Blurb

Three purples and one blue,

What can you do?

Back when the back wasn't backwards

Back when the black wasn't blackwards

Three purples and one blue,

What can you do?

He read all the red - getting redder by letter,

and the paper was white and couldn't be better.

The green isn't clean,

But it's nonetheless pristine,

Three purples and one blue,

What can you do?

a color.

a notion.

a style.

Three purples and one blue,

What can you do?

David Lynch: "Mulholland Drive" or "Quinoa"

Howl

Here's a copy of the text:

http://members.tripod.com/~Sprayberry/poems/howl.txt

And the video we will watch in class, if you've seen/heard it already... Can't hurt to hear it again.

Amelie, the experience of the self by doing things for others

First, I want to share this random list of facts and details from this movie. I think it's amazing how much was being accounted for, and how much was completely intentional.

http://www.funtrivia.com/en/Movies/Amelie-8538.html

Also, here's a little blurb to get you going:

Amélie is a shy waitress in a Montmartre café. After returning a long-lost childhood treasure to a former occupant of her apartment, and seeing the effect it has on him, she decides to set out on a mission to make others happy and in the meantime pursues a quirky guy who collects discarded photo booth pictures. Written by Anonymous

Post Here about "Pumpkin"

A blurb from the Variety review to get you going on Banooshing ideas:

The story of a "forbidden" romance between a sorority sister and a handicapped young man, "Pumpkin" begins as though the filmmakers imagine that they're making a daringly anti-p.c. serio-comedy, but long before it's over, the picture is wearing its bleeding liberal heart all over its sleeve. Conceptually a sort of "Harold and Maude" with a mentally and physically challenged kid rather than an old lady repping the taboo object of desire, this American Zoetrope production gets along on curiosity value for a while, but becomes increasingly unconvincing and ludicrous as it staggers endlessly toward the finish line. Impressionable girls and connoisseurs of bizarre-lite represent parallel target audiences for this United Artists offering, which should find more viewers down the line on video than in theaters.

Einstein's Dreams

Here are some things to think about when reading this book, and to Banoosh about right here... This is some questions suggested by a teacher named D. Gende and some from me:

1. Why do you think Lightman wrote his novel in the present tense?
What effect does it have on the reader?

2. What was your favorite vignette and why?

3. Which scenario do you think is most different from the version of time that you are used to and why?

4. How do you think being a Physics professor at MIT shaped the feeling of "real science" in this book?

5. Finally, write some conclusions about the questions or experiences given in your favorite vignette of Einstein's Dreams.

This Week's Movies: "Momento" and/or "Hable con Ella"

Plot Summary of Momento

A memory inside a memory, Memento is a complicated head spinning adventure. Leonard is determined to avenge his wife's murder. However, unable to remember anything that happens day-to-day due to a condition he sustained, short term memory loss, he has to write himself note after note that still don't mean anything after he falls asleep. The film goes back in time to reveal each little bit of the puzzle as he tries to find out the person who killed his wife and makes the audience feel just as confused as he is. The narrative closely follows a phone call Pearce has in which he talks about Sammy Jankis a former client of his who he believed had the same condition. The film takes an unexpected twist as the two characters have a lot more in common than is initially put across. Written by gab_b270@hotmail.com


Plot Summary for Hable con Ella

Marco, a journalist grieving for a love affair that ended ten years' ago, falls in love with Lydia, a bullfighter also on the rebound. Benigno, a nurse, dedicates his life to his only patient, a young dancer in a coma as a result of an accident four years' before; he talks to her, reads to her, holds photographs in front of her closed eyes. When Lydia is brought comatose to the hospital where Benigno works, he and Marco become friendly, and the nurse encourages the journalist to talk to her and hope for a miracle. Marco is Sancho to Benigno's Quixote, and as Benigno's hopes for his patient become fantasies, Marco tries to inject reality. Does a miracle await? Written by {jhailey@hotmail.com}