she threw out all the happy endings.

I was going to link this (http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2768439065/) and make interested/excited noises about it but, honestly, it's so tropey I actually can't help but feel a little sick.

From "Ways of Seeing: Visual Parameters of Women in Film" by Benshoff & Griffin: "...men in western culture are taught that it is their birthright to DO things (run, jump, desire, look) while women remain relatively immobile in order to be the object of the male gaze."

I am so sick and tired of my gender being relegated to the OBjective drive of the narrative, the arresting OBject of the action, the OBjectified scenery. I'm sick of watching films where I have to appropriate the white-male-hetero perspective to appreciate the material in a meaningful, thought provoking and engaged manner. I am sick to death that the only film I can even bring to mind featuring an active and presumably three dimensional SUBject is Salt (i say presumably because I havent had the opportunity to watch this film yet).

Before i forget this:

went to see Watchmen, as someone who has never read the comics i dont really have a review or response, as an "uniformed simpleton" i thought it extremely interesting and cinematically cool. but that's not what this is about. having spent all of last quarter in my cultural anthropology class i find myself slipping into the mind set of questioning the deeper significance between "normal" things around me. so i was sitting there going, "why do none of the women wear masks? all of the men have masks, but the three women dont. why?" then i had a thought: they're sexuality is their mask.

i don't want to mar my enjoyment of the film but i find this an interesting idea to be further investigated at a later date.



altogether glad i went, might have to pick up the comic, spring break is almost here. maybe i can take it with me on the knowledge bowl road trip ;)

Yeah, so i just finished marathoning all three x-men movies (shut-up, i like the xmen) and i think the whole reason the third one flops is for the simple reason that Brian Singer wasnt in charge. straight up.

its so depressing. when it comes to art--which is what good movies are--why cant people just put aside all their differences for the sake of the project? not that i blame him, cuase the imdb article on the hang-ups between him and Fox were particularly vague but it just all sounds so dreadfully reminiscent of Joss Whedon's problems getting the RIpper spin-off off the ground etc.

maybe Fox just has issues, who knows.



In other news, cranking out my little knitting project, i did about...gosh almost 9" of small rib + small stockinette stitch in about 3 days working off and on for several hrs each day. but i got it done so i can work on the bust pattern i think i have to do about 4 1/2 more inches of that before shaping the armholes. its an adventure.


I finally watched the BBC Persuasion from last yr. I broke down and dled BitTorrent so i could get it since one of the links had expired. I think i might become a torrent addict now cause i really want to get a copy of Children of Dune too (shut-up, its James McAvoy and Dune Messiah was the best book) But back to Persuasion--lovely, so so lovely. I love Rupert Penry Jones. and the chick was good. Plus Anthony Stewart Head playing the obnoxious self-involved father was great.


I've also started writing a little again. There was a good month where i felt disinclined to writing, it all turned out crap. but i get so bored at work i've picked it up again. i really like what i've written so far, but beginnings were never the problem, its the middle bits that get me, shifting from the easy opening descriptive exposition to actual action and adventure and dialogue. *sigh*

Thats about it.


Currently Watching: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

moving linearly from Friday, well Thursday night, i lost some notes for a class and didnt have time to study for a test in that class thursday night. which, normally wouldnt be such a losss, its just one test right? could be, then again, last quarter this proff only ever got around to giving out one test -_-

that night it snowed and we all sat waiting with bated breath to see whether they would close the campus or delay classes. within a 50 mi radius (and yes, there are several other school within that radiu *lol*) we were the only place to stay open. again, i didnt not have all my hw done for my first class but this time i actually did ok.

the rest of the day proceeded in a horrendous little satirical comedy where i screwed up a lot and didnt get much done and probably got a bunch of crappy grades.

( TA story...sort of )
( Shane and the quick read )
( Quickie non-indepth movie talk )
and yup, thats the highlights. art post might be forthcoming today if i remember to do it *lol*

just got around to watching The Missing and, hmm, i think its a keeper. i mean, dude, brilliance putting Cate Blanchett and Tomy Lee Jones in a movie together! and the girl who played the younger sister was great (she recently played Bailey in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and made me cry, Dakota Fanning look out *lol*) i grew up watching John Wayne westerns cause m'da liked them and so the western medium is sort of like, i dunno, home or childhood to me, its nice to see a well done modern one.

i can see why The Missing didnt get a lot of rave reviews because it *is* a western and its not exactly a "everyone feels good in the end" sort of story. i really loved the TLJ character for that reason, he was different and such a jackass.

it gave me a Searchers feel ... different but similar.