First day back from spring break, and you know what I had to do at 8:00 this morning? Take a freakin' environmental exam. It was the worst. Now I'm just starting a 4-6 page paper due tomorrow. But let me offer a couple of rays of sunshine to brighten your day:
- REALLY AWESOME THING OF THE DAY = THIS. It is Neil Gaiman, reading aloud his recent work The Graveyard Book. It is literally perfect to have playing as you do homework or fall asleep or whatever.
- Today saw I Love You, Man for the wonderful price of $4 (movie theatre "downtown" offers half-off to college students on Mondays), and it was very funny. We had a crisp debate on the walk back on whether it was superior to Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and there were strong cases made on both sides.
- Do you live in MA? Do you enjoy good things? Check out the Lowell Summer Concert Series, a very cheap - most tickets are $25 - series of concerts going on over the summer in Lowell (as the title suggests) held in a wonderful little park which is my favorite place to see concerts ever. This summer the lineup features artists like Los Lonely Boys, Blues Traveler, Ani DiFranco, Michael Franti, Aimee Mann, and Joan Baez, who's apparently still amongst the living.
- I know I promised rays of sunshine here, but I need to be briefly shouty about the fact that the Nicholas Cage vehicle Knowing was the top movie for the weekend. Really, America? He was brilliant in Leaving Las Vegas and oddly tolerable in National Treasure, but besides that he and his increasingly unlikely toupees have been doing terrible things to cinema. And Knowing looked to be truly godawful, the sort of movie that could improve under the direction of M. Night Shamalymnaynan, who in the time since The Sixth Sense and Signs has been trying his hardest to join Cage in murdering cinema himself. Bah.
- I was actually quite interested in this article, which details a many-hour brainstorming session held by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, where they invent the Indiana Jones franchise. I fully encourage readers to first check out the quite humorous article and then at least glance through the actual PDF. Cool stuff. Except admittedly when the article stops commenting on the discussion between Lucas and Spielberg, and starts riffing on Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, it gets notably less funny. Anyone can do that.
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3 comments:
I didn't even notice you spelled M. Night Shyamalan's name wrong until I read this post for the second time.
who has 'night' as their middle name anyway? let's be serious.
i feel like the only person here (in MN) who doesn't think nicolas cage is good actor. thank you for making me feel not alone
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