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< move your feet and feel united | posted at 9:25 pm on November 01, 2003 > there's nothing like reading a neo-marxist's point of view on national cinemas at 9.25pm on a saturday night... surely nothing compares.so today i went to the city and spent $20 on photocopying at the state library for said materials (including ms. neo-marxist's paper on 'world film trade and global culture flows'). always happens. i leave writing my essay to the absolute last minute and end up at the good ole SL because that's the last place there are any books, because you can't borrow them, but of course since you can't borrow them and the good ole SL charges 20c per A4 page you spend your life savings on a whole bunch of wasted paper that you tried to reduce and squeeze into an A4 sheet to save money but 'cause you couldn't do it you ended up spending more anyway. my personal favourite part of today was accidentally pressing the '10 copies' button and not being able to stop THE SAME SCREWED UP REDUCED PAGE from wasting $2 of mine. it's kinda like developing an piece of unexposed 12 x 16" paper in photography. yeah, i've done that. so i am spending my lovely saturday night analysing academic film theory, which i hate, because if you're going to be pretentious enough to take apart cinema, you might as well make a film. have these people made films? i don't think so! what's that saying... critics know the way, but can't drive the car. and yet, i work at a magazine, which takes apart cinema every freakin' day. (but at least these people make films). on another note, i hate 28.8k modems, i just do. maybe because i'm relying on that kind of connection... so damn slooooooow... those last five |