Things I did this week:
- 10-hour marathon ODE  study party: 5 EngScis in the common room on my floor that hangs over the loud TV room + Reznikoff's sponsored snacks + 1 midterm in <24 hours = big fun (actually though).
    - For the English majors in the house, ODEs are Ordinary Differential Equations
- solved the world's most pressing problems
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Les Chansons d'Amour ( Read more... )

Rocket Science - It's this year's Thumbsucker only funnier. Good soundtrack, some good moments, and a whole bunch of meandering, superfluous slosh. The trailer gives away almost all the key scenes.

Shameless - I watched the first episode of season 1 and it looks promising. It's roudy and unafraid to do the "HBO thing" : there's reasonably explicit ( Read more... )

Becoming Jane, Starter for 10, Date Movie, Rashomon, The Seven Samurai

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The Hornblower TV Miniseries/episodes/movies from A&E are so much seafaring fun. I watched two of them and want to watch them all. Since I only have two of them, for now, I settled for dipping into some good 'ole Aubrey/Maturin books a la Patrick O'Brian ( Read more... )

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I went browsing through Pages, a bookstore at Queen and John or something like that (it's across the street from MuchMusic) and they have big sections of indie magazines and literature as well as really nifty sections on design, architecture, photography, and art.

I found a really nifty magazine there called eye magazine (not the Toronto one). I ( Read more... )

Recently Seen:

Lolita - very good. Peter Sellers apparently always plays multiple characters in Kubrick films. And always does it well. Lauren and I want to see a Lolita version with Alan Rickman as the 'dad'.

Conspirators of Pleasure - weirdest movie I've ever seen. Czech silent film with whacky textures and no real story. This deserves a full ( Read more... )

Rashomon has a lot of interesting ideas but doesn't really execute them very well. That's right, I said Kurosawa doesn't know how to make his ideas work.  It's all over the top, full of lots of maniacal laughter, and goofy characters; it's difficult to take seriously. After all, a dead man tells his story of how he was killed. It's supposed to be ( Read more... )

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