I'm doing 24 things
8. Oldboy
15 months ago
It lives up to it’s notoriety of being very disturbing, but I enjoyed it. I’d recommend it to someone with a strong stomach. You could always look away during the octopus scene. :-P
Kyohawentbankai's Life List
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1. watch 100 movies in 2008
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2. be more social
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3. Get all the fun things on my wists
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4. get a new nickname that everyone calls me instead of my real name
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5. go to a renaissance fair
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6. speak a foreign language fluently
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7. hide a pill bottle in a lupus textbook
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8. knit socks
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9. Level a WoW character to 70
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10. Create a piece of art to hang on my wall
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11. Read More Books,Books,Books....
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12. find the perfect pair of jeans
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13. Do Stand-Up Comedy in front of an audience
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14. Plan a trip
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15. pay off credit cards
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16. sell my crafts
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17. Have a best friend.
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18. lose 21 lbs
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19. collect more magic the gathering cards
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20. become a quasi-expert of a new useless subject every month
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21. pass my driving test
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22. keep my apartment tidy, not just when people visit
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23. update my wardrobe
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24. craft more
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Recent entries
Lolita
15 months ago
I’ve just finished watching Lolita (the 1997 version, directed by Adrian Lyne). I’m not sure what to think of it yet. It was pretty. It was compelling. It was probably the sort of movie which you were supposed to read the damn book first. At any rate, I’m not sure if Nabokov would be pleased to know that every last character in the movie was contemptible, even Delores, but then again I haven’t read the book yet, so maybe that was exactly his aim. Also, that’s just my personal opinion.
1984
15 months ago
I just finished 1984 by George Orwell!
This book was really frightening for me, because I share a surprisingly similar political ideal with the late George Orwell (being Libertarian Socialism). I felt like THIS SOCIETY is what would have awaited me if there really was a room 101. When O’Brien discussed what sort of things were in the future, I had to put the book down for a while. The thought of no art, sex without passion, and especially literature, seemed something that would kill me if it could happen. I think I’m going to wait a while before I read Fahrenheit 451 :D
Nonetheless, it’s a very important book, I think. Even if it’s too scary for you to perceive, you should grimace through, or at least watch the film adaptation.
I am about to undertake The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis.
