I have to admit that when I applied to college, and to grad school for that matter, I pretty much limited myself to the west coast, having an innate west coast bias. I would imagine some of that happens for people on the east as well. Of my friends, though, a number went to the east coast.
I also wonder if, in connection with your comment about the age of schools, if the east coast schools just tend to have better reputations. I could imagine that as well.
Hi AJ, I too wish you luck on your college search.
I have a question, though, for you and the rest of listology. I noticed that most (all?) of the schools you applied to are east coast or at most mid-west. I'm assuming, maybe incorrectly, that you are from the east.
Is this common, that people from the east don't tend to look at west coast schools? I know lots of people from the west who applied to and went to east coast schools, but is the converse not so common?
The only one I've read is The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay and I would have to agree that it is very well written with a very good story behind it. I would highly recommend it.
Thanks for your thoughts Jim. In the end, I guess, for me, it comes down to if the violence is supporting some story or if the story is the violence. I felt that way here, but thought in, for example, Reservoir Dogs, the violence supported the story.
Maybe that was my problem with Kill Bill. If the whole point of the movie is the violence, then it wasn't that interesting to me. In his other movies, the violence supported a story, here it didn't. As lbangs said, the movie is the violence and vice versa. Maybe that is what I mean by gratuitous. The whole movie reminded me of the knight scene in The Holy Grail.
I have to say that I didn't find Kill Bill all that interesting. I've liked his other films, but it seems to me that in his previous films, the violence was central and necessary to the story. In this one, I didn't feel that way. I felt it was gratuitous and there just for it's own sake, not because it added to the story. I might be missing something, but this film really didn't do much for me.
I guess I'd have to disagree with your assessment of the special effect in The Sum of All Fears. I really found that event to be very anti-climactic. Maybe it was the best they could do. But, when I saw it, it really didn't make me feel a whole lot. I wasn't struck with awe or anything. I didn't feel they truly showed the results of such an event. And being that the whole movie is centered on this one event, it left the whole movie flat for me.
If you go to the main page of the one link I posted (http://www.chron.com/content/comics/), you can set up a custom comics page of many main stream newspaper comics.
I would say that my current favorite is Non Sequitur, but it isn't quite up there with Calvin and Hobbess. I never really got into the other two (Doonesbury or The Far Side).
For a complete list of all of the comics I read regularly, look here.
I actually just got a bunch of these for my wife on DVD (the Santa/Rudolf ones). They were made by Rankin and Bass. The ones that we got included "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town", "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer", "The Year without Santa Claus" and a few others I didn't remember as well ("The Little Drummer Boy", "Nestor the Long Earred Christmas Donkey" and "Rudolph's Shiny New Year"). I always liked these when I was a kid. Watching them now, they are a bit dated (like when Donner tells his wife to stay home, that looking for Rudolph is "man's work"), but they are still fun.
I assume that you could get Charlie Brown and Grinch on DVD as well.
I'm sure that this list could be endless, but two additions I would add: Miguel Indurain and Lance Armstrong have dominated the Tour de France in their prime like no other riders.
I don't know. I guess I don't know that people like Bonds are taking drugs. From what I have read, the man works out every day, several hours a day. Players in the past didn't work out like that.
I have a feeling that even the worst starting players today are better than the average or above average players of 50 years ago, but that's just my feeling.
I have to admit that when I applied to college, and to grad school for that matter, I pretty much limited myself to the west coast, having an innate west coast bias. I would imagine some of that happens for people on the east as well. Of my friends, though, a number went to the east coast.
I also wonder if, in connection with your comment about the age of schools, if the east coast schools just tend to have better reputations. I could imagine that as well.
Hi AJ, I too wish you luck on your college search.
I have a question, though, for you and the rest of listology. I noticed that most (all?) of the schools you applied to are east coast or at most mid-west. I'm assuming, maybe incorrectly, that you are from the east.
Is this common, that people from the east don't tend to look at west coast schools? I know lots of people from the west who applied to and went to east coast schools, but is the converse not so common?
Just curious,
Blas
The only one I've read is The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay and I would have to agree that it is very well written with a very good story behind it. I would highly recommend it.
Thanks for your thoughts Jim. In the end, I guess, for me, it comes down to if the violence is supporting some story or if the story is the violence. I felt that way here, but thought in, for example, Reservoir Dogs, the violence supported the story.
I'd be interested as well.
Maybe that was my problem with Kill Bill. If the whole point of the movie is the violence, then it wasn't that interesting to me. In his other movies, the violence supported a story, here it didn't. As lbangs said, the movie is the violence and vice versa. Maybe that is what I mean by gratuitous. The whole movie reminded me of the knight scene in The Holy Grail.
I have to say that I didn't find Kill Bill all that interesting. I've liked his other films, but it seems to me that in his previous films, the violence was central and necessary to the story. In this one, I didn't feel that way. I felt it was gratuitous and there just for it's own sake, not because it added to the story. I might be missing something, but this film really didn't do much for me.
I guess I'd have to disagree with your assessment of the special effect in The Sum of All Fears. I really found that event to be very anti-climactic. Maybe it was the best they could do. But, when I saw it, it really didn't make me feel a whole lot. I wasn't struck with awe or anything. I didn't feel they truly showed the results of such an event. And being that the whole movie is centered on this one event, it left the whole movie flat for me.
If you do set up a customized page, I'd be interested in seeing what you chose, if you are willing to post your final link here.
Hey L.Bangs,
It seems that Charlie Brown's All Stars is on VHS at amazon.
If you go to the main page of the one link I posted (http://www.chron.com/content/comics/), you can set up a custom comics page of many main stream newspaper comics.
I'd also have to add Frank and Ernest, who don't appear on that list of comics in my previous post, unfortunately.
I would say that my current favorite is Non Sequitur, but it isn't quite up there with Calvin and Hobbess. I never really got into the other two (Doonesbury or The Far Side).
For a complete list of all of the comics I read regularly, look here.
I actually just got a bunch of these for my wife on DVD (the Santa/Rudolf ones). They were made by Rankin and Bass. The ones that we got included "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town", "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer", "The Year without Santa Claus" and a few others I didn't remember as well ("The Little Drummer Boy", "Nestor the Long Earred Christmas Donkey" and "Rudolph's Shiny New Year"). I always liked these when I was a kid. Watching them now, they are a bit dated (like when Donner tells his wife to stay home, that looking for Rudolph is "man's work"), but they are still fun.
I assume that you could get Charlie Brown and Grinch on DVD as well.
I'm sure that this list could be endless, but two additions I would add: Miguel Indurain and Lance Armstrong have dominated the Tour de France in their prime like no other riders.
I don't know. I guess I don't know that people like Bonds are taking drugs. From what I have read, the man works out every day, several hours a day. Players in the past didn't work out like that.
I have a feeling that even the worst starting players today are better than the average or above average players of 50 years ago, but that's just my feeling.