golden globe nominations/oscar watch, pt. 2

Best Motion Picture - Drama
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire
Up In The Air

I think this category may determine which movie (between Up in the Air and Precious) gets the most Oscar buzz. I don't know if Avatar are really even get nominated.

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Emily Blunt – The Young Victoria
Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side
Helen Mirren – The Last Station
Carey Mulligan – An Education
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire
I think Gabourey may swing the Globe, but where is Penelope Cruz?

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
George Clooney – Up In The Air
Colin Firth – A Single Man
Morgan Freeman – Invictus
Tobey Maguire – Brothers

I'm going with Clooney on this one

Best Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy
(500) Days Of Summer
The Hangover
It's Complicated
Julie & Julia
Nine

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
Sandra Bullock – The Proposal
Marion Cotillard – Nine
Julia Roberts – Duplicity
Meryl Streep – It's Complicated
Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia

No Zooey! how sad.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy
Matt Damon – The Informant!
Daniel Day-Lewis – Nine
Robert Downey Jr. – Sherlock Holmes
Joseph Gordon-Levitt – (500) Days Of Summer
Michael Stuhlbarg – A Serious Man

Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Penélope Cruz – Nine
Vera Farmiga – Up In The Air
Anna Kendrick – Up In The Air
Mo'nique – Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire
Julianne Moore – A Single Man

we'll see!

Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Matt Damon – Invictus
Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
Christopher Plummer – The Last Station
Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds

to read list

I've review a few movies on here, with plans for more.

But in my soul I am a literature person. So in 2010, I'm going to read/write a review for a book twice a month. 24 books! goals! I love goals, no matter how unattainable they may be.

I've come up with a preliminary list, welcome to suggestions. These are all books that I've never read, or want a second look at for a different perspective.

1. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close-Jonathan Safran Coer
2. Women in Love-D.H. Lawrence
3. A Good Man in Hard to Find-Flannery O'Connor
4. Selected Poems 1965-1975-Seamus Heaney
   
5. Middlemarch-George Eliot
6. Brooklyn-Colm Toibin
7. On the Road-Jack Kerouac
8. Atonement-Ian McEwan
9. Madame Bovary-Gustave Flaubert
10. Age of Anxiety-W.H. Auden
11. The Age of Innocence-Edith Wharton
12. The Golden Notebook-Doris Lessing
13. Brideshead Revisited-Evelyn Waugh
14. The Adventures of Augie March-Saul Bellow
15. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay-Michel Chabon
16. Mrs. Dalloway-Virginia Woolf (a reread)
17. The Hours-Michael Cunningham
18. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror-John Ashbery
19. Shade of Grey-Jasper Fforde
20. The House of the Spirits-Isabel Allende
21. Don Quixote-Miguel de Cervantes
22. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland-Lewis Carroll
23. The Way We Live Now-Anthony Trollope
24. A Movable Feast-Ernest Hemingway

GOALS. any suggestions/substitutions?

I go to William McKinley High School on Wednesday @ 9/8c

Glee Winter Finale

Okay, disclaimer: I love Glee. all the kids are adorable and Mr. Schue is so cute. I love the singing and the dancing. And spoilers.

But what is up with the plot inconsistencies?

1st It takes like a good 12 minutes after sectionals for the decision to be revealed. I understand the tension. but it was awkwardly placed.

2nd Quinn references giving the baby to Mrs. Schuester, but I thought the kids already knew that Will left his wife because of the non-baby?

3rd. Finn asks Mr. Schue if he's heard anything. Mr. Schue was there when you confronted Quinn and Puck! Understandable that he in a moment of distress, but Mr. Schue interacted with him at that point and even if Finn didn't remember the audience does and it seems silly.

4th. Will gives the list to Sue. But the kids act like he doesn't, and Brittany owns up to it. While she may have given Sue the set list, Sue has no reason for spies because she's co-director of the Glee club.

Small problems.

