best moment of my college experience by far: sitting on my dirty as floor, surrounded by microfilm print outs, reading ojukwu's foreword to the collection of his diary entries and speeches during the secession. academia is my happy place, i never want to leave it.

then, i read Keepsake byindysaur. It's her J2 remix of WALL-E for j2_everafter and that was pretty ( Read more... )

I finally saw My Bloody Valentine! In 3-D! I have thoughts, which sort of include spoilers.
( Enter the third dimension )

( I don't know how it happened, but I enjoyed Twilight. )

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist reminded me how much I love all things homosexual, so I went on a not-so-epic search for Shelter. I went through so many awful gay movies in high school that I get unreasonably giddy about mediocrity.

Shelter is definitely one of the better ones. Markowitz intertwines the common place coming of age/sexuality ( Read more... )

I was a little worried after reading the NY Times review, but Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist turned out to be so adorable and charming. The reviewer's biggest critique was that there was no expectation of drama, that it was all fluff. Sometimes that drives me nuts, but I pretty much accept anything with the level of gay contained in Infinite ( Read more... )

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I'm not a huge feminist, but this is pretty fuggin' awesome just from a slam!poetry standpoint (and the woman point too).

briefly, remember the titans will always be my favorite sports movie.


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some people use livejournal to share their favorite fics and movies, and I'm sure I'll do this a number of times in the future. But for now, we'll stick with the bare necessities...


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