Shia LeBoeuf, This Year's Sasha Mitchell
The Cheese Monkeys is a semi-autobiographical novel from Chip Kidd, the well-known book cover designer who spoke at PC last year. It's a humorous quick read through two semesters of art school, where one semester's boring still life instructor contrasts heavily with an unorthodox graphic design teacher in the next. The highlights of the book are the critiques, where the design instructor verbally rips projects to shreds: "Fate gave little Maybelleen the lemons, and she made lemonade. Good for her. Shame she had to go and drink it and turn it into pee. Next." The ending is a little weak and one awkward scene seems to come out of nowhere, but overall it's a fantastic book, especially for design students.
Augusten Burroughs' autobiographical Running With Scissors is a little too graphic and disturbing for my tastes, but it's well written and has some interesting underlying themes. When Augusten's Mom moves in with her psychiatrist, life seems to enter a bizarre new dimension. The kids create holes in the floor between their rooms, live outside amongst their yard sale wares for a week, and predict the future with toilets. The book keeps on getting more and more unbelievable, but a satisfying ending has the author finding himself amidst the insanity.
The weekend wasn't a total loss to them chapter books that ain't got no pictures. I also watched the Brian Shea-recommended Blue Crush (predictable but entertaining), saw Lost In Translation (good, worth seeing once), and played Resident Evil Zero (still getting a hang of the controls while zombies jump out of refrigerators).
Sunday, March 21 at 3:35 PM
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