The focus is obviously on the singing and dancing.

but I'm not complaining too loudly.

awesome job Lea Michele. I've probably listened to her "Don't Rain on My Parade" probably a dozen times in the past three hours. I love when she said "I do have something that I've been working on since I was four." Of course! I also loved how Rachel sneaked back into the back a bit in the next song. she's come so far.

Amber Riley ["And I'm Telling You"] was wonderful too.

Cory Monteith, good job. I don't know if it was his acting or the writing, but his dramatic acting and "gung-ho" attitude when he comes to the rescue kind of annoyed me. But he pulled it off better in the finale.

"Can't Always Get What You Want"- as unrealistic that they could be that good in an hour, I liked how the dancing was little weak. they did look unrehearsed. good and realistic.

[Side note: how happy am I that Rachel got rid of the middle part? I hate middle parts. Unless You're Amanda Bynes, you don't look good.]

And I loved how "My Life Would Suck Without You" incorporated the best of choreography from the season

Mr. Schue and Emma are together!

now for Finn and Rachel...

birken gainsbourg family

Jane Birken, Serge Gainsbourg and their progeny, Charlotte, are beautiful and have of hold on my interest. A few other people do this as being so supremely interesting; Katharine Hepburn, Angelica Huston, Buddy Holly. and I could very well write this post about the Rossellini-Bergman family.

my first exposure to birken-gainsbourg world was the birken bag reference on sex and the city.

which is funny because jane birken supposedly commented on how when her daugther would come to america people would ask her if she was the daughter of the bag.

later, in november of 2007, lisa robinson wrote this fascinating article about the home/world of Serge Gainsbourg for Vanity Fair. now as much as I regret it, I am not a regular Vanity Fair reader. whenever I read it I feel terribly bourgeois. And the text is really tiny. but this picture captured me:

Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg on the set of the movie Slogan, June 1968. By Gilles Caron/Contact Press Images.

They look so supremely happy.

Of course, Serge was a raging alcoholic...but this is right when they were about to get married/just married.

I imagine Jane as sort of backwards Eleanor of Aquitaine. Eleanor was French best known for marrying an Englishman, but a formidable woman in her own right, and Jane was just this flipped. An Englishwoman so intertwined with French culture with a completely French daughter.

Charlotte! my favorite part of I'm Not There, a movie I found pretentious and annoying except for a few select parts. Well those select parts when the little boy obsessed with woody guthrie, heath ledger, cate blachett, and CHARLOTTE.

but seriously. check out that vanity fair article.

art is either plagiarism or revolution.

the daughters of edward darley boit

This painting changed my life. I first saw in on television on a Sister Wendy special on PBS. This painting gets compared to Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez, which I adore as well.

and while the subjects may mirror it, Las Meninas is about Velásquez controlling the situation that is so chaotic. In the painting his character is supposed to be painting the King and Queen. Infanta Margarita is being doted upon in the center, full of light, while Diegodear is hidden in the background. But he literally is still the more forceful figure, in his dark commanding garb, the only figure connected to the imposing canvas that slices the painting down the middle.

But

I like Daughters more. Las Meninas is generally considered one of the greatest paintings of all time, and I do enjoy it, but hey; I don't love the Stones either.

In Sargent's painting, which I discovered when I must have been about 12, he so well paint a portrait that isn't stiff or posed. The girls look as if they had just looked towards their father coming home. In a progression of light in parallel with age, the girls circle into darkness. But even in the light the youngest girl look so sad and disappointed. These girls are sisters, but they are isolated from each other. Even the two eldest and closest together are looking in completely different directions. Sister Wendy pointed out that girls grew up to live alone, those two eldest would grow apart from each other and from the world. From someone who lived for words, I realized that art like literature boiled down into just that singular moment. But that doesn't make the meaning singular.

sister wendy's notes

bloomsbury

obsessed with bloomsbury, I am.

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. - Virginia Woolf

some inspo for you

fashion photos from style.com dires von noten 2004 spring ready to wear collection

1. these violet flowers looks like it was taken directly from vanessa's painting; 2. this mustard is the color of vanessa's kitchen; 3. morbid but...this coat reminds me of how virginia woolf killed her self, [put stones in a long jacket and walked into a river] 4. more american inter-war period but still deco, this color reminds me of daisy buchanan from the great gastby.

