New Favourite

This is my new favourite Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. I cut it out and glued it on my folder for my Aboriginal peoples class.

18th Century Harry Potter

So for my Neoclassical and Romantic Literature Class I had to read a most boring book even by my standards--Pamela, by Samuel Richardson. It's marketed as being all about sexual intrigue, etc. That is a lie. The first half of the book, yes, she servant girl is trying to get away from her master that just wants to sleep with her. But she is so virtuous and so sweet and so gentle and so pious and everyone just automatically falls in love with her because she is just so, and halfway through the book the gentleman decides he loves her so much that he will stoop to marry his mother's waiting-maid. And, wonderful, Pamela discovers she loves him after all. And she is happy. And he is happy. And her family is happy. His is not, but soon comes around and then they are happy. And the servants are happy, and...this is the last third-to-half of the novel. But turns out, this was the most popular novel of the 1700s, and people all took sides, and everyone separated into Pamelists and Anti-Pamelists. It was also published in installments, so the popularity grew over a long time and when it was finally published that Pamela and Mr. B. got married, all the church bells tolled in London. It was the Harry Potter of the 18th century! It got parodied a lot, as well, so basically this was the birthplace of fanfiction.

List of Movies to See

This is a list a friend and I came up with, because I love lists and we both love movies. Some of these are for fun, some are because I am pop-culture illiterate, some are fantastic movies we need to see again, and just ones that look interesting. We've already seen a few (bold), and we'll add on as needed because that is the fantastic type of list this is.

Movies to See:
1. Disturbia
2. Hide and Seek
3. The Amityville Horror (original)
4. The Squid and the Whale
5. Nanny Diaries
6. John Q.
7. I'm Reed Fish
8. The Darjeeling Ltd.
9. It's a Wonderful Life
10. Life is Beautiful
11. High School Musical 2
12. White Christmas
13. Hitchcock (8 tracking shots)
14. Kill Bill
15. The Science of Sleep
16. Hercules
17. Everything is Illuminated
18. The Wedding Crashers
19. King Kong (both)
20. Shrek II
21. Dracula
22. Music and Lyrics
23. Notting Hill
24. Hostage
25. Cellular
26. Driving Lessons
27. Hairspray
28. Hocus Pocus
29. Citizen Kane
30. United States of Leland
31. The Sure Thing
32. Half Nelson
33. The History Boys
34. Newsies
35. Venus
36. Feast of Love
37. Meet Me in St. Louis
38. Dan in Real Life
39. A Streetcar Named Desire
40. Being John Malkovitch
41. The Stepford Wives (original)
42. All About Eve
43. Akeelah and the Bee
44. Billy Elliot
45. Thelma and Louise
46. Fracture
47. The Sting

My Own Interpretation of Klimt

Here's a painting I did for a friend's good-bye. I was using a lot of Klimt because it's her favourite, and through this I realized what a gorgeous painter Klimt really is. As for this piece, it's the shortest relationship with a painting I've had by far. I enjoy that some of my mistakes due to late nights and long hours turned into things I really like. I'm thinking of you, Marilee.

Klimt's Trees of Life

Beck in a Coke Commercial

It's October and my last post was about geese. It's been a while. I am back from camp; I had a great time. I worked all summer long and it was exhausting but quirky and I did some different things than I normally do. I got closer to some of the campers and staff, I realized that Yes Drama is the best activity to lead ( well, I only really did Arts and Crafts). I started to look differently at the whole process, and I wanted to get a bigger picture of it all so I succeeded in my goal that way. Some things I realized I'm not sure if I will ever really enjoy as much as I used to, like Rec, but some things have to die I suppose. I'm at school now and my one prof (whose name sounds like Anne Murray) has the loudest, most abrupt laughter I've heard next to Dustin. Today people reacted positively to my creative writing piece! I hate that's it's such a relief in some ways, but it is. One girl just kept saying how she really, really, loved it and would keep it and read over it, that she would read a whole book like this. Wow, it's just so nice to hear that your own opinion of your work isn't total crap and biased like hell. I learnt about muties as well today. And Eponine, from Les Miz. I'm in a complicated process of re-organizing my room now and romanticizing small rooms, but oh well. And in love with the first half of "Shh" by Frou Frou. Funny how not only do you go incycles in what you listen to, but that even songs by an artist you love can fly completely under your radar though you've heard them so many times before, and then one day, it suddenly hits you that this is a great song! Oh, and a guy from my writing class wrote about a song he played with his girlfriend in the car and everyone started bobbing along in other cars, and it was this Coke commercial moment. Someone asked what the song was, and he said Beck's "Que Onda Guero" which I of course know and love, and completely surprised me. I love connections. Now I wonder if I can post pictures?