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Oct. 22nd, 2011 11:31 amWhere's Sam? :D
Hope this doesn't show up sideways...
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Oct. 22nd, 2011
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Oct. 22nd, 2011 02:21 pmSo, yes, for those of you who saw the photo on LJ, I have a) fixed the iPhone posting rotation problem (photos must always be taken with power button pointing left) and b) been to the University of Chicago today.
I love the University of Chicago. Apparently they won the cold war. Also they have a beautiful campus, and I don't care if it's the place fun goes to die, because I've never been much interested in the majority definition of fun.
The photo I posted was taken in one of the courtyards, just south of the Einstein Bros Bagels shop where I bought lunch after doing a tour of the new Mansueto library for Humanities Day. I was kind of bummed we didn't get to go down into the underground vault, which is RUN BY ROBOTS, but we did get to see some of the robots, so that was cool. The Mansueto library itself looks like a crash-landed spaceship, which is also nifty.
I was signed up to take the Oriental Institute Museum tour, but I've been in the Oriental Institute Museum several times, so I gave myself one instead.
This past week I acquired a build-it-yourself pinhole camera and some film (Lomography groupon yay) so I did a bunch of pinhole photographs of the campus and the stuff at the Oriental Institute. I suspect none of them will come out at all, but it was fun to play with. I'll post any of them that are worth posting, after I get them developed.
I'm finishing up the roll this evening on my way down Southport -- the Music Box is having a SECRET SCREENING of some kind tonight, and I got a free ticket, so that'll be fun. I'm hoping it's the new Sherlock Holmes film, but if it's something stupid I can always go see The Mill And The Cross instead, which I wanted to see anyway.
I love the University of Chicago. Apparently they won the cold war. Also they have a beautiful campus, and I don't care if it's the place fun goes to die, because I've never been much interested in the majority definition of fun.
The photo I posted was taken in one of the courtyards, just south of the Einstein Bros Bagels shop where I bought lunch after doing a tour of the new Mansueto library for Humanities Day. I was kind of bummed we didn't get to go down into the underground vault, which is RUN BY ROBOTS, but we did get to see some of the robots, so that was cool. The Mansueto library itself looks like a crash-landed spaceship, which is also nifty.
I was signed up to take the Oriental Institute Museum tour, but I've been in the Oriental Institute Museum several times, so I gave myself one instead.
This past week I acquired a build-it-yourself pinhole camera and some film (Lomography groupon yay) so I did a bunch of pinhole photographs of the campus and the stuff at the Oriental Institute. I suspect none of them will come out at all, but it was fun to play with. I'll post any of them that are worth posting, after I get them developed.
I'm finishing up the roll this evening on my way down Southport -- the Music Box is having a SECRET SCREENING of some kind tonight, and I got a free ticket, so that'll be fun. I'm hoping it's the new Sherlock Holmes film, but if it's something stupid I can always go see The Mill And The Cross instead, which I wanted to see anyway.
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Oct. 22nd, 2011 08:51 pmSo, remember when I said there are Adventurs, and then there are Tragedies, because you can't win them all? Tonight was definitely a Tragedie.
The whole point of Adventur, aka the Stop Being Such A Shut In Plan, is to get out, encounter new things, take part in society. So in that sense no Adventur is truly wasted. But there comes a moment where I think, no matter how much time I have already invested, I am unwilling to wait for a payoff.
I went to the Secret Screening at the Music Box hoping it would be something I wanted to see already. The film was Young Adult, which is a film by and with a bunch of people I've never heard of, except for Charlize Theron, who I mainly know as the woman who was bafflingly accoladed for gaining thirty pounds for some other film.
This doesn't automatically make it bad, and I can't actually say it was bad, especially since I left after half an hour, but it was not for me. Half an hour spent wondering why everyone else was laughing made me very clear on the fact that I am not the target audience for this film. The thing is, you think half an hour isn't very much, but that's a quarter of a two-hour film. Not enough to make a critical judgement, but enough to make a personal one. I give books fifty pages to hook me, and that's well less than a quarter of most books.
Still, it was an experience -- standing in line for an hour to get in, getting a seat, watching the writer and director and one of the leads get up on stage and weirdly, almost masturbatorially, introduce each other. Listening to the people around me make plans to go out to clubs after. I should go to a club sometime, but I think we all know from the get-go that would be a Tragedie.
Anyhow. I decided if I was going to waste my Saturday night, I'd waste the rest of it doing something I enjoy. I'm not sure what that is yet, but it can't be worse than watching the rest of Young Adult.
The whole point of Adventur, aka the Stop Being Such A Shut In Plan, is to get out, encounter new things, take part in society. So in that sense no Adventur is truly wasted. But there comes a moment where I think, no matter how much time I have already invested, I am unwilling to wait for a payoff.
I went to the Secret Screening at the Music Box hoping it would be something I wanted to see already. The film was Young Adult, which is a film by and with a bunch of people I've never heard of, except for Charlize Theron, who I mainly know as the woman who was bafflingly accoladed for gaining thirty pounds for some other film.
This doesn't automatically make it bad, and I can't actually say it was bad, especially since I left after half an hour, but it was not for me. Half an hour spent wondering why everyone else was laughing made me very clear on the fact that I am not the target audience for this film. The thing is, you think half an hour isn't very much, but that's a quarter of a two-hour film. Not enough to make a critical judgement, but enough to make a personal one. I give books fifty pages to hook me, and that's well less than a quarter of most books.
Still, it was an experience -- standing in line for an hour to get in, getting a seat, watching the writer and director and one of the leads get up on stage and weirdly, almost masturbatorially, introduce each other. Listening to the people around me make plans to go out to clubs after. I should go to a club sometime, but I think we all know from the get-go that would be a Tragedie.
Anyhow. I decided if I was going to waste my Saturday night, I'd waste the rest of it doing something I enjoy. I'm not sure what that is yet, but it can't be worse than watching the rest of Young Adult.