1. Charleston House, home of Vanessa Bell and Clive Bell-photo from Tate Museum website, 2. Virginia Woolf-Tate 3. Bloomsbury-group 4.Vanessa Bell's cover of Mrs. Dalloway, her sister's, Virginia Woolf, book 5. interior by vanessa bell 5. first menu from the omega group's dinner

behr color palette: serene sky 540c-2

daylight lilac 660b-6

plum shade 100f-6

chamois cloth w-f-110

bloomsbury

Gift Guide

1. Keep Calm and Carry On Water Bottle-Heliotrope 2.charming turquoise watch-fredflare 3. Gurgle Pots-Gurgle Pots 4. Clutch Purse-redrubyrose @ etsy 5. Rockin Guitar Cutting Board-tauntongreen @ etsy 6. Personal Library Kit-fredflare 7. Peacock Centerpiece Vase-Touch of Class 8. phreonlogy head jewelry stand-urbanoutfitters 9. Say Anything - Amazon

1. Wouldn't this be cute for the runner in your life? An inspirational message for just before the 2nd wind.

2. I love when people wear watches now a day; I love how something so everyday has become a throw back.

3. Saw these pitchers, they make an adorable gurgle noise when you pour water out of them! Hear a sample on the webpage. good hostess gift.

4. This etsy site makes really professional clutches is a variety of styles. Perfect for girlfriends, sisters, yourself :]

5. I thought this would be cute for my dad. He cooks a lot and loves music/guitar. It is kitsch and cute.

6. cute for all those english majors in your life. wait...does not every have one of those? because I have about twenty...

7. A. I love Peacocks. 2. this is perfectly tacky. 3. the store is Touch of Class, classy much?

8. Another statement piece for a table, windowsill or dresser.

9. To know Lloyd Dobbler is to love him. You are about to know Lloyd Dobler

Fantastic Mr. Anderson

My love affair with Mr. Wes Anderson began when, in a fit of insomnia that plagued my early high school, I watched The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. As far as I can see, Anderson is best watched in a dream-like state because if you aren't there already, he will slowly nudge you until his oddly juxtaposed orchestration of a sixties pop song and denouement in the film finally lulls you completely in the fantasy worlds that he creates.

And creates he does in his new film Fantastic Mr. Fox. This movie is basically Life Aquatic, Tenenbaums, Ocean's 11 and Old Mother West Wind stories put together.

Once again Anderson focuses on what he does best and doesn't stray too much. At the center, a dysfunctional, albeit loving, family with a disillusioned patriarch who has seen better days. But in animation maybe Anderson had found the entry point to the mainstream that big name stars haven't been to give him.

In Fox, Anderson still has the wit and subversiveness that 20-somethings and up love, but the story of a child being misunderstood by his father would resonate with anyone one 12 and under.

Still even the patriarch is slightly more lovable than the abusive Royal Tenenbaum or distant Steve Zissou. That may be, of course, because Mr. Fox, is a fox. And fact: furry animals are just more lovable.

So the acid tongued wife and sassy adolescent get away with unlikeable nature that would be off putting in a children's movie, but perfect in an Anderson movie, simply because their red fur and awkwardly gangly legs that remind the viewer of Anderson's skinny chicken legs, are so darn cute.

With everyone Anderson archetype filled by his regulars of over-the-top actors, Fantastic Mr. Fox may be his first non live-action film, but I believe Mr. Anderson could find a long career in children's movies. For the past decade he's been making movies for adults for the neglected child within. I wish he would continue to work with Roald Dahl books because this is by far the best adaptation I've seen.

christmasssss wishinnggg.

I sincerely love the holidays.

if only for Kearney family traditions, including watching Stalag 17, possibly the least festive Christmas movie ever. But it is set during Christmas.

I'm tellin' ya, Animal, these Nazis ain't kosher!

so in honor of Manfredi and Johnson, here is my christmas wish list.

