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[A heaping helping of duh]<\/b><\/font>
So apparently graduation is Sunday, not Saturday. I’m completely fucking oblivious, as usual. And I even remember reading the invitation. A couple of times. Never registered. And two months ago when I asked off for Saturday, I double-checked the date for the ceremony on MTSU’s site<\/a> and noted that they had it set for the 14th. I figured it was a typo because, you know, I’m always right. Oy.<\/p>\n

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Last night I watched The Machinist<\/a><\/i>, which is sort of a Waking Life<\/a><\/i> meets Pi<\/a><\/i> meets Memento<\/a><\/i> concoction of repulsive imagery and fractured storylines. Christian Bale’s emaciated body is truly the raison d’etre of this film, because there’s, as far as I can discern, no real moral other than “unconfronted guilt can eat you alive.” Oh wait, I guess there was a moral after all. <\/p>\n

There is something to be said for dedication to your craft, but Bale is clearly insane. Just look<\/a>. The whole film seems — aesthetically at least — to be an homage to industrial rock. Trevor Reznik? That sounds so close to another prominent name I know<\/a> that I can almost taste the leather-wrapped rusty metal. <\/p>\n

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Monday night I’m going to a candlelight vigil at Graceland for Elvis, whose death anniversary is Tuesday. This will be, I feel, a most proper introduction to Graceland for me, as I’ve never been. It’s free, and I suspect the people-watching will be superb. If you can’t be there, you can always watch the ” target=”new”>vigilcast<\/a> that will be streaming on Elvis’s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[A heaping helping of duh]So apparently graduation is Sunday, not Saturday. I’m completely fucking oblivious, as usual. And I even remember reading the invitation. A couple of times. Never registered. And two months ago when I asked off for Saturday, I double-checked the date for the ceremony on MTSU’s site and noted that they had it set for the 14th. I figured it was a typo because, you know, I’m always right. Oy. +++Last night… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1jWWl-419","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}