Thursday, April 30, 2009
XKCD
My first 3 text responses are about half finished, but in the meantime check out this comic, especially the 2nd panel down.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
This Blog
This probably should've been the first post, but oh well...
I've created this after it being reccomended by Miss Krohn (as anyone reading this should know), and i'm going to try to update it regularly, both with my thoughts straight after finishing watching or reading a text and later thoughts after thinking/analysing and comparing them to other texts. Its going to be mainly books and films, but there might be some short stories, poetry, comics, video games and songs as well.
So far there's only 5 people from our class on here, and most haven't posted anything, so if you're reading this and don't have a blog then come on guys!
Anyway, the main themes I'm going to be getting into are mostly related to Existentialism: identity, dreams (the American Dream kind) and obsession, motivation and despair, perception and self deception, morality and moral relativism, choice, freedom, responsibility, hope and fear. But there'll be other things as well, and chances are I won't get round to half of the above ideas.
My tastes:
Favourite Authors/Novels: Terry Pratchett, Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Notes from Underground by Fydor Dostoyevsky, Altered Carbon by Richard K Morgan, Terry Pratchett, Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik, Neuromancer by William Gibson, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, Terry Pratchett
Favourite Directors/Movies: Christopher Nolan (The Prestige/Memento/The Dark Knight), Fight Club, Pi, Pan's Labyrinth, Children of Men, The Godfather, Hana Bi, Little Miss Sunshine
Favourite Poet: E.E. Cummings
Favourite Food: Sushi.
Hopefully I'll start updating with text responses soon.
I've created this after it being reccomended by Miss Krohn (as anyone reading this should know), and i'm going to try to update it regularly, both with my thoughts straight after finishing watching or reading a text and later thoughts after thinking/analysing and comparing them to other texts. Its going to be mainly books and films, but there might be some short stories, poetry, comics, video games and songs as well.
So far there's only 5 people from our class on here, and most haven't posted anything, so if you're reading this and don't have a blog then come on guys!
Anyway, the main themes I'm going to be getting into are mostly related to Existentialism: identity, dreams (the American Dream kind) and obsession, motivation and despair, perception and self deception, morality and moral relativism, choice, freedom, responsibility, hope and fear. But there'll be other things as well, and chances are I won't get round to half of the above ideas.
My tastes:
Favourite Authors/Novels: Terry Pratchett, Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Notes from Underground by Fydor Dostoyevsky, Altered Carbon by Richard K Morgan, Terry Pratchett, Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik, Neuromancer by William Gibson, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, Terry Pratchett
Favourite Directors/Movies: Christopher Nolan (The Prestige/Memento/The Dark Knight), Fight Club, Pi, Pan's Labyrinth, Children of Men, The Godfather, Hana Bi, Little Miss Sunshine
Favourite Poet: E.E. Cummings
Favourite Food: Sushi.
Hopefully I'll start updating with text responses soon.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Text list
Edit: Now added year's progress in the sidebar, which will be updated as I finish and blog texts.
Here's the list of texts im going to try to get through or at least glance at this year:
Here goes...
Here's the list of texts im going to try to get through or at least glance at this year:
Novels:
Fight Club
The Dice Man
Notes from Underground
Crime and Punishment
American Psycho
The Sound and the Fury
The Great Gatsby
Nation
House of Leaves
Trainspotting
1984
Neuromancer
Altered Carbon
UBIK
Do Androids Dream
Farenheit 451
The Big Sleep
Films:
Blade Runner
The Matrix
A Scanner Darkly
Memento
The Prestige
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fight Club
Taxi Driver
Pi
Pan’s Labyrinth
Being John Malkovich
Graphic Novels:
Watchmen
V for Vendetta
‘Electronic Texts’ (games):
Deus Ex
Bioshock
Farenheit
Fallout 3
System Shock 2
Here goes...
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