Muvseevum

Suggest things, pleeeaasse?

thecamcorder:

The boyf likes movies. I know all of nothing about movies. That said, Criterion stuff is on sale, creating the perfect opportunity to get a nice Christmas gift, but because of the aforementioned lack of movie knowledge, I don’t have a CLUE what to buy him.

So, does anyone know of any particularly good Criterion films (that aren’t La Haine or Rules of the Game)?

But there are so many gorgeous films out.  Seven Samurai.  400 Blows. What about Rushmore?  Has he mentioned any films from French Cinema that he enjoyed?  Help me narrow it down!

Hey Tumblr...

I got a for real blog…

http://robertuthomason.wordpress.com/

snaggleraggle:

Last night I was eating at the counter by myself at the Grit when a friendly acquaintance who works there approached me and said that he always sees me alone. He then told me that before I started dating my current boyfriend that he and his girlfriend would see me at shows standing alone and would say to each other that someone should be standing with me because I am “too cute” to be standing by myself. Even though I know his intentions weren’t malicious and that he was just playfully picking on me, I was offended because I never thought that I was out in public alone that often (I have friends!) and that people were kind of scrutinizing or pitying me for it. I don’t think a girl being alone in a public place is necessarily an indication of whether other people find her attractive or not or that she doesn’t have any friends. Sometimes I like eating dinner, going to movies, and studying alone. I’m not going to refrain from going to a show just because all of my friends are busy. I doubt this person would have said anything if I was male.

Wasn’t me, guys!

excaliblog:

I got hollered at by TWO frat boys on game day. One called me a boy, the other one yelled “YOU ARE POOR.” …wait, what?

I was told “Better safe than sorry with that bike helmet!”

PSA’s by your local drunk assholes. A++++

Puns FTW

Okay, I can’t help but add some terrible sexual puns in my paper on Shakespeare’s own sexual puns.  I wonder if my TA will snag this one:

The Clown then proceeds to give Cleopatra a snake which is representative of the male sex organ (Quintis 130) and puns about his “worm” continually.  When asked by Cleopatra, “Hast thou the pretty worm of Nilus there,” the Clown replies, “Truly, I have him but I would not be the party that / should desire you to touch him” (5.2.243-246).  He becomes relentless with his jokes, stating that he knew “a very honest woman, but / something given to lie… / she died of the biting of it” (5.2.250-251).  Lie in this situation means to be untruthful, but also to lie with a man.  The scene is loaded with innuendo.

My opening paragraph

thecamcorder:

aspectralfire:

So here’s the opening paragraph to my essay on Antony and Cleopatra.

Although A.C. Bradley’s article “Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra” from Oxford Lectures on Poetry, and Anna Jameson’s “Cleopatra” from Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, Historical contain enough first person plurals to make any New Critic’s blood boil, both articles touch on something essential to the reading of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra.  Bradley notes that at the beginning of the play, Philo describes Antony as “a strumpet’s fool” (260).  Bradley then contrasts such a negative representation of Antony with what he deems “the tragic greatness, the capacity of finding in something the infinite and of pursuing it into the jaws of death” (261).  Thus he recognizes the duality of Antony’s character: he is both a fool and a hero.  Likewise, Jameson views Cleopatra as an “antithetical construction” and a “consistent inconsistency” (244).  Both Bradley and Jameson briefly touch on the ambivalent representation of Antony and Cleopatra. Bradley concludes that the play is unlike the rest of Shakespeare’s tragedies, while Jameson calls Cleopatra “an astonishing portrait of… originality”(Bradley)(Jameson 248). As a test case, one may look to the death of both Antony and Cleopatra to find such ambivalent representation. Sexual language and images in Antony’s death scene, as well as in Cleopatra’s, lend a comedic variable to the end of the play; while conversely, the hyperbolic idealization Antony and Cleopatra have for one another imbues their deaths with a level of tragedy.

I really hope this doesn’t go over her head/get too muddled.

Don’t know how your prof will react, but I appreciate that bit about blood boiling.

Yeah, luckily we are just turning in a draft tomorrow.  If she hates it, I’ll remove it, but knowing her, she’ll find it humorous.

Lit nerd jokes, ftw!