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"I haven't tried to find a compromise between myself and others. I have thought that the more particular I am the more I address the general."
--Chantal Akerman, 1982

Today I saw a group of kids who were visiting from Alaska (Allison turned around and asked them where they were from) eating in our dining hall. They did not realize that you're supposed to take your dishes and leftover food up to the conveyor belt before you leave, and so I saw that one of them had left the following in his wake: a heap of nachos ( Read more... )

"I went through a big Hemingway phase in my twenties." That's a sentence that seems to get thrown around a lot.

not only the best song of the year (no contest), but also the song that best describes my own personal 2007, i decided today ( Read more... )

I just had my last British Lit class ever, and I am only sure that these past two and a half years of my life and money have been all just been leading towards me writing the very last sentence that I wrote in my notebook: "USING LANGUAGE TO COMMUNICATE IS INHERENTLY A SYMPTOM OF FALLENNESS. THE. END ( Read more... )

"My films are expressive of a culture that has had the possibility of attaining material fulfillment while at the same time finding itself unable to accomplish the simple business of conducting human lives. We have been sold a bill of goods as a substitute for life ( Read more... )

I just scheduled for my Spring classes. I am taking ( Read more... )

A wise scholar by the name of Behrens once proposed this theory of the funnel, in which we should all celebrate uncertainty and indecision because the more major life decisions you make, the farther you travel down the narrow end of your funnel. There are a lot of people here who are in a pretty big hurry to get to the end of their funnels. (I'm ( Read more... )

Like how about me being pulled backwards in a wheelchair through this alley with a badass Cannon Xsomethingoranother on my shoulder playing Raoul Coutard for a day? How about feeling for the thousandth time that I'd like to spend the rest of my life doing just that.