God DAMMIT!

[yummi4tunekookie]

This is the WORST possible time for me to have re-discovered snus and this awesome forum. I've got a 5-6 page paper due tomorrow and as usual, I've waited 'til the last minute to do it. Now that I'm on campus and rearing to go (*cough-cough*), the school's lovely, high-speed internet just won't let me focus.

Ah, Shadia, where's your self-control? Your will to discipline?

I'm just so excited about my delivery, I'm about to pop, I guess, and being on this forum makes me happy.

...Soooo, while I'm here, does anybody have anything interesting or insightful to say about the Matrix trilogy and its status as art? :wink:

Lalala *goes CRAZY*

[Badfish74]

I believe that the Matrix trilogy makes a wonderful statement about the naivete (sp?) of the human race, our readiness to accept everything at face value, and our inability to exist without the help of machines. Or maybe the Wachowski bros are just calling us plain ole lazy!

Beyond that I just think they're great flicks(Keanu Reeves' shitty acting aside), and you've inspired me to watch them again for the thousandth time. Thanks for that BTW! 8)

[yummi4tunekookie]

I believe that the Matrix trilogy makes a wonderful statement about the naivete (sp?) of the human race, our readiness to accept everything at face value, and our inability to exist without the help of machines. Or maybe the Wachowski bros are just calling us plain ole lazy!

Beyond that I just think they're great flicks(Keanu Reeves' shitty acting aside), and you've inspired me to watch them again for the thousandth time. Thanks for that BTW! 8)

Ha, no problem. I had to rewatch each film, and upon seeing Revolutions again, I can't remember why I hated it as much as I did. I think I was about 16 the first time I saw it, though--that's probably it.

Ahhh, why must professors ruin movies with essays and articles?! :evil:

[sagedil]

Someone seems to be wasting much time posting here. :wink:

[yummi4tunekookie]

Someone seems to be wasting much time posting here. :wink:

Shhhhhhh! :x

Looks like I'll be on campus all night long. At least I'll be here for class early!

[jamesstew]

Methinks The Matrix Trilogy's status as art is equal or less than 'UHF' starring the great Weird Al Yankovic. With all the remakes around these days I would hope that they could start again at the end of the first film. I honestly can't think of it as a trilogy.

[pangloss]

Three things:
a) Coffee
b) adderall
c) Elix Energy

What school are you at?

Whats the topic of the paper?

[yummi4tunekookie]

Three things:
a) Coffee
b) adderall
c) Elix Energy

What school are you at?

Whats the topic of the paper?

I work at a Starbucks, so I have the coffee covered (had a quad venti iced coffee with white mocha and caramel); I don't have the right connections for Adderall; and I've heard too many negative things about Elixyr Energy :P

I go to Augusta State University and will probably be here forever at the rate I'm going.

There's no concrete topic; we've read 6 essays and have to choose 3-4 of them and tie them into the Matrix trilogy. I'm going with:

+Postmodernism and Consumer Society (Fredric Jameson)

+Music and The Matrix: Where Are We Hearing When We Hear the Future (Theodore Gracyk)

+On the Fetish-Character in Music and the Regression of Listening (Theodor W. Adorno)

...And I'm currently deciding between "Challenging Simulacra and Simulation: Baudrillard in The Matrix" (David Detmer) and "Cinema and Space: The Frame" (Deleuze)

...I WANT A CONCRETE TOPIC. WANT WANT WANT. :x

[pangloss]

whats your major?

[yummi4tunekookie]

Currently it's Art. English, History, and Anthropology didn't work out, since I have an extreme aversion to writing papers. I didn't foresee Art History slamming me in the face with buttloads of papers, though. Whoop!

[pangloss]

lol, thats alot on your plate. I was a history of science/medicine major so I def. know how it is cranking out papers like butter...

[yummi4tunekookie]

Sounds veeeery painful :shock:

My biggest problem is procrastination. I'm also a total perfectionist-nazi when it comes to writing papers; I don't do outlines or rough drafts. I just sit there for HOURS agonizing over every sentence. A very painful process. One that I put off for daaaaays.

...I really should just freakin' chill when it comes to writing for my Art History professor, though; total idiots have taken his classes before me and passed, and I've written what I thought were awful papers for him and still received A's. Old habits are just hard to break, I guess.

**** it, I think I'm use both Detmer and Deleuze. I highly doubt he'll take points away for using an extra source! :evil:

[pangloss]

well, hows it coming? let's have a sample

[yummi4tunekookie]

well, hows it coming? let's have a sample

Oh, shit. You don't want to read what my brain just pooped out through my fingers. It's horrendous. And I'm only just past the intro and thesis.

[pangloss]

works in progress works for me!