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Archive for January, 2007

Guggenheim

Brief synopsis: A total of 6+ hours sitting on a bus without heating for about 2 hours at the museum.  The tour showed us about 5 paintings, during which I zoned out for the most part except when the tour guide switched from Spanish to English to talk about the power of women’s breasts.  Bathrooms [...]

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Pan’s Labyrinth

Best parts: When Mercedes guts the Captain; being able to understand almost all of the Spanish
Worst parts: When Ofelia eats the grapes…huge temptation to yell at the screen.

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The Painted Veil

Best parts: Edward Norton, the beautiful scenery/cinematography, the fat soldier reminiscent of Kenneth Park, Edward Norton, the sad but beautiful ending, Edward Norton
Worst parts: Naomi Watts’ acting in the beginning, the sad but beautiful ending, feeling depressed afterwards

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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Read from: Jan. 1st - Jan. 10th 2007

MING: wow, I can’t believe Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? took only about a collective 3 hours to read.
OTHER MING: well, that’s what reading plays are like.
MING: how come reading Death of Salesman wasn’t like that?
OTHER MING: Death of Salesman, quite simply, was not as entertaining or [...]

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A Room of One’s Own

Read from: ? - Jan. 1st, 2007

In keeping with my New Year’s resolutions, I am going to be keeping track of all the books I read throught the 2007 year. Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own has the honor of being the first book.
“But she lives; for great poets do not die; they [...]

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