Art!

I'm doing an art show in April with some other MFA students, and now that I have a blog, what better to do than post some photos? I only have a couple things so far. Everyone in the show is doing a box the same size and shape as the one on the left, with different stuff inside or on each. It's a very cool project, and I think I may be addicted to the three-dimensional.

the moviegoer

That would be me, having been four times in eight days.

1. Juno. Excellent. Lived up to all the hype. Great music, wonderful leads, and who doesn't love J. K. Simmons saying, "Tore up from the floor up"?

2. The Color Purple. Made me wish I were in the 1900s south, practically living on the porch, going to the dry goods store in my gingham dress made from curtains. There's some very nice church-choir singing. Perfect for MLK day.

3. The Science of Sleep. Eh. Gondry can do better; in this, he was just showing off his stop-action and crazy lo-fi effects. I do love Gael Garcia Bernal, and French.

4. Gone Baby Gone. Probably the best of the four. It would be very hard not to like a movie with Casey Affleck, Morgan Freeman, and Ed Harris, AND the best moustache in all of movie history. It reminded me of Mystic River (based on a novel by the same author, Denis LeHane), but without the strange parts I didn't get.

Husbands 4 Hillary

I saw a sign that said that on TV today, behind Mrs. Clinton at a speech. It was a very good speech, I thought. "I want the government to be transparent....I want you to hold me accountable if I get elected and say, 'You told us about that new health care plan, so why haven't you done it?'" The health care thing was intriguing: she wants to make the plan Congress uses available to regular people. She also talked a lot about the need for new energy sources, which I can certainly get behind.

It's a shame I don't really believe her. Or anyone else in politics.

On My Good Side:
1. Ace of Cakes
2. Writing down a menu for every day and sticking to it
3. No class for MLK day!
4. Jesus. I went to church twice this weekend!
5. School of Rock
6. Lynda Barry

Not So Much:
1. Trying to get used to school again
2. Cold so cold you don't want to go outside
3. Rain that lasts more than an hour

These are in no particular order. Numbers just make me feel good.