Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to

[Whistler]

I watched the movie Possession and it seemed very much like some fantasy of what academic work is like, with soap-opera-like reveals and a really goofy leading man (Portia might like him though).

[robotfish]

Have you tried the book version of Possession? It made it very clear that academic work isn't always particularly exciting.

[Katya]

Have you tried the book version of Possession? It made it very clear that academic work isn't always particularly exciting.

Yeah, I haven't seen the movie but I've heard that it's much worse than the book (which I quite liked, but I wasn't necessarily reading it for the academic accuracy).

[Whistler]

I started reading the book a few years ago, but I didn't like it all that much. Then when I was a grad student I heard it was one of my professor's favorites. I watched the movie instead of reading the book ;;

[Katya]

I started reading the book a few years ago, but I didn't like it all that much. Then when I was a grad student I heard it was one of my professor's favorites. I watched the movie instead of reading the book ;;

For shaaaame! (But if you couldn't get into the book, then maybe it just wasn't the right story for you.)

[Portia]

I watched the movie Possession and it seemed very much like some fantasy of what academic work is like, with soap-opera-like reveals and a really goofy leading man (Portia might like him though).

Ha! What's his name?

[Whistler]

This actor, Aaron Eckhart, totally reminds me of your boyfriend http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001173/?ref_=tt_cl_t2

[Whistler]

or your ex-boyfriend? I'm not really sure

[Portia]

This actor, Aaron Eckhart, totally reminds me of your boyfriend http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001173/?ref_=tt_cl_t2

FINALLY YOU FOUND IT. It had been bugging me who he looks like. I knew it was someone. And we're still together. :D

Here are my boyfriends, in famous people.

#1 - Max Thierot
#2 - Rich Sommer
#3 - Sondre Lerche
#4 - Edward Norton
#5 - see above

<pats self on back>

ETA: Guy I never dated but caused drama circa Edward Norton is a dead ringer for George Peppard.

[Portia]

His response:

So i look like another BYU grad? I guess i'm just super typical. At least it's typically sexy!

Ex mormon. So very typical.

...I forgot that about Aaron Eckhardt! Do they make them in a factory?! You just can't find a strong jawed blond in these parts. LOL

[Portia]

Aaron is of German descent on his father's side, and has English, Scottish, German, and Northern Irish (Scots-Irish) ancestry on his mother's side

The magical combo! ;-)

[Whistler]

lol. And to get me back on topic... I read this month's issue of Scientific American: Mind and it was pretty okay!

[Digit]

Avenue Q songs. I like The Money Song and For Now.

[Katya]

Went to the theater to see The Saratov Approach. It was really good!

[Whistler]

the super-heavy advertising of that movie around Conference kind of put me off it... also the title just seems so arrogant. But hearing you say that it was really good makes me think I should reconsider.

[Katya]

What did you find arrogant about the title? (Also, I must have missed most of the Conference advertising. I just saw the sign up by University Mall and I watched the trailer on YouTube.)

[Giovanni Schwartz]

After every session on BYU TV they showed an ad for it.

[bobtheenchantedone]

Marduk, Random, and I went to a live screening of Othello broadcast from the National Theatre last night. It was very good, especially because I'm used to going to a play and having to turn off my brain lest I just be critical the whole time.

We also convinced Marduk to watch Nightmare Before Christmas (he agreed to watch it with us once a year) and a short documentary on how beer is apparently the driving thrust behind most of humanity's inventions and major advancements.

[Digit]

Ha. Episode IV: A New Hope remade out of 15-second clips redone by Internet people. I laughed when Darth Vader was holding an infant princess Leia at 8:05 and then said "Take her away!"

[Whistler]

What did you find arrogant about the title? (Also, I must have missed most of the Conference advertising. I just saw the sign up by University Mall and I watched the trailer on YouTube.)

I guess by naming it "The Saratov Approach," I thought they were trying to show some new hostage negotiation technique and name it after the person who invented it, when it really seemed like a lot of people were praying for them and it would be better to name it "the religious approach"?