Thursday, February 05, 2004
No, I'm not wandering around taking pictures of people in their beds, this is Scarlett Johansson, star of 'Lost in Translation' and my new biggest crush (well, second biggest).
Matt, Kyle and I saw the movie tonight, and I thought it was pretty damn amazing. I don't know how many of you have been overseas, to a non-English speaking country, but it perfectly captures the confusion of encountering a culture you don't understand... including the loneliness that comes with it. Bill Murray gave probably the best performance of his career, and Scarlett did a great job acting opposite him. The movie moves at a slow place, as the director Sofia Coppola walks with the actors around downtown Tokyo, but you can't help but feel just as alien as the characters do, out of place, disjointed from what they know best. But while they both miss and don't miss the US, they find what they need in each other. I'm not much good at reviewing, so I'll just stop there. Go see this movie sometime... or wait until I buy the dvd and watch it with me, which will be sometime soon, I guarantee it.
PS: The soundtrack is great too. Any soundtrack with Death In Vegas on it just plain rocks.
Wednesday, February 04, 2004
If you ever wondered what life was like in my favorite London building: Life In Trocadero
Tuesday, February 03, 2004
Just got caught between downloading some data from the Data Ferret at the Census Bureau and waiting until the best time to go for a run and workout. Remembered I was going to be good this semester and actually post on a regular basis.
Well, if you happen to go to the university as me then likely you know about all the fun we had on Saturday night. Traveled to Greenville, like in the old days, scored some Indian food then met up with others to have a huge bash at Frankie's Fun Park. Go carts, laser tag, and mini-golf, oh my! If you didn't come, why not? Come next time! If there is a next time....
Except for my take home Biology exam I got lucky in not having any tests this week. I need to take the time to work on internship instead, since the Bank of England rejected me for this summer.
Oooh! Some of my data just came through the Ferret, hold on, downloading the ASCII output file....
Yeah, so I'm running a regression on income using a bunch of different variables, should be interesting.
Not much else is up, been working on some new music, after being inspired by remixing one of my friend Brian's songs.
Maybe I'll have a new album by the end of the semester.. like it really matters. If you do care, you can look at the last two at my Clemson site. I think I'm going to take a different approach with this cd. Yesterday I watched, with my Dixon Fellows group, a video by Meredith Monk which highlighted the difference between an audience and a group of spectators. I think the cd will be based around a story, told to a bunch of robot children by a robot elder. Sounds weird I know, but I like weird. I've already written a bunch of songs over the past year, so I just need to tie them in with some common element.
Listening to: Sigur Rós - Ný Batterí
Well, if you happen to go to the university as me then likely you know about all the fun we had on Saturday night. Traveled to Greenville, like in the old days, scored some Indian food then met up with others to have a huge bash at Frankie's Fun Park. Go carts, laser tag, and mini-golf, oh my! If you didn't come, why not? Come next time! If there is a next time....
Except for my take home Biology exam I got lucky in not having any tests this week. I need to take the time to work on internship instead, since the Bank of England rejected me for this summer.
Oooh! Some of my data just came through the Ferret, hold on, downloading the ASCII output file....
Yeah, so I'm running a regression on income using a bunch of different variables, should be interesting.
Not much else is up, been working on some new music, after being inspired by remixing one of my friend Brian's songs.
Maybe I'll have a new album by the end of the semester.. like it really matters. If you do care, you can look at the last two at my Clemson site. I think I'm going to take a different approach with this cd. Yesterday I watched, with my Dixon Fellows group, a video by Meredith Monk which highlighted the difference between an audience and a group of spectators. I think the cd will be based around a story, told to a bunch of robot children by a robot elder. Sounds weird I know, but I like weird. I've already written a bunch of songs over the past year, so I just need to tie them in with some common element.
Listening to: Sigur Rós - Ný Batterí
