice (doesn't everybody have romantic laughter and complex relationships?... guess not, according to these tests)... so here was the second take:

Your result for The Director Who Films Your Life Test...

Ingmar Bergman

Your film will be 55% romantic, 34% comedy, 45% complex plot, and a $ 43 million budget.

Your life will be portrayed on film as an intense psychological drama, likely with some actresses screaming at the camera (Persona), or maybe a pleasant chess game between the Grim Reaper and a Crusader (The Seventh Seal). This Swedish director's films are intensely scrutinzed and studied in colleges all over the world to this day. This means that most Americans still don't understand his films! Still alive, he released in the U.S. in 2005 his first film in 23 years (Saraband), and he can still take on one more project to make your film biography. If curious, start with his films Wild Strawberries and Smiles of a Summer Night.

Take The Director Who Films Your Life Test at HelloQuizzy

so i am probably too romantic (and maybe not quite as complex) as smash cuz, after all, i haven't killed anybody or eaten babies, or at least i didn't admit to it this time(though i'd love to play with her and vaseline, but that's another continent.,.. and story, for that matter)... i'm surprised smash didn't get Quentin Tarantino, actually, but then, he must have wanted the big song and dance number ending, which would balance out the weapons of mass destruction... personally, if we got together, we'd probably get Stanley Kubrick, but then, who could possibly direct both of us...

so in the end, for this one moment in time, i am just as romantic either way, but i am funnier when i am less emo and more complex when i am more emo and more expensive when i am all bouncy and excited and now playing clint eastwood cool... but isn't everybody? :)