Look with your eyes, not with your hands.


Such a minute fraction of this life do we live: so much is sleep, tooth-brushing, waiting for mail, for metamorphosis, for those sudden moments of incandescence: unexpected, but once one knows them, one can live life in the light of their past and the hope of their future.



A grad student muses on her life, film, friends, politics, reality televizzle, and music.

 
Yay Katie.... (I'd link to your blog, except you never update it). Congrats on the job in Boston, doing what you love, finishing your undergraduate career, and living with Casey! you gals are going to tear up beantown in the next two years, perhaps I'll join you in Cambridge after I, oh yeah, finish college.

So I watched movies today like it's my job... Vive l'amour (1994) and The Hole (1999) both by Tsai Ming-Liang. Not much dialogue in either film, a few too many realist shots of people going to the bathroom, and some weird Chinese-calpsyo fantasy sequences in The Hole. Of course I say this a lot, but I really think if I was going to make films, I could see myself making these - they are dark and spooky and a little more glum than I could probably muster, but very well-crafted just the same.

This evening I watched Ocean's 11, a "stress-breaker" film put on by the College. I liked it when I saw it in the theater over Xmas break and I liked it again tonight. I also enjoyed it because I went with my Vegas crew, or Jasinski's 3; Jack and Michelle. Check out photos from our trip.

I like watching movies all day, much funner than attending class. Tomorrow I'd like to watch Hands on Hardbody, a fairly recent documentary about a car dealership in Texas that annually gives a free car to the person who is willing to stand with their hand on it the longest... I read that it's quite a comedy routine. So I'll do that tomorrow and maybe some more work, and maybe I'll watch Tsai Ming-Liang's most known work, the 1997 film, The River. It's nice not to have any exams. I was thinking about it today - I only had two exams this entire academic year - both in Andres' Modern Architecture class in the fall.

Okay - maybe we'll hit up midnight breakfast and maybe we'll drink gin.... or maybe both.
posted by lmjasinski at 11:33 PM