Pivot & Turn Around

1. Venture Bros. Phone Calls - Dr. Girlfriend
2. Thief and the Cobbler Theme (Trailer Cut)
3. Me Lack Space... In the Spirit - Faust
4. Sister's Husband - Slim Cessna's Auto Club
5. Decline and Fall - The Virgin Prunes
6. It's Them - Themselves
7. Nick the Stripper - The Birthday Party
8. Moss - Big Hat
9. Dancing - Bauhaus
10. I'm Just a Singer (in a Rock and Roll Band) - The Moody Blues
11. Belle's Palsy - Reverend Glasseye and His Wooden Legs
12. Murs iz my Manager - Mr. Lif
13. Fiction (Second Draft) - David Mitchell
14. Got My Own Thing Now - Squirrel Nut Zippers
15. Akuma no Kuma - Sunn O))) feat. Boris
16. Last Day of School - The Wylde Bunch
17. Still Waters - Siiiii
18. Venture Bros. Phone Calls - 21 & 24

I keep filling my time by watching crap online while working in studio. Let's run what I haven't yet mentioned down-

Duckman (20-some episodes) - A-
The Critic (a dozen episodes) - B
X-men Evolution (first season) - B
Wolverine and the X-men (first 11 episodes) - D+
Batman: The Brave and the Bold (first three episodes) - B

Believers - B+
Sukiyaki Western Django - D
Driller Killer - B
Metropolis - A-

Plus, for the heck of it, all the books I've read in the past 6 months-

Redwall - B
Mossflower - B
Mattimeo - B-
Mariel of Redwall - A-
Salamandastron - B
Martin the Warrior - B
The Bellmaker - A
The Outcast of Redwall - B+
Pearls of Lutra - A-
Long Patrol - B+
Marlfox - B-
The Legend of Luke - C+

The Setting Sun (Osamu Dazai) - C+
The Master of Go (Yasunari Kawabata) - A
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Mishima) - B
A Personal Matter (Kenzaburo Oe) - B
The Box Man (Kobo Abe) - A-

Men, Women, and Chainsaws (Carol J. Clover) - C+ [ Part One: A, Part Two: B, Part Three: D, Part 4: C ]

So yeah, the semester is winding to a close really quickly. I'm totally done with two classes, and have one class period for each of my remaining classes. Last class is on monday. I have very split feelings about my first semester, and I'm trying to resolve them. There are certainly things I've liked and things I've disliked, but I need to sort out how much of it is reasonable, how much of it is temporary, how much of it may be positively or negatively influenced by living in the city of Chicago, or being around the people at the school.

1. Mr. Lif - The Fries
2. And Also the Trees - |||Omen|||
3. The Moody Blues - I'm Just a Singer (in a Rock and Roll Band)
4. Strangelove - The City Song
5. Eric Leonardson - Chase
6. Wovenhand - To Make a Ring
7. Slim Cessna's Auto Club - Sister's Husband
8. Themselves - It's Them
9. Darc Mind - Outside Looking In
10. Frank Ifield - She Taught Me to Yodel

And this-

YESSSSSS

WATCH AT LEAST TO THE 40 SECOND MARK

Macy's Thanksgiving Parade 2008

Back in Michigan for the first time in more than three months.

It's kind of surreal, actually.

Also-

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/full-list-of-stuff-white-people-like/

It's ALL true.

no replies for my mega post?

fine... I just show a video of a horse...



EDIT:

Also, I ate my first Chicago style hotdog today. It was fucking epic. I'm definitely doing it again.

Another Update

( Lots of Peculiarities )

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( YOU DO NOT BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, BUT YOU BELIEVE IN ME, THE ME THAT BELIEVES IN THE YOU THAT BELIEVES IN YOURSELF. BECAUSE YOU BELIEVE IN ME, YOU TOO MUST BELIEVE IN THE YOU THAT BELIEVES IN YOURSELF. )
Things are going all right here, overall. Snowed for the first time today, as far as I've seen.

My website it now up here, and is going to be updated with new content and pages weekly.

Time for MOCKING.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeYOdgwByLc&NR=1

lul.

LETTER A


LETTER B

Will be awesome.

