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Out 1 of my mind?

by Ryland Walker Knight

By now I'm sure you think I'm crazy what with the Episode III and Pirates love. So, to further confirm your suspicions, I'm announcing that I will take the plunge and see Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Saturday June 9th and Sunday June 10th and hope to write out something each night so I can cull it together into a longer essay no later than Monday June 11th. I have a summer school essay to write that week (as well as some books to read) so the Rivette work may not be as grand as planned -- but it will happen. What's funny is this will be my first experience with a Rivette film. I missed PFA's retrospective last December when I was still in Seattle and I have not had time to track down a DVD of Celine & Julie, or any of his films, really, since my return to school.

Maybe I, too, think I'm a little out of my mind these days and feel the need to whole heartedly (and full bodiedly) commit myself to showing myself (and you?) that I still like foreign films as well as Ho'wood product. But hey, the last DVD I bought was a used copy of Abbas Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry. That I haven't watched it yet in the days in between should make no difference: I still bought the sumbitch. Other recent purchases include

• an early-release of a Korean DVD of The Host, which is somehow Region-1, and Ameoba somehow already has in stock (I think I'll be grabbing the "real" Region-1 disc later, but more on that development later);
• a used copy of Japon off Amazon; need to write something more in-deapth about it AND Battle in Heaven;
• I've basically stolen my friend's boss' copy of Dead Man's Chest; I should just get my own at this point;
• a ton of books for summer school: the coolest being J.L. Austin's How To Do Things With Words, a hilariously on-point and semial Ordinary Language Philosophy text, which is also concerned with tacts Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations took up (which is also assigned), which is also discussed, along with the Austin book, in the other assigned text for that class, Jacques Derrida's Limited Inc, which means we're gonna have a great 103B with a great professor guiding us through these texts;
• more than a few burritos;
• a new MacBook to replace my busted three-year-old Power Book G4;
• a pretty nifty all-in-one printer (it came with the MacBook for the fee of the USB cable);
• Hemp Milk (actually, that was a gift, but I would consider buying it for myself);
• and I'd like to buy some new clothes, but I need to save some money, too

since Out 1 tickets are $10 a day and I will probably have to buy more food and more DVDs and pay more rent and more credit card bills throughout the rest of the summer until I get my Fall Financial Aid dispersement. Cuz, you know, I refuse to get a job. I promise: I'm keeping it all together. I mean, I got straight A's last semester. Ever juggling, up and up and away and out.

[Keith says this one is fantastic.]