Here's a Haiku taken from quotes from a bottle collector.
not all work
a bit of a loner
he explores
watches the water
More than a thousand students turned out to vote to put out a possible reform to the University of Victoria Students Society's (UVSS) mandate. The UVSS has a pro-choice stance. Some people don't like that. They feel marginalized. Which makes sense -- people have their beliefs. However, the idea failed when thousands of students waved their hands in the air to vote against the change.
Ealier in the day I walked through the floodplain. After I walked to the beach and nearly fell into a small chasm. The tide was high and a section of the beach that I had to access was closed off by steep rocks surrounded by water. Needless to say I slipped and had to get muddy to avoid falling to a mild non-doom. Once on the other side, I made my way to the rocks I like to sit on and read the newspaper in the sun listening to alternative tango music on the mp3 player.
I handed in my article that was due today. I like it. It's active, sort of confusing. I wanted to breath a little of Goddard's "Breathless" into the writing. Bottlers tend to lead a fragmented, rushed lives. If you've seen "Breathless" you know what I'm getting at.
All in all my summer vacation was fun and I learned a lot.
Breathless! Jump cuts! I really want to use jump cuts for the music video; for some reason, I think it'd be a fun visual to play with. You know, "as long as it fits the music and script." Blah, blah, blah. I really need to make an effort to see Breathless with the yellow subtitles, because it was awful when I had to watch it with white-on-white.
On the other hand, you really need to see Goddard's Alphaville. Imagine it; french new wave sci-fi. It's absolutely bizarre and brilliant. Very low-tech Sci-fi. I'm moderately tempted to write something inspired by it for the third movie (Assuming the girls are into that).
Posted by: ben at February 10, 2005 8:08 PMYes yes yes, up with sci-fi! I'd like to watch both of those films, as well. Do I detect the need for a movie night during reading break?
Posted by: Stiffy at February 11, 2005 1:28 PMAlphaville sounds great. Joy and I are heading to Pic A Flic later on this afternoon. I will pick that up. And another. This time *I* get to choose two of the three movies.
Posted by: m at February 11, 2005 3:26 PMHa! You chose only ONE. Alphaville is safely in my back-pack.
The other two?
"The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum" - a 1975 German film directed by Volker Schlondorff and Margarethe Von Trotta. It's about a media smear campaign against a liberal woman who is accused of harbouring "terrorists". Based on the novel by Heinrich Boll.
"Radio Days" - a 1987 Woody Allen flick set in the 1940's, detailing the life of radio celebrities and the young listeners who fantasize about them. Stars Mia Farrow and Julie Kavner (yes!).
Posted by: Joy at February 11, 2005 9:41 PMAlphaville's sort of weird. It's half film noir detective thriller, half sci-fi, with a weird computer running an entire city where all the women are robots(!).
Posted by: ben at February 13, 2005 2:33 PM