That phone's got the ghosts!

See King Kong---not as good as Heavenly Creatures or any of the Lord of the Rings but it is a popcorn flick that borders on a completly satisfying action/adventure/drama. You will most definitely find it in you to squirt some. Some of the dialogue is clunky (ship scenes) but once the star arrives onscreen then the film does not let up.

In 19th Century Germany men would purposefully scar their own face to give the appearance that they had been in a duel...

Ugh, teaching requirements, praxis, Holy Cross Middle School...

Music for November and December:

Aberfeldy (!)
Sufjan Stevens
The Cloud Room
Sigur Ros (new one)
Aberfeldy
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Soundtrack
(My new folk and dance songs for the month of November)
Travis
Nada Surf (particularly the song "The Weight is a Gift")
Mark Mothersbaugh (mispelled)
Block Party
Aberfeldy

Look for:
Christmas rap song from conshohocken
Christmas jingles from conshohocken

I should be working on Educational Psychology: I'm not. What I am doing is slammin' down a blog entry. My roomates, save for one, are musicians. We have a mini-studio set up and have taken it upon ourselves to record an album a month. An album is a cd with ten or more songs or 6 or more really long ones. October is finished. A slow jam disco song, a gangster farce, a few plaintive folk songs, a few rawkus (mispelled) ones, and some balls to the wall sing alongs. It is entitled; "October: The Boys Lie for Cash." Now November begins and I am reflecting a bit and I think a good song may function like a good mystery. Characters are introduced and its a whodunnit near the end; the villian is the best, or oughta be, most memorable character (sorry Harry, I do indeed read for the villainy), perhaps more on that later; but a little more on villains now.

Ray Fiennes, new voldemort, lauded in every reviewed I perused on Rotten Tomatoes. If you have not read the potter series and wish to have your movie unspoiled, do not continue reading.........the show down, twixt potter and V., is going to be my favorite part of the film I expect. #1 Ray Fiennes is the man and just can't stop showing mofuckahs that movies like The English Patient or Red Dragon (and, supposedely, the Constant Gardener) #2 I get to see the new chapter on an IMAX screen in Atlantic City. I imagine the Voldemort's swept through most of Atlantic City. However, gin and tonics and a few games of black jack, is just the kind of night I think the dumbledore from The Prisoner of Azkaban could enjoy; "You'll be finding no small cups in this house professor."

Note: I meant to rant about one of the more tedious songs on the October Album but the drive left me.

I may be getting the internet in my house soon...if you leave a comment I'll leave some of the extra candy from halloween on your doorstep. No matter where you are!

Though I have to run to class I have decided that Mondays (internet day) and Tuesdays (internet day) are going to become my blogging days until I get the internet in my house. What's hot?!

"Letters to Dominique" by louis the 4th or 14th I can't remember but track it down and enjoy. New sigur ros is coming out soon; someone let me know how it is via email please!

"If Madagascar is in all ways a sunnier place than Walt Disney's matricidal canon, it is also a correspondingly less magical kingdom."

I really don't have an opinion on this except for it reminds me of something one of my high school english teachers would say.

Lots of work...John Williams Concert, house in Conshohocken, prospective job in Chester...careful of this blog, it'll getcha!