1. North by Northwest: 50th Anniversary Edition-Hitchcock! Grant! Mt. Rushmore! I seriously love this movie. and I don't have it on DVD period. I want, I need.
2. Dark was the Night-seriously, check how this compilation/collaborations. Feist and Ben Gibbard, Bon Iver, The Decemberist, Iron and Wine, Sufjan, Sharon Jones, Cat Power, Andrew Bird, and my most anticipated track...Conor Oberst and Gillian Welch!
3. Monsters of Folk [Vinyl plus MP3]-M. Ward, Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Jim James. WHY IS THIS JUST NOW HAPPENING? This is like my dream supergroup. Except Gillian and Zooey aren't there. They should tag team.
4. The Avett Brothers-Can I have them to live in my pocket and sing to me when I am sad? The answer is...no. BUT, I can have them come to the Fox Theatre and I can go see them. [which I am doing!]
5. Paste Magazine-to survive another year
6. These shoes from Anthropologie

so damn kitsch

BTW. Just announced, Mark Ruffalo's directorial debut in the lineup for Sundance. Starring Ruffalo, Orlando Bloom, Laura Linney.

I want it to be awesome because I luff Ruffalo. and Laura Linney. Maybe she will be stupendous, garner an 2011 Oscar Nod in Best Supporting Actress and win. Because she's awesome.

Oscar Buzz

K, so I know it is November, but I am so excited about award season! Golden Globes are less than two months away. and I'm so ready.
I get really competitive with Oscar Pools, so I've already started my research. Here my picks for nominees.

Best Picture
1. Inglourious Bastards-As much as I hate Tarentino and what he stands for [annoying loud, plot driven, but not really, movies] with 10 nominations this year, I don't think there is a way around this being nominated.
2. Precious-I've heard this film being called "this year's Slumdog." I'd like to remind everyone that Slumdog almost didn't get theatrical release. It almost went to straight to DVD. While not a huge star vehicle, Precious is still more mainstream then Slumdog. Nevertheless, it will no doubt garner a nomination, but may fall into the trap of indie movies winning Best Screenplay in lieu of Best Picture, i.e. American Beauty, Almost Famous, Gosford Park, Lost in Translation, Eternal Sunshine, Crash, Little Miss Sunshine, Juno, Milk.
3. Up-Possibly my favorite movie this year. I'm biased. My experience seeing it was right around my graduation, and my entire family came to it with us. So we had a row a Kearneys looking up in headache inducing 3-d glasses and fogging them up as we cried our eyes out.
4. Nine-Star-studded cast. Let me rephrase that. Star-Studded cast of people who can actually act. Literally everyone is in this movie. It is like a modern day, coed, musical A Bridge Too Far. While musicals don't always fair well, Rob Marshall's name will probably prick the ears of voters.
5. Up in the Air-George Clooney and Jason Reitman team up. I adore both of them. Any time George Clooney falls in love is a good one.
6. The Lovely Bones. I'm pretty sure I'm the only girl my age who hasn't read this book. But Peter Jackson's project has piqued my interest.

7. A Serious Man-Coen Brothers always have something for us to watch. I don't usually get it. or know what I'm watching. But it is interesting.
8. It's Complicated-My favorite for a comedic live-action nod. Though I would still say Up is a drama. Blubbered like a baby. Meryl, Alec and Steve? Mention Meryl during Oscar season and swoons should occur. Alec has been getting more and more rave reviews about 30 Rock and Steve seems to have found his way out of campy, broad comedy [Why did you make Cheaper by the Dozen?]
9. Invictus-Nelson Mandela story with Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. Political, but not really? It's Academy gravy. Plus it is directed by Clint Eastwood, another recent Academy favorite.
10. In lieu of a tenth nomination, I am going to explain why I think 10 nominations is about as ridiculous as instant replay in baseball.

[Interlude:

How is the Academy going to pick 10 films?!?

