All the reasons I can think of to rent Scotland, PA soon.
1. Christopher Walken!!! (If that's not enough for you, then you should stop reading, now.)
2. One of the eekiest (as in "Eeeek! I can't believe she's actually going to do that!!!") scenes I have ever seen, that is still funny.
3. Fast food can kill in so many ways.
4. Best re-versioning of Shakespeare I've seen. It's got all the heart and soul of the original (that's if you can make the leap from struggling to be a king to struggling to be a fast food giant.
5. I'll never think of McDonald's or oven mitts the same. (creepy tingly goose bumps)
6. Christopher WALKEN!!! (I think I need to start a collection of his movies....)7. A vegetarian Christopher Walken talking about "babaganoush."
8. Banquo's ghost wearing a Pennsylvania winter hunting hat and horn rim glasses.
9. This movie is like Fargo on Sweet Tarts.
5/28/2004
5/26/2004
Time to Clean the Kitchen
"Show me a man who lives alone
and has a perpetually clean kitchen,
and 8 times out of 9
I'll show you a man
with detestable spiritual qualities."
-Charles Bukowski
Yea, this seems comforting.
But I fear the statistics are just as bad for guys
with messy counters like mine.
and has a perpetually clean kitchen,
and 8 times out of 9
I'll show you a man
with detestable spiritual qualities."
-Charles Bukowski
Yea, this seems comforting.
But I fear the statistics are just as bad for guys
with messy counters like mine.
Movie Pick of the Week
Scotland, PA is the name of my most recent DVD excursion.
This movie is Macbeth set in a goofy small town back in the 70's.
"Mac" is a frustrated fry cook in a hamburger joint named "Duncan's."
The three wierd sisters are two geeky guys and a girl who hang out at
the local carnival after hours and make running rhymes and puns.
I haven't watched the whole thing, but so far it's a hoot.
If you like Shakespeare, you'll get a kick out of this movie,
and if you hated Shakespeare in High School, there's still a lot to love.
And the language is user friendly.
This movie is Macbeth set in a goofy small town back in the 70's.
"Mac" is a frustrated fry cook in a hamburger joint named "Duncan's."
The three wierd sisters are two geeky guys and a girl who hang out at
the local carnival after hours and make running rhymes and puns.
I haven't watched the whole thing, but so far it's a hoot.
If you like Shakespeare, you'll get a kick out of this movie,
and if you hated Shakespeare in High School, there's still a lot to love.
And the language is user friendly.
5/21/2004
Harold Bloom
"People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves. What I'm desperately trying to do is get students to talk to themselves as though they are indeed themselves, and not someone else."
Interview in the Guardian 6 March 1999
I just like this quote. Nothing more today.
Interview in the Guardian 6 March 1999
I just like this quote. Nothing more today.
5/14/2004
TTTB
To tired to blog....
This week has been frenetic...like the opening credits to Moulon Rouge.
Above and beyond the regular school day, I've been building sets till 7 or 8 each night, Open House was on Wednesday (spent the entire night before until 5am editing my class movie) and then Thursday was another big day -- Gold Rush Day (one more thing to prepare for).
Tonight...more set building. The performance (Fiddler on the Roof) is next week.
It's a busy time of year, but only four more weeks to go!
This week has been frenetic...like the opening credits to Moulon Rouge.
Above and beyond the regular school day, I've been building sets till 7 or 8 each night, Open House was on Wednesday (spent the entire night before until 5am editing my class movie) and then Thursday was another big day -- Gold Rush Day (one more thing to prepare for).
Tonight...more set building. The performance (Fiddler on the Roof) is next week.
It's a busy time of year, but only four more weeks to go!
5/07/2004
The Shining
I just finished watching "The Shining" last night for the first time.
I don't generally find "scary" movies all that interesting...well...afterall...they're scary. Ok... I'm a total chicken.
But, it seems everyone else has seen this one, and it's Kubrick, so I popped it in the DVD (I like the pause button, which lets me switch to "Friends" for a breather (sp?))
Unlike some others, this movie has only a few violent images, but the movie
is soaked in fear and anticipation of danger. The kid is freaky.
My favorite scene is when the kid rides round and round on his tricycle, moving from carpet to wood floor and back again, over and over. It was a pretty cool audio effect. Kubrick knows his details.
I'm impressed with the technical feat of creating sustained fear without doing much. Just the number 237 evokes a powerful sense of dread.
How did he do it?
Has anyone read the book? Is it just as scary?
Did Kubrick make the magic, or was it already there in Steven King's original writing?
I don't generally find "scary" movies all that interesting...well...afterall...they're scary. Ok... I'm a total chicken.
But, it seems everyone else has seen this one, and it's Kubrick, so I popped it in the DVD (I like the pause button, which lets me switch to "Friends" for a breather (sp?))
Unlike some others, this movie has only a few violent images, but the movie
is soaked in fear and anticipation of danger. The kid is freaky.
My favorite scene is when the kid rides round and round on his tricycle, moving from carpet to wood floor and back again, over and over. It was a pretty cool audio effect. Kubrick knows his details.
I'm impressed with the technical feat of creating sustained fear without doing much. Just the number 237 evokes a powerful sense of dread.
How did he do it?
Has anyone read the book? Is it just as scary?
Did Kubrick make the magic, or was it already there in Steven King's original writing?
5/05/2004
The Importance of Fine Motor Skills
True story...
The other day our resource teacher was telling me
about one of her students. I like to call him
"The Kindermullet" (although he's in 1st grade now).
He's got some behavior problems (He bites),
and he has some speech problems (you can't understand a thing he says),
but he is making progress in fine motor skills.
Last week it only took him about three minutes
to get his digits into the correct
position to give her the finger.
Progress.
The other day our resource teacher was telling me
about one of her students. I like to call him
"The Kindermullet" (although he's in 1st grade now).
He's got some behavior problems (He bites),
and he has some speech problems (you can't understand a thing he says),
but he is making progress in fine motor skills.
Last week it only took him about three minutes
to get his digits into the correct
position to give her the finger.
Progress.
Gots ta blog...
Ok. After a double shot and half an iced coffee from the ever present and almost-pretty good caffeine-up-station that I call "Not-Vivace's", I'm almost awake.
I'm taking the kiddies on a field trip today into LA. --The Autry Museum. Actually, all the 4th grade classes are going...that's ~100 students plus parents and teachers. Woohoo!
100 lunches sitting in a hot bus. Mmmmmm! : )
I'm taking the kiddies on a field trip today into LA. --The Autry Museum. Actually, all the 4th grade classes are going...that's ~100 students plus parents and teachers. Woohoo!
100 lunches sitting in a hot bus. Mmmmmm! : )
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