March 31st, 2007 |
I volunteered at the university’s poetry festival yesterday (which is chaired by my Harlem Renaissance professor), and listened in on one of the speakers, who was not reading his own poetry, but lecturing about poetry. Which I find more interesting. He had some interesting things to say about poetry vs. prose and the [...]
March 31st, 2007 |
Meant to post this Thursday. Forgot. That’s what I get for writing it early and leaving it in draft status…ah well.
This week’s trailers. My pick for one I’d go see: The Lookout. My pick for top box office of this group: Blades of Glory. The art film of the week [...]
March 28th, 2007 |
This is late because my host had server issues.
Ryan has been Sanjayaed. And the show has hit a new low. Wow. Actually, on him, it sort of looks like one of those Roman Centurian helmets.
Horsies! A little better than the previous Ford videos so far this year. Still not, you [...]
March 27th, 2007 |
This should be interesting. I like Gwen Stefani. Okay, I like No Doubt, and I don’t mind Gwen Stefani’s solo stuff. Exactly how well the Idols are going to do Stefani/pop songs…yet to be determined. I’m not hugely optimistic, but that gives them lots of room to impress me, right?
Wow, she [...]
March 25th, 2007 |
Notwithstanding the Veneration due, and paid to Homer, it is very strange, yet true, that among the most learn’d, and the greatest Admirers of Antiquity, there is scarce to be found, who ever read the Iliad, with that Eagerness and Rapture, which a Woman feels when she reads the Novel of Zaida1; and as to [...]
March 25th, 2007 |
I feel for A.D. Harvey and the research he put into writing the Neo-classical vs. Romantic section of this book Literature and History, especially in hunting down and examining the hundreds of epics written according to the Neo-classical guidelines in the late-18th, early-19th century, hoping to come up with something to rival the ancient Greeks.
I [...]
March 25th, 2007 |
FYI, I just put an option to subscribe to this blog via e-mail down below on the bottom left. Or you could click here: Subscribe via e-mail. I know a few people who would rather get updates by e-mail than RSS, so I thought I’d try to be accommodating. ;)
March 25th, 2007 |
Well, Grease: You’re the One That I Want just ended, and I am sad, because I enjoyed that show much more than I had any right to. It’s the Broadway. I LOVE me some Broadway, and I don’t get enough of it. And without spoiling it, because I hate when I randomly [...]