When I announced my weekend hiatus yesterday, I was working on the assumption Nathan would go crazy and, I dunno, post or something. But apparently that was a bit overoptimistic. Thoughts:
- I just watched Gladiator, and that may well be the most epic movie ever. The swelling score, Russell Crowe's frequently exposed abs, many decapitations, and of course the best post-battle bellow ever: "ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!" Just writing that makes me tingly.
- Speaking of Joaquin Phoenix (he played the murderous young emperor in the aforementioned film, for those of you so un-pop-culture-savvy that you did not know such things), did you catch him and his beard on Letterman a couple of weeks ago? It's a long clip, but I encourage you to watch at least a bit of it.
- And speaking of that appearance, if you didn't watch the Oscars, Ben Stiller's Joaquin imitation was easily the highlight.
- Thing that I have never fully appreciated until taking this 20th Century Europe class: Hitler and the Nazis came damn close to winning that whole war thing. Also, Russians are even more badass than I had previously thought, which I wouldn't have guessed was possible.
- My Republican friends have been telling me for a while now that Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal is the future of the GOP, but if that's true, they're in trouble. I watched his rebuttal to Obama's State of the Union address, and wasn't sure whether I should laugh or lapse into depression. The man manages to sound like a cross between Kenneth from 30 Rock and Mr Rogers.
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Ok ok. I'm on break too you big whiner. Also at least I bring enough creativity to pioneer the embedded hyperlinks.
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