i went to see the opera Carmen on saturday night, and ever since i've had three of the songs vying for top billing in my head. the winner seems to be...
toreador, en garde!
toreador! toreador!
oh, and a great film showed at the union last night. No Man's Land. the winner of the academy award last year for best foreign film, and depicting three soldiers stuck in a trench together during the bosnian conflict. a bleak, yet darkly humorous vision of the ridiculousness of wars with a cynical view of the un efforts at neutrality and the presses efforts at sensationalizm. but still very human, i thought.