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Catching Up
This Post: Is about movies References movies I haven’t seen Was inspired by the series finale of the At The Movies TV show Acknowledges that it’s kind of silly Has three footnotes, but two of them aren’t necessary I have this bad habit of trying to absorb everything at once. When I like a band, [...]
The General And The Hockey Puck
This post: Is about comedy Is mostly about Don Rickles, who is alive Is partially about Buster Keaton, who is not alive Is tangentially about artistic sacrifice and revenge Is slightly speculative and probably pretentious as all get out Has a footnote about Vietnam How did Buster Keaton feel? I ask this question because earlier [...]
Zeitgeist-y
If you want to be cool (which I am not) it’s not what you like, it’s what you don’t like. Having a giant record collection of post-punk music makes you a person with a good record collection. But if you build a post-punk library and purposely leave out every Smiths album, then you are cool. [...]
March’s 8
Inspiration – I recently read Chris Ayres’ War Reporting for Cowards. It’s an overview of Ayres’ career–from journalism school to an aborted stint embedded in Iraq at the beginning of the invasion. It’s entertaining, but it also compares the mindset of aspiring journalists to that of war correspondents and explains how both personality types were [...]
February’s 8
Still at it – I’m sticking to my goal of taking a picture every day, and only one (1-22) was shot in a late-night photo panic. In the car – Nearly a year later, I only have 5,000 miles on my car. Maybe I’ll make some short trips soon. That, or at least go to [...]
January’s 8
Regret – I didn’t make any best of lists for 2009, and even if I had kept them to myself, it would have been nice to chronicle something. I do have a few favorites of the decade, including Sea Change, Royal Tenenbaums, Assassination Vacation, Radiolab, Age of Persuasion, Breaking Bad and Arrested Development. Only in [...]
Two Before The Eight
I’ll post my monthly eight in the next few days, but here are two things that I’ve thought about including. I’m skeptical about two books I really enjoy being adapted, but these trailers give me high hopes.