I thought that
Dark Knight was excellent. Jason and I saw it on the weekend with some friends, and the majority of our complaints were about the moments when the film approached the limits of its genre and its production (action film, Hollywood film). It's biggest limitation was the Harvey Dent story line, which should probably have been omitted altogether, if for no other reason than the prosthetics that Aaron Eckhart has to wear neutralize the possibility of acting.
Did you like the movie?
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Yesterday I went for lunch with Amy on the Drive. We ate at Little Nest because they have the best food. I had an amazing albacore tuna sandwich with daikon and dill mayo. I think they must make their bread. It's the perfect sourdough. The restaurant is family friendly, which I appreciate, and I generally don't mind all the kids running around. I sort of like to see them.
In the evening Jordan, Summer, Jason and I had a picnic on the beach. I made cucumber and avocado mini-sandwiches and a bean salad. We choose a concealed spot behind some major driftwood so we could have wine with our meal, and then we watched the sunset. Everyone else skipped rocks, which is something I'm incapable of doing.
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Today's to-do list includes reading Baudrillard's essay on obscenity -- I can't remember the title. I should also get together some kind of outline for my De Profundis project. And I guess I should also read
Suburban Souls. This weeks obscenity class is about
The Ethiopian: A Narrative of the Society of Human Leopards, which is just
so racist. Bizarrely, this was one of the few above-ground publications from Charles Carrington, who otherwise published hundreds and hundred of obscene novels. (Some really interesting ones too, including Oscar Wilde's
Teleny.) The first strange thing about
The Ethiopian is that, while heavily novelized, it takes incredible pains to establish its bona fides as non-fiction, even including an extensive appendix of news articles, all in the serve of grounding its (very racist) adventure narrative. The book is online
here.
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