No Talking Tuesday # 225
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January 17, 2012
This Tuesday found me back in the screening room at work watching the blue-ray edition of Jacky Brown….
This Tuesday found me back in the screening room at work watching the blue-ray edition of Jacky Brown….
This Tuesday found me back in the screening room at work watching Alan Parker’s Midnight Express. …
A few months ago, while on lunch break, I was walking to a small park to eat lunch….
Impressions of year four:
The fourth year of my no talking Tuesdays has come and gone with little to say for itself. Continuing the trends of year three, I hardly ever write to communicate, and have become further entrenched in my comfort with staying silent and observing….
Iwant to keep my skills sharp in the mediums I have a bad habit of neglecting. So here are a handful of sketches done with video, sculpture, writing, music etc. It’s fun to shake things up every now and again. …
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….