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Friday, November 9th, 2007
2:20 pm	Send a Soldier a Card If you go to this web site, www.LetsSayThanks.com you can pick out a thank you card and Xerox will print it and it will be sent to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq .. You can't pick out who gets it, but it will go to some member of the armed services. Please send a card. It is FREE and it only takes a second. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, June 30th, 2007
7:35 pm	This is too much not to steal and repost... (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, June 8th, 2007
8:06 pm	"War is at best barbarism. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell." - Union General William Tecumseh Sherman "War is cruelty, you cannot refine it" - Union General William Tecumseh Sherman (Comment on this)
7:59 pm	I feel bombs falling in my veins, napalm exploding in my blood, the shrapnel of splintering nuclear ash slicing my cells to pieces. (Comment on this)
Friday, May 25th, 2007
11:21 pm	The music was... This was so long ago. To me, it is Thom Yorke's best vocal performance. It used to remind me of Princess Diana. It was obviously abstract allegory. It now seems pointed allegory. The video says more than it did back then. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
9:27 pm	Cannes 60th - Orson Welles back at the 12th Kar-Wai's 'My Blueberry Nights' has opened the festival to mixed reviews. Check a trailer of it here. Also check out Orson Welles with tongue in cheek followed by Jean Cocteau at the 12th festival below: (Comment on this)
Monday, April 16th, 2007
3:43 am	Kafka (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 5th, 2007
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
2:48 pm	Great Classic French Cinema with the Women... Quite a francocinematic experience last night: First I watched Max Ophuls' The Earrings of Madame de... with my mother. I had never seen it before. I do not know what to say now after. It can't really be amongst the greatest movies ever, that is except to me or a select few, can it? It is romantic melodrama and yet gets so many things right, so many dead or dying things, so many aspects of cinema and acting and still I just can't explain it. It seems ridiculous to praise it to others. "The yammerings of a European schoolgirl", is how anyone praising the film should sound, and yet, and yet... It is one of those things I now know I have waited all my life to see, something I didn't know but did. I never imagined they had made this movie. Thank God for me they did. And then after I watched Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game with Kelly. How many times have I seen this film? I first saw it and thought it was good but nothing more. I next saw it without an impression. Upon third viewing I fell in love. It is a slightly different thing each time I see it. An masterpiece of imperfections, a human masterpiece, is what it is. #### (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, March 25th, 2007
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Friday, March 9th, 2007
6:59 pm	The Everything Test The Everything Test There are many different types of tests on the internet today. Personality tests, purity tests, stereotype tests, political tests. But now, there is one test to rule them all. Traditionally, online tests would ask certain questions about your musical tastes or clothing for a stereotype, your experiences for a purity test, or deep questions for a personality test.We're turning that upside down - all the questions affect all the results, and we've got some innovative results too! Enjoy :-) Personality You are more emotional than logical, more concerned about others than concerned about self, more religious than atheist, more dependent than loner, more lazy than workaholic, more rebel than traditional, more artistic mind than engineering mind, more idealist than cynical, more leader than follower, and more introverted than extroverted. As for specific personality traits, you are adventurious (100%), adventurous (90%), intellectual (87%), religious (80%). Stereotypes Old Geezer 100% Punk Rock 93% Emo Kid 67%   Life Experience Sex 42% Substances 41% Travel 42% Politics Your political views would best be described as Liberal, whom you agree with around 45% of the time.   Socioeconomic Your attitude toward life best associates you with Working Class. You make more than 0% of those who have taken this test, and 54% less than the U.S. average. If your life was a movie, it would be rated PG-13. By the way, your hottness rank is 52%, hotter than 75% of other test takers. TAKE THE TEST brought to you by thatsurveysite (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
12:20 am	Testing you literary hipsters of two decades ago... So, literary hipsters of the late 80's, which is to say fans of Kundera and Eco and etc. how do you reconcile or synthesize the thoughts of these two follwing pieces? The first is by Milan Kundera, famed Czech-French author of 'The Unbearable Ligthness of Being.' The piece appeared in this past weekend's Guardian. It is an excerpt from his just released long-essay book 'The Curtain' about the art of the novel. The article "Behind the Curtain" can be found here. The second is by Umberto Eco, famed Italian author of 'The Name of the Rose.' The piece appeared in the Guardian in the summer of 2002. It deals with issues of light fiction versus literature and again cites Eco's enigmatic obsession with Dumas. The article "The Art of Creating a Legend" can be found here. So, are we wasting our time reading adventure stories, missing out on the emotions and teaching of great works or do3w all have a mystery worth investigating during the limited time we have on this earth? (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, December 10th, 2006
