I bought Le procès (The Trial) on DVD a couple months ago purely because I was so thrilled to see an Anthony Perkins movie being sold on DVD. He truly is an actor who's sorely underrated, and here...it even deeper. No, I'm not saying I'd watch it for the third time in a day, but I'll definitely say I've found a frighteningly good piece of art that is going to fight it's way into my movie top ten

...was about Oedipus and Freud and was a bit strange but pretty good. Book 39 was 'The Likeness' by Tana French which was the follow up to In The Woods that I was looking for and was almost as good :) Literature challenge status: 39 /50 - 11 to go NaNoWriMo also starts on Saturday and I think I've settled on an idea. I think I'm going to write a sort of memoir-y thing about my time in Japan. I know...

Vintery, mintery, cutery, corn, Apple seed and apple thorn; Wire, briar, limber lock, Three geese in a flock. One flew east, And one flew west, And one flew over the cuckoo's nest.

...the last 2 months: 1. college begun; lots of philosophy reading and thinking which takes up time (American philosophy with Emerson, Peirce, and James so far; finishing James today --- Philosophy of Literature, which included reading Hard Times by Charles Dickens reaffirming my fondness for that man's writing (earliest story of his I read was Tale of Two Cities which I read in...1997?) --- Environmental...

  Title: Overdosed A man is walking out of a drug rehabilitation facility. As he makes his way home his voice can be heard, full of delight and joy. “Yes! I’m finally 100% free from drugs! I’m a...my…you don’t know?” “Know what?” “I heard he died about a week ago.” “What?! How??!!!” “He got OD’ed.” “OD’ed???!!!! By what? Drug?!” “Nope…by work.” “???!!!!”

ich habe mir heute von meinen eltern alle bücher von honoré de balzac , die ich auftreiben konnte, stibitzt. irgendwo sind wohl auch noch mehr. da habe ich mir ja was vorgenommen.. habt ihr schon balzac gelesen? mit welchem buch würdet ihr anfangen?

"Last week," Miss Bennet said, folding her hands behind her, "for one of our three excerpts, we read Dante's Inferno . Or rather -- since I am hardly cruel enough to ask you to read all of Dante's ... at all of them. "As a final note, I met some of your friends and family this weekend. They were all delightful, and I promise you most sincerely, I did not say anything of which you would disapprove.

...well. The lit books are not in a U-shaped section of shelving like they are in the Camberwell store, but it is still very exciting to browse in there, because, of course, it is the books that make a literature section such a delight to browse in! Alas, I had no money to spend, but they have been just as well, because I didn't have to choose just one or two books out of those hundreds! Ooh, Borders...

Had a pretty productive day at work again, did a lot of 3D modeling and wrote some important emails. Then I found out my boss had already emailed one of the people I emailed, about the exact same thing...second car). But wouldn't it be better to take the corvette with you where ever you are going after getting the drink? Maybe they were going to visit a friend who lived on a street with lots of potholes

By Paulo Coelho A protestant priest, having started a family, no longer had any peace for his prayers. One night, when he knelt down, he was disturbed by the children in the living room. "Have the children...longer see the joy." The priest stood and shouted once again to his wife: "Have the children play! They are part of prayer!" And his words were heard by God once again. www.paulocoelhoblog.com