(BOSers – I think you’re fooling yourself if you think Marblebury is gonna be good for the Celts.
Not only can he not play subordinate and never been a winner, but he hasn’t played at all in like forever, and this is gonna give him flashbacks to the Timberwolves years, when he couldn’t handle The Shadow of Garnett.
Suddenly everyone has forgotten he’s insane just because of some bus stop funnery.)
So here’s a list of everything I didn’t understand in that excellent Prelude to a Super Airplane review.
I’ve refrained from looking any of it up until I did this, so included in parentheses are what I currently think these things are/mean/etc.
Susan Sontag (Actress)
Jean-Luc Godard (Star Trek guy)
Neal Pollack (director)
erudite (“of listlessness”)
Swift, Flaubert, Joyce, Pynchon (a random family)
Diderot (a building in France, and it’s on a beach, where it seems out of place)
Jacques the Fatalist and His Master (book)
Martin Amis (poet)
London Fields (duh it’s a field in the LON lol)
George Saunders (Army general)
insufferable (annoying)
Tao Lin (Chinese Army general)
in media res (“excessive usage of the color blue”)
hiccoughs (snooty version of hiccups)
didactic (angular)
penchant (like a magic bracelet for girls)
Javier Marias (poet/director)
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me (poem about the Army)
ubiquitous (random)
elongated gerunds (like a super hero who can stretch his gerunds has these)
saccharine (tasty in a bad way)
magisterial (like a king in the Army)
I still really don’t feel like looking them up, but if you wanted to point out where I may be off-track, feel free.
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So one of the cool things about Twitter is the meeting of people.
I’ve been very deliberate about trying to actually build a base of people who I’m interested in, and vice versa, rather than just blast up as many followers as possible.
(I’ll delve into this in my next Twitter-usage update analysis.)
Obviously, fellow filmmakers, writers, and people who do actoring have been high on that list of people-types, and one such person is Alejandro Adams, whose new film, Canary, is debuting at Cinequest Film Festival on March 1st, with another screening scheduled for March 7th.
This is the brief synopsis of what Canary is about, from the film’s website:
Canary is an intellectually daring dystopian thriller set in a not-so-alternate universe in which organ harvesting is commonplace. While a mute organ redistribution specialist stalks unsuspecting citizens of every socioeconomic stripe, a rag-tag news crew investigates various conspiracy theories and inches closer to discovering the cause of epidemic organ failure.
That type of world-next-door sci-fi is just the type of thing I’m into, and we got to talking and such, and so I decided I wanted to ask him some questions for here on the site.
This is not a joke-filled, stupid question interview. (Well, not fully.) It’s also quite long – if you’re into this type of film, or filmmaking in general, or just a conversation with a really interesting guy, dive in after the break.
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I’ll be very honest and admit I saw Dark Knight four times in theaters – two regular; two IMAX.
I’m also buying the DVD Tuesday, and will probably watch that twice within a week.
Now that it’s officially coming back to theaters (for an Oscar push) in late January, I’m guessing I’ll snag two more IMAX viewings.
That’ll make 8 times I’ll have seen it in 8 months, which sounds like a lot. (The only other movie I’ve seen that many times in so short a time is my own.)
Do the math though, and that’s:
8 divided by 8 = 1
So like, while on one hand, it seems weird to say, “Yeah, I saw that movie 8 times,” on the other hand, if someone was like, “Hey, if you don’t watch this movie once a month for the next 8 months, I’ll punch you hard in the general area of your left cheekbone,” you’d be like, “no problem”.
Right? ‘Cause that doesn’t sound hard to do at all.
On the other hand again, you’re probably wondering why I wrote out “divided by” instead of using “/”.
The reason is simple – I went to public school, and during that public schooling I took what was known as “Algebra 2″ in 10th grade.
After that, I took it again in eleventh grade.
Finally, in 12th grade, I took “Algebra 2″ a third time. You’re probably thinking I was either dumb, or the school’s scheduling system was glitchy.
The truth is, I was home schooled for one day in 8th grade, and during math class, my dad told me the “rotten teachers” at public school would try to make me use “/” instead of the proper “fully written math”.
He told me never to do it any other way. Thus, I failed “Algebra 2″ three times, setting multiple records at my high school.
I also made them all made because I wouldn’t stop putting the quotes around “Algebra 2″. (If it’s not fully written out, it’s not real math, thus the quotes.)
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