September 03, 2005
New Beginnings
I've decided I ought to take the GRE this year. More than just a few friends are studying for it right now, and I figure since everyone else is doing it, I might as well too. From what I hear it's Super-SAT, which is good news I think. I also like that I can take it on a computer, since I kinda hate writing stuff out with pencil and paper. I'm really starting to dread this coming year of school, but I suppose that'll make graduation that much sweeter. Maybe.
I've started reading Anna Karenina in some attempt to broaden my literary horizons. I'm just fifty pages into it so there isn't much to say about it yet, but I'm glad my initial worries that it would not grab my attention were wrong. I do suppose the classics are considered classics for a reason, but the slew of boring books (The Scarlet Letter, The Grapes of Wrath, Jane Eyre, among others) they made us read in HS make me a bit wary of "the classics".
Also saw "Man on Fire" the other day. It reminded me of "Leon", aka "The Professional", but with less loli. Needless to say, it was altogether fairly depressing with a generous helping of bad-ass and killing assholes. There's a reasonably large lost finger count as well. It felt overly stylized in some points, but altogether the movie was pretty good. It did a good job of making you actually care about the characters, and hate the antagonists. By the end of it, you were cheering him on as he went apeshit all over the baddies. Definitely a movie you should see.
As an ending note, I managed to catch the ending bars of "Ticket to Ride" by the Beatles today. It's always weird to hear a song you used to like a lot but haven't listened to in a while. Furthermore, it's always nice to hear a Beatles song on the radio. Which reminds me, I also watched pretty much all of "Forrest Gump" on TNT yesterday. I saw the movie when I was fairly young and so by now had forgotten most of it. I'd also forgotten just how good a movie it was, and thus sat at Sean's for the few hours it took to finish. I think I might try and find those books in the near future.
