This Tuesday found me at yet another movie night at work. This time with a double feature by two foreign directors. The first was the Iranian film Close-Up (نمای نزدیک), by director Abbas Kiarostami. The second was Yi Yi (二) by Taiwanese director Edward Yang….
This Tuesday found me back in the screening room at work watching the Critereon blue-ray editions of Kurosawa’s Yojimbo and Sanjuro….
This Tuesday found me alone at the screening room at work watching the blue ray of Dark Crystal. The classic Jim Henson film about a dualistic fantastical planet,…
In my ongoing effort to beat all the classic console games that bested me in my youth, I’ve conquered Street Fighter 2010 for Nintendo….
I finally beat Lion King for Sega Genesis! I’ve decided to go back with my more powerful adult brain and beat the games from my childhood I never finished….
As usual the tracks of music that got stuck in my head in the last six months, in order.
* Click image to download a ZIP of the compilation:…
Bruce had me up to three miles a day, really at a good pace. We’d run the three miles in twenty-one or twenty-two minutes. Just under eight minutes a mile [Note: when running on his own in 1968, Lee would get his time down to six-and-a-half minutes per mile]….
I was on BART the other day (name of the bay area subway system), when I saw a young woman who looked familiar sitting across from me. I suspected I was wrong and didn’t give it another thought- Well maybe one or two more, about her attractive nerdyness….
I‘ve developed a reputation at school for being a demanding teacher who expects too much and grades too harshly. I had a particularly lazy class a couple semesters back, and gave them a good tongue lashing via email….
A little while back I made a resolution to contact my favorite artists and give thanks. I started with this letter to Heather Phares….
I had a weird dream and shared it with my friend Jaimie.
me:
last night I had a dream that Samuel L Jackson and I were crying to a Nora Jones song.
So I woke up and was like “whoa, I guess I better listen to that song…”…
I recently logged my 100,000th song with last.fm,
which has been tracking my music listening since I signed up with the service a few years ago.
(To see what it looked like at 50,000 click here)…
Lead singer Trish Keenan of Broadcast, died today.
One of the best, and certainly my favorite contemporary rock band….
You said I came close
as anyone’s come
to live underwater
for more than a month
you said it was not inside my heart, it was
you said it should tear a kid apart, it does…
Moves like a fist through traffic
Anger and no one can heal it
Shoves a little bump into the momentum
It’s just a little lump
But you feel it…
As usual the tracks of music that got stuck in my head in the last six months, in order.
* Click image to download a ZIP of the compilation:…
This summer I’m teaching 8-19 year olds how to draw anime and manga. The class is at a community college in Walnut creek….
I usually play the “Italian Game” opening as white which occasionally means I have the opportunity to play the “Fried Liver Attack” …