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- Enjoying Stonybrook so far
My Italian Renaissance class is a little dull, but I like the teacher (and her very Canadian "aboot"y accent), and it's only an hour at a time.
I'm loving the Global Hollywoods class. They got a grant to bring in a bunch of filmmakers and film anthropologists and whatnot to lecture throughout the year, it's pretty cool. Saw Cheryl Dunye, she had some interesting stuff. We're seeing a Bollywood movie later today, looking forward to that. It's a groupwork heavy class, and I hope I'm not stuck with the last groups we had - mine was comprised entirely of people bitching about having to read articles and discuss movies instead of just watching them. And one girl who kept going on about how she hated people who read things into Watchmen when it was just about how cool Rorschach was - puke (I find the Rorschach fangirling/fanboying incredibly creepy. He just skeeved me)
The class on post-WW II Japan is really interesting - I don't know much about Asian history in general (a little about China and India, and then Asian interaction with the west, mainly), so it's all new and fascinating to me. I have to lead a brief discussion tomorrow about what pop culture (particularly Godzilla and Akira) can tell you about different anxieties and changes and whatnot in Japanese society, which works out well for me, horror movies are interesting sociological. The Monster Show was a really good book for that, and I like reading about horror movies anyway.
The solar system class is kinda slow, but I haven't taken an astronomy class in awhile so it's cool. The professor's also into showing us pictures of pretty, not always necessarily relevant space phenomena, so that's cool.
Went into the city yesterday to see The Decemberists for Glenn's birthday with him and Mar. We went into the Met earlier to see an exhibit on ancient Afghani art, which was really cool - the pieces they had were beautiful, and the mix of cultures in it was interesting (lots of Chinese and Indian influence, along with some Roman stuff). Lolled around the steps for awhile, and then made our slow, waylaid-by-jackassery journey to the concert (unintentionally wound up in Queens for a bit). The show itself was pretty cool - the opening band was pretty lame (Hall of Flames, I think? whatever, they weren't that good), but the Decemberists were awesome. See them live if you're into them, they are fantastic. Glenn made a new nemesis in the crowd, I got elbow-titted by a teenage girl like a million times and we got to watch a couple creepily sing "The Bachelor and the Bride" at each other (mm, romantic) but whatever. My feet are dead from all the walking and standing, but all in all it was a good day.
I'm about halfway through the fourth season of Farscape (so don't spoil me for the movie). It's absolutely one of the best sci-fi shows I've ever seen. They just do such interesting, creative things with aliens, alien cultures, characters and everything, I love that show. When I get home, I need to scan in some of my fanart - it's a great show to draw.
I've also been watching more Blake's 7 (kinda burnt out on old Dr Who, though not the fandom). I like "bickery fuckups in space" style sci-fi (FarscapeFarscapeFarscape), so I'm finding it pretty entertaining, and the high-school play budget it hilarious. And wow, people were not misleading me about the Blake/Avon thing. I've been spoiled for the finale, but I can't wait to see it anyway.
Off to Global Hollywoods. This 2 hour gap will probably elicit a lot more posting now.
(Always Sunny icon to celebrate the new season. God damn, that show rules)
My Italian Renaissance class is a little dull, but I like the teacher (and her very Canadian "aboot"y accent), and it's only an hour at a time.
I'm loving the Global Hollywoods class. They got a grant to bring in a bunch of filmmakers and film anthropologists and whatnot to lecture throughout the year, it's pretty cool. Saw Cheryl Dunye, she had some interesting stuff. We're seeing a Bollywood movie later today, looking forward to that. It's a groupwork heavy class, and I hope I'm not stuck with the last groups we had - mine was comprised entirely of people bitching about having to read articles and discuss movies instead of just watching them. And one girl who kept going on about how she hated people who read things into Watchmen when it was just about how cool Rorschach was - puke (I find the Rorschach fangirling/fanboying incredibly creepy. He just skeeved me)
The class on post-WW II Japan is really interesting - I don't know much about Asian history in general (a little about China and India, and then Asian interaction with the west, mainly), so it's all new and fascinating to me. I have to lead a brief discussion tomorrow about what pop culture (particularly Godzilla and Akira) can tell you about different anxieties and changes and whatnot in Japanese society, which works out well for me, horror movies are interesting sociological. The Monster Show was a really good book for that, and I like reading about horror movies anyway.
The solar system class is kinda slow, but I haven't taken an astronomy class in awhile so it's cool. The professor's also into showing us pictures of pretty, not always necessarily relevant space phenomena, so that's cool.
Went into the city yesterday to see The Decemberists for Glenn's birthday with him and Mar. We went into the Met earlier to see an exhibit on ancient Afghani art, which was really cool - the pieces they had were beautiful, and the mix of cultures in it was interesting (lots of Chinese and Indian influence, along with some Roman stuff). Lolled around the steps for awhile, and then made our slow, waylaid-by-jackassery journey to the concert (unintentionally wound up in Queens for a bit). The show itself was pretty cool - the opening band was pretty lame (Hall of Flames, I think? whatever, they weren't that good), but the Decemberists were awesome. See them live if you're into them, they are fantastic. Glenn made a new nemesis in the crowd, I got elbow-titted by a teenage girl like a million times and we got to watch a couple creepily sing "The Bachelor and the Bride" at each other (mm, romantic) but whatever. My feet are dead from all the walking and standing, but all in all it was a good day.
I'm about halfway through the fourth season of Farscape (so don't spoil me for the movie). It's absolutely one of the best sci-fi shows I've ever seen. They just do such interesting, creative things with aliens, alien cultures, characters and everything, I love that show. When I get home, I need to scan in some of my fanart - it's a great show to draw.
I've also been watching more Blake's 7 (kinda burnt out on old Dr Who, though not the fandom). I like "bickery fuckups in space" style sci-fi (FarscapeFarscapeFarscape), so I'm finding it pretty entertaining, and the high-school play budget it hilarious. And wow, people were not misleading me about the Blake/Avon thing. I've been spoiled for the finale, but I can't wait to see it anyway.
Off to Global Hollywoods. This 2 hour gap will probably elicit a lot more posting now.
(Always Sunny icon to celebrate the new season. God damn, that show rules)