My mind has been trained to pare down any given year of films into five best, most deserving. I don't care what people say, The Dark Knight, while awesome, was not the best film of the year in 2009 for the Academy. It wasn't. While the Academy has prestige, and the seemingly definite answer on what was the "Best Picture" of the year, remember these are the people who pickedShakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan or even Life is Beautiful.

I understand the Academy wants more people to watch the show or whatever. But I think what is going to happen is that more indie, obscure films will be nominated. I mean, of the five or so top box office hits this year, Up has the best change of getting a nod for Best Picture.Transformers? Here's hoping for a nod in Sound Editing. But with a Rob Marshall music out and Terminator? A win is still up for grabs]

Best Actress
1. Gabourey Sidibe-I haven't seen Precious yet, but I will. Maybe this weekend. And Gabourey is so sweet and personable in all of her interviews. Oscar voters will lap this up, and possibly make up for the snub of underdog movie stars of Slumdog last year.
2. Carey Mulligan-An Education, again, haven't seen it yet. But she's young and an ingenue, with acting chops.

3. Meryl Streep-Julie & Julia, first off. it is an amazing movie. And while it may have been the vehicle to remind everyone that Amy Adams is more than Princess Giselle, [did you see Junebug? she was awesome and earned her first Oscar nod], Meryl makes a movie, you nominate her. She is fabulous and wonderful and sassy and feisty.

4. Penelope Cruz-Broken Embraces, Almodovar helped her be nominated for Volver in 2006, so she'll definitely be considered again

5. I don't know. I can't decide between so many previous, recent winners who seem to be pulling out stellar performances again. As much as I wish Zooey Deschanel would get nominated, I think she'll have to settle for a Globe nomination. Maybe previous Oscar winner Marion Cotillard for musical Nine.

Best Actor

1. Matt Damon-The Informant!-the mustache should win him at least a nomination.

2. Daniel Day-Lewis-Nine. Could this man be any more fabulous? He sings, he dances, he makes his own shoes. Plus being a two-time Oscar winner, just recently enough, helps.
3. Morgan Freeman-Invictus.

4. George Clooney-Up in the Air. He is beloved by the Academy. And I don't think his turn from dramatics to dramedy will hurt him.

5. Could Colin Firth pull it off? I know quite a few high school English teachers who would rejoice in his first nomination. I'd say his role in A Single Man or Jeff Bridges' in Crazy Heart, which is generating the right amount of buzz, at the right time. Still even Johnny Depp from Public Enemies might have a chance.

Other nominations I'd bet on;

Best Supporting Actress: Julianne Moore-this year's Kate Winslet. How has she not won? She split her own vote in 2002 with The Hours and Far From Heaven. I would say she'll be at least nominated, but with Mo'Nique's out of nowhere performance in Precious, Julianne might have to wait a few more year for the win.

Original Score-Where the Wild Things Are-How cool would it be for Karen O in all over her blunt banged glory be nominated for an Oscar? Remember Three 6 Mafia won an Oscar BEFORE Martin Scorsese did.

Cinematography-Public Enemies-A combo of gun fights and costume drama plus weird lighting to contrast New York and Miami? This movie has got Cinematography in the bag as far as I'm concerned. Nine will probably get nominated because it is a musical and they tend to do well here.

Short Films/Oscars' Prep

I'm a sucker for disenfranchised art forms. [I know art forms have no right to vote, but if feature length films did, you bet short films would have to fight for their own enfranchisement, and I am suffering for a lack of a better word]

It is probably genetic. My mom loves short films, and my dad likes cartoon a lot, especially the Droopy ones.

Also I probably enjoy them so much because short films tend to be poignant, sweet, and well, tear-jerking. and I love a good catharsis.

Last January/February, sometime between the Oscar Nominations were released and the Oscar's happened [HUGH JACKMAN!] I had the opportunity to see the five nominated animated short films, as well as other celebrated short animated films from that year.

This wasn't an entirely noble plan. I am very competitive when it comes to Oscar Pools. When I was little, my dad usually won, as he works on a newspaper and read a lot more about the movies [plus saw more of them] but ever since I was all of 15, I've done extensive research is all categories. So the ones we usually just guess at,[Best Sound Mixing anyone?] I could get. So right now I have a threepeat going.

