Best. Class. Ever. (last night was fun too...)
Starting next monday (long ways off, but let me explain), I'll start my TV Cultures class here at UNotts.
To call it the Best Class Ever requires two things: an interest in television, and a pulse.
The class consists of an hour lecture, one hour of seminar, and a two hour screening class at some point during the week. As part of the screening, we'll watch different American TV shows and relate it to the topics in class. What kind of tv shows you ask? The following are excerpts from my syllabus:
-episodes of Lost and CSI [for week 4 lecture and seminar]
-episodes of Desperate Housewives, The Kingdom (aka Riget), and Pee-Wee’s Playhouse
-selections of television sports coverage [for week 6 lecture and seminar
-episodes of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, 30 Days, and People Like Us
-episodes of The State Within, Sleeper Cell, Battlestar Galactica
-selection of 24 ‘mobisodes’; online pilot of Hollywood Residential; episode of Iron Chef
This of course fails to mention the seminar on Reality TV, huge here in the UK and Europe. I'm trying to come to grips with finishing what might be considered the most boring and painful class of all time in Geology and now picking up TV.
Last night was productive. Aside from christening our house with its first Power Hour, (Guiness of course), we rearranged the furniture, played sardines, and Ryan taught backrub technique. The house looked like a frathouse this morning. I've been waiting all year to wake up to piles of cans and christmas lights strung about in a haphazard fashion, and this morning (noon is still close to morning?) my prayers were answered.
Today I went to see 'Pursuit of Happyness'... ok movie, not worth the 6 pounds (yeah, that's 12 dollars) to see it. I should have seen Babel or The Queen or any number of Oscar worthy flicks out, but it seemed like a cute idea at the time, and I really expected it to be more emotionally draining. I left the theatre feeling poor myself. Ironic, really.
Greys Anatomy marathon in a bit, pretend to study for Islam, and plan the next week out- There's no excuse to have all of this freetime and never make it to Scotland or Ireland....
We'll see what Visa has to say, then check it out.
4 months in the Notts, and still kickin.
posted by Kevin @ 6:30 PM
3 Comments:
i cannot express how much i miss you all. hello to everyone for me. wish i could have been there for the power hour.... can't wait to see all of you soon!
Holy vache (cow in french) that class is perfect for you =] I was on the coast of the english channel this weekend with my host family and I waved at you... you probably felt all the love that was flowing toward you =]. Anyway, I can't wait to see you whenever that will be.
Megseggsbags
kev-bo,
i love the shit you choose to write about...entertaining as always my friend. thanks for the chatty-chat this afternoon; on top of our chat and the NFL Conference Championship games (fyi: Super Bowl XLI pits da Chicago Bears against the Indianapolis Colts...should be exciting) I read 10 pages of my 600+ that need to be read by the end of the week....holy shit, j-term is almost over. anywho, hope you had fun with grey's (as you so choose to call it) and hearing about your new class makes me excited for you and jelous of you at the same time. okay, don't know what else to say...peace out dawgie dawg.
-booze-nasty
p.s. how the fuck do you have 79 credits?
p.p.s. i wrote all of this last night, but was unable to post until now...which is today-morning (monday)...god i hate mondays...ok toodles!
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