Posted by: Avantgardener | August 11, 2008

Update

Hello world.  I’ve been gone for a while.  I like blogging about my life, and since I’m not really allowed to do that anymore…there’s not really a reason to come here.

So what have I been doing? This and that.

I’ve read a lot of books. Well, more than I have  since sec 4.  On the Road was great, and so was Dharma Bums. I guess I really dig Kerouac. He has a unique style of writing. It’s crazy and confusing at times, but it still electrifies the soul. After On the Road I wanted to hitchhiking into Indochina. After Dharma Bums I wanted to escape to the jungles and live like a hermit.

Milan Kundera’s  The Unbearable Lightness of Being was good too. It’s an exploration of the human condition – as cliché as  that sounds. Definitely an important book to read – provided you have a few days with nothing to do at all. It’s not nearly as good if you don’t have the time to think it through.

As is The God of Small Things. I regret not bothering about Arundhati Roy while I was in English A1. (I’ll stop now because I feel like I’m just dropping names.)0

I’ve been watching movies. Tons of movies. I guess I really like movies. Both the popular predictable stuff and some of the older stuff. Enter the Dragon was a really good movie. It makes CGI fight scenes look lame.  Woody Allen’ Sleeper was great too. The best part of it was how many of the gags reminded me of old silent movies. Very Buster Keaton/Charlie Chaplin. These guys are still hilarious ,by the way.

The rest of my free time has gone to Dragonball Z and Venture Bros Season 3.

Dragonball amazes me because it is a show that has WHOLE EPISODES dedicated to people drawing lots on who to fight. Apparently, these things are called filler – the original manga artist couldn’t keep up with the series, so producers had to drag out story arcs because the conclusions hadn’t even been written yet. It’s great for people with a lot of time.

And, we definitely have a lot of time. Don’t think I don’t do work though. It’s just that, my whole job involves me finishing my work as fast as possible and hoping that nothing goes wrong. That’s all I can say.


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  1. HIGH FIVE!


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