cuttlefish are for lovers

wow, first edward furlong is arrested for drunk and disorderly, including a wacky attempt to free supermarket lobsters, and now macaulay culkin is busted for drugs. whatever is this world coming to?

superhero-imitator-freak-of-the-day . . .

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/09/13/britain.palace/index.html

i totally got fired! i'm so excited!

there has been a semi truck parked in the middle of our small, one-way street since about 10:30 this morning. it's not fulfilling any function that i can see - it is unoccupied, and its hazards are flashing.

wow, when i took a 3-day weekend last week, i'd totally forgotten about labor day. awesome.

plans . . .

* see vanity fair.
* read, do a little homework.
* hopefully, make an ikea run for some bookshelves.
* get in at least 2 yoga workouts.
* re-watch east is east, and take notes.
* make a tom waits cd for the boy, and a new mix for jangrl.
* maybe go up to devon (indian neighborhood) and wander around.
* watch the amazing race rerun on saturday evening, as i missed it tuesday due to the stupid RNC. grr.
* go to the depaul library for more indian cinema books.

dude, those "purple heart" band-aids at the RNC? whatta bunch of losers.

had a pretty good weekend. my day off was fantastic, though it was pretty uneventful. since saturday was nasty and chilly, we stayed in for the most part, read and watched movies until the evening, when we went to see the manchurian candidate, and met up with some of the boy's friends for tapas at cafe ibirico. sunday was pretty uneventful as well - more movies, cleaning house, and mel came over for dinner and starship troopers

movies.

the terrorist - an indian "art" film about a suicide bomber from the southern state of tamil. a very quiet film, dealing with the young woman in her final days of preparation for the assassination of an indian VIP. the photography is especially beautiful - lush jungle shots and lots of water imagery. highly recommended.

the manchurian candidate (the remake) - i was going to boycott this, due to my distaste at remaking such a classic (the original is one of my favorite films), but i've been reading some interesting reviews, so i thought i'd check it out after all. not entirely successful, sloppy in some of the plot details and development of the central ideas, but overall rather thought-provoking and a decent update of impossibly dated source material. all of the leads were very good, though the boy and i both thought streep was a bit over-the-top. definitely provokes conversation.

gandhi - man, i hadn't seen this in AGES. thought i'd revisit it now that i know a bit more about historical detail. extremely biased and, in many ways, narrow-minded, but how could you make a movie about gandhi without deifying him, often at the expense of his contemporaries? i've got to get my hands on rushdie's essay about the film in imaginary homelands.

still at home, ready to watch - victim (yay, dirk bogarde!), showboy, mr. india, and amores perros

yay! day off!

stuff to do . . .

+ read at least the first 100 pages of india: from midnight to the millennium
+ rip more music for poddy
+ get stamps, mail bills
+ pick up more thesis movies for the weekend
+ (finally) get a bike lock
+ hit up whole foods for some seitan and household items
- check out the silkscreen store, and try to get some basic starter items for t-shirts and shawneemonkey's print exchange.
- make a road trip cd for the lovely mz. jangrl
+ yoga

i don't really have any plans for this weekend. i'd like to go to pistil's fashion show tonight, if i can find someone to go with. i'd like to see a movie, but i'm not sure what - something big? something small? i have a lot of reading to do, that's for sure, and i don't want to go too crazy with the parties, since next week will be really busy.

NPR just told me that no one is ever more than 3 feet from a spider. thanks, NPR.

i picked up my t.a. textbooks this afternoon. they're ungodly heavy, but otherwise look pretty cool. it's an "ancient to modern" survey course, and i like the first book in particular, because despite being a western-centric view, it spends a LOT of time on asia (though seemingly no time at all on africa or anywhere else).

the most interesting thing is that we get cds with the texts - i assumed that they were data cds, but they actually contain music! the first disk even has some buddhist chants and hindu ragas! the texts also contain exerpts from literary works, including plays and poetry. i think that's a great idea for a survery class, but it will remain to be seen how the professor chooses to use the materials.

uh-oh. apparently, ATA has decided to pull out of midway, and sell all 14 of its gates to other carriers. which sucks for me, because ATA is usually the only carrier i can afford to take anywhere, and which also sucks for chicago, since there will undoubtedly be a ton of layoffs.

and there's still debate about building a third chicago airport? what are they thinking? i know o'hare can be horrendous, but there has to be a smarter solution to these various airport woes.

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