August 14, 2005
How I could benefit from a digital camera
I could show you a picture of today instead of telling you about how the sky was pregnant with rain babies & then they all fell out at once like the one time I saw a pregnant fish that got runover by a car, out in the street near Lake Opeka or how the air looked green at one point today & I felt like I was in a Philip K. Dick novel because for a second I couldn't figure out what time it was or even how time worked & I was afraid a little. Or maybe the words are better.
Not just for the conditioned air
Elevator to the Gallows = yes. Pre-new wave noir? or something.
Junebug = yes.
Broken Flowers = yes.
Murderball = yeah, I guess
and from the humid futon comforts of home:
High Fidelity (on VHS!) = yes, though maybe I miss Chicago & buying records, too
Deadman = yes
Kung Fu Hustle = yes, please! Let's hope Stephen Chow never goes the John Woo/watered down for Hollywood route
8 1/2 = si si si
Three Kings = still yes
I thought there were some I didn't like, some no's, but maybe I forgot them already. Who cares.
August 9, 2005
I was in a show
I was in a show that I didn't invite you to because you don't live in Boston, where I live. It was called the Midway Show and was a group show of all the grad students passing from their 1st to their 2nd year. Halfway done thus the "midway". For the uninitiated, those non-photo looking things on the left & between the portraits of Mary & I are drawings. Yes, pen on paper. This is what happens when you go to grad school. Things change.
August 8, 2005
I like the song Tennesee by the Silver Jews
Eye-opening (if the SJ are yr jam) interview with wordsmith David Berman at Pitchfork. (picture also from PF)
August 6, 2005
Not like potatoes
This is what it would like if you owned entire Criterion Collection (or worked at a Borders where you had them all on display).
August 3, 2005
Rainsong
In Chicago, WLUP used to (& does again I think) play three Zeppelin songs at 10pm. They called it "Gettin' the Led Out". Here in Boston they've got something else. I was at the pizza store across the street when I heard the guy on the radio announce the "Stairway to Seven," which was back to back jams I think. Love it. One more thing on the shortlist of positives for this old town.
