I want to take out from by busy school schedule, which found me behind various books all weekend. A news item caught my eye today that touches on all three principles entitled in this blog.
Roman Polanski, who must be acknowledged as one of the greatest filmmakers ever to live, was arrested today in Zurich. The charge against him is 32-years-old. He is charged with drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl, a crime to which he offered a full confession.
Child rape is not in the title of this blog, but truth is. For some disgusting truths on a legal proceeding's total corruption, I recommend the documentary film Wanted and Desired. I won't try to produce the details here, but suffice to say, Polanski fled not to avoid prosecution, but to escape from a justice system that had gone completely off the rails. The girl (now an adult woman) in this case has come forward and voiced concerns over the case; she appears in Wanted and Desired. Is it therefore reasonable that he should be arrested 32 years later? Is that considered the exaction of justice?
This pisses me off so much. I almost hope that he is extradited back to LA; at least I hope that people will get really pissed off if this happens. Watch the documentary, its really interesting in its own right.
Back to the books.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Flagship
Since I look on TRJ as my flagship blog, I wanted to remind readers that I have two others which I am going to be updating regularly.
Decadent Indifference is my "art" blog that never really got off the ground. Well stand by for liftoff. I have a Netflix account that is totally controlled by my cinemaphile friends and they are going to be sending me cool, probably "arty" movies that I haven't seen before. I am going to be doing review of each of them, or at least as many as my sanity permits. My membership is only good for three months and I will be getting one at a time. I would like to be able to blow through them as quickly as possible, but if you read the previous post you can see how that may be difficult. There might be a few other film, literature, and music perspectives that end up there also.
Unrelenting Change is my new blog which will chronicle my schooling. My class writings that are reasonably lengthened (less than 10 pages) will be there, (plagiarists beware) and I might also do some responses to some of my shorter readings. I will also do some venting there on the depth, breadth, and sheer fucking volume of all the work I will have to do over the next two years.
So once again, thanks for reading.
Decadent Indifference is my "art" blog that never really got off the ground. Well stand by for liftoff. I have a Netflix account that is totally controlled by my cinemaphile friends and they are going to be sending me cool, probably "arty" movies that I haven't seen before. I am going to be doing review of each of them, or at least as many as my sanity permits. My membership is only good for three months and I will be getting one at a time. I would like to be able to blow through them as quickly as possible, but if you read the previous post you can see how that may be difficult. There might be a few other film, literature, and music perspectives that end up there also.
Unrelenting Change is my new blog which will chronicle my schooling. My class writings that are reasonably lengthened (less than 10 pages) will be there, (plagiarists beware) and I might also do some responses to some of my shorter readings. I will also do some venting there on the depth, breadth, and sheer fucking volume of all the work I will have to do over the next two years.
So once again, thanks for reading.
24
I just added them all up. Between now and the last week of November I have 24 books to read. That's not really true because actually I will have to read a lot more than that for my research seminar, in which I have to formulate a plan that will serve as a springboard for my thesis. 24 also doesn't include the dozens of articles that I have to read in addition. I have something like 15 books requested at the library and it is only the third day of the quarter. I am also reading a book right now for fun. We'll see if I can finish it this weekend, otherwise I am hanging it up until December.
I don't even want to think about what the cumulative length of all the writing I will have to do is.
I plan on spending the entire day at the library tomorrow.
I am almost entirely broke until my student loans come through. They tell me that should be on Monday. They better be right. I probably have enough food to last until then. I don't get a paycheck until October 1.
It kind of sucks to watch all the undergrads running around all crazy carefree. As much fun as I had in undergrad I probably should have had a lot more.
I don't even want to think about what the cumulative length of all the writing I will have to do is.
I plan on spending the entire day at the library tomorrow.
I am almost entirely broke until my student loans come through. They tell me that should be on Monday. They better be right. I probably have enough food to last until then. I don't get a paycheck until October 1.
It kind of sucks to watch all the undergrads running around all crazy carefree. As much fun as I had in undergrad I probably should have had a lot more.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Return
I've taken several months off from the ol' blog. I really should have kept it up, but I ran out of bullshit. I just ran out, you see. Not really. I had a pretty fun and active summer. Here are some of the highlights.
