Bank teller is the roughest movie job there is. It's up there with archeologist, spy and virgin. If you don't believe me go and watch Sam Raimi's "Drag me to Hell" (2009). The girl (I still don't know or care what her name is) is beating up a psychotic old lady within the first 20 minutes of the film. The lady, who in a comedy would just be the ( Read more... )

 My friend contacted me last week (let's say 8/21/2010) to tell me about something she was doing with a group of friends that she wanted me to be a part of. Until October 15 they're going to be recording dreams and whoever has the "best dream" at the end will have their dream filmed. I'm stoked about the recording dreams and hearing about other ( Read more... )

I bought the season 3 box set of "Mr. Belvedere" at Half Price Books the other day because... well... it was only twenty bucks and I LOVE the theme song. I also saw the first episode online a while ago and wanted to see some more of it ( Read more... )

I'm taking a medieval literature class this quarter. Last class were were analyzing a short poem called "Wulf and Eadwacer" after which my teacher pressed us for any thoughts. I didn't know what else to say (I'm not overly fond of poetry that isn't Ovid), so I said that the poem kind of reminded me of Pasiphae. He asked me to elaborate so i said, " ( Read more... )

 Going through the classics and history you read more quotable quotes than you can shake a stick at. It helps that as I read I imagine Rex Harrison reading to me. Or Michael Caine. Or Morgan Freeman. After the Olympics we can add Donald Sutherland to that list as well ( Read more... )

 I'm reading Ovid, the Aeneid, Lucretius and a guy named Wallace-Hadrill, qui de aetate Augusti scribit (who writes about the age of Augustus). I'm translating a lot too. All I hear is Cicero blathering on forever until he finally gets to a verb. Ovid advises me how to pick up girls (apparently someone in the classics program here actually followed ( Read more... )