I've got a new ESL Classroom Games site. It's also got a ton of information for foreigners coming to Taiwan. Check it out!

http://www.taiwanenglish.com/

The subject of the hypothetical happiness machine seems to keep coming up. If you had the choice to live in a machine that produced complete happiness for you, would you ( Read more... )

I decided I ought to start posting my life here again, to keep track of these nights before loneliness hits a little harder and I run back to a relationship, God forbid. Now is the time for friends, adventures. To make amends ( Read more... )

Citizen Kane was great. Wonderful character development. Inredable production and creation given the era. Really intriguing, poingiant look at someone trying to find love and shape the world to his own ideas.

4.5 stars

Being John Malkovich was perhaps one of the most profoundly odd films I've ever seen, bordering on creepy. So obviously I loved it. Raised a lot of existential questions without answering any of them fully, though had somewhat of a self-awareness, especially as John enters his own head. In the end it served as a sort of quirky "what if?" without ( Read more... )

Amelie was absolutly brilliant.Interesting use of pacing, film montage, the score was great, romance and love, dialogue was insightful, new, everything popped, character development had depth. so so wonderful.

4.5 stars

(I've decided to skip plot summary and go straight to thoughts, implications, profound statements I garner from the films ( Read more... )

Sat down to have a personal workshop with local Kaplan genius Bob Verini today. Instead of focusing on law school and me, we talked for about 20 minutes regarding his role as a Variety contributer and writer for "Script," a magazine for young script writers. He recommended a number of movies to me, notable "Being There," what he calls the thinking ( Read more... )

I'm watching movies from now until I graduate, everyday.
I'm going to post short reviews (5-10 minutes) of them on this journal.
I'm going to write a great screenplay and sell it and move to california and live rich, while writing.

And that's what I'm going to do.
Fuck anyone who doubts me.

- Jerry

steak dinners and monument crawls