Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers.

Another reason I love grad school:
In my Lit & Film: Consumer Culture class tonight, our text for discussion was the film Trainspotting, which we discussed in light of the commodity theories we have read throughout the semester, including those of Marx, Lukács, and Žižek. My professor picked some key scenes for discussion:

• The beginning and end scenes when Renton is giving his "Choose life" speech (And an added bonus was getting to hear "Born Slippy" by Underworld on the soundtrack)
• The Worst Toilet in Scotland scene
• Spud's job interview
• The scene when the guys go to the "great outdoors"

I have nothing else to say about this, except that, yeah, I got to talk about these things in my grad school class today.

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