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Sep. 6th, 2004 09:23 pm*sticks head out of hole and looks around*
*pops out and waves at everyone*
I've finished the summer assignments and dance camp that kept me busy for the last month. I finished Intro to Philosophy and got a 4.0. *buffs fingernails* I went back to school last week and was disappointed that I won't be able to write slash stories about the founding fathers in AP US because there are six of us in that class and I think Mr. Lindbuchler would notice.
I've begged my mother for the Sims 2 and watched the Kevin Smith movies while my parents were at Kitty's soccer tournament. (Is Liz slowly destroying her good kid rep? Yes she is.) Except for Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back they were all excellent. Clerks was less interesting while I was watching it (I need plot dammit!) but it has given me much food for thought about taking responsibility and the initiative over the last two days (and Kevin Smith is a genius for pulling off hiding messages of that depth in a movie that has a girl screwing a dead guy in the bathroom of a Quickmart). Mallrats was more enjoyable to watch but less thought-provoking in the aftermath. And Chasing Amy was pure, unadulterated genius (anyone else thinking that Amy is a real ex of Mr. Smith's?) It put so many gay/lesbian and race issues into a movie with fart jokes. It was exactly like Dogma (questioning the basic Christian assumptions with a shit demon). Jay and Silent Bob sucked but it was superior to a lot of movies of that genre (the Scary Movie series, ect.) because of the references to the other Kevin Smith movies that everyone got.
And I know I'm going to slip and get nailed by my Dad for watching them cause at dinner Kitty was licking peach juice off her fingers and I was thinking about the chocolate pretzel scene. But I will resist.
Sadly my reading list has grown without me doing much about it. I'm in the middle of American Gods and the Hoyt has the Sandman comics though. Although it looks like I'm going to having a fight like the one about fanfic with my parents over the whole "Sandman is a Comic" thing. My father asked me if I was a ten year-old boy when I got back from the library with it and didn't want to listen when I said that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
copperbadge and lizbee (both well read grad-students) had recommended it. Some days I don't know about my parents.[Unknown site tag][Bad username or unknown identity:
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*pops out and waves at everyone*
I've finished the summer assignments and dance camp that kept me busy for the last month. I finished Intro to Philosophy and got a 4.0. *buffs fingernails* I went back to school last week and was disappointed that I won't be able to write slash stories about the founding fathers in AP US because there are six of us in that class and I think Mr. Lindbuchler would notice.
I've begged my mother for the Sims 2 and watched the Kevin Smith movies while my parents were at Kitty's soccer tournament. (Is Liz slowly destroying her good kid rep? Yes she is.) Except for Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back they were all excellent. Clerks was less interesting while I was watching it (I need plot dammit!) but it has given me much food for thought about taking responsibility and the initiative over the last two days (and Kevin Smith is a genius for pulling off hiding messages of that depth in a movie that has a girl screwing a dead guy in the bathroom of a Quickmart). Mallrats was more enjoyable to watch but less thought-provoking in the aftermath. And Chasing Amy was pure, unadulterated genius (anyone else thinking that Amy is a real ex of Mr. Smith's?) It put so many gay/lesbian and race issues into a movie with fart jokes. It was exactly like Dogma (questioning the basic Christian assumptions with a shit demon). Jay and Silent Bob sucked but it was superior to a lot of movies of that genre (the Scary Movie series, ect.) because of the references to the other Kevin Smith movies that everyone got.
And I know I'm going to slip and get nailed by my Dad for watching them cause at dinner Kitty was licking peach juice off her fingers and I was thinking about the chocolate pretzel scene. But I will resist.
Sadly my reading list has grown without me doing much about it. I'm in the middle of American Gods and the Hoyt has the Sandman comics though. Although it looks like I'm going to having a fight like the one about fanfic with my parents over the whole "Sandman is a Comic" thing. My father asked me if I was a ten year-old boy when I got back from the library with it and didn't want to listen when I said that
copperbadge and lizbee (both well read grad-students) had recommended it. Some days I don't know about my parents.[Unknown site tag][Bad username or unknown identity:
][Bad username or unknown identity:
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