March 31, 2008

Here is my final schedule for Spring term, 08′:

Benjamin, MTH 20, M/W, 9am-10.5
Knowles, WR 121, M/W, 1pm-2.5
Harmon, CAS 170, TU/TH, 8.3am-10.5
Crawford, RD 115, TU/TH, 1pm-2.5

I made it into my writing 121 class, with an excellent curriculum. My teacher is Dr. Knowles who also does a mythology class during the summer (!).
My math class, which starts at 9:00am is taught by an adjunct, like my mom, named William Bradley Benjamin.
I get out Monday-Friday at 10:50am, and then start again at 1:00pm, followed by my release at 2:50pm. I’m probably going to use this time to study but it is open for lunch dates close to the campus. My Tuesday/Thursday classes are a reading/computer combination, I haven’t attended yet. My schedule for these days is the same as my Monday/Wednesday, except that my Excel class starts at 8:30am.

I went to 10,000 BC with Olivia, and that took up pretty much the entire day. Nothing else.

March 28, 2008

I finally got my ps2 up and working again, so I got to play RE4 which was totally cool; I love that game. My mom also got me a burrito.

Before the playstation worked

March 27, 2008

I just found this on Animation Nation’s Animation Archive.
When apparently Elfman’s character as Satan, from Forbidden Zone, is based off a cross of “Cab Calloway in a Max Fleischer cartoon,” (Film in Review, 1990) , so is Berny Wolf’s famous Betty Boop cartoon “Minnie the Moocher,” inspiration, obviously, to Danny’s song in the film, “Sqeezit the Moocher.” Since I haven’t seen the film, I can only assume this is based off the following scene:

Animation Nation writes, “
Perhaps Berny’s most famous scene is one he animated when he was just 21 years old… the ghostly walrus from the Fleischer Betty Boop cartoon, “Minnie the Moocher”. Dave Fleischer assigned Berny to rotoscope footage of Cab Calloway. He told me that he did the work at Max Fleischer’s original rotoscope rig- the one on which they had rotoscoped Ko-Ko the Clown many years earlier. The rotoscope machine was made from an old camera stand, and it stood in a dark, dusty corner of the camera room. For a week, Berny sat alone in the corner, perched on a high stool rotoscoping Cab Calloway.”

As you see, both Calloway and Fleischer are mentioned here because they are refering to the same topic in the 1990 review of ‘Forbidden Zone.” Below I’ve posted the link for the ‘Minnie the Moocher’ soide, and it is rearry good so hopefully the link works for you all.

MINNE THE MOOCHER, BY BERNY WOLF

March 26, 2008

I watched Singles today; I really liked it, and it’s got an awesome theme song, Dyslexic Heart by Paul Westerburg of the Replacements. Go rent it.