Update! The Eels will be starting their new tour here in LA next month. I finally get to see arguably my favorite band in my own hometown. I am so excited I can hardly contain myself. WEEEE.

Wow, the last time I updated this was when I saw Capote. That was a while ago apparently. I have started reading In Cold Blood, which so far has been pretty good. I'm reading it off and on, so it's hard to completely keep track of. Not much else going on. Just generally mucking around. Graduation is in a few weeks, which should be fun. ( Read more... )

Capote is the tale of American literary maestro Truman Capote's experiences that culminated in his famous book "In Cold Blood". Phillip Seymour Hoffman offers a stunning portrayal of Capote that is not only superbly accurate, but portrays the brilliant, yet contradictory psyche of Capote. The film begins in the sparse Kansas countryside in the ( Read more... )

Every year at work we have a free contest where you choose who you think will win various Academy Awards (for the main categories such as Best Picture, Best Actor[ess], etc.) There are four main movies that seem to have generated buzz and a lot of talk in Hollywood: Brokeback Mountain, Syriana, Good Night and Good Luck and Transamerica. The one ( Read more... )

Recently I finished Jared Diamond's famous treatise on geography called "Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies". The whole point of the book is to answer the basic question: "Why did certain civilizations arise to dominate others?" For example, why is it that the Spanish came to the New World and conquered the Aztecs, rather than ( Read more... )

Now that I have finished up with school (and mostly recovered from the effort), I have decided that it is time to fire-up this 'ole journal. Now that it is hours away from February, let's recap since the last time I wrote ( Read more... )

Well I'll be damned....

Yes, I am still alive in the physical sense. Thank you.

Boy, haven't updated with a real post in a real long time. (the last one does not count as it was just merely me just stating the totality of the idea that indeed, I am quite still in existence out in the urban jungle that is Los Ang-el-es...) Anyway hope all is well with any of my viewers. I am quite busy with work and taking a class on Diffy Q ( Read more... )

Contrary to popular belief, I am still alive. Thank you.

Well I have finally finished my namesake... The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (to the uninitiated: Sound and the Fury + William Faulkner = William Fury... get it now? lame I know but give a bookwarm his stupid jokes) All in all it was pretty good. This time I actually read some stuff on it before I read it, so I'd have a better idea who ( Read more... )