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[movie] tangled (previously: rapunzel)
I finally saw the, er, teaser trailer (can that really be called a teaser trailer? it certainly teases) for Tangled, formerly Rapunzel, Unbraided (I actually don't mind the name change).
I just got the Samson & Delilah reference, guys. I'm curious if that's complete coincidence or if there's going to be more parallels ( Read more... ) -
2009: The Atrociously Unused Booklist
I fear the number of books I'm reading continues to go down every year. Urgh.
1. Alcestis by Euripedes, translated by Richmond Lattimore (from: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripedes I)
2. Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
3. Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card
4. The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language by Christine -
books that changed you
With Winter Break fast approaching (better known as: post-finals), I am preparing my I-hope-I-read-this-during-Winter-Break reading list.
Please recommend me:
Literature that has changed you in any way or that you put down and thought 'wow, I don't think I can ever enjoy a book as much as I did then'.
Note that literature can be anything: ( Read more... ) -
attn: finals
I am going on semi-hiatus. I shall be blocking LJ for a week so that I can attempt to study. I've already deactivated FB. I am tempted to block YouTube. This is going to be either very productive or I'm going to destroy my computer.
See you all next week after finals :) -
memories untamed and unknowable reaches!
So, so, I don't even remember how this came up in my head, but I just remembered that when I was in third grade and I attended a school named after President Ike, I used to think that Dwight D. Eisenhower was blackYes! I don't know either! I just! His pictures were all in black and white and my 7/8 year-old mind thought he had African features? And ( Read more... ) -
[movie reaction] The Reader
This is not a coherent review. This is my reaction to having just watched The Reader, starring Kate Winslet, David Kross, and Ralph Fiennes.
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valentine's day, and love
It has seemed a long time, a long, long time, since I have cried at a movie, and it has been even longer since I have loved Romeo or Juliet. Perhaps it's my hormones at the moment, or perhaps I'm feeling sentimental, but tonight when I watched Shakespeare in Love with Emma, I cried deep in the chest. This sadness that goes beyond all grief, of ( Read more... )
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