Last night I watched Sophia Coppola’s version of The Virgin Suicides before I had to return it today. If I hadn’t read the book, I would have simply accepted the movie and been done with it. However, in the midst of taking her own approach to the story, she really butchered the overall tone and …
Tag: literature
Oct 26 2006
The perils of papers
Homework, домашнее задание, thuiswerk, preparación, heimarbeit, εργασία, lavoro, travail, or whatever else you want to call it. I am definitely sick of doing it today. I wrote a grand total of 6 papers today, and when combined with the ones from yesterday, 10. Not that paper writing is a difficult task for me, but it …
Oct 21 2006
The events of Saturday
Saturday turned out to be quite an uneventful day. It started out with some nice sunshine, but that changed to overcast nastiness by the middle of the afternoon. I went car shopping with my Mom and Dad around 13:00. We went to lunch at this oriental buffet that wasn’t all that great, but at least …
Thought for the Moment
