What are five words you really like?
Submitted by purplesque.
Oh this is a beautiful question. In university, my friend S. and I had a list of words that we used to keep and try and work into our essays. I can only remember a couple of them; definitely mellifluous and parsimonious were two of them (keep in mind we were neuroscience majors). But there were a bunch more. Man, I wonder if she still has that list. I should email her and ask her.
From the same time period, but not worked into our classwork was autumnal. Probably still my favourite word, just for the images it evokes.
The term that I have constantly stuck in my head (it's been there for 8 or 9 years now) is seminiferous tubule. And I do like the word seminiferous. It rolls off the tongue well. I make up little songs about seminiferous tubules. Yeah, I'm odd. What?
Typically, I see around 3 or 4 movies at the theater per year. I would like to see more, for I love going to see movies, but always there seems to be something preventing me - other obligations of course, or they are on at a bad time, or not at a theater near me, or mr. g has to work etc. etc. But in the last couple of months, we've managed to see 4 movies all of which were pretty good.
1. No Country for Old Men. This went straight to one of my favourite movies of all time status. Beautifully shot, sparing dialogue, and a fantastic performance from Kelly Macdonald as Carla Jean.
2. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. Poor movie. It suffered from me seeing it only a few days after the previous one. Very few movies would come out with a positive comparison. It was good, a good movie, kind of tragic in that inevitable fate kind of way, and a surprisingly good performance from Ethan Hawke. Also, I love Phillip Seymour Hoffman, always, all the time, anywhere.
3. Charlie Wilson's War. The movie you go see as a compromise because your mum is in town and you really want to see There Will Be Blood, but know that she will be bored to tears by it. Aaron Sorkin making politics look breezy and fun again. Also, I hate Tom Hanks. This movie made me not hate him. Not bad at all. And again with the Phillip Seymour Hoffman, gloriously chomping on the scenery as a Greek CIA agent.
4. Sweeny Todd. Well, I liked it. Opinions in our group were mixed, although my mother really like it. Go figure. I was distracted the whole way through because one of Helena Bonham Carter's boobs was continually hitched higher than the other one.