Another one of my goals is to see every best nominated picture before the awards show, and then the more complicated goal of seeing every picture in theaters during its original release. I haven't achieved the first one yet, so I'll get there first, though it will be hard this year considering there are going to be 10 nominated films!

I am slowly improving my stats, in 2007 I saw Juno in theaters, and in 2008 I saw Slumdog [winner!] and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
I also saw Chicago in theaters in 2002, but that was pure chance because I never miss musicals. I wasn't going to see it because of the competitive edge.

Back to the origin of the post. I love short films.
I thought I would post some of my favorites.
The Dot and the Line-A Romance in Lower Mathematics
John and Karen
Lavatory Lovestory

The 1st is a classic, the 2nd I saw when I saw all the short films from 2008, but it wasn't nominated, and the 3rd, I wanted to win, but I didn't pick it because I knew the one that did win was better.

countdown

TEN things about me:

1. I love pineapples.
2. Jane Austen is my obsession.
3. Peacocks are a close second.
4. I've seen every episode of M*A*S*H. twice.
5. when I grow up, I want to be a child
6. Literature is my passion.
7. I don't really care how much money I make.
8. when I was little I wanted to be a fairy. still kind of do
9. I don't like traditional christmas movies as much as Die Hard and Stalag 17.
10. Dresses are more fun.

NINE ways to win my heart:


1. Be well read.
2. Play Apples to Apples and hold your own in the Kearney house.
3. like my family, have my family like you
4. let me knit/bake you something.
5. Watch Wes Anderson movies with me. even if you don't get them. I don't either.
6. tell me I have pretty hair. it is both my favorite thing and my biggest insecurity.
7. know when you're wrong.
8. use effect/affect correctly
9. dance.


EIGHT things I wanna do before I die:

1. Write a book. even if it is a boring academic one.
2. serve a 27 course meal.
3. go to China.
4. eat the perfect banana split.
5. have a library in my own house inspired by bloomsbury.
6. see all Shakespeare's plays performed (PERICLES that means you too!)
7. have a j.crew wedding
8. Have children.


SEVEN things that annoy me:

1. myself
2. when someone is on tv, on two channels, at once.
3. beef.
4. Twilight. stupidest books ever.
5. people who think they are entitled to things not based on merit.
6. when people don't get jokes.
7. fox news.

SIX things I believe in:

1. Dancing
2. Lampshades
3. Knitting is the sincerest form of fibering.
4. Being blown away by your own original thought.
5. My family being the best.
6. Fleece.
FIVE things I'm afraid of:

1. Buttons.
2. Failure.
3. Khaki.
4. People putting plastic bags over their heads.
5. dead birds.

FOUR of my favorite items in my room:

1. My Brass Knuckle Pillowcases.
2. My copy of Emma.
3. My Buddhas.
4. My signing chair.

THREE things I do everyday:

1. Plan.
2. Read for leisure. I make sure of it.
3. Dance, if only for a second.

TWO people I want to see right now:

1. William. I MISS MY BROTHER.
2. I'm too distraught over William's absence.

ONE thing I want to do right now:

1.Go to sleep.

Official, no changes, last change, Schedule for Next Semester

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Monday:
9-9:50-Eng-322, Women Question in Victorian Lit, Cozzens
1-1:50-Lat 202, MacEwan
4-5:15-Eng-350, Modern Poetry, Trousdale
5-8:30-Rel-233, Tibet Through Film and Lit, Zablocki

Tuesday
2-3:15-Art-150, Art History, Sadler
5:30-6:45-Rel-233, Tibet Through Film and Lit, Zablocki

Wednesday
9-9:50-Eng-322, Women Question in Victorian Lit, Cozzens
1-1:50-Lat 202, MacEwan
4-5:15-Eng-350, Modern Poetry, Trousdale

Thursday
2-3:15-Art-150, Art History, Sadler

Friday
9-9:50-Eng-322, Women Question in Victorian Lit, Cozzens
1-1:50-Lat 202, MacEwan

I'm more stressed then every third syllable in Dactylic Hexameter.

