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I need a haircut.
Just finished The Wire, since we don't have a thread for TV series with real people in them (except Twin Peaks), I'll just comment about it here (without spoiling anything, I hope).
Anyway, now that it's finished, I can say this is probably the best show I've ever seen. It's true that season 5 is weaker than the rest - specifically, I think it lost verisimilitude while at the same time trying too hard to feel real (if that makes any sense), and while I understand that Simon feels very strongly about journalism, the new cast was lacking and the main dude there felt like a self insert - it's still great by most standards, and had a much more satisfying finale than I was expecting... it should've gotten the extra three episodes.
Of course, now my parents are demanding something just as good or better... help, anyone?
IJBM, should I watch all of Arrested Development again?
TWIN PEAKS AVVIE THEME DO IT DO IT DO IT
I wanna see an anime version of Twin Peaks.
But Twin Peaks is already an anime.
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^^ Oops, I forgot.
If this is a joke I'm too burnt-out from Battle For Wesnoth to get it.
It's a Twin Peaks joke.
I've never actually seen Twin Peaks.
In fact, I've seen very little Lynch. Even though I like what of his I have seen (which is Rabbits and most of Eraserhead).
You saw two out of Lynch's three weirdest works (sans context) and enjoyed them. Super Lazuli, you are a champ.
But yes, Lynch is a very strange director. I love his work because it really captures that feeling of being in a dream that few other people in cinema can.
Rabbits was actually the one I saw first. I only managed to catch Eraserhead on some obscure television channel back when we had the satellite package that basically gave you every channel (Navajo Nation TV? Sure, why not?).
Eraserhead is really unsettling, in a good way. So are Lost Highway and Inland Empire, which are my other favourite Lynch works.
Perhaps I will look into those at some point.
In other news, I am listening to Kraftwerk's Autobahn for the first time.
Good album.
Yes it was.
Now I'm listening to Tangerine Dream. Because I like to pretend I'm high, despite being too square to actually do drugs.
This is an actual thing that exists in the real world.
Dear Akira Toriyama:
I get that you're one of the most respected mangaka in the history of manga, but can you please please please please please please please PLEASE stop trying to show me Goku's goddamned kid dick at every opportunity?
Please?
This is probably the funniest thing I've seen all week:
Bah, why is there so much meta-educational bullshit in my English class?
Meta-educational bullshit?
Or perhaps meta-learning is closer to what I mean? Assignments about how to best go about learning. We spend way too much time reflecting on the importance of speaking, listening, and silent reflection in class discussions--as in, working together in small groups for 10-20 minutes to come up with a statement about each aspect of learning this one time, when this is supposed to be a class about American Literature up to 1865. We were also asked what we learned about ourselves, as people, by revising our first essay. For Pete's sake, the midterm is a reflection on participation goals. We need a rubric and everything.
Maybe I'd be less insulted if it was a designated Freshman course (we have a 2-credit course about adjusting to college life as well, which seems weird; it's basically Therapy and Orientation, the class, at least in my case), but there are people from every grade level in this class; it's not fucking 101. I'd imagine a senior made it this far by having a decent grasp of how/how not to use class time.
On a cooler note, my school's hosting a Slut walk on the 26th, and I feel like I'm probably going to go.
What is a slut walk?
Generally they are protests against shit like people excusing or explaining rape by how a women dress.
People get together and march/protest as a big "fuck you" to rape-victim-blamers and slut-shamers. The message is essentially that people shouldn't have to feel unsafe due to their sexuality. It primarily concerns women, since they're most often told they were "asking for it" by dressing "like a slut", but anyone can march if they want to, and, despite the title's implications, marchers don't necessarily have to dress provocatively.
Ninja'd.
You'd imagine quite wrong, actually. It's perfectly possible to stumble, or even excel (depending on your major of choice), through grad-level education without ever needing to learn a variety of basic skills. It's kind of embarassing to see how many people come out of college being unable to articulate their knowledge in a presentable way, let alone when speaking in public... same probably applies to time management.
I meant, as in, decent enough to pass the courses they'd taken up to that point, yeah. Doesn't mean it actually needs to be that good, by real-world standards. I mean, look at Dubya.
Then again, I admit that I didn't account for the possibility that people just get together, pool knowledge, and BS their way through.
In any case, a Literature course isn't the place to be teaching these things. :V