That's Just Insipid!

Thematically, there are two great scenes in the Godfather films: the first occurs between Michael and his father, about the dreams of the latter for the former making good legitimately in the American fabric (senator, president, etc), just before the latter dies in the garden; the second (in the sequel) between Michael and his mother, in which he asks her about the possibility of man losing his family (which he eventually does, completely).

The Latest, The Greatest

I've been waiting to declare the latest before I had reasonable chance to speak personally with those I could expect to read this here blog:

Both Amanda and I are headed back to school for Fall 2006. She has been accepted to several NYC/Nassau County Law School programs, and I to Fordham University's Graduate English program (MA en route to a PhD. -- assuming I don't completely suck and fail). A reversal of roles for both of us, having been teaching for three school years.

Where will we be living? Yet to be decided. TBA...

BUT! In less pressing news, here is the recent media:

Print:

• The Best American Non-Required Reading 2005, ed. Dave Eggers, San Fran. High Schoolers, Beck
• The Story of San Michele, Axel Munthe
• The Sun Also Rises
• Prague, Arthur Phillips
• Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, Joseph Frank

Film:

• Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
• 4 (blegh, a wretched film that has done nothing for us but serve as convincing propaganda against visiting Russia)
• Days of Heaven
• The Devil and Daniel Johnston
• Altman's 3 Women (via Middle Country Public Library)
  
• Bergman's Through a Glass Darkly and Winter Light

Music:

• Belle and Sebastian The Life Pursuit
• Cat Power, The Greatest
  
• Dylan Blonde on Blonde, Highway 61 Revisited
• Band of Horses Everything All the Time
• Booker T and the MGs Green Onions

Pedagogy:

• Freshmen are encountering Shakespeare via Romeo and Juliet
• Jrs/Srs encountering Prague
and The Sun Also Rises (also Casablanca and Before Sunrise) via American Novel: Expatriate Literature
• Creative Writing: Screenwriting: From Treament to Screenplay

The End

# posted by Martin : 8:40 PM