10-10-08 The first version of the music video Merci:
Category: Journal
Marty
7-6-07 One of the first videos I made:
Steven Soderberg
1-7-09 I haven't written much here about Mr. Soderbergh which is somewhat surprising. I tend to talk about him quite a bit and think about him even more, so this absence shows me just how wrongheaded I have been about posting here. I will lighten up and start posting more. To sum up my feelings … Continue reading Steven Soderberg
The Tale of Two Cuts
3-19-09 Despite a fairly impressive amount of negative media attention I decided to watch Babylon A.D. this past weekend. I was in the mood for a gritty, rough kind of action film and I was pretty sure that Vin Diesel would deliver. I didn't really get that from Babylon A.D. Instead, what I ended up … Continue reading The Tale of Two Cuts
Patton Oswalt and the Truth
5-20-09 I’ve been listening to some of Patton Oswalt’s stand up the past few days and while I have been laughing myself silly I have also learned a thing or two. When I say learned what I really mean is that a truth I already knew has been revealed to me. This, I think, is … Continue reading Patton Oswalt and the Truth
The Supermarket and Other Facts of Life
10-3-08 It's now October and in some ways it still feels as though I've just moved to Maine. It's not that everyday I look out the window and leap back shouting, "What is this? Who?! What?!". Rather this sense of still being new to Maine springs from the constant comparisons in my mind. Take, for … Continue reading The Supermarket and Other Facts of Life
Epics
5-9-08 It is not surprising that when you come across a tidbit someone said or wrote that is in complete agreement with what you already think, that this discovery fills you with a small amount of joy. Over the past few days I have been rereading a series of speeches that Jorge Luis Borges made … Continue reading Epics
Visitors
5-4-08 Tonight my in-laws will be arriving for a visit. It will the be the first time we have had visitors in our new apartment and I am feeling what I always feel about such things, both excitement and apprehension. I like it when people visit. Your routine is altered: instead of having breakfast the … Continue reading Visitors
Change
5-3-08 I am seated in a new office chair writing at my desktop computer, which sounds quite boring but is, in fact, very exciting for me. The desk that makes this situation possible was an acquisition my wife made a few years back. She discovered that our neighbor was going to throw it away and … Continue reading Change
Snowbound
2-18-07 To grow up in New England is to have an intimate knowledge of snow and ice and all the other joys of winter. The discovery in early childhood that snow created more than soft slopes and sticky snowballs is a profound one. It signals one of the many subtle changes in a life where … Continue reading Snowbound
