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May. 28th, 2009 11:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liptonrm_backupHee. I forgot to tell you all the most important story from my birthday. You see, as I was applying make-up before leaving for the family dinner I got an eyelash in my eye, an eyelash that just wouldn't come out. So I poked and rubbed and was generally kind of manic about getting the stupid thing out of my eye. I was so enthusiastic about it that I managed to scratch my eye somewhere in the process. So my eye has been sore and red ever since Saturday.
*facepalms*
Anyay, it hurts the most to look to the right and so everytime I have to look to the right I hear Shaun from Shaun of the Dead saying in my head "But dogs can look up" and I chuckle.
Why yes, I am a big dork, thank you for asking. =D
I finallyfinally finished reading my latest history tome, this one entitled The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions by Arno J. Mayer. It was an interesting read both because those are two time periods that I've always wanted to know more about and also because the analysis was fascinating. There were times when it was a bit of a slog to get through it because the author was a Serious Historian but it was worth it (I did have to learn how to block out all of the random French phrases he threw round with impunity, even when he wasn't talking about the French. Oh, academia). I found his analysis of Stalin and the Cold War to be especially interesting.
I watched Hotel Rwanda last week. It's a good movie and thankfully does not have the same problem that The Last King of Scotland had with relying on Western narrators. Don Cheadle is, of course, excellent, as are pretty much every other actor in the movie. The movie feels a little hagiographical but I didn't mind that, people need heroes, especially after an atrocity of that nature.
While watching I was strongly reminded of the HBO film Sometimes in April that starred Idris Elba and was another representation of the Rwandan genocide. I prefer this one if only because it gave me a better sense of what happened in Rwanda as a whole while Hotel Rwanda was very much focused on one place and one story. But both are very good movies.
Okay, I need some lunch. And then I need to get ready to go to school. The fun, it never stops.
*facepalms*
Anyay, it hurts the most to look to the right and so everytime I have to look to the right I hear Shaun from Shaun of the Dead saying in my head "But dogs can look up" and I chuckle.
Why yes, I am a big dork, thank you for asking. =D
I finallyfinally finished reading my latest history tome, this one entitled The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions by Arno J. Mayer. It was an interesting read both because those are two time periods that I've always wanted to know more about and also because the analysis was fascinating. There were times when it was a bit of a slog to get through it because the author was a Serious Historian but it was worth it (I did have to learn how to block out all of the random French phrases he threw round with impunity, even when he wasn't talking about the French. Oh, academia). I found his analysis of Stalin and the Cold War to be especially interesting.
I watched Hotel Rwanda last week. It's a good movie and thankfully does not have the same problem that The Last King of Scotland had with relying on Western narrators. Don Cheadle is, of course, excellent, as are pretty much every other actor in the movie. The movie feels a little hagiographical but I didn't mind that, people need heroes, especially after an atrocity of that nature.
While watching I was strongly reminded of the HBO film Sometimes in April that starred Idris Elba and was another representation of the Rwandan genocide. I prefer this one if only because it gave me a better sense of what happened in Rwanda as a whole while Hotel Rwanda was very much focused on one place and one story. But both are very good movies.
Okay, I need some lunch. And then I need to get ready to go to school. The fun, it never stops.
