I recently found out that my Bye Bye Birdie/Mad Men comparison video on YouTube was taken down by Lionsgate. What really got me angry is the fact that there are tons of other video clips showing the same exact one that I had shown, only they were even more useless. At least my video was a comparison between the Mad Men Patio Diet television advertisement and the actual introduction to the film itself.
Dualism in Film
Yet another A paper, this one from my 200-level film class. This paper is about duality on the silver screen. As usual, it's not exactly the most exciting work I've done. It is, after all, an academicpaper. As such, it was done in a rushed manner, though not without care and attention to detail. I…
On the Art and Science of Psychology
After doing some light reading on philosophy, I realized that my lifelong search for the truth in the form of the truest knowledge of people and the world could be considered the philosopher's mission.In my admittedly anemic reading of the Oxford introduction to On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietszche's rejection of science pushed my mind…
New coffee beans to fuel my writing
Coffee's been my new little hobby. So far I've tried a small handful of different coffee beans. While I had first dipped my toes into home ground coffee with a cheap Cusinart blade grinder and CafeExcellence beans from Amazon, my first foray into premium coffee beans (and a real premium coffee experience) was launched from…
Movie Time! A Single Man
I was eagerly awaiting the release of Tom Ford's A Single Man to home video. This was mostly because I love seeing suits on film and I had heard quite a bit about Tom Ford's fashion background havingan influence on the film. Unfortunately, fashion seems to be all there is to this flick. Colin Firth…
