I can only assume that most of the people on this here list didnt have much to do on thanksgiving. I just spent like an hour trying to catch up on all the freakin emails. YOu guys went nuts. But i'll just say a few things here that came to mind as i slowly made my way through the inbox. -bright eyes....Call me crazy but the first thing i though of when i listened to this stuff was lou barlows. Anyone else hear sentridoh or sebadoh in this stuff? -pavement stuff. I like pavement quite a bit and ive liked them for quite a while. Still i cant help but feel a bit disappointed by the last two albums. I didnt see anything 'radical' as someone put it, in either of them. Thats what made them kind of dull. Am i alone here? -dogma- i saw this movie about two or three weeks ago. My first reaction was to say it was pretty good. One of the best ways to judge awesome movies (for me anyways) is the did-i-look-at-my-watch test. If i look at my watch it usually means the movie is losing me or is drawing on too long. Dogma didnt pass the d.i.l.a.m.w. test. The usually witty and enthralling dialouge of kevin smith movies was replaced with this boring and mostly unfunny...dogma. I mean, i guess i can see the humor in the title since it basically describes the dialouge of the movie. It did have funny parts but...it werent no clerks. Props to smith for going out on a limb and trying something different(from his own previous work and from the movie world in genreal). -There was some whole thread thing about the timelessness of good books. Well, my take is that, yeah, a good book is timeless. And when i say that, i mean, if youre reading a book that doesnt take place in 'modern' times, you should try to understand it in the context of the time in which the author lived. Obviously we couldnt possible completely understand what it would be like to live in another period of history. But usually if a book is considered good in any time, its because it has some kind of departure from what is normal or expected. So in that sense you can kind of feel how an author was pushing him/herself into new territory. I guess maybe sometimes it might not be spirtual in all cases, to all readers, but im sure we all pick out characters we identify with and understand in every book we read. They might be nothing like us and yet maybe they have one small quality that we wish we had or think we may have. Thats kind of spirtual isnt it? I dont know what im talking about. Anyways...now to do that work i came to the computer lab to do. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com
