Friday, January 11, 2008

Paper Coincidences.

I've spent the past few days writing a torturous research paper on Hiroshima mon amour. I finally turned it today and quite frankly, I think it's horrible. Hopefully my TF will not agree.

On a related note, a strange thing happened at breakfast today. I had dragged myself up for a early breakfast (8 am!) and sat down at Annenberg with Didaph and a few of their friends. During the breakfast chit chat, Dianne asked me to guess what movie they had watched recently. I honestly had no idea where to start guessing, and the first movie that popped into my head was the one I had spent all night writing about -- Hiroshima mon amour. It struck me as obviously wrong -- no one watches that movie for fun -- so I guessed some sillier things instead.

But one of Didaph's friends guessed , in a half-joking manner, "Hiroshima mon amour." I don't know him. He's not in my film class. Yet for somerandom, coincidental reason, he guessed that film. He didn't even watch it recently. (I think.) Folle a Annenberg. What a strange cosmic coincidence.

Addendum: A few minutes later, someone else mentioned he was writing an expos paper on music downloading and copyright. I too wrote a paper on that. My conclusion from these twenty minutes of breakfast conversation: I've written too many papers this term.

reading period, period.

I have finals in 6 days. What am I stressing about? Summer plans.
In January.
Oh Harvard.

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

1234 Tell me that you love me more

...because I sure hate your music video. To my utmost horror, Feist's 1234 music video is not only playing nonstop in Apple's iPod nano ads but up for a Grammy.

In it's defense, someone called it, "Busby Berkeley gone indie."

Just because Busby Berkeley is taught in film classes doesn't mean he has good taste.

I'd call it Busby Berkeley gone 80s. Which is a superexplosion of tackiness.

Two wrongs don't make a right

...but three wrongs do.

three left turns = right turn

Sunday, December 30, 2007

this is so amazing it hurts.

"To be or not to be: that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune."

anagrams to

"In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten."