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Ah, Crazy Month #2. Salve, chaire, and what up. I tend to think of April as the second crazy month, because I’m wired into the academic calendar rather than the Julian one.
Ye Olde Movie Reviewe: “Love’s Labour’s Lost”. Yeah, the infamous Kenneth Branagh version. It was pretty bad.
Books, Scoring Of. Took an hour-long (but cheap) bus ride to a bookstore liquidation sale. Most of the good general SF/F was gone, but lots of kids and YA. I bought the illustrated MirrorMask script book, a beautiful illustrated Peter Pan, the Penguin edition of the Epic of Gilgamesh, and a Maxfield Parrish calendar. There was lots of poetry, but I truly hate the regular Penguin editions (although the classics series is okay – I prefer the black covers). I don’t care about most books, although pretty is better, but I require that my poetry books be nicely bound. Or old. Or both.
Funny how poets can be rambling along about something infuriatingly pastoral or sentimental, like flowers, and then suddenly they’ll say something that hits you in the gut.
Monday, April 2, 2007
Spacebirds went down like a first draft. Which it admittedly kinda was. If I can flesh out the 'verse better, the rest of it might work. I really want to write this now. The whole thing. All 1750 lines.
Catullus is TEH AWESOME. But we already knew that.
A note to online reviewers: no matter how deep you think you are, if you don’t understand simple punctuation and capitalization, I will not take you or your opinion seriously. (That is a future MORE VIVID conditional sentence, which means I REALLY MEAN IT. See? I can be omg deep and literary too, when I feel like it.)
Also, there were goats today.
Saturday, April 7, 2007
Boring school news: Sorry, Catullus, but no matter how awesome you are, Homer will always be even more awesome. Well, except for maybe the “odi et amo” poem, but that’s because it’s two lines long. I have permission to audit a “Fairy Tales and the Fantastic” class. The only textbook is The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Awesome.
Lessee. Not much been happening. Went to lecture on the Trojan War at USC. Nice place. Nice abs on the statue of Tommy Trojan. Got free tote bag with USC Arts and Humanities Initiative logo on it. Unfortunately cannot use it around campus. Was a good lecture, but not mind-blowingly informative. Other than that the Hittites are cooler than I suspected.
Have been watching “Ballykissangel”. Awwww. Have also ordered “Rome” from Netflix, as there’s a lecture about it this month. Might make more sense if I’m informed.
If you’re thinking, “Gee, all this freak talks about is school and movies! Is that all she does?” you’re pretty much right.
Ah, Crazy Month #2. Salve, chaire, and what up. I tend to think of April as the second crazy month, because I’m wired into the academic calendar rather than the Julian one.
Ye Olde Movie Reviewe: “Love’s Labour’s Lost”. Yeah, the infamous Kenneth Branagh version. It was pretty bad.
Books, Scoring Of. Took an hour-long (but cheap) bus ride to a bookstore liquidation sale. Most of the good general SF/F was gone, but lots of kids and YA. I bought the illustrated MirrorMask script book, a beautiful illustrated Peter Pan, the Penguin edition of the Epic of Gilgamesh, and a Maxfield Parrish calendar. There was lots of poetry, but I truly hate the regular Penguin editions (although the classics series is okay – I prefer the black covers). I don’t care about most books, although pretty is better, but I require that my poetry books be nicely bound. Or old. Or both.
Funny how poets can be rambling along about something infuriatingly pastoral or sentimental, like flowers, and then suddenly they’ll say something that hits you in the gut.
Monday, April 2, 2007
Spacebirds went down like a first draft. Which it admittedly kinda was. If I can flesh out the 'verse better, the rest of it might work. I really want to write this now. The whole thing. All 1750 lines.
Catullus is TEH AWESOME. But we already knew that.
A note to online reviewers: no matter how deep you think you are, if you don’t understand simple punctuation and capitalization, I will not take you or your opinion seriously. (That is a future MORE VIVID conditional sentence, which means I REALLY MEAN IT. See? I can be omg deep and literary too, when I feel like it.)
Also, there were goats today.
Saturday, April 7, 2007
Boring school news: Sorry, Catullus, but no matter how awesome you are, Homer will always be even more awesome. Well, except for maybe the “odi et amo” poem, but that’s because it’s two lines long. I have permission to audit a “Fairy Tales and the Fantastic” class. The only textbook is The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Awesome.
Lessee. Not much been happening. Went to lecture on the Trojan War at USC. Nice place. Nice abs on the statue of Tommy Trojan. Got free tote bag with USC Arts and Humanities Initiative logo on it. Unfortunately cannot use it around campus. Was a good lecture, but not mind-blowingly informative. Other than that the Hittites are cooler than I suspected.
Have been watching “Ballykissangel”. Awwww. Have also ordered “Rome” from Netflix, as there’s a lecture about it this month. Might make more sense if I’m informed.
If you’re thinking, “Gee, all this freak talks about is school and movies! Is that all she does?” you’re pretty much right.
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Date: 2007-04-07 09:42 pm (UTC)*covet covet covet* dude. awesome indeed.
yay for book sales!
I've seen the first four episodes of Rome, all in a row it was so much fun. I really must get together with my friend Adam (who has it) to watch more. ^_^
what are your thoughts on 300? I haven't seen it, but read some articles and go worked up and wrote the notes for a very long post about it. but now I don't have the momentum to finish and post it. heh.
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Date: 2007-04-07 09:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-07 10:12 pm (UTC)same. I don't know terribly much about military history, but I do remember a certain amount about the various cultures at the time, and it's the way they are portrayed in the film, and being put into to the black:white::Good:Evil paradigm that bothers me.
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Date: 2007-04-08 06:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-08 08:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-08 10:27 pm (UTC)i think i watched that version of love's labour's with allie on one of our movie nights firsdt year. yeah, weird. though i have to say that i really like that one scene when they're each discovering that that the other guys are in love & the prince falls down with the funniest expression on his face. ;P
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Date: 2007-04-08 11:38 pm (UTC)love's labour's
I remember watching that scene with you two. :D