Singing "Mon amie la rose" for my voice class. Originally a Francoise Hardy song from the '60's... there's Shaun teh Aussie playin' me guitare.

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--or together, depending on how you look at it... Last night, I was walking back up the hill through the upper quad and I saw it again as me and my sister did, that first night we came here before Orientation, almost two years ago. It's seemed newly strange, and I realized that I'm circling back and out of the place. I felt--not sadness, but a ( Read more... )

Not really an apology aboot the last post, BUT it was a bit stream-of-consciousness--perhaps that makes it more real, or just harder to read? At any rate, due to my sickness, I haven't worked on the book in over a month... and all these new poems are boiling in me, ones that actually have to do with Whittier (haha--irony for me and Laura, who ( Read more... )

8:48 AM: I have a curious love-hate with my roommate TayTay's very loud and very obnoxious alarms... I mean, they did get me out of bed just in time for my class today. My phone had fallen underneath my guitar case somehow...

--9:30 AM: Despite the fact that I refused to read Franklin's Autobiography, whilst Adams was talking aboot his contributions ( Read more... )

There are some big spoilers--read at your own risk!

( Postcards From the Edge )

These are films I have somewhat less to say about--that is, I feel I can be more succinct than in my usual reviews. So here goes...

"La Piscine (The Swimming Pool)" (1969)

I admit it--I rented this movie entirely for Jane Birkin. And in that regard, I can hardly say I was disappointed. I'd never seen her in any films before, but had heard about her, ( Read more... )

'Bout time I did another one of these, and timely, what with my recent learnin's of dirty French words...

"Baise-Moi (Fuck Me)"*

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In this heart-warming buddy-road flick, adapted by Virginie Despentes from her best-selling novel, two Parisian women, frustrated with their lives, take a scenic tour of France, finding romance and laughter along the way ( Read more... )

Well, that last batch of reviews went better, I think... at least they were less perfunctory and I managed to talk about the films more in-depth. Still a bit disjointed in places, but at least I"m making strides in becoming a better review writer. (If you haven't read them yet, just click on the film or review tags and get purusing! ^_^)

Meanwhile, ( Read more... )

And seeing as that last one went much better for me, here's one I saw a while ago:

"Grand Ecole"
Just imagine the slant over that e (like 'ay')... I'm too lazy to do proper characters.

Anyway, I forget all the characters names, so this may get muddled, but basically, Gregori Baquet is beautiful. And blonde. And delightfully short (I like short guys). ( Read more... )

So, money disappears so quick--it is very sad. So, I need to get my ticket for however I'm getting back to Whittier, and whatever mode of phone I need to be purchasing, and then I fear I shouldn't spend a cent for the next month... Which, considering I can barely get anything to eat around here as it is, is gonna make things very harrowing... (Well ( Read more... )