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Tuesday, July 30, 2002
All right, I ain't too proud to beg -- if anyone can tell me how to get the "(x) comments" link to look more like my byline and timestamps links and less like my regular text, I would be grateful. I spent half an hour messing with it, and I can't figure it out. Other news; I cooked last night. Chicken in tomato sauce...it was dead yummy as well. I'm quite proud of myself. (Sonnet took over some of the prep while I talked to the one and only V, but I still feel comfortable taking credit). The S.O blogged about Mulholland Drive...I liked it more than she did, but generally I concur with her opinion. I like watching Lynch films just for his aesthetic -- it doesn't always make a lot of sense, and he does tend to repeat himself, but some of it's just so well done. Plus, it has to be said, while Naomi Watts was good, Laura Elena Harring knows how to make an impression...there's one scene in particular that I'm thinking of, it does involve a towel, and you could probably find it on KazaaLite if you were so inclined. Even the missus felt obliged to give props to Harring's mama. Last night, we finished watching Godfather III and I had my high opinion of the film reaffirmed. I don't understand people who say that it was crap. Sofia Coppola? Yes, she was rubbish. Dreadful. But the film itself, while not reaching the heights of G1 and G2, by no means disgraces the series. Pacino wolfs down a bit more scenery than he would have in '74, but as he himself has pointed out, Michael Corleone changed and grew over that 20-odd years as any of us would have, and it is appropriate to alter his characterization somewhat. Plus the climax of the film at the Opera House in Palermo is stunning -- Pacino's reaction to the culminating event sent shudders through me...you can practically see all the pain and regret pouring out of him. The look Keaton gives him is also exquisite. The film is genuinely operatic and genuinely tragic, and I think it's a fitting and worthy conclusion to the story. | Friday, July 26, 2002
Yes, I've taken the comments plunge. Obviously having a little difficulty getting the comments links formatted properly and I now have to run, but I'll fix when possible. I could go into a lengthy disquisition (they're always lengthy, aren't they) about why I've been reluctant to add comments, but someone's already done it. Anyway, there are a lot of reasons to have comments too, especially since I've moved away from NYC, so let the banter commence, I say! | Tuesday, July 23, 2002
Sunday, July 21, 2002
Right, so I added some stuff to the sidebar -- a couple of new links and a little feature I hope to update frequently which lists what I've been listening to, watching, and reading recently. Why should you care about that? I don't know. But I like reading that kind of stuff on other people's blogs, and Bekkah just started doing it, so there you are. | Monday, July 15, 2002
The trickle of Universal records hitting EMusic is now a flood, and so you've got Ellington/Hodges Side By Side (oof, so so great), some Bill Evans, Shirley Horn, an out-of-print Kelly Willis record, a couple of Ella songbooks, Marianne Faithfull, some James Brown, Toots & The Maytals, Gal Costa, The Spinners...even Morrissey's worst solo record. Yep, lookin' good. Now if I can just get that DSL connection up and running... | Tuesday, July 09, 2002
So EMusic has quietly begun adding albums from the library of its parent company Universal to its roster of downloads -- some easy listening, a little rock, some jazz off the "could-it-be-the-best-record-label-ever-pound-for-pound?" Verve Records imprint. That means a Big Record Label is consenting to make some of its catalog available for unsecured downloading and CD burning. If EMusic keeps adding Verve albums to go with its great indie rock and jazz offerings (see March 13th entry), I may have to sign back up ($15/mth for all you can download and burn; $10/mth if you commit to a year). | Monday, July 08, 2002
Good old Nick Hornby has a wry wrap-up of the more amusing 2002 World Cup anecdotes in the New Yorker -- worth a read. | Regrettably, blogging has slowed to a crawl. I am the teensiest bit overwhelmed with the new job -- not so much what I'm doing, but the totally different pace of it. By the time I left it, my previous job was very predictable. I had lots of time to myself -- to work, blog, what have you. This job throws something at you every 5 minutes, something that usually has to be dealt with immediately or else slotted into the carefully organized scheduling/prioritization system one has constructed for oneself. The main stumbling block seems to be that I don't have a carefully organized scheduling system nor a handy project prioritization model to which I can instantly and seamlessly refer...and, further, that I don't deal all that well with urgent things being shot at me as if from some kind of malfunctioning automatic-tennis-ball-server-thingy-but-with-job-tasks. I prefer to stroke my chin while I carefully examine all angles of the question, go and download some MP3s while subconsciously sifting through the options, and then return to the task with an devastatingly brilliant and original synthesis that leaves others in awe at my ingenuity and my insouciant, yet undeniably effective, methodology. That doesn't