One of our initiatives (sounds so formal!) is to have a monthly film screening series. Each film is chosen by us from our various Qualifying Exam lists and the student in charge that month introduces the film (which is very big here for some reason - introducing films - like people can't figure stuff out on their own) and then that student also leads a post-screening discussion.
Our inaugural film was Alan J. Pakula's paranoid thriller, The Parallax View. We advertised but not many people showed up. Nevertheless, we took pictures. It's not every day a film society has an inaugural event, you know.
I'm not sure what I was saying at this exact moment but it pleases me immensely that my friend and colleague, Carole Piechota, is looking at me as though I just told her she'd won the last Golden Ticket to Wonka's factory. I also like that Jenna Gerds' hand looks like its vibrating into another dimension. Poor photography pleases me apparently.
Mark bemused.
Carole parallaxed.
7 comments:
"Cheer up Charlie" Your golden ticket comment made me laugh out loud.
Isn't "bemused" your natural state of being?
All this film student stuff is making me miss school. Well, a little. :)
No, hungry is my natural state of being. Bemused comes when I've had something to eat and I'm feelin' good.
This post makes me happy and sad at the same time. I'm very happy to see my friend and mentor, Mark Brown, in one of his natural settings. I'm a little sad that I'm not in school and doing cool school things like making Film Societies.
Miss you, Mark.
My other natural setting is the dining room of a Wendy's.
You are a man of undeniable and unfathomable complexity.
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