There needs to be more castration at faculty meetings.
1. Happy beautiful Wednesday! You know the weather is really gorgeous when it lures me out of my lair. I took a walk around town, used up a Barnes and Noble gift certificate on this book, and bought falafel. This city is usually dead when certain prestigious universities are on spring break, but the townies were out in force today.
2. I watched Spider-man 3, and it's an old-fashioned tacky superhero movie. (Do I enjoy anything unironically anymore? I don't care.) This is total effects porn, and it was fun to watch as long as I kept my inner physicist muzzled in the corner. (She whimpered.) The script is absurd and lame, and Kirsten Dunst kind of sucks. But some of the other acting - James Franco in particular - elevates the material. Spider-man 3 is unusually self-aware for a revenge narrative, and the Hamlet references really stuck out (because I am trained to notice them). I mean, the "remember me" scene was obvious, albeit with the neat twist of villain as revenge-seeking ghost daddy. More subtle was the church scene, with Eddie Brock praying not for forgiveness but for Peter's destruction, while Peter listened above in the bell tower, suffering. But unlike Hamlet, who sheathed his sword, Peter damned Eddie right there in the church. Neat.
3. Oh, ANTM, you have no class at all anymore. It's a good thing Make Me a Supermodel is on the same night, or I'd start believing that the fashion industry really did have room for women with burn scars and girls who aren't quiiiiite 5'8" and whatever the fuck is wrong with Sandra. My greatest confusion is with Natalie, whose beauty is praised every week, but who has some of the most out-of-control eyebrows I have seen on national television. She actually looks a lot like Katelynn from The Real World: Brooklyn, which is to say two things: Katelynn is more stunning than she gets credit for, and Natalie looks a lot more tranny than the judges seem to notice. Also, apparently she is getting a bitch edit! Good to know.
Meanwhile, I have a shameless crush on Aminat, and I don't care who knows it. The eyes, the lips, the Botticelli weave. I even find the fake glasses endearing. She is far from the best model in the competition, but I want her to make the top 3 so I can keep lusting all the way to the end of the season.
2. I watched Spider-man 3, and it's an old-fashioned tacky superhero movie. (Do I enjoy anything unironically anymore? I don't care.) This is total effects porn, and it was fun to watch as long as I kept my inner physicist muzzled in the corner. (She whimpered.) The script is absurd and lame, and Kirsten Dunst kind of sucks. But some of the other acting - James Franco in particular - elevates the material. Spider-man 3 is unusually self-aware for a revenge narrative, and the Hamlet references really stuck out (because I am trained to notice them). I mean, the "remember me" scene was obvious, albeit with the neat twist of villain as revenge-seeking ghost daddy. More subtle was the church scene, with Eddie Brock praying not for forgiveness but for Peter's destruction, while Peter listened above in the bell tower, suffering. But unlike Hamlet, who sheathed his sword, Peter damned Eddie right there in the church. Neat.
3. Oh, ANTM, you have no class at all anymore. It's a good thing Make Me a Supermodel is on the same night, or I'd start believing that the fashion industry really did have room for women with burn scars and girls who aren't quiiiiite 5'8" and whatever the fuck is wrong with Sandra. My greatest confusion is with Natalie, whose beauty is praised every week, but who has some of the most out-of-control eyebrows I have seen on national television. She actually looks a lot like Katelynn from The Real World: Brooklyn, which is to say two things: Katelynn is more stunning than she gets credit for, and Natalie looks a lot more tranny than the judges seem to notice. Also, apparently she is getting a bitch edit! Good to know.
Meanwhile, I have a shameless crush on Aminat, and I don't care who knows it. The eyes, the lips, the Botticelli weave. I even find the fake glasses endearing. She is far from the best model in the competition, but I want her to make the top 3 so I can keep lusting all the way to the end of the season.