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monday, nov 6, 2006[the good student project]
The aim for next few weeks: be a good student. I've idled away a bit too much recently and have a shitload of things to catch up on. Hurrah!
Hence, hitting the books early every morning this week. Preferably in the library where I can't think of any excuses not to read. The history of folk music exam on Friday demands my full attention at the moment. Gah. Luckily I got the English version of the book, struggling through the 17 pages of Swedish text on the subject was way too much for me already. Ah well. On Saturday, then, I can move on to other interesting things, such as my ethnomusicology field course report. Double gah!
My good student project started yesterday already. I devoted the entire day to LA Confidential and finished reading it this morning. Erm. Confusing much? It was agood book, alright, but all those characters and sub-plots and everything made my head spin and explode. And today Jopi told us that that's the whole point, as the novel is a wonderful example of many aspects of postmodernism, including discontinuity, permutation, randomness and excess. Oh really? :D
I also think that it is a perfect example of a story where you can't make up not reading the book by watching the film. In my opinion, they definitely should add "based loosely on the novel by James Ellroy" to the opening credits of the film. Or to quote Jopi again, "there are some similarities". Ha.
Money day today, I got to dye my hair. Whoopee!
And last but not least: oh, why??!