In celebration of my afternoon adventures in writing a paper on Scorsese's After Hours, I will share some crucial information with you. Folded up in the back of my grammar and citation manual, I discovered a print-out of some style advice my history professor distributed in class a few years ago. There is no evidence on this print-out of the origins of this information, but I assume it is from an old grammar or writing guide. I chose some of my favorites to share with you.
Don't overuse exclamation marks!!!!!!! Contractions aren't necessary. One word sentences? Eliminate. One should never generalize. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc. Be more or less specific. Avoid alliteration. Always. Who needs rhetorical questions?
There you have it. The irony is, I often employ many of the aforementioned grammatical and syntactical errors. Mistakes rule!
Damn yo, what a long day! Class, work, errands, schoolwork. It's going to be a super bustling and cah-razy next two-three weeks with four papers due. Baaa! Here are some more photos from my AMC movie-watching experience over the weekend.
My attempts at something Hitchcockean...
25 theaters...AMC Empire is huge! That's like, one theater for each time I've recently had the urge to watch the "babysitting blues" club sequence in Adventures in Babysitting.
A snowcone sitting in the street. Snowcone roadkill, as I shall call it.
Scenes from a mall / movie theater.
AMC Empire's lobby ceiling.
I bet Starbucks and Coca-Cola employees left these drinks sitting around in attempts at self-induced corporate popularity. Wait...they already are saturated in capitalist America. Hmm.
One more person attempting to escape the wrath of Manhattan's strange weather the other night.
Duran Duran, Pop Trash
Gary Numan, The Pleasure Principle
Cyndi Lauper, She's So Unusual
Alphaville, Forever Young
The Vaselines, The Way of the Vaselines
Juliana Hatfield, Only Everything
P.J. Harvey, Is This Desire?
The Rolling Stones, Hot Rocks
Frente, Marvin the Album
Destiny's Child, The Writing's on the Wall
The Cars, The Cars
The B-52s, Cosmic Thing
Duran Duran, Arena
The Doors, The Soft Parade Saturday Night Fever soundtrack
L7, Hungry for Stink
The Dandy Warhols, The Dandy Warhols
The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds
Ace of Base, The Sign
The Waitresses, The Best of the Waitresses
Belle & Sebastian, Lazy Line Painter Jane
The Fad, The Fad The New Wave: Pop Music of the Early '80s
Goodbye Girl Friday, Mr. & Mrs.
Naked Highway, Hyperbollocks
Duran Duran, Pop Trash Classic Alternatives: '80s 12" Extended Rare Mixes
Phil Collins, Hits
Genesis, Turn It On Again: The Hits
Ladytron, Light & Magic
Ladytron, 604
The Go-Betweens, Before Hollywood
Beck, Midnight Vultures
Duran Duran, Seven & the Ragged Tiger
Abba, Arrival
The Cardigans, Long Gone Before Daylight
The Psychedelic Furs, All of This & Nothing
Air, Moon Safari
The Knack, Round Trip
Blondie, Parallel Lines
The Psychedelic Furs, Forever Now
The Donnas, Spend the Night
Nancy Sinatra, California Girl
Tatu, 200 KMH in the Wrong Lane
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Organisation
John-Manuel Andriote, Hot Stuff: A Brief History of Disco
Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction
Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
Jean Kilbourne, Deadly Persuasion
Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation
