After I got excited and posted a review about Friday Night Lights, I proceeded to spend the last couple of days focusing on writing more reviews about things that I love, everything from Scott Pilgrim to KT Tunstall to Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist. I even wrote a review about a Caselogic disc case that has become the son I never had. On the far right is a Widget that tracks my three latest Amazon reviews. I was inspired to start writing reviews because more and more often I find myself determining what I purchase based primarily on what other people have to say about the product. Sometimes I get frustrated that movies/music/books aren't getting a fair shake on there. I intend to rectify this mistake.
I start my next Masters-level course on Monday, Research Methods in Social Science. Part of me thinks that the time couldn’t come sooner; I miss stealing the valuable work-time intended to fight the Global War on Terrorism instead writing papers or reading for forthcoming midterms/finals. Yet another part of me dreads its arrival; gone will be the days flittering away my free time reading The Old Man and the Sea, Generation Kill, and A Knight's Own Book of Chivalry, among others. When I’m in class my recreational reading drops to around 0% because I become so exhausted from staring at my textbooks for hours upon hours that I can’t possibly enjoy what would normally be so enjoyable. I refuse to sully the beauty of choice prose because of external circumstances, if that makes any sense.
I found other people on Blogger! Who knew this site had so many old friends. And who knew that Clarissa Joy has become such an avid blogger. To think that I’ve been reading her MySpace scraps when I could have been feasting plentifully on The Life of Joy this entire time. Now that I think about it, she’ll probably reply that she’s mentioned it at least a dozen times on MySpace...and I seem to remember at least a handful of links/mentions upon further contemplation. Who’s got egg on their face now? I believe I do…
Currently Reading: Dragons of A Vanished Moon
Currently Watching: How I Met Your Mother Season 2
Currently Listening: Red Jumpsuit Aparatus - Lonely Road
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Nick and Norah's Ultimate Playlist? No...no,no. How dare you compare it to Almost Famous?! Sacrilegious blasphemy! I hold you in such high esteem, but a little part of that has died today. Sadness...
Lol, actually somebody else compared it to Almost Famous and I didn't completely disagree at the time.
Is it too late to take it back? Your stern scolding has popped the bubble that surrounded my judgement of movie comparisons. In my defense I would of compared it to white rice, a pile of warm clothes fresh from the dryer, or anything else I hold sacred to my life.
I was in the honeymoon phase of that movie, which has worn off a little. It's still awesome, but maybe saying that it was like Almost Famous was a little rash
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