February 2012
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Ever since reading the "Love Me, Love My Books"...
I’ve been thinking about what my deal-breaker books would be. And not really just books, but pretty much everything. My deal-breakers include Jane Eyre, The Little Prince, any affluent jazz artist, Psycho, and (almost, seeing as I haven’t seen everything he’s made) anything by Stanley Kubrick because I feel like if you can’t appreciate them, then you can’t appreciate...
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“However, I do believe in the dealbreaker book. This book so deeply resonates...”
– Molly Flat, “Love Me, Love My Books”
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“Light came and went and came again, the booming strokes of three o’clock...”
– An excerpt from Thomas Wolfe’s The Lost Boy
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Leon the Professional
Luc Besson’s Leon the Professional is wonderful; it is so much more than the “crime drama” genre it has been placed in. Leon is a professional hitman who lives by himself. His best friend is a plant and he has very few interactions with other people (aside from the one’s he kills of course). When his neighbors are killed by a vengeful drug lord, he adopts their only...
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“I teach college English part-time. Mostly Lit, not Composition. But I am so...”
– David Foster Wallace’s “Authority and American Usage”
So test done!
And I’m pretty sure I did okay, which is great!
I’ll get some things up for you guys now. Thanks for being patient.
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Gimme a couple of days
I’ve got a neurobiology test on Wednesday so I can’t really focus on this right now. Wednesday night I’ll get things back up and running though, including a review of Leon The Professional and Saw! Wish me luck.
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Immersion: Porn by Robbie Cooper →
For those of you interested in something a little more illicit, Immersion: Porn includes interviews with several people discussing their relationship and history with porn interspersed with videos of their faces while they masturbate.
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