first week of school and some shuffle action

okay, i'm going to try to keep up this friday shuffle thing, if for no other reason than to keep stock of exactly what is in my itunes library.

another random sampling:

1. "Dance Away" - Roxy Music
2. "Please Forgive Me" (live) - David Gray
3. "Stakes Is High" - De La Soul
4. "'Til I Whisper U Something" - Sinead O'Connor
5. "Let's Spend The Night Together" - Rolling Stones
6. "Ziggy Stardust" - David Bowie
7. "Pride (In The Name of Love)" - U2
8. "From The Ritz To The Rubble" - Arctic Monkeys
9. "Angel of Harlem" - U2
10. "Talk Show Host" - Radiohead

so i started the fall semester on monday. here is a wrap-up of my week:

monday -
monday is my film production class and it's an all day affair. we have lecture in the morning from 9:00 to 12:00 and then hands-on activities with 16 mm cameras in the afternoon from 1:00 to 4:00. so, i start off the first day of class by arriving late and sweaty. normally i am a very punctual person so this was not a great first impression. after the instructor barked at me for being late he told me that had i been one minute later he would have dropped me from the class. shit! granted, i was running late, but then i got lost in the building. you'd think i was brand new to the campus. but no, i've been there for a year now. then, without going into too much detail, i made a further spectacle of myself by stating that i had seen a certain director's films (which i legitimately have) and proceeded to name a film she did not direct in the least bit. i am an idiot.

tuesday -
tuesday is my criminal justice class, aka "race, crime and justice." nice light subject, eh? i'd thought about minoring in cj because of the potential connection to documentary filmmaking. i decided against it because i would have to be in school for at least another year. anyway, class started out fine. then, the professor announces an "introduction exercise." great. so, all the students (all 60 of us) get up and form a huge circle. the professor then explains that each person (one at a time) will say his/her name, something they like to do while acting it out. wait, it gets worse. the next person in the circle then has to repeat the previous person's name and activity while acting it out. nightmare. the game started with the person to the left of the professor while i was on the professor's immediate right. yep, i was the very last person in the circle. what maniac came up with this activity? what are we, 5? but, the gods must have been smiling down on me because the damn activity took so long that i didn't have to do it. phew.

wednesday -
wednesday is my "science fiction" film class with one of my favorite professors. we watched fritz lang's "metropolis." but, and this is a big but, it was not the standard b&w version. we watched a restored version made in the 80's accompanied by music by pat benatar, freddie mercury, loverboy, bonnie tyler and many other fabulous musical talents from the 80's. not only was the music modernized, but the film was colorized in wacky 80's pastel colors. i have actually never seen the standard b&w version, but figure i'll always have a chance to see that one. this fabulously 80's version is apparently hard to come by. i felt like i was 10 again.

thursday -
thursday is my "film waves and movements" class and while the class will be extremely interesting, the classroom is not made for viewing films as the chairs are mega uncomfortable. i managed to get a seat in the front of the classroom anticipating a film viewing. just my luck, one of the tallest guys in the class decides to sit right in front of me. what? i mean, come on! if you know you're tall, why would you sit in the very front of the class. we watched luchino visconti's "ossessione" and i spent the majority of the film moving from left to right and up and down around this guy's head trying to read the subtitles. fat head! this must have been my karmic destiny as i was able to narrowly avoid the "name game" in my criminal justice class. oh well.

friday -
friday is my film history 1 class. today was pretty uneventful. the only thing worthy of writing about is that my friend and i spied some guy picking his nose in class. he was fully sticking his finger up his nose and then rolling "something" around in his fingers. yuck! i thought we all outgrew that in kindergarten. along with eating paste.

peace out.