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More? Well, I'm a nontraditional student with two yappy dogs and a quasi cat (she's not really mine, just hanging out for a while). School was exciting the first semester, but now it's a TREMENDOUS drag. (my apologies if you are a professor, but come on....liven it up a bit, why don't you!)
oh... if I can bore you with any more minutia, drop me a note below.
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Good luck with the control freak. All you can really do is scratch your tally of days into the stone wall of your cell, as you dream of freedom (and perhaps revenge), like The Count of Monte Cristo.
[:-)] Mark
P.S. I have also seen nothing of "Pam & Jim" this season. I am waiting until next fall when I can watch the episodes on Netflix, without commercials.
I feel rather badly that you troubled yourself with such a long letter when it is clear that you are swamped. The time will come when my job will require a long hiatus at my end. I am relieved, not peeved that you got busy yourself. That will make us even, over the long haul.
My French is not good enough to watch French films without subtitles. Oddly, however, I do enjoy French films with subtitles more than, say, German or Dutch films, with subtitles. The French just sounds familiar and correct, in my ear.
It is a bummer that you were paired with a control freak. When I was a kid at school, it often occurred to me, several times a day, that some of my teachers had chosen a profession (perhaps unconsciously) that would allow them to capriciously boss people around (because kids have fewer rights). As you must know, there is no solution beyond gritting your teeth. Sorry.
The possibility of not finding a job is also a bummer. There is little I could write that would not be a platitude. Suffice to say that I do believe in optimism.
When I moved from Connecticut, I left my television behind. In the same spirit, I try to watch very little IW television. Mostly, I just watch "The Office" -- often fast-forwarding to the Jim & Pam parts. One weekend, I was fed-up with my research and watched an entire season of "The Legend of The Seeker" back-to-back. That is the only television that I have watched at Netflix. The absence of commercials delights me!
To be honest, I was dubious about most of the replies to my thread. One person suggested that perhaps the digital IW file had become corrupted and that Netflix had not bothered to "re-scan" the disk (for lack of the right term). It still seems suspicious that the only unavailable episode is the one with the word "gay" in the title.
I am getting busier as Christmas exams approach. Please do not feel that you must write a long reply. I will not have the time to repay you in kind.
[:-)] Mark
P.S. On the subject of Jim & Pam, I have completed another chapter in my graphic novel (see attached)
StressRelief.pdf
I'm still crazy-go-nuts busy here so it's great that you seem occupied.
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I was just cruising around in the Nebraska/Kansas territory and you popped up, looked interesting, so I thought I'd say "hi". Hi.
Less than satiated, and bemusedly so, I turned to the director's commentary as a possible source of further entertainment. The cause of my malaise was revealed. The director reported that he had accepted the project while medicated in hospital. Otherwise, he might never have agreed to do a period drama. In so many words, he then explained working to overcome the setting and subtly give the film a more modern aesthetic. To me, that was a huge mistake. In the period between the world wars, and in the period after the second, life still seemed evanescent and people lived it desperately. Reckless abandon was tinged with melancholy. The times were a crucible for human emotion and thus provide an almost ideal backdrop for powerful yet believable drama. To me, "Mrs. Henderson Presents" and "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day" both capitalized on a post-war setting, while "Easy Virtue" squandered the opportunity in an effort to seem more hip.
From the commentary, I also learned that the other actresses had all been made to seem especially dowdy, in order to make Jessica Biel seem more luminous. One of the young actresses began referring to the make-up trailer as the "ugly wagon" and was once sent back repeatedly, by the director, until she ultimately bust into tears. The director also reported that Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake would play Scrabble in her trailer, for hours on end, whenever he came to visit her, on the set. Several days later, it occurred to me that perhaps "Scrabble" had been used as a euphemism.
[:-)] Mark
Incidentally, the acting, art direction, cinematography and delightful music in "Paris 36" all capitalized on the 1936 time period to yield a heart-wrenching, heart-warming, delightful piece of cinema.
I queued "Away We Go" because I love John Krasinski as a romantic lead and a movie with an unglamorously pregnant female lead struck me as novel. I chose "Easy Virtue" because I love Colin Firth and I tend to like films that harken-back to bygone eras, which explains "Paris 36" as well. I chose "The Squid and the Whale" because I love Laura Linney. I chose "The Village Barbershop" because it seems to promise a "cantankerous old man vs. charming ingénue" that often works for me.
[:-)] Mark
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