And did you know Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds-written in heroic hexameter.

Picture your self in a boat on a river with

tangerine tree-ees and marmalade skii-ii-es.

Ah Wikipedia.

by the way. George is the best Beatle. no way around it.

Nevertheless. This week has made my brain explode. Postmodern poetry in English. Cicero Criticism is Latin. Floor Work in Modern. Thucydides in Greek Civ. And Mindfulness is always stressful [irony?]

But I am suffering through. Still enjoying my classes throughly. I just wish everything wasn't due/hard at the same time.

Plus I'm having trouble deciding between taking 2 English classes next semester/ 2 Classics classes/ or one of each plus Art History.

This weekend is going to be enjoyable, however. I'm seeing Ethan and John, my adorable, lovely, little brothers, at Ethan's concert. And i'm brunching with Christy "TT" Keyser, the best friend who gave me my nickname, flippee.!

Happy Halloween! and Something Weird about flippee.

My post-modern peacock outfit. I love it. I wish I could dress this all the time.

I spent the night hanging out with Ethandear at the Williams residence. I do love that family. We watched The Shining. And omg, I remember seeing "REDRUM" when I was little and that moment scared me for life. But it was amazing. and not that scary. Much more Hitchcock like than I assumed. But I don't really get scared during scary movies and I get scared during movies I'm not supposed.

Here's a secret: My number one most scared moment while watching a movie was during...Breaking Away. Yes, you're thinking of the right one.

The bike movie.

When Dennis Quaid like jumps into the ravine with the lake and hides under the dumpster; I flipped out. I was convinced Dennis was a goner. But I think I saw this movie first when I hadn't completely separated fiction and reality.

Like during the period when I thought Mel Gibson actually was disembowled and racked and beheaded while directing Braveheart. I honestly just assumed that was the last scene that was shot.

Morocco: Where I plan on becoming like any other woman, only more so.

Casablanca reference. Catch it.

[that building is a minaret apart of the largest mosque in the world outside of Mecca]

Meknes, Morocco. Hopefully my location for 6-12 weeks this summer!

This is a mausoleum in Meknes.

But I've always loved Morocco culture. I did a project on it in 7th grade. I had to make a "float" on like a wagon and it smelled like a kebab. Will did Algeria I think? Which is cute because they are right next each other.

But it had music. and obviously I chose...

back to this trip and Meknes.

I'm so excited. Even at the prospect of it. I have so much to do; before I can even apply I need to get a passport. So even if I don't do it, I'll get a passport.

I'd be staying with a host family, so I don't think I would take Arabic, at least I went for 6 weeks, because Moroccan Arabic is so different from Formal Arabic.

I would take the first three if I go 6 weeks, and all five if I go 12 weeks:

• Gender Studies: A Case Study of Morocco
• Exploration of Culture and History
• Archeology in Morocco
• Islamic Civilization and Artistic Expression
• Beginning Arabic I

But what I am really excited about is: planning my soundtrack.

Kearney family tradition states that you HAVE to have a soundtrack of sorts for any trip. Whether it is planned meticulously on a series of mixtapes or if it is because you let Julianna pick out the music and she only picked one CD that every one likes.

And since I spent the greater part of senior year and this semester feeling like Zooey Deschanel in Almost Famous when she sneaks Bookends into her house under her coat by listening to Simon and Garfunkel by the gallon, and since Kate Hudson goes to Morocco at the end of the film, my soundtrack is going to be a lot of Simon & Garfunkel, Led Zeppelin, Joni Mitchell, The Who, The Allman Brothers and David Bowie.

That would probably be my soundtrack of my life anyway. Anyways Taylor Swift doesn't really fit a) in that group or b) in Morocco.

Updates will continue to come on all Morocco plans, but I can't really do anything until I get a passport, which I am planning to get over the Thanksgiving Break!

Happy Halloween everyone! Pictures of Peacock Flapper tonight!

