So I enjoyed making the mini-poem based on Holzer's "Love and Other Catastrophes: A Mix Tape," and I figured I'd go ahead and do that again for this entry. It'll be a little more abstract than Holzer's poem, but, hey, what can you do? My rules for this poem are that I have to use songs that I know fairly well and that I can use songs from a single ( Read more... )

For this blog, I chose "Love and Other Catastrophes: A Mix Tape" by Amanda Holzer. I have to say that I found the "poem" (an odd way to describe what's essentially a wittily-arranged list of songs) pretty entertaining. It's pretty much a story about the cycle of loneliness and love and hurt and hate in relationships. That it starts with the same ( Read more... )

One of the many messages I've found in Stranger than Fiction is that change is necessary in one's life. Some of the main characters go through some amount of change. With Harold, it's obvious: he starts to change his life as according to his unrealized desires, filling it with (some of) the things that were previously missing, such as love, music, ( Read more... )

As they say on movie websites, Spoiler Alert!

Having seen the film Stranger than Fiction before (and quite a few times, might I add), I have to say that I find very little difference in watching the film for entertainment and watching the film for class. To be fair, I've seen it enough to have taken the time to examine the themes and messages the ( Read more... )

As things are, I often just read novels for the story, which is the most enjoyable way to do so. Occasionally, I'd read a little more deeply, taking note of themes and motifs and the like. "Occasionally," by the way, meaning when I had to read for school, which I didn't particularly care for. I find that I have a lot more fun reading what I want to ( Read more... )

So, umm... Where to begin? My name's Matt. I'm twenty, looking to be twenty-one soon. I live in Frisco, and have for a while. As in, too long. Right now, I'm just getting through with my core so that I can transfer and go somewhere else. Where, I have no idea. Somewhere small, quiet, simple, etc. I like movies (dark comedies and bad horror films, ( Read more... )