Periodical Offerings of my school library

A list of periodicals that either looked interesting or amusing, you wouldn't believe some of the stuff my school invests in so it can just sit on a shelf because no one knows about it...

Art in America
Art News
Adbusters
Adweek
Flash Art
Interview
Step into design
How
NY Times Book Review
Communication Arts
American Libraries
American Printer
Artweek
Brand Packaging
Brand Week
Consumer Reports
Domus
Design Issues
Film Comment
Eye
Gifts and Decorative Accessories
Graphis
ID
Master Drawings
Magazine Antiques
Mac World
Modern Fiction Studies
Metropolis
National Geographic
New Left Review
Nations Restaurant Review
Natural History
New Yorker
Orion
Oriental Art
Photoshop User
Packaging Digest
Printing Impressions
Print
Prepared Food
Popular Photography and Imaging
Saturday Evening Post
Supermarket News
Reading Research Quarterly
Reading Today
ScreenPrinting
Snack Food
Stores
Tobe Report
Waste Age

As you can tell as I went through the rows I was getting sort of hungry hence the food sounding names.

It's too bad these brand new issues of really great magazines are not being displayed, they need to make some more space so we can see what they have especially since you can't find pretty much any of these by searching their online portal (its crappy)

This Weekend In Movies

The Grifters- I wouldn't suggest this to anyone..... don't let the big names convince you it might be good, it's not

Bewitched- lots of funny people, it's didn't have that something extra to make it shine, it's too bad I really thought it would

Wonder Boys- interesting, I've only read one short story by the author of the book it's based on, it had a star studded cast it's hard to describe but I'd say go ahead and watch it

The Apartment- the trailer looked better than the movie its self, but props for winning Academy Awards, I think (it's sort of a comedy and that does not happen!)

Bend it Like Beckham- one of my favorites it sparkles!

Mix Cd exchange anyone?

I know blogs are sometimes known for doing swaps of some sort. Lately I've been really not excited with my music. I have been thinking lately that I'd like to make a mix cd of my music for someone but I wasn't sure who. Anyone interested in a swap. Your jams for mine? I know someone is feeling it! Let me know. Don't make me beg!!!

Mulholland Drive

watched it again for the like 5th time at least? If you haven't seen it you should. I think it's freaky and the first time I saw it I got angry and threw the case across the room. I was so confused. I don't really know what to say... it's different, sort of. More and more movies are following this path now though. Have a got you wondering? I hope so!

Land of the Dead

no not Dawn of the Dead nor Shaun of the Dead, I'm talking about Land of the Dead which comes out tomorrow. Anyone that is involved with choosing the title of this movie should be slapped on the wrist. Come on people seriously. I'm willing to allow another zombie movie into this world but could we at least try to be original with the name when the plot is already recycled??

Kept

Have watched it a few times on VH1 over the last two weeks? What are they men actually competing for? Are they going to be man slaves or servants? I know one thinks he's going to get to marry Ms. Hall? Ricardo? is that his name is finally gone.... i really did not like him ekk!

Amelie

started our A-Z movieathon today out of pure heat and fear of heat. It pretty much consisted of naps and homework though. If you haven't seen this movie by now you shouldn't be reading any of this blog! I'm angry at you. See it now and I will welcome you back.

The Real World Austin Season Premiere

Talk about crazy. Hugh fight breaks out and one of the castmembers gets punched in the face right near his eye and a bone breaks! People can be so psycho. I think we are hooked though. Nice job MTV, someone might go blind and we are going to watch for fear of his safety! Nice job.....

Online Classes

I've just finally finished my online nutrition class and I'm not sure how much I'd ever want to take one again. I'm glad I did it, but with all the confusion about where things are and what they are and not having the teacher always respond to your emails? No thanks. I just this last weekend found out about a huge project for that class the teacher claimed to have emails us about... still haven't found it. The one fun part was having a British partner for the group project! Has anyone else taken an online class? What are your thoughts.

The Heat

We spent about 8 hours today sitting downstairs trying to stay out of the heat. It's not very fun to live without air conditioning.... what a waste of a day it makes

Too busy

I've been too busy doing homework for two classes and receiving emails from an ex-roommates mother.... Don't ask. The only thing I've done that was fun recently was go to a surplus sale, a drum line competition, play guesstures and watch c-span book TV... It sounds like a lot but it really isn't. Ha.

Expect better things to come eventually.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are engaged

There is just something ultra creepy about that. He's like 13-15 years older than her and seems almost possession whenever I see him in TV and magazines now. What's going on. Just last month Katie Holmes had a cover article in In Style about her new single life in NYC and how awesome it was, what a big fat lie....

The Princess and the Warrior

This German film is directed by the man that directed Run Lola Run and also stars Franka Potente from Run Lola Run and also Bourne Identity fame. It is similar in some aspects to Run Lola Run but also goes off on it's own to inspect a story that's even stranger than Run Lola Run. This mostly dramatic movie throws in some humor every now in then. Quick synopsis. A nurse is in a horrible accident and saved by a small time criminal. She seeks him out and I won't give anything away from there.

VH1's 100 Child Stars

Considering we don't have internet and there are only two of us in the house me and my roommate have gotten addicted to VH1's 100 child stars series. So far we have seen 3/5 episodes. We sit in our chairs (it's so sad we have chairs we come home to now like old ladies) and watch it and think about all the homework we should be doing. The show is so great, seeing all the little kids that we watched when we were little like the kids from the Cosby Show and the Brady Bunch. It's hilarious to see famous actors that were also child stars. Sidenote: the guy that played Charlie in Willy Wonka is now a vet for cows, I can't remember what it's called. It's like 20 life stories in an hour! Watch!

Hitch

I laughed a lot. Probably even more at the trailer for Bewitched! There had been so much hype about the movie I had to see it. It was really funny and I liked it. Will Smith was great as always. For some reason I kept getting confused about the time lapses. I liked it, and could see why so many people did, but for me it is not buy worthy. For awhile it was close but no thanks. Not much of a review.... Has anyone else seen it that actually has something to say about it?

Cable Guys: The Resolution

Turns out the reason our cable wasn't working after the cable guy claimed to have hooked it up was because he hooked it up to the wrong apartment. #4 had some free cable for a day!

Some more food for thought

If you are hungry for.... go to....

Bone-marrow soup- France
Dog- Borneo, New Guinea, the Philippines
Maggots- Mexico

These lovely dishes are courtesy of my Nutrition text book

Michael Jackson was cleared on all charges

The case they had against him was pretty weak where the family of witnesses was concerned. The prosecution should have used people that actually had a believable story..... if there is actually one out there. All I can say it that no matter what I won't ever listen to History the same way again and neither will anyone else. You may not be in jail but your career is pretty much gone for good.

Why small towns need more choices when it comes to cable and internet providers.

Our cable company accidentally canceled our basic cable. So someone saw going to come out and reconnect it today. My roommate saw them today working on it and what did they do? Not connect it. So I called back later is afternoon and they said they were going to send someone out again, 5 hours later it was dark out and no one had come. And I just spent the last hour on hold, only to have my call disconnect 3 times due to a weak signal because of weather. I'm going to call back tomorrow probably wishing there was another company I could threaten to switch over to.... I don't think there is one though! Damn it!

Destiny's Child Splits For the Final Time

I'm sorry but thank goodness... but what could really make my day is if Beyonce was retiring. She's just going to jump back into the spotlight once she ditches her band and "Dangerously In Love" was annoying enough to give me nightmares for the next few years. Retire please, go away, take a break.

On a sidenote I did once like Destiny's Child but that was pretty much made up of other people, remember how there have been like 7 members to that group.