We're out to get 'em, Don. We are out to get 'em.
So I have decided to apply for Grad School. This is basically because I have been thinking a lot about what the hell i'm gonna do when i graduate at the end of this year and i don't want to get some job that i will get stuck in. I want to make movies more than anything, but i feel like if i get some job as an editor or something I will be stuck and it will never happen. So I am gonna try to go to grad school for the next couple of years, get a master's in Communication and Culture (film and media studies), and work on setting things up for my first film in the meantime. I have to take the GRE sometime next month so that I can apply. Hopefully what will happen is that I will get accepted and I will get an assistantship, which is how most grad students support themselves. What this means is that IU will pay my tuition and give me money to live on while I go to school, in exchange for being a graduate assistant for 2 classes every semester. It is only 30 credit hours to get the degree, but I will probably take my time with it because they will support you for up to 2 years. So I will still be here in Bloomington next year. I am really happy about this decision. I'm not ready for the real world yet.
I have been thinking about the music I love a lot lately and I've decided to compile a list of my Top 10 favorite albums of all time. These are albums by my favorite bands, albums that have meant a lot to me at one point in my life, and albums that I continuously come back to even when my tastes change. And take note that these are ALBUMS, not CD'S. The difference is that it is very easy to pick a greatest hits cd as your favorite by an artist, but in reality that is just like saying you really like that artist and not singling out a specific work because it is a sampling of their best stuff. I have a lot of greatest hits cds that I love, but I think it's important to also recognize the albums those songs came from as individual works with their own meanings. So with that said, I will list my top ten albums and I'd love to see yours if you would be willing to post them on your journal or in the comments of this entry.
Top Ten Favorite Albums (no order):
1. Alkaline Trio - Goddamnit! (1998)
2. Alkaline Trio - Alkaline Trio (2000)
3. The Clash - London Calling (1979)
4. The Misfits - Static Age (1978)
5. Propaghandi - How To Clean Everything (1994)
6. Hankshaw - Nothing Personal (1999)
7. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks (1975)
8. Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever (1989)
9. Brand New - Deja Entendu (2003)
10. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow (2003)
That was a really hard list to make. I feel like I had to leave out some of my favorite bands like Rancid, Less Than Jake, AFI and Tegan & Sara, but when it comes down to it I think that this is really the most true list. I'll be very interested to see your lists, that is, if you decide to make one. Because I'm not sure anybody actually reads this thing. hehe.
Also, Benji brought up his nintendo over the weekend and I brought up my games. I hooked it up today and combined, we have a pretty large selection of games. It rules. I was playing Mike Tyson's Punchout earlier. Old school nintendo rules.
Also again, The Burbs is one of the greatest movies ever made.
Out.
I have been thinking about the music I love a lot lately and I've decided to compile a list of my Top 10 favorite albums of all time. These are albums by my favorite bands, albums that have meant a lot to me at one point in my life, and albums that I continuously come back to even when my tastes change. And take note that these are ALBUMS, not CD'S. The difference is that it is very easy to pick a greatest hits cd as your favorite by an artist, but in reality that is just like saying you really like that artist and not singling out a specific work because it is a sampling of their best stuff. I have a lot of greatest hits cds that I love, but I think it's important to also recognize the albums those songs came from as individual works with their own meanings. So with that said, I will list my top ten albums and I'd love to see yours if you would be willing to post them on your journal or in the comments of this entry.
Top Ten Favorite Albums (no order):
1. Alkaline Trio - Goddamnit! (1998)
2. Alkaline Trio - Alkaline Trio (2000)
3. The Clash - London Calling (1979)
4. The Misfits - Static Age (1978)
5. Propaghandi - How To Clean Everything (1994)
6. Hankshaw - Nothing Personal (1999)
7. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks (1975)
8. Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever (1989)
9. Brand New - Deja Entendu (2003)
10. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow (2003)
That was a really hard list to make. I feel like I had to leave out some of my favorite bands like Rancid, Less Than Jake, AFI and Tegan & Sara, but when it comes down to it I think that this is really the most true list. I'll be very interested to see your lists, that is, if you decide to make one. Because I'm not sure anybody actually reads this thing. hehe.
Also, Benji brought up his nintendo over the weekend and I brought up my games. I hooked it up today and combined, we have a pretty large selection of games. It rules. I was playing Mike Tyson's Punchout earlier. Old school nintendo rules.
Also again, The Burbs is one of the greatest movies ever made.
Out.