Well, the semester's underway, classes have begun and we're now in full academic swing (which, by the way, is the worst looking dance ever). Looks like I have a promising crop of eager minds this year.
It's a little different being a real professor, and I'm still figuring out the whole meeting/committee responsibilities. It definitely fills up a huge part of my time. Because I'm half time at two different places, I'll need to find a way of balancing these demands with teaching and scholarship.
In other news:
The new Indiana Jones film has a name. On May 22nd, I'll be watching Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Can't say that title instills me with a lot of hope, but I'll reserve judgment.
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welcome back to school!
who do they have for Indiana Jones? I wouldn't expect them to have Harrison Ford again...I think he's perhaps getting a little long of tooth for that role.
speaking of H.Ford - for our first class of "Detective in Film and Fiction" last night we watched Blade Runner. It was strange.
in other news, a message from Karla, who can't respond to comments on her blog because she doesn't actually get internet access, just email access:
'Oh, and tell Rebeks to tell Mike that I laughed heartily at his comment on my blog. Tell him "the singleness book -- no; the one on how they learn...hmmm....maybe a little bit."'
They have Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf (reportedly as Indy's here-to unknown son), John Hurt, Jim Boradbent, and Ray Winstone. Karen Allen is back as Marion Ravenwood. No Sean Connery (though I think that's fine), no John Rhys-Davies (which I find questionable). My feear is that this is going to be more Temple of Doom-ish than Raiders or Last Crusade.
on an unrelated note, Mike you got me hooked on the flaming lips when you mentioned them to me years ago (well, I had also heard that they were a Radiohead influence or something). Anyways, I'm listening to the new Hot Hot Heat on CBC Radio 3, and it's really reminding me of Yoshima. Very good. The exact song is called outta heart.
I'm intrigued by the idea of the academic swing. I think if all profs performed that on the first day of classes, the rest of the year would be a lot more enjoyable (and a lot less intimidating).
Further to your comments on Rowan Atkinson, perhaps he should have been hired to play the villain in the new Indiana Jones pic. I just saw one of the WWI Blackadders (part of a BBC Stephen Fry celebration, which I saw a little of while I was in an Amsterdam hotel room last Saturday), and are those guys funny! Fry and Laurie, as well as R.A. On the plane back to Canada they were showing the Bean film, and I had to turn away after about thirty minutes. The difficulty is partly that the opening of the TV series, which effectively positions Bean as a sort of alien person, allows the weirdness to seem less autistic and more Other. Once you try to make him an ordinary human being, he's too weird to sympathize with.
I'm a big non-fan of the Indiana Jones pictures, though the third was not too bad, relying a little more on humour and a little less on action for its impact, giving it a soul that the first only suggested and the second lacked altogether. But I like Ford, who has always projected intelligence (as indeed he does seem to me a well-spoken and thoughtful person in the interviews I have seen). In the end, I may be entirely alone in feeling that his Linus in the less-than-excellent "Sabrina" remake was one of his best roles, being one of the few he has played where he has been able to show that intelligence without action stunts. I say bring on an Indiana Jones picture that takes place mostly in the classroom!
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