October 2011
3 posts
“For you will have peace to the extent that you have God, and the further you are...”
– The Gospel According to Zen
“The basic difficulty seems to be that people in religious circles always need...”
– Alan Watts
Iceland Trip
In the summer of 2011, Jeannie (my girlfriend) and I took a trip to Iceland. We started in Reykjavik, and then drove south and then east across the coast. We saw lots of waterfalls and multi-syllabic words, plus an arctic fox, a raven, some puffins, not so great food, a Taco Bell, and much more.
Flickr photo set
Vimeo video: Hail in June
Vimeo video: Iceland Farm Animals: Part 1
Vimeo video:...
September 2011
3 posts
“Depersonalization disorder (DPD) is a dissociative disorder in which the sufferer is affected by persistent or recurrent feelings of depersonalization and/or derealization. Diagnostic criteria include persistent or recurrent experiences of feeling detached from one’s mental processes or body. The symptoms include a sense of automation, going through the motions of life but not...
15 Favorite Albums
I know film. And while I love music, I know enough to know that, well, I don’t know music, not like I do film. When I look at Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums list, it’s embarrassing how few I’ve heard a single song off of. Nonetheless, below is a completely self-indulgent and uneducated list of the 15 musical albums that have meant the most to me.
1. Radiohead’s...
Pop Culture Consumption: 2010 Report
I saw 70 films this year:
6 one stars
6 two stars
42 three stars
15 four stars
0 five stars
My average film rating for the year was 2.91.
Of the 70 films, 43 were new (released in 2010). Here’s my top 15:
Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
*Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (Alex Gibney)
The Kids are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko)
Greenberg (Noah Baumbach)
*127 Hours (Danny...
March 2011
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January 2011
1 post
“For me, I couldn’t ever keep quiet. I came from a situation where for a...”
– Desmond Tutu on being gay
December 2010
1 post
“posturing: to behave in a way that is intended to impress or mislead others”
“Most days of the year are unremarkable. They begin, and they end, with no...”
– (500) Days of Summer
“We like to pretend that our experiments define the truth for us. But...”
– The New Yorker’s “The Truth Wears Off” by Jonah Lehrer (12/13/10)
August 2010
1 post
“The Philistine not only ignores all conditions of life which are not his own but...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
July 2010
3 posts
Breaking Down
“Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work –the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside- the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don’t show their effect all at once. There is another sort of blow that comes from within –that you don’t feel until it’s too late...
"If" by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream–and not make dreams...
January 2010
0 posts
Pop Culture Consumption: 2009 Report
I saw 133 films this year:
1 one star
20 two stars
76 three stars
36 four stars
0 five stars
My average film rating for the year was 3.10. Of the 133 films, 50 were new (released in 2009). Here’s my top 15: 1. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino) 2. Precious (Lee Daniels) 3. Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze) 4. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow) 5. Adventureland (Greg...
August 2009
0 posts
My Top 100 Films: 2009 Edition
Every serious film nerd has taken the time to compile a top hundred list. So, here’s mine. I’m calling it the “2009 Edition” because I’d like to do this once every five years or so, and see how it changes. For what it’s worth, I’m generally uncomfortable with listing any film as being in my top 100 if (a) I’ve seen it less than three times, and/or...