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At the advice of Kelly I rented the movie Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead over the weekend.
I loved it. It was absolutely amazing. After I got home from classes this evening, I watched again while I made dinner and washed the dishes. It was only better this time. I highly recommend it.
I was going to try and get to bed by midnight, but I just realized that I have an essay due tomorrow in my Spanish Class. Totally forgot about that. Maybe I can be under the sheets by 1. . .
Today I had to use all my might to prevent myself from going to buy caffeinated beverage. I think I have done a pretty decent job of refraining from Dr. Pepper and Mountain Dew in the last week, but it hasn’t been easy at all. Still, the fact that I feel and look incredibly healthier having not drank mass quantities of it takes some of that thirst away.
My newest musical addictions:
Cory Branan - The Hell You Say
Steven Delopoulos - Me Died Blue
Give them a listen. You won’t regret it.
Responses to “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”
March 26th, 2003 at 12:48 am
Yep.
I was tempted to post excerpts of dialgoue from the script, but decided against that for now. I caught a few extra things the second time through that I didn’t notice the first time.
I can’t get enough of the question game or the scene were Guildenstern is trying to deduce the direction of the wind.
“Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer?”
March 26th, 2003 at 7:39 am
here, allow me…
(the extended scene from the screenplay)
ROS: I merely suggest that the position of the sun, if it is out, would give you a rough idea of the time; alternatively, the clock, if it is going, would give you a rough idea of the position of the sun. I forget which you were trying to establish.
GUIL: I’m trying to establish the direction of the wind.
ROS: There isn’t any wind. Draft, yes.
GUIL: In that case, the origin. Trace it to the source and it might give us a rough idea of the way we came in - which might give us a rough
idea of south, for further reference.
ROS: It’s coming up through the floor. (He studies the floor.) That can’t be south, can it?
GUIL: That’s not direction. Lick your toe and wave it around a bit.
(ROS considers the distance to his foot.)
ROS: No, I think you’d have to lick it for me.
(Pause.)
GUIL: I’m prepared to let the whole matter drop.
ROS: Or I could lick yours, of course.
GUIL: No thank you.
ROS: I’ll even wave it around for you.
GUIL: What in God’s name is the matter with you?
ROS: Just being friendly.
March 27th, 2003 at 12:35 am
nice job on refraining from Mt. Dew for a week WOW! I haven’t had it sense the middle of January.
March 29th, 2003 at 4:54 pm
Well, I did have some once or twice.
Unforunately my lifestyle requires me to be awake at least 19 hours a day, and sometimes I need some help with that. Once I get done with this semester, I should be able to have some sort of a regular schedule.
March 26th, 2003 at 12:34 am
yippee!