The day just keeps getting better! On my way back from Film Noir, I stopped by the Fine Arts Library to tell my sob story to the librarians. They were super-nice about it, then suggested I check in the stacks to see if it had been returned, but not checked back in. Lo and behold, it had been! It was there in the library, safe and sound, the entire time! So I got $100 refunded on the spot, which felt great, and they told me to come back on Monday to talk with a guy named Ken about refunding the $40 in overdue and referral charges, as technically it was never overdue in the first place. LIFE IS GREAT and I just got two letters from Renata which reminds me that I am scum and have not sent her her Christmas present yet but LIFE IS STILL GOOD and I have Snapple.
I just took the easiest computer science midterm is history. Life is so good.
It’s rather interesting. In Communications, we learned about the Kuleshov Effect, in which the onscreen appearance and conveyed emotion of an actor can be manipulated by context.
Then this was posted on Lotrboys_daily.
Dude, what are silly captions if not the ultimate proof of the Kuleshov effect? We know that the actors are obviously expressing sentiments very different from the suggested dialogue in the caption, but in most cases, especially with really funny captions, it really looks as though the actors could be saying the captioned words. In class, a bunch of the students were still skeptical about the effectiveness of Kuleshov (myself included), but now I’m convinced. I’m so going to mention this to Professor Messaris on Tuesday.
Ah, Visual Communications. It has changed the way I see the world. Or at least movies.
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*snickets*
*snorks*
*chortles*
*full-blown, uncontrollable gigglefit*
There are no words for this picture.
Random Music Meme!
Step 1: Open your MP3 player.
Step 2: Put all of your music on random.
Step 3: Write down the first 15 songs it plays, no matter how embarrassing.
1. “How Do You Solve A Problem Like Korea”, The Capitol Steps
2. “Suppertime”, Little Shop of Horrors NBCR
3. “Another Girl’s Paradise”, Tori Amos, Scarlet’s Walk
4. “Universe Communion”, Stuart Davis, Self Untitled
5. A random, long ago discarded bit from a MAA song. How did that get in here?
6. “Straw Hat and Old Dirty Hank”, Barenaked Ladies, Born on a Pirate Ship
7. “Girl”, Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes
8. “Man of La Mancha (I, Don Quixote)”, Man of La Mancha (Placido Domingo version)
9. “Look Down”, Les Miserables (Original London Cast)
10. Guards! Guards! Track 12 (muchas gracias to “Bucked Up“)
11. “Humor of the Situation”, Barenaked Ladies, Maroon
12. “Pilar (Things Here Are Different)”, Jill Sobule, I Never Learned to Swim
13. “Bad”, Little Shop of Horrors NBCR (Demo version, an early version of “Mean Green Mother From Outerspace”)
14. “A New Life”, Jekyll and Hyde (1994 Concept cast recording)
15. “See Emily Play”, Pink Floyd, Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd
I’m rather shocked to see no Beatles representation. I have 8 of their albums on my computer… Ah well. Random is as random does!
The Japanese are wonderful. Please, let this be the action to get the ball rolling!
Over Math last night, Tricia and I discussed the advantages of being hobbit women.
- They have hairy feet and this is normal, so they probably aren’t expected to shave their legs.
- Huge feet are normal, and we wouldn’t have to worry about finding big enough shoes because they don’t wear shoes.
- At least in the movie, they aren’t incredibly beautiful on the most part, so we wouldn’t feel inadequate in comparison to other hobbit women. And most hobbits don’t get much interaction with the elves, so they won’t know what they’re missing, ha!
- Nifty curly hair without apparent effort!
- Hobbit women are generally taller than hobbit men, so we tall girls wouldn’t have to worry about being taller than our hobbit boyfriends.
- They aren’t expected to be stick-thin.
- Dude, who wouldn’t want to live in the Shire? Well, maybe the Shire with internet access.
- Hobbit kids are the cutest things since sliced bread.
- Everyone is constantly bursting into song!
- Tookland accents? Hold me back.
Of course, there are disadvantages, like the fact that everyone and their dog smokes, but oh well. We hobbit women can band together and lobby an anti-smoking law in all public buildings and restaurants. And there’s a lot of drinking, but it doesn’t look like there’s any drunken abuse, and if it leads to Merry and Pippin singing and dancing on tables, I’m all for it. So yay hobbits!
Gah! Just got another “Notice of Fine or Fee” email from the library, and they’ve charged me another random $25. I now owe $140. And Joan hasn’t found the book yet, and I’m beginning to doubt we will. Should I just go ahead and pay it so I won’t be charged any extra? Urggh, stupid library.
And stupid person on the 2nd floor making eggs at 6AM that burned and made smoke and set off the fire alarm and we all had to troop outside in the cold and I wasn’t awake enough as I left the room so I wasn’t wearing warm enough clothes and we were out there for 20 minutes and bleh.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American people.” – Theodore Roosevelt
Anyone but Bush in ’04. I’m going to need a three-plus hour long shower with a steel-wool loofah afterwards, but come November I will vote for the nominee. In the meantime, I’ll see that those 4,000+ signatures I helped gather don’t go to waste and vote for Dean in the Pennsylvania primary this April. Dean’s policies still need representation in the party platform. I’ve added a strip of duct-tape to my button that says “Still supporting” Dean for America. In the meantime, I’m still deciding on whether Kerry or Edwards deserves my favor. Bah to the both of them, they just can’t compare.
On the lighter side, “Howard Dean supporters will be thrilled to find out that the former frontrunner has finally won something!” Presidental Candidate Hot or Not Ratings. *cackles*