I am back from a much needed and much too short vacation. None of you noticed my absence, due largely to my highly sporadic posting schedule. This is of course my own fault, so consider me chastised.
After a short stint as a TA for a film noir class, I have now reached six weeks of unemployment before by PhD career begins. Having not written for a while and looking down the barrel of a handgun labeled “book chapter deadline,” I thought I’d spew off a few thoughts on my summer media interactions. Due to my lack of cable television and my shortsighted knowledge of recent music outside the new Portishead, Roots, Beck, and Nick Cave albums, I’ve kept these notes down to movies and video games. Needless to say, there may be ::SPOILERS:: below, so read at your own risk!
Purely on a whim I did something generally against my rules of conduct, which is buying a DVD for a previously unseen movie. Why buy when Netflix will provide it easily for me? If the movie sucks, $20 has just been saved.
There are times these days where it seems like we've lost sight of the thing that forms the core of this country. Freedom. Freedom means people live the lives they want to and make their own decisions without concern for what others think of those decisions. Small Town Gay Bar makes that argument skillfully by letting everyone in it be free to say what they think.