My friends and I revived our old high school hangout (re-christening it "Arrakis") and in the process revolutionized what it means to live with your parents. I effectively stopped living with my Dad. I would like to think that I was the only person keeping that household together, but it was never really together. Arrakis, however, is the great, uncelebrated hangout of its time.
We also transformed Arrakis into studio space and revived a very old video project, in fact taking it to new heights. It was unspeakably fun to shoot and has somewhat revived my interest in acting, not to mention exhibitionism. If anyone is interested in a copy of this, drop me a line. It's pretty special.
I got a car! My first ever. It really is something else. The drivers side door handle fell off the first day I got it. I suppose that is to be expected. It's over seventeen (17) years old. Also it's a Geo Prism, so it has a fair amount of giddyup. It also has a manual transmission which I had to learn how to operate. That was an experience, let me tell you. The car sucks but, well, it's mine.
Mostly I was drunk all summer, which was fine. Hell, I had a blast. Couple of friends visited which is always fun.
I watched a lot of great movies, which is pretty typical. I hope to have some profiles and review of them on Decadent Indifference in the near future. My friend Nick and I are pretty close to being leading American authorities on Italian director Dario Argento.
In that same vein I saw Tarantino's new movie "Inglorious Basterds" a couple of times. If any of my readers haven't seen it yet (assuming I still have any potential readers) I cannot recommend it highly enough. I intend to make a pest of myself until everyone I encounter has seen it.
Through all of this I managed to get an apartment in Athens, OH and generally get all my shit together in preparation for grad school, which begins in two days. I am writing from my new apartment now actually, which isn't so bad. I have my own bathroom, which I have never had before, always sharing with family, thirty other men, roommates, roommates, girlfriend, family, and co-residents of Arrakis in that order. Athens is pretty cool so far. I think I will actually like it once I have some money.
Well, hopefully some people out there are still checking on this. If not I am probably going to explore some ways of getting the word back out. I hope to do a post at least weekly, and I still have a lot of back-posts to do. I think I will do one grand comprehensive COTA Chatter (kind of lost my inspiration once I got the Geo) and then my agent will begin negotiations with Random House for a book deal.
My friends and I revived our old high school hangout (re-christening it "Arrakis") and in the process revolutionized what it means to live with your parents. I effectively stopped living with my Dad. I would like to think that I was the only person keeping that household together, but it was never really together. Arrakis, however, is the great, uncelebrated hangout of its time.
We also transformed Arrakis into studio space and revived a very old video project, in fact taking it to new heights. It was unspeakably fun to shoot and has somewhat revived my interest in acting, not to mention exhibitionism. If anyone is interested in a copy of this, drop me a line. It's pretty special.
I got a car! My first ever. It really is something else. The drivers side door handle fell off the first day I got it. I suppose that is to be expected. It's over seventeen (17) years old. Also it's a Geo Prism, so it has a fair amount of giddyup. It also has a manual transmission which I had to learn how to operate. That was an experience, let me tell you. The car sucks but, well, it's mine.
Mostly I was drunk all summer, which was fine. Hell, I had a blast. Couple of friends visited which is always fun.
I watched a lot of great movies, which is pretty typical. I hope to have some profiles and review of them on Decadent Indifference in the near future. My friend Nick and I are pretty close to being leading American authorities on Italian director Dario Argento.
In that same vein I saw Tarantino's new movie "Inglorious Basterds" a couple of times. If any of my readers haven't seen it yet (assuming I still have any potential readers) I cannot recommend it highly enough. I intend to make a pest of myself until everyone I encounter has seen it.
Through all of this I managed to get an apartment in Athens, OH and generally get all my shit together in preparation for grad school, which begins in two days. I am writing from my new apartment now actually, which isn't so bad. I have my own bathroom, which I have never had before, always sharing with family, thirty other men, roommates, roommates, girlfriend, family, and co-residents of Arrakis in that order. Athens is pretty cool so far. I think I will actually like it once I have some money.
Well, hopefully some people out there are still checking on this. If not I am probably going to explore some ways of getting the word back out. I hope to do a post at least weekly, and I still have a lot of back-posts to do. I think I will do one grand comprehensive COTA Chatter (kind of lost my inspiration once I got the Geo) and then my agent will begin negotiations with Random House for a book deal.
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