January 2008
9 posts
Copernicus be damned.
So I think I want to drop everything and become an Astronemer. I attended my first Astronemy class tonight and, let me tell you, my professor is fucking awesome. He is basically the personification of a nerd (in the best way possible). I mean, he wears high waisted jeans, always looks awkward no matter what, and I swear he’s on the point of orgasm when he starts talking about science. ...
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Oscars
The Academy Award Nominations are out. Honestly, I wasn’t even paying attention as I read them; just looking to see how many nods No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood got. As expected, they both got nominated for just about everything. Although, apparently Jonny Greenwood didn’t get nominated for best score because he was disqualified. Apparently, he had started writing some...
Fucking bullshit. Give me a break.
You know what are needlessly expensive? Curtains. Fuckin’ curtains. I went to B,B & B today and I had to pay thirty dollars for plain white curtains, and another thirty dollars for a goddamn rod to hang them on. And we’re talking the least elaborate curtains in the store, and the ugliest and cheapest rod you can think of. I’m going to write a letter to curtains, and tell...
I have reached 102 pages with my screenplay. Thats one hour and forty minutes, conservatively speaking. And I’m probably only three quarters of the way through the film. I’ve never written so much in my life as I have these past few days. It feels good.
I have seen There Will Be Blood...
…and I am speechless. I’ll have to write about it later. Alot.
Distortion
New Magnetic Fields album is within my clutches! Yay! I have to say, so far it is way, way different than anything I’ve heard from Stephen Merrit.
“Danger is thy horse.”
– Hemmingway
Making A Case For A New Revolution
I have talked a little recently of this manifesto I wrote for my Essayists in The Age of The Image class. I figured I would finally put it up here, as it is something that is very important to me at the moment. Over the next few weeks I hope to do more essay writing on the subject of film, and post them here. Making A Case For A New Revolution by Rory O’Rear Over the next few pages, I will...