I am absolutely loving "A Confederacy of Dunces", a great novel about this super comic character in New Orleans. It was published in 1980 and won the Pulitzer prize in 1981, 11 years after the author's death! Check out the Wikipedia link for the book.
Read the rest...
because of my project/ assignment/ presentation combination that's going to completely ruin my next 10 days.
So just to post something, here's a song I really like by Diana Krall. I'm not sure but I think I read somewhere she wrote this after her mother passed away.
"Narrow daylight entered my room
Shining hours were brief
Winter is over
Summer is near
Are we stronger than we believe?..."
One more "Haft-Seen" away from home. Never feels right, but well, what can you do? Wish you all a great year... 
I just watched Philadelphia today and there was this joke in it I found kind of funny:
-"what do you call a thousand lawyers, chained together, at the bottom of the ocean?"
-"a good start!"
I liked the movie, by the way. Tom Hanks was definitely great. It's weird how their cell phones and laptops look all stupid and old to me, yet I clearly remember the year the movie came out. I thought old stuff only belonged to the time when I wasn't born or was really really young. Guess I have to accept the fact that I'm getting older after all!
well, I am usually not the one to skip watching a movie, unless i heard absolutely horrible reviews about it. I never watched Alexander, not because it showed a distorted version of the history and made Persians look bad, but because i almost never read even one good review about it as a movie.
Now, 300, is a different story. I've read reviews that praised the movie for its visual effects... and then i read in other reviews, that the movie sucked big time, with no innovative ideas and full of pointless slow-motion fight sequences.
Hey, I just realized today that this blog got two years old last week. Can't believe I survived this long... Viva daydreaming (and other stuff)!
A great, great documentary. Makes you think twice about many things. A little bit of political agenda, but not annoying. And very interesting and informative. Makes you want to run into the forest and hug the first tree you see :) As Melissa Etheridge says, we all have to wake up.
"...
Cause I need to move
I need to wake up
I need to change
I need to shake up
I need to speak out
Something’s got to break up
I’ve been asleep
And I need to wake up, Now
..."
Here's the final credit song:
My back aches, and I'm exhausted... but drinking beer in a clean, re-arranged living room feels just great!
Here's a short article that I found interesting. Since we 4 change is filtered in Iran, I put the whole text here as well:
نقاب دروغین / راحله عسگری زاده
جمعه 18 اسفند 1385
دوست و همكاري دارم كه بين باقي جوان هاي همكار به احترام به خانم ها و مهرباني معروف است. چند شب قبل با او و دو دوست ديگر عازم جايي بوديم. در ماشين يكي از دفترچه ها را از كيفم در آوردم و پرسيدم آيا چيزي در مورد كمپين شنيده يا نه؟ ابراز بي اطلاعي كرد. وقتي شروع به صحبت كردم دوست ديگري كه در ماشين بود (یک پسر) شروع به شوخي و دست انداختن كرد كه: «محمد اگه اينو امضا كني فردا ديگه كسي بهت اجازه نمي ده دو تا زن بگيري.» و جو ماشين را به شوخي كشاند.
1. either I'm completely consumed by Hollywood's movie culture
or
2. Divine Intervention sucks, big time!
I act to end all forms of inequality based on gender, sexual orientation,age, ability, race, ethnicity, religion, and socioeconomic status.
I challenge systems and ideas that reproduce inequalities.
I am committed to individual choice and self-determinantion.
I strive to create an environment where it is safe to question the status quo.
I am continually challenging my own privileged positions.
I am a feminist.
Happy International Women's Day! :)
PS - there are these buttons that UBC Center for women and gender studies give out and I tried to draw a sample one in MS paint (and I didn't do a very god job, of course!). Anyway, This has been a crazy week, I'll be back with my usual posts sometime soon!
PS 2 - the sentences are part of the campaign, I did not make them up!
and they're still in jail. Why can't our government men find a more civilized way of dealing with opposition, especially a peaceful one. Is it really that horrible if men and women have equal rights? I keep picturing these women behind the bars, and all I can say is that I'm thinking of them, and I know a lot of others inside and outside of Iran are, too. I admire them for their courage, these are the women that will change things, and I hope I can do my part as someone far away with such little power, by following their activities and taking part whenever possible.
Read in BBC . A great way of showing appreciation for international women's day, don't you think?
