Daniel Day Lewis

Another thing I forgot to mention about the Hunger Games: if I was the boy from District 12 and they hadn't introduced the new rule about letting two kids survive, I'd have bashed Catnip or whatever her name was in the head while we were snuggling in the cave. It would beat having to fight her to the death later because damn! That girl was deadly. 

So anyway, the topic of the day is...I dunno. I have the week off so I don't have any quirky uni anecdotes to draw on. I haven't had any HUGE nights out lately. They're always ripe for storytelling. I've run out of weird gimmicks, like fake trailers and ironic acrostic poetry. All I did today was go to the gym and watch There Will Be Blood. What a fascinating day! That Daniel Day Lewis is one hell of an actor, though. Everyone says he's really intense. Last year I caught Paul F. Tompkins at the Comedy Festival. He's the guy who morphs into the Devil/Dave Grohl in Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny. Anyway he joked about how intimidating it was working with Daniel Day Lewis because the guy gets in the zone, and by that I mean he takes his role very seriously. He adopts the character like a new personality, living as that character, eating and sleeping as that character. There doesn't even have to be camera pointed at him, he'll truly become that person for as long as the movie is in production. That's what I've heard, anyway. I've never met him but if he was to star in my biopic I have no doubt he would enrol as an Arts student, hang out with my friends, find out who I am down to every last, miniscule detail. Then he would start behaving like me with eerie accuracy because he's such a great actor. I'd get freaked out and try to get rid of him but he'll have taken over my identity to such an extent that he has decided my life is now his. "Fine," I'd say. "You be Niall. I'll be Daniel Day Lewis." So I'd go and stand in front of a mirror, shouting "I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!!!" until it sounds convincing.

It's a good movie, There Will be Blood. The weird thing about Daniel Day Lewis apart from everything above is how he never picks a bad movie. He never sells out and does garbage just to make a quick buck. In fact he only seems to pick movies that are either super-arthouse or hugely epic. The guy is one hell of an actor.