7:31 pm	Those mornings after, nowadays... "The light did him harm, but not as much as looking at things did; he resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again. A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum. During the night, too, he’d somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad.” - Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim (1954) (Comment on this)
Saturday, December 2nd, 2006
9:10 pm	move on (as said to automated customer service phone lines) Poetry of Departures (1954) by Philip Larkin Sometimes you hear, fifth-hand, As epitaph: He chucked up everything And just cleared off, And always the voice will sound Certain you approve This audacious, purifying, Elemental move. And they are right, I think. We all hate home And having to be there: I detest my room, Its specially-chosen junk, The good books, the good bed, And my life, in perfect order: So to hear it said He walked out on the whole crowd Leaves me flushed and stirred, Like Then she undid her dress Or Take that you bastard; Surely I can, if he did? And that helps me to stay Sober and industrious. But I'd go today, Yes, swagger the nut-strewn roads, Crouch in the fo'c'sle Stubbly with goodness, if It weren't so artificial, Such a deliberate step backwards To create an object: Books; china; a life Reprehensibly perfect. (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 19th, 2006
6:58 pm	False Security False Security by John Betjeman I remember the dread with which I at a quarter past four Let go with a bang behind me our house front door And clutching a present for my dear little hostess tight, Sailed out for the children's party into the night Or rather the gathering night. For still some boys In the near municipal acres were making a noise Shuffling in fallen leaves and shouting and whistling And running past hedges of hawthorne, spiky and bristling. And black in the oncoming darkness stood out the trees And pink shone the ponds in the sunset ready to freeze And all was still and ominous waiting for the dark And the keeper was ringing his closing bell in the park And the arc lights started to fizzle and burst into mauve As I climbed West Hill to the great big house in The Grove Where the children's party was and the dear little hostess. But halfway up stood the empty house where the ghost is I crossed to the other side and under the arc Made a rush to the next kind lamp-post out of the dark And so to the next and the next till I reached the top Where the Grove branched off to the left.Then ready to drop I ran to the ironwork gateway of number seven Secure at last on the lamplit fringe of Heaven. Oh who can say how subtle and safe one feels Shod in one's children's sandals from Daniel Neal's Clad in one's party clothes made of stuff from Heal's? And who can still one's thrill at the candle shine On cakes and ices and jelly and blackcurrent wine, And the warm little feel of my hostess's hand in mine? Can I forget my delight at the conjuring show? And wasn't I proud that I was the last to go? Too overexcited and pleased with myself to know That the words I heard my hostess's mother employ To a guest departing, would ever diminish my joy, I WONDER WHERE JULIA FOUND THAT STRANGE, RATHER COMMON LITTLE BOY? (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006
11:56 am	Someone stop Frank Gehry... Okay, yes, Gehry's Guggenheim Bilbao museum is pretty neat and follows the Guggenheim's tradition of art museums (e.g. see Frank Lloyd Wright in New York) in which the architecture surpasses the art work inside them totally defeating a museum's tradtional (shall we dare say 'true') purpose. However, Gehry's amorphous structures are getting out of control and I do find them novelties, without point. They do not reward examination in my opinion. Like rainbow colored backgrounds on a webpage just because we now can technically make such odd shaped buildings doesn't me we have to. So his latest (pictured below) is now to ruin the Bois de Boulogne in Paris. It is so sad to see how many cities have given up historical park space maybe not to commericial interests but freely to museum and monuments. The Mall in Washington, D.C. is becoming an architectural travesty of corpulence befitting of the town's corruption. Throw something else down and break the skyline, the long view, the sacred whole which is a city park. Finally, Gehry is a damn Canuck, stop saying he's American and his schtick of deepening insecurity and aggressive egoism revealed in Syndey Pollack's recent documentary lacks any neurotic charm and hints Gehry may not have any idea what he is doing after all, that he is, literally, just fooling around. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
11:47 am	You Passed the US Citizenship Test Congratulations - you got 10 out of 10 correct! Could You Pass the US Citizenship Test? (Comment on this)
Friday, September 22nd, 2006
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Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
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Friday, September 1st, 2006
6:06 pm	Va Savoir... Q: What is the lesson learned from last night's early evening introductory DJing? A: No one cares for choice, hand-picked, creme de la creme, top-shelf French and Sheffield Electro, circa 1978-84. People do go crazy for The Gang of Four, though. I'm more convinced they still just think it's that track whose name they can't remember from the Franz Ferdinand album. Yours, most affectionatedly, DJ Gavrilo Princip (3 Comments |Comment on this)