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Curious Things about the RotK movie: (spoilers, obviously. But if you haven’t seen the movie yet, you do not deserve to live, much less deserve to be shielded from spoilers)

  • Sam and Rosie have the same reddish brown hair. Elanor is blonde. Baby Frodo is a brunette. Does this worry anyone else?

  • At what point does Frodo realize that he’s not dead? I mean, he’s physically and emotionally beyond the point of exhaustion, he hasn’t eaten in days (and he hasn’t eaten decently in weeks), he probably experienced heavy blood loss, he goes to sleep or falls unconscious or whatever in an environment no one could survive in, convinced he’s at “the end of all things”, then regains a bit of consciousness to see that he’s flying through the clouds in the claws of a great eagle, then he wakes up clothed in white, bathed in light, and the first person he sees is someone he thinks is dead. Then all his friends come into his room and everyone is happy and dressed prettily and Merry and Pippin are freakishly tall. If I were Frodo, I’d be like, “Oh no, you guys are dead too?”

  • There were other things, but I can’t remember them right now, so back to homework.
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    Okay, I just talked with Jeff and Ray, the other two CSEers on my hall, and they both also got surprisingly low scores, one just below and one slightly above my score. So I’m feeling better, but still in shock. Sam’s GTA LJ has improved my room considerably, but still, bleh.

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    Java Graders: Are you sure you’re not looking at that score upside down? I left the testing room expecting a near-perfect score. Don’t you mean I got a 91, not 61? Honestly, I can’t think of any place I could have lost points! Why do I have to wait until Monday to learn what I missed? RRRRRRRGH, my day is ruined. And it was going so well! And gah, compounded by another relapse of Dean Depression! Even Nutella has no effect.

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    The day just keeps getting better! On my way back from Film Noir, I stopped by the Fine Arts Library to tell my sob story to the librarians. They were super-nice about it, then suggested I check in the stacks to see if it had been returned, but not checked back in. Lo and behold, it had been! It was there in the library, safe and sound, the entire time! So I got $100 refunded on the spot, which felt great, and they told me to come back on Monday to talk with a guy named Ken about refunding the $40 in overdue and referral charges, as technically it was never overdue in the first place. LIFE IS GREAT and I just got two letters from Renata which reminds me that I am scum and have not sent her her Christmas present yet but LIFE IS STILL GOOD and I have Snapple.

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    It’s rather interesting. In Communications, we learned about the Kuleshov Effect, in which the onscreen appearance and conveyed emotion of an actor can be manipulated by context.

    Then this was posted on Lotrboys_daily.

    Dude, what are silly captions if not the ultimate proof of the Kuleshov effect? We know that the actors are obviously expressing sentiments very different from the suggested dialogue in the caption, but in most cases, especially with really funny captions, it really looks as though the actors could be saying the captioned words. In class, a bunch of the students were still skeptical about the effectiveness of Kuleshov (myself included), but now I’m convinced. I’m so going to mention this to Professor Messaris on Tuesday.

    Ah, Visual Communications. It has changed the way I see the world. Or at least movies.

    &lt/dork&gt

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    Random Music Meme!

    Step 1: Open your MP3 player.

    Step 2: Put all of your music on random.

    Step 3: Write down the first 15 songs it plays, no matter how embarrassing.

    1. “How Do You Solve A Problem Like Korea”, The Capitol Steps

    2. “Suppertime”, Little Shop of Horrors NBCR

    3. “Another Girl’s Paradise”, Tori Amos, Scarlet’s Walk

    4. “Universe Communion”, Stuart Davis, Self Untitled

    5. A random, long ago discarded bit from a MAA song. How did that get in here?

    6. “Straw Hat and Old Dirty Hank”, Barenaked Ladies, Born on a Pirate Ship

    7. “Girl”, Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes

    8. “Man of La Mancha (I, Don Quixote)”, Man of La Mancha (Placido Domingo version)

    9. “Look Down”, Les Miserables (Original London Cast)

    10. Guards! Guards! Track 12 (muchas gracias to “Bucked Up“)

    11. “Humor of the Situation”, Barenaked Ladies, Maroon

    12. “Pilar (Things Here Are Different)”, Jill Sobule, I Never Learned to Swim

    13. “Bad”, Little Shop of Horrors NBCR (Demo version, an early version of “Mean Green Mother From Outerspace”)

    14. “A New Life”, Jekyll and Hyde (1994 Concept cast recording)

    15. “See Emily Play”, Pink Floyd, Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd

    I’m rather shocked to see no Beatles representation. I have 8 of their albums on my computer… Ah well. Random is as random does!