This morning, after I surrendered to my snooze button and tumbled out of a dream that included arguing with my mother in an old diner, intelligible monkeys that wore Victorian clothing, Jane Austen's Bennet family, unlocking deceased children's rooms, photographing pink cosmos, and major house construction, I was getting dressed hurriedly and found myself quoting nursery rhymes in my mind.
"Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall/ Humpty Dumpty had a great fall/ All the kings' horses and all the kings' men / Couldn't put Humpty together again," it kept repeating.
Previous tracks from my drowsy subconscious:
"My name is Inigo Montoya! You killed my father! Prepare to die!" (also on repeat)
Video Killed the Radio Star
You Can't Take That Away From Me
Night and Day, by Cole Porter - all the verses, with chorus.
Does anyone else experience this? If you do, what do you hear?
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Thursday, August 18, 2005
Blargh - mini rant
Dear Netflix:
I recently rented "The Gleaners and I" by Agnes Varda and was surprised to see it first described as "no-holds-barred documentary" then "an insouciant treat from beginning to end" and finally "an unexpectedly obtuse perspective." Is it normally your policy to attach negative reviews to your films? Insouciant means "marked by blithe unconcern; nonchalant." Obtuse, on the other hand, suggests the movie's perspective was dense, dim, dull, dumb or slow.
Agnes Varda is an internationally acclaimed director, the only female member of the French New Wave. The film won 11 awards including "Best Documentary" from the European Film Academy. Roger Ebert gave it his highest rating, as did critics from the NY Times, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, and Salon.com.
This film was neither inaccessible nor elitist; it also was not a "no-holds barred/nonchalant/dull" documentary. I don't know where you get your descriptions, but I'd suggest using a dictionary rather than adding words just because they "sound good" in a description.
I recently rented "The Gleaners and I" by Agnes Varda and was surprised to see it first described as "no-holds-barred documentary" then "an insouciant treat from beginning to end" and finally "an unexpectedly obtuse perspective." Is it normally your policy to attach negative reviews to your films? Insouciant means "marked by blithe unconcern; nonchalant." Obtuse, on the other hand, suggests the movie's perspective was dense, dim, dull, dumb or slow.
Agnes Varda is an internationally acclaimed director, the only female member of the French New Wave. The film won 11 awards including "Best Documentary" from the European Film Academy. Roger Ebert gave it his highest rating, as did critics from the NY Times, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, and Salon.com.
This film was neither inaccessible nor elitist; it also was not a "no-holds barred/nonchalant/dull" documentary. I don't know where you get your descriptions, but I'd suggest using a dictionary rather than adding words just because they "sound good" in a description.
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Crucifixation & hertiage
I'm searching for typos in our catalog. These are my favorites so far - best read aloud.
- alaphabet
- artits
- bridgegroom
- cementeries
- childhod
- classifiction
- ecocomic
- errr
- humdred
- Lousie (I like it louse-ee)
- pinciple
- playright
- presidental
- pscyho
- pslams
- studnet
- washingtin
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
Nostalgia & Filippo Marinetti
I ran across this this here and was surprised to find myself entertained and stimulated by an article in a Christian magazine. I need to stop reading World and listening to people who only read things they agree with. Oy. I miss having people who talk like this around.
And he's so right about the Italian Futurists. I need to read more manifestos. They make me so happy.
And he's so right about the Italian Futurists. I need to read more manifestos. They make me so happy.
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