Don’t understand why I still feel the compunction to post this list. Judging from my post rate last year, my LJ is as good as dead. Honestly though, I suppose this list is more for me than anyone else-given the decreasing number of books and movies I appear to imbibe as the years go on, singular films and books serve as little mementos ( Read more... )

... and I am currently in Senegal, doing Peace Corps service in the city of Richard Toll. My last LJ entry looks absolutely absurd in comparison. I don't know if most of you still even log on to LJ anymore, but I just wanted to drop a line to see who still reads this. I assume that I keep in contact with most of you via Facebook and email now, so ( Read more... )

Posted my room dividers up for sale on Craigslist a couple of hours ago. Amazing how that website can keep me glued to my chair for hours, hoping for that one email from an interested buyer. No bites yet ( Read more... )

At this point, posting my annual books and movies list has become little more than an exercise in making pointless... well, lists. It is also 4 days late because I just got home from an epic trip to New York City. I managed to ring in the new year with Anna, my brother, and a bunch of good friends from college at the Dead Herring- a loft music ( Read more... )

Somehow I always get the urge to write something or post something here when I can least afford to. It is mid-morning, and I just had my second all-nighter in a row, writing papers for various classes. I don't want to write anything about science fiction, South African apartheid, or the Korean War for a while now ( Read more... )

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The desire of love is to give.
The desire of lust is to get.
Very strange how apt that fortune was 2 days ago.

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I bought my first keg today. We'll see how this party goes tonight.

9 more days of French!

Yes kids, it is that time of the year again to look back at the literary and cinematic works that somehow managed to grace my eyes and ears. If the length of my book list is anything to go by though, significant intellectual regression appears to have taken place, along with a burgeoning love for fascist film. In my defense, War and Peace got its ( Read more... )

Since this seems to be the night for updates ( Read more... )

"If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime."

-Jack Kerouac