08.11.2002 /22:02
So I still haven't gotten the LOTR dvd. What's the matter with me? My thinking is that my birthday is coming up and my parents or my sister will probably get me a copy if they know I don't have it yet. So I can wait. I need to concentrate on the last two weeks of summer quarter anyway. yeah. that's it.
I think I am falling in love with movable type. I wish there was a way to do my diaryland diary with mt--so I could get the fun community feeling of dland with the wicked cool control (not to mention xml feed) of mt. I'm nearing a point when I will reveal my new site. I just need a day or two with no other obligations to hunker down and finish. I kind of have a second little secret project up my sleeve that hopefully will come to fruition sometime soon. woo!
I watched Westworld and Soylent Green last night on TCM. TCM is swiftly becoming my favorite channel. Why? Because they show movies with no commercial breaks and often letterboxed. They kind of took over for AMC when AMC went down the tubes. AMC is crap now. They show commercials. They break into the movie to show commercials. I have a feeling that TCM must have done something to AMC, like put the severed head of a horse in AMC's bed, 'cause TCM is definitely top dog when it comes to classic movie cable channels. TCM even snagged Robert Osborne from AMC.
Anyway, Westworld and Soylent Green. I hadn't seen either one, which is strange since I'm a big fan of both "bleak future" movies like The Omega Man and Logan's Run, as well as "technology runs amok" movies like The Terminator and Colossus: The Forbin Project. Yul Brynner was creepy, basically doing what Ah-nold did in the Terminator only while wearing a cowboy outfit. The real star of the movie was Richard Benjamin's mustache. At least it was what my eyes gravitated to every time it was on screen. Soylent Green was cool, definitely on par with the Omega Man if we're talking in terms of the great troika of Charlton Heston bleak future sci-fi (rounded off with The Planet of the Apes of course). Apes is still the best though.
If I switch back to journal style will my blog style entries get all wonky? hmm.
Oh, I finally finished Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which was excellent. It made me want to re-read the Deptford trilogy by Robertson Davies. I don't know why, since they're completely different stories. Stage magic features in both though. I liked the way the golem was used.
What's wrong with me? I used to have much more to say when I finished a novel I liked. Now I'm just happy to finish a novel! I miss taking classes where we got to read great books. Now I read dry textbooks and articles that are only interesting to a very small number of people in the country. woo-hoo. I keep telling myself that I'm getting a strong base in theory that will hold me up in my future work, but in all honesty I can't wait till I can get out there and start applying all this theory. That's where the interesting stuff begins.
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+ listening to: Stevie Wonder
+ reading: Black House
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