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* Yes, I am alive. A little over a week ago my boyfriend and myself almost got hit by a train and had to jump off a bridge. I had to get stitches and for a while there I didn't do much. It was hard trying to prioritize things such as update your webpage, read chapter six, and do laundry, when you almost died. I'm getting back into the groove now. I was behind in a few classes, but I managed to catch up and now I am going to update the page more. Thanks for sticking around, I appreciate it.
* Have you ever came so close to death that you were actually convinced you were dead? I did, yesterday. I don't know when I will update next. I need some time off.
Really cool patterns to satisfy your craving for pumpkin carving.
* HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
* Today was my parent's 31st Wedding Anniversary. So, Happy Anniversary! They were married the day before Halloween and their wedding colors were orange and green. You start off a marriage like that and you are bound to have weird kids as a result.
Its been about four weeks since the quarter started. I've turned in at least twelve prints and I figured by now I would have them back so I could scan em and post em. There was two in particular I wanted to show you guys, but no, today when I went to develop some prints I notice in the hall of the Art Department my two prints. The only two I wanted to scan are the only two up on the board, damn the man.
Once again because I'm an individualized studies major, with no specific department to rule me, I'm left to drift. Course times have been changed which f*cks up my course list and messes up my possible graduation date, which is suppose to be this spring quarter. So, for the third quarter in a row, I've emailed at least three professors trying to figure out when courses will be offered so I can get out of this hell hole into a new one, but one that pays.
* During my Stephen King class today, the teacher passed out a handout about the term, scopophila. I was delighted until I read it...
II PLEASURE IN LOOKING/FASCINATION WITH THE HUMAN FORM
"A. The cinema offers a number of possible pleasures. One is scopophilia (pleasure in looking). There are circumstances in which looking itself is a source of pleasure, just as, in the reverse formation, there is pleasure in being looked at. Originally, in his Three Essays on Sexuality, Freud isolated scopophila as one of the component instincts of sexuality which exist as drives quite independently of the erotogenic zones. At this point he associated scopophilia with taking other people as objects, subjecting them to a controlling and curious gaze. His particular examples centre on the voyeuristic activities of children, their desire to see and make sure of the private and forbidden (curiosity about other people's genital and bodily functions, about the presence or absence of the penis and, retrospectively, about the primal scene). In this analysis scopophilia is essentially active....yadda, yadda, yadda, stuff about "peeping toms" and perversion, sexual satisfaction, stuff I'm sure you have no interest in, yadda, yadda....
At first glance, the cinema would seem to be remote from the undercover world of the surreptitious observation of an unknowing and unwilling victim...Although the film is really being shown, is there to be seen, conditions of screening and narrative conventions give the spectator an illusion of looking in on a private world. Among other things, the position of the spectators in the cinema is blatantly one of repression of their exhibitionism and projection of the repressed desire onto the performer."
That explains a whole lot more than I am willing to share.
I wish I was as happy as that nun.
* Everybody mark your calendars for July 3, 2002!
The Powerpuff Girls Movie opens that date, in competion with Men in Black 2, but I think the girls can hold their own. My favorite of all the Powerpuff Girls is Buttercup. I even carved a pumpkin this weekend with her face on it. I am going to take a picture and scan it, soon I hope, to get it on this page.
You can create your own Powerpuff girl or boy!
* I'm attempting to stick with the theme of my weblog, which is film. Occasionally I go off on tangents about my newts or school or something equally stupid.
"The show-business newspaper Variety reported that a group of big-name Hollywood writers had been convened in early October at the behest of the U.S. Army to take advantage of their creativity in trying to predict terrorist scenarios in America that might be planned by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida. Among those in attendance were the writers of the movies 'Die Hard' and 'Delta Force One,' but also the writers of 'Grease' and the TV show 'MacGyver.'"
Via, Chuck Shepherd's News of the Weird.
Excellent, writers from Macgyver. With any luck we will be able to protect ourselves with coat hangers and gum. This proves even more how we are ran by our entertainment industries veruses our government, we should have elected Warren Beatty.
"Independent distributor Avatar Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to "Kandahar" ("The Sun Behind The Moon"), the new feature from Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The film was shot on location at the border between Afghanistan and Iran and offers a harrowing look at the life of women under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan."
Film Threat
I can't really explain the picture, nor do I understand it.
"'Ghost World' is filled wall to wall with great dialogue. Dialogue that any pessimist or people hater will eat up. Every performance in the film is perfect, from the leads to the smaller characters. Bob Balaban is wonderful in a very small role as Enid's sheepish father. Illeana Douglas is hilarious as Enid's summer school, New Age/activist, art teacher. Deadpan humor abounds in a high school comedy that is a 'film', not a movie."
That's my kind of movie. I love people haters...wait?
Thursday, October 25, 2001
* For only $3.99 you too could have your very own Elvis Presley Driver's License.
The Hollywood Mega Store is obviously trying to target the large market of immigrants coming to the U.S., that's low.
Movie-A-Minute gives a brief summary of film's that, in their opinion, are just to long to watch. For example, why spend 2 hours watching Interview With The Vampire when it is basically:
Brad Pitt
I don't want to suck blood from humans.
Tom Cruise
Yes you do.
Brad Pitt
You're right.
THE END
If you ask me, it was worth sitting there for two hours to watch both Brad and Tom on screen at the same time. As far as their summary of the plot, it's pretty much right on.
"The Man Who Wasn't There is the new film from Joel and Ethan Coen. Set in the summer of 1949, The Man Who Wasn't There has as its title character Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton), a barber in a small northern California town. Ed is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Doris' (Francis McDormand) infidelity presents Ed with an opportunity for blackmail that he thinks will help him to change it. However, Ed's scheme unravels and lays bare even darker secrets before leading to murder."
The Man Who Wasn't There is filmed in black and white and stylistically represents, Film Noir. It recieved the Best Director Award at the 2001 Cannes International Film Festival.
* "I would do [a big-budget action movie] because I want to experience it. I think it’s probably a lot easier for me to do a scene in which I’m having an intimate conversation with someone on a quiet little set than it is to scream at a blue screen because I think a giant dragon’s penis is trying to swallow me. That, to me, [would be] a challenge." Joaquin Phoenix
Via, Quote...Unquote.
Did you know, Bill Maher and Shannon Tweed starred in a movie together, Cannibal Women In The Avocado Jungle Of Death. Serious, you can't make that kinda shit up.
Today was my first day of the Stephen King class. It focuses on the adpation of Stephen King's novels and short stories to the screen. So far the teacher has noted, when Stephen himself tries to "help" with the picture, it basically turns to crap. Right now I am reading, The Body, then we will watch Stand By Me in class. No references to Cujo though, *sigh*.