i’ve been reading a bit of the Big Long Open Gash aka blog of model and writer sophie ward lately. one of her recent entries features a scan of an article on her from a magazine for prospective students, in which it gently puts the university experience in a warm glow, calling an arts degree an “old fashioned ‘classical’ approach”. “she wasn’t focussed on a career, but preferred to soak up knowledge and broadened her horizons.” having taken a similar approach at the same university she attended, how pleasant it sounds all those years after, but at the time it was mostly littered with my stubborn angst at wanting to learn everything and yet please everyone at the same time. namely, what job title are you going to have at the end? the very model of a liberal arts education. boom boom!
speaking of no brainers, i’ve had a small unsatisfying run of film watching lately. avatar was passable; perhaps if i had been viewing it with silly 3d glasses on i might have more superlatives to describe it. we viewed the normal version in a lovely art deco theatre, that also needs to replace the springs in its seats because boy did i start squirming three quarters of the way through. barely watchable, however, was terminator salvation. my father the action movie man, whom i credit with my teenage preference for bone crunching films, had already given it the thumbs down. and have you noticed already that both films star sam worthington?
i have a theory that acting is the only profession that can make him shut up and stand still, hence being perfectly suited. being motionless in a scene still requires a lot of concentration and processing, hence i’m a bit disappointed (maybe) when he turns up at tv shows talking like this.