A Tale of Two Majors—English and Classical Languages

When asked what he looks for in a woman by the Proust Questionnaire at the back of Vanity Fair, Garrison Keillor said

High-spiritedness, wit, a love of repartee and wordplay and allusion and jokes—in other words,

an English major.

Well put, Mr. Keillor, who I actually had the oppurtunity to meet and chat with about golfcarts* at the Decatur Writing Festival this fall. And English Major [plus Classics] I will be. But here goes the rest of my academic plans that all point towards...becoming an academic.

Next semester I am planning on taking the following schedule (I'm registering in a week or so I believe)

Monday-Wednesday-Friday

Eng 322, The Woman Question in Victorian literature with [babuhdabum] Professor Cozzens! I've been waiting so long to have a class with her! My mom had her when she was at Agnes Scott for the M.A.T. program and I work with a lot of her current students in the Writing Center.

Lat 202, Intermediate Second Semester with Professor Jim Abbot!‡ I had Abbot this semester for History of Greek Civilization and I love him. This is the guy who makes me want to double major. I've never seen anyone get so excited by a 1/30th of a pediment.

Ant 101, I'm taking this in preparation for MOROCCO. [see next blog post] Plus it fulfills two graduation requirements. whoa. This class only meets on MW

Rel 232, Tibet in Film and Literature with Professor Zablocki. So everyone knows I love China. But the only country I love more than China, culturally, is Tibet! We just had a group of Tibetan monks on campus doing a sand painting. And it was very moving. Plus I love disenfranchised people. Could the Dalai Lama get cuter? And this class only meets twice a week from 5:30 to 8:30 on Mondays and 5:30-6:30 on Wednesday.

Tuesday-Thursday

CLL 212, Greek and Roman Heroes with Professor MacEwan, and I will have gotten the flush of Classics Professors! This is my only class on Tuesday-Thursday.

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*Why is this my default topic of conversation? I love golfcarts and I love Peachtree City. I suppose it was appropriate to mention to Mr. Keillor the quirk of my small-town life. But golfcarts? C'mon Emma, this guy is one of your favorite Apples to Apples† cards

†A favorite game among Kearneys. I hope to meet someday my other favorite living Apples to Apples card—Sean Connery. Our other automatic win card is Carl Sagan. But unfortunately the Great One has passed on.

‡ I like to exclaim a lot. Especially about English and Latin!

Bamboo Needles

I had a lovely long weekend with the Kearney girls, especially because of my awesome yarn purchases. (Thank you, momma)

But my best purchase by far was a set of 5.5 mm bamboo double-pointed knitting needles! They are absolutely the best set I've had and I am never buying an aluminum knitting needle again.

My main source of complaint with knitting against my fiber art of choice, crocheting, is that the wrist isn't used enough in the nature of the stiches, though it is obviously should be the joint of choice, as it is the closest.

*This may be my personal knitting style, but hey, I knit like a crocheter.

Aluminum, though slick, always catches the yarn and I have to do this weird elbow chicken moment to release it and by then I've usually dropped three stitches. BUT, that's where bamboo comes in!

They feel amazing in my hands and helped me finish a project I never thought possible for me, an inept round knitter.

A ribbed knitted hat!

Pictures will be up shortly when I finish a few other projects, including a scarf for my mom, and one for Mrs. Lovett, an infinity, mobius scarf that will be for sale on my etsy toppings, and possibly another hat, in yellow and gray stripes, now that I know how to do it! and knitting uses so much less yarn, so bits that I could never make a hat with while crocheting I can now!

Black Cat Formal

dancing
the girls

the dresses

ASC 101 girls-Lamest Class Ever, but super sweet girls
Max was there! Middle School buddies reunited.

Black Cat was so much fun, I feel supremely sorry for anyone who does not attend Agnes Scott.

ACCOMPLISHMENT

Finished a goal!
I watched Love Story. now I want it get cold and wear my trench the collar half popped around my neck.


and I went running, 3 miles. on my way to a marathonnnn.