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I experienced something this week I had never yet before: cottage cheese.
Moving on. I watched Charlie Chaplin's City Lights (1931) last night and was amazed at the beauty of the film; to summarize the plot briefly, a homeless man meets and falls in love with a blind flower girl, who he begins to help out financially after becoming best friends with a suicidal millionaire he saved from killing himself. Not only is the movie touching, but Chaplin's slapstick humor is brilliant. It's hard to say whether I like City Lights or Modern Times (1936) better. I may be leaning more toward City Lights since it isn't as steeped with social commentary as Modern Times.
I just finished reading Tobacco Road (1932) by Erskine Caldwell tonight. Excellent little regionalist novel about poor, uneducated Georgia sharecroppers, whose arch ignorance leads to comic tragedy. Caldwell gives a unique account of agriculture based life dying out in the modern, technological and urban world. The novel kind of reminded me of John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, except an east coast version, and much, much shorter.
I wanted to write more, but I just noticed the time. I have some Plato to translate before bed. :/
Edit: Okay, I'll go ahead and finish this entry this morning.
The weekend of May 10th Chris, Josh and I are planning to go camping for several days, from Sunday to either Thursday or Friday. Our plan is to camp without any kind of amenities or services in the middle of the North Carolina wilderness. Should be great.
I think I've decided to seriously look into getting a Toyota Prius once I graduate and find a steady job. The 45mpg is very attractive in this age of outrageous gas prices--not to mention the cars just look sexy. The only downside to driving a Prius is the stereotypes! Some kind of anti-Al display would quickly dispel those. :]
I don't like to get into politics on my blog anymore, but I really just want to say this: Obamarama is making me sick. People are so infatuated with Obama they justify and explain away everything he does, while if Clinton or McCain stutter in a speech they're called out for it. Obama's economic plans are irresponsible, his position on Iraq is naive, not to mention he wants to replace an Iraq war with a war with Pakistan, and his social plans are utterly demoralizing, e.g. paying people for volunteer work or paying fathers of poor families to stay with their families. Whatever sense of social responsibility Americans still have will surely be killed off by these ridiculous plans. At least his campaign slogan is accurate: Hope. That's all we'll have left if he's elected.
edit: oh wait, silly me, Hillary's slogan is Hope, Obama is Change, of course!
Moving on. I watched Charlie Chaplin's City Lights (1931) last night and was amazed at the beauty of the film; to summarize the plot briefly, a homeless man meets and falls in love with a blind flower girl, who he begins to help out financially after becoming best friends with a suicidal millionaire he saved from killing himself. Not only is the movie touching, but Chaplin's slapstick humor is brilliant. It's hard to say whether I like City Lights or Modern Times (1936) better. I may be leaning more toward City Lights since it isn't as steeped with social commentary as Modern Times.
I just finished reading Tobacco Road (1932) by Erskine Caldwell tonight. Excellent little regionalist novel about poor, uneducated Georgia sharecroppers, whose arch ignorance leads to comic tragedy. Caldwell gives a unique account of agriculture based life dying out in the modern, technological and urban world. The novel kind of reminded me of John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, except an east coast version, and much, much shorter.
I wanted to write more, but I just noticed the time. I have some Plato to translate before bed. :/
Edit: Okay, I'll go ahead and finish this entry this morning.
The weekend of May 10th Chris, Josh and I are planning to go camping for several days, from Sunday to either Thursday or Friday. Our plan is to camp without any kind of amenities or services in the middle of the North Carolina wilderness. Should be great.
I think I've decided to seriously look into getting a Toyota Prius once I graduate and find a steady job. The 45mpg is very attractive in this age of outrageous gas prices--not to mention the cars just look sexy. The only downside to driving a Prius is the stereotypes! Some kind of anti-Al display would quickly dispel those. :]
I don't like to get into politics on my blog anymore, but I really just want to say this: Obamarama is making me sick. People are so infatuated with Obama they justify and explain away everything he does, while if Clinton or McCain stutter in a speech they're called out for it. Obama's economic plans are irresponsible, his position on Iraq is naive, not to mention he wants to replace an Iraq war with a war with Pakistan, and his social plans are utterly demoralizing, e.g. paying people for volunteer work or paying fathers of poor families to stay with their families. Whatever sense of social responsibility Americans still have will surely be killed off by these ridiculous plans. At least his campaign slogan is accurate: Hope. That's all we'll have left if he's elected.
edit: oh wait, silly me, Hillary's slogan is Hope, Obama is Change, of course!