B4 that, updates-

- I've ceased to view Sunny as a human being, but not in a cruel way. More in the way of that his antics make him feel more like a character, in my mind, rather than a real person.

- I've seen some good movies lately, in class and at the Gene Siskel Film Center. Snow Country was full of lulz, Mishima was fucking intense, and Woman in the Dunes was damn fantastic. Courier was the most Russian movie I've ever seen, and London to Brighton was pretty sick (but it was trying to be). The Thief and the Cobbler was just an outright masterpiece. On the negative side, An Inconvenient Truth still sucks, and Dead Alive was surprisingly bad.

- It's lucky for me that you, Maria, didn't come this weekend. Today (Sunday) and yesterday, I worked about 20 hours in studio on a project for monday. More positive yet, I BUILT A FUCKING ROBOT.

- The new season of Pushing Daisies is damn fantastic. New season of Ugly Betty is horribly hit-or-miss, and it's leaning more towards the miss.

Okay, for the upcoming weekend-

This will be the post for filling me in with all the adequate information so my paranoid mind can lay at rest. Who is staying where, when we meet, what to plan for, etc.

http://www.rollingrazor.com/?c=183

HOLY SHIT THIS IS AWESOME

The website goes so far as to compare shaving to Zeus throwing lightning bolts.

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1832397

Yeah, I LOL'd

I'm not really a shipper, but here it goes.

( Ships )

Saw Beautiful Losers on friday. It was good. The director was there afterwards for Q&A, which was alright. I liked that the film remained neutral, unlike a lot of modern documentaries which are too invasive, in my opinion.

Worked in the woodshop Saturday, which was nice. Without even having planned it, 3 of the 5 people I've gotten to know and like here were working in the woodshop at the same time as me. Later in the day, I went to a music sale at some Chicago library. Everything there- CD's, vinyl, and books too- was $1. I bought 9 albums for $9, most of which I'll probably resell for $2-$3 at Reckless Records. Chilled the rest of the evening.

Yesterday was laid back too. I went shopping and got some good deals (groceries, that is). I worked on some projects throughout the afternoon, then there was a teaparty on my floor, which was nice.

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Boring update, yeah. Here's another picture-

Before moving on to web-comic reviews, I'll interject-

I downloaded and watched "Salo: 120 Days of Sodom" and "Poultreygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead", and I have to say, I was disappointed by both. "Salo" was a decent movie, but it was far more boring than it should've been. It had a fair number of fantastically acted and directed scenes, but the whole thing felt aimless. "Chicken Dead" on the other hand failed because of poor writing. It got a very good reception earlier this year, but really, it was a very dumb comedy. There are a number of song sequences which are absolutely hilarious and brilliantly written, and once the zombies show up, it gets damn good. Unfortunately, there are only 3 or so songs and the zombies show up, like, 20 minutes before it ends.

webcomicslol

There was another webcomic I read, the Dreamland Chronicles, but it's not worth mentioning. It wasn't very good.

Also, for the lulz-



I've found an absurd number of hilarious pictures this week.

Classes are getting better, but I honestly feel above most of what's going on. The only classes that I'm taking that I really feel like I'm learning from are the two classes meant for upper-classmen. The other classes are all fine enough, though, I'm getting tired of hearing people complain about the workload. Seriously, I was working more (assignment wise) during my laid-back senior year than I am now. To a point at which I feel bored many days. I've been working through my boredom with a regiment of movies and webcomics. So, you know, I feel the need to post opinions.



I was going to review what webcomics I've read, but I can do that later.

Oh, and Kat- I checked prices at the Gene Siskel Film center, Students in general to get a discount down to a price of $7. Better than the usual $9, but not quite as good as my $4. The films this weekend don't hugely interest me, but check the calendar ( http://www.artic.edu/webspaces/siskelfilmcenter/calendar.html ) for what you may be interested in. Next weekend, they're showing two that I'm interested in seeing, if you'd like to join me. On Friday, there's "Beautiful Losers", and on Saturday, there's "Hollywood Chinese". Both are documentaries. Descriptions are on the calendar page, but in short-

Beautiful Losers is about the impact of hip-hop culture (particularly old school, including graffiti) on modern advertising.

Hollywood Chinese is about how Hollywood has portrayed China, Chinese culture, and Chinese actors in the history of film.