Archive for September, 2005

More Netflix: THX1138, Bowling for Columbine

Sunday, September 4th, 2005

THX1138 was pretty interesting. Excellent filmmaking for the time. Story in shades of Brave New World and The Machine Stops. Very … sparse, sterile even. Bowling for Columbine was interesting. Moore makes an interesting couple hours of watching. I enjoyed watching him pin the blame for everything on the shallow, plastic violence of the news [...]

Rehnquist

Saturday, September 3rd, 2005

Crap. Bush gets two supreme court justice appointments. Sucks that Rehnquist is gone (though I didn’t necessarily agree with his positions on a couple things). Ahh well. I guess it was only a matter of time.

Fast Times

Saturday, September 3rd, 2005

Ok, so basically my life for the last week has revolved around 3 things: class, work, and Fable: The Lost Chapters. I’ll cover them in that order… Class merely is. It’s a regular daily routine. I didn’t do the 450 page reading assignment for my IDIS class. I did about 40 pages of it. I [...]

Netflix:: The Paper Chase

Saturday, September 3rd, 2005

Older movie (1973), The Paper Chase. I found it after a brief search for what a “paper chase” was, thanks to a lyric in a song by The Roots. Some memorable quotes include: “I’ve got a photographic memory. I’m a walking, talking encyclopedia. I got facts in my fingertips. Facts on the tip of my [...]