Jeff and I spent last night watching My Own Private Idaho. Well, I watched and graded papers (ahh, the school year). The moment it started I knew I would want to watch again, just to take in the beauty. After finishing it, I wanted to watch it again in order to put the miscellaneous pieces [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘movies’
9 July 2008
Let’s talk about bureaucracy
I have been thinking a lot about bureaucracy of late. Though it may seem like a somewhat dry theme to most, for me it is the most interesting thing going on in my recent (and, uh, not so recent) media consumption. I have said it before, though perhaps not in writing, that watching [...]
11 May 2008
Notes on life
My ass has been solidly roundhouse kicked by my job, but I am still up and fighting! There are only about five teaching weeks left. I can totally do that! Yeah!
Anyway, here’s a short list on what’s been going on in my intellectual life, which has been a little meager the past couple [...]
23 March 2008
Re: Your Most recent movie recommendation
Dear Dad,
In the midst of the chaos that has been the past couple weeks of my life, Jeff and I took a few hours out of our limited entertainment schedule to watch “Princess Raccoon.” If we hadn’t already decided that we were going to watch it in two shifts (because I fall asleep after one [...]
4 March 2008
Quality Review impending . . .
Just a quick note to say that I’ve got things in the hopper that I really want to have time to write about. I’ve got something simmering in the back of my mind about The Anatomy of Disgust, an article I read in Harper’s about the water-treatment facilities buried below New York City, and Two [...]
18 February 2008
Pippi Longstocking: Not for Amateurs
Jeff and I watched a double-feature yesterday of Pippi Longstocking and Once. Fortunately, Once was only 84 minutes long because Pippi Longstocking feels like it could be a five hour movie. I don’t know how many of you have seen Pippi Longstocking, the original I mean, from Sweden in 1969. I remember seeing [...]
23 January 2008
My teenage heart is broken.
Forever-love for Agent Cooper notwithstanding, my heart is broken.
It is Regents week for New York State, which means testing, testing, testing for the kids and lounging about bitching and wisecracking for the teachers. My particular schedule yesterday kept me in the school until 7pm last night. It’s not natural for anyone to [...]
11 October 2007
midway through a prolonged moment
Involving the South as an entity and just listening, all John Cage-like. I don’t know how true the story is, but as i understand it, as his life went on, Cage stopped listening to recorded music, choosing rather to sit and listen with his windows open to the world as it sped and roared and [...]
11 October 2007
Less Than Zero sucked
Love the brat pack though I do, I find Bret Easton Ellis to be the biggest blow-tard in America. I have yet to be impressed with any of his forays into hedonism. And watching the gorgeous, lovely Robert Downey, Jr., get super f-ed up over and over and gradually look as pasty and washed out [...]
10 August 2007
SPOILER!
Once I finished training for Teaching Fellows (parenthetical celebration!), I read the new Harry Potter. It took me an astonishingly long time–four days–but I’m happily here on the other side of enjoying its charms. That said, it wasn’t the absolute best children’s book I’ve read, not even the best Harry Potter book.
Incidentally, [...]
