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Boom Boom- John Lee Hooker
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17.3.09
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because the internet needs simplistic watchmen fanart right now like it needs inspirational posters, lolcats, and twilight fanfiction.
I thought the movie was very good and entertaining, the acting was a bit flat here and there but my imagination gives an excellent performance to live up to, so its not surprising that a few lines rang sour for me. Obviously not as good as the book, but still very good considering it had to be condensed into a feature film.
by me
because the internet needs simplistic watchmen fanart right now like it needs inspirational posters, lolcats, and twilight fanfiction.
I thought the movie was very good and entertaining, the acting was a bit flat here and there but my imagination gives an excellent performance to live up to, so its not surprising that a few lines rang sour for me. Obviously not as good as the book, but still very good considering it had to be condensed into a feature film.
2.3.09
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I have accumulated a lot of books in the past few months, in truth I probably have enough to quit my life and read full time for a year or two.
These are the books I most want to read at the moment, increasing in intensity as you go down the list:
Two People- A.A. Milne
Doctor Faustus- Thomas Mann
The Brothers Karmazov- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
The Divine Comedy- Durante degli Alighieri
Paradise Lost- John Milton
Thus Spake Zarathrustra- Friedrich Nietzsche
As I Lay Dying- William Faulkner
The Sun Also Rises- Ernest Hemingway
I'm open to strongly worded suggestions also.
I have every other book by Hemingway apart from The Sun Also Rises, though his posthumous publications are all in paperback, because I've been holding out to get a nice copy. I have too much to read at the moment though, so I've read far too little of it. I'm probably going to give in and buy one that has a little chunk out of the cover soon though, because I really want to read it. My brother has my copy of Paradise Lost, my sister has Two People, and I don't have As I lay Dying, Lolita, or Thus Spake Zarathrustra. The latter of which I'll probably have to order in, the others I should be able to get secondhand.
I'm reading The Castle right now, hopefully I can get the others soon. I'm thinking of starting with Lolita after I'm done with The Castle [Kafka], assuming I can find a copy cheaply.
I have accumulated a lot of books in the past few months, in truth I probably have enough to quit my life and read full time for a year or two.
These are the books I most want to read at the moment, increasing in intensity as you go down the list:
Two People- A.A. Milne
Doctor Faustus- Thomas Mann
The Brothers Karmazov- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
The Divine Comedy- Durante degli Alighieri
Paradise Lost- John Milton
Thus Spake Zarathrustra- Friedrich Nietzsche
As I Lay Dying- William Faulkner
The Sun Also Rises- Ernest Hemingway
I'm open to strongly worded suggestions also.
I have every other book by Hemingway apart from The Sun Also Rises, though his posthumous publications are all in paperback, because I've been holding out to get a nice copy. I have too much to read at the moment though, so I've read far too little of it. I'm probably going to give in and buy one that has a little chunk out of the cover soon though, because I really want to read it. My brother has my copy of Paradise Lost, my sister has Two People, and I don't have As I lay Dying, Lolita, or Thus Spake Zarathrustra. The latter of which I'll probably have to order in, the others I should be able to get secondhand.
I'm reading The Castle right now, hopefully I can get the others soon. I'm thinking of starting with Lolita after I'm done with The Castle [Kafka], assuming I can find a copy cheaply.
15.2.09
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It has been about two months since i have had a real non-how-about-I-just-stick-in-a-webcomic-post, so I figured I ought to stick in a few sentences in here this evening.
I've grown to be alright with school to a certain extent, I can get through work without any real hassles. Right now the only real problem I have is setting goals for myself. It's not that I can't work towards a goal, I just can't seem to find a goal that's viable or interesting enough to suit me right now. I keep telling myself that I'm going to write a novel, but I've decided to work on that off and on until summer.
I really ought to be throwing myself into my schoolwork, but I find my classes a tad boring sometimes. It's not that the subjects aren't interesting, it's just that I don't like the way they're being taught. I can't say it's doing wonders for my study habits; I don't bring a notebook book to class, and my readings are done in the hour before class, if at all.
I doubt I'm going to take psych next year. I like the idea of psychology, but I suppose I want to just sit around and access cognitive awareness by thinking and talking and using my gut. It's not that I don't think that the science of it can be interesting, but what I'm being taught is so shallow in some ways, and I can't shake the feeling that in the next decade or so all of todays psychology will just have turned out to be useless.
English I like to an extent, but it seems every time I write an essay it gets a little worse. It's as if I only had a certain amount of formal essays in me when I was born and I've run dry. Formal essays just strike me more and more as formulaic though, and I don't have the patience anymore to breath the life into them any more. I'm probably just lazy.
I have no real complaints about philosophy, there's no much to know and argue that just requires you to be bright. Which is all I am. I'm forget facts easily, I'm not well read, or particularly knowledgeable. Though at times modern standards have dropped to make me seem a great deal more knowledgeable than I am, in the larger scheme of things I'm tremendously ignorant.
Philosophy doesn't command you to accept anything, but encourages you to study everything.
The only problem is that philosophizing isn't a career. There's absolutely no money to be made out of it. None.
I can use it for other things: for writing books, for going into politics, for just general insight into virtually any field, but I can't expect it to be an end unto itself.
There's a lot more to this train of thought, but I've gone on long enough and it's late and I haven't been getting enough sleep lately.
It has been about two months since i have had a real non-how-about-I-just-stick-in-a-webcomic-post, so I figured I ought to stick in a few sentences in here this evening.
I've grown to be alright with school to a certain extent, I can get through work without any real hassles. Right now the only real problem I have is setting goals for myself. It's not that I can't work towards a goal, I just can't seem to find a goal that's viable or interesting enough to suit me right now. I keep telling myself that I'm going to write a novel, but I've decided to work on that off and on until summer.
I really ought to be throwing myself into my schoolwork, but I find my classes a tad boring sometimes. It's not that the subjects aren't interesting, it's just that I don't like the way they're being taught. I can't say it's doing wonders for my study habits; I don't bring a notebook book to class, and my readings are done in the hour before class, if at all.
I doubt I'm going to take psych next year. I like the idea of psychology, but I suppose I want to just sit around and access cognitive awareness by thinking and talking and using my gut. It's not that I don't think that the science of it can be interesting, but what I'm being taught is so shallow in some ways, and I can't shake the feeling that in the next decade or so all of todays psychology will just have turned out to be useless.
English I like to an extent, but it seems every time I write an essay it gets a little worse. It's as if I only had a certain amount of formal essays in me when I was born and I've run dry. Formal essays just strike me more and more as formulaic though, and I don't have the patience anymore to breath the life into them any more. I'm probably just lazy.
I have no real complaints about philosophy, there's no much to know and argue that just requires you to be bright. Which is all I am. I'm forget facts easily, I'm not well read, or particularly knowledgeable. Though at times modern standards have dropped to make me seem a great deal more knowledgeable than I am, in the larger scheme of things I'm tremendously ignorant.
Philosophy doesn't command you to accept anything, but encourages you to study everything.
The only problem is that philosophizing isn't a career. There's absolutely no money to be made out of it. None.
I can use it for other things: for writing books, for going into politics, for just general insight into virtually any field, but I can't expect it to be an end unto itself.
There's a lot more to this train of thought, but I've gone on long enough and it's late and I haven't been getting enough sleep lately.
4.2.09
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