{"id":247,"date":"2003-10-12T20:23:48","date_gmt":"2003-10-12T20:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=247"},"modified":"2003-10-12T20:23:48","modified_gmt":"2003-10-12T20:23:48","slug":"but_wheres_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"But Where’s The Gimp?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw Kill Bill<\/a> yesterday and will most likely see it again. Some of the visuals in the film are so striking that they demand a second viewing. I also fell in love with the spaghetti western overtones in the soundtrack. And the extended anime sequence was a poetic piece of filmmaking in and of itself. Like some of the critics, I wish there had been more of the verbal fireworks I expect in a Tarantino film, but I’m expecting that Volume 2 will satisfy that wish.
\nI spent much of the afternoon finishing a novel I’ve been reading. I can read quickly and I think I went through about 150 pages in one sitting. I remember a college class I had on the Victorian novel. If you’re looking for light reading, look elsewhere than the Victorians. We had to read massive tomes like Vanity Fair and Middlemarch. I dreaded the daily reading assignments, which were usually 50-100 pages. I actually faked my way through some of that class because I didn’t always feel like doing the reading. But now, I almost wish I could do the class over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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