zucco's lookin pretty good today, huh riz?

so i thought it was funny that everyone in class that had seen "groundhog day" before (by the way, it is actually groundhog day - not groundhog's day...the celebration centers around one groundhog, after all. little things like this bug me - like when people say "expecially" or "deers"), couldn't remember character names. it seems odd that we can watch or hear something so many times, and yet not be able to recall certain aspects of the thing. like, i know "grease" practically by heart - all of the songs, almost all of the lines - i even know the schools mascot, the rydell ranger. it's kind of sick. i know i have seen that movie more that 50 times. but i've also seen "10 things i hate about you" probably 30 times, and the only characters i can remember are kat and bianca. and even though i've seen the scene sooooo many times because its one of those things where whenever it's on tv, i always seem to catch it at the exact same moment, but i don't actually know the 10 things bianca hates about...uh, heath ledger. no idea what the character's name is.
i can recite word for word every song from beauty and the beast (oh, and in class on wednesday, i was dying to burst into song and keep going with the bonjour song...little town, it's a quiet village; every day like the one before. little town, full of little people waking up...tooo....saaaaay....bonjour! bonjour, bonjour, bonjour, bonjour! there goes the baker with his tray like always, the same old bread and rolls to sell - every morning just the same, since the morning that we came to this poor provincial town - "good morning, belle!"....oh, belle. i want to be you. i'd marry the beast if i could have a library like that), and even though that proves that i have mad skills and no life at the same time, it still doesn't explain to me why i can remember so much from some movies, but not others. do i have to love the movie to remember? is that why i'm so bad at learning foreign languages? my hatred for any other language other than english must somehow inhibit my brain from absorbing spanish vocab. although, when i took irish gaelic last fall at UM, we didn't have a book, and we had to learn everything through vocal repetition. and while i was pretty kick-ass at speaking gaelic in the class, in the environment - the minute i left i had no idea what i had just studied. and right now, all i can remember is that when someone says "dia gwit," i say "dias moodagwit"...that's phonics, by they way. if i could remember how to spell in irish, i probably would have passed with more than a C. that's why i find it hard to remember the names of the nine muses away from the environment i decided to actually memorize them in. so for me, my way of putting loci into use is using my personal location to my advantage. hopefully when i come up with a list of 50 things to memorize, i'll be able to regurgitate it in class. i can't decide if i want to use song titles or food. but i kind of want to alphabetize my list to make things a little easier on myself. maybe i'll get extra credit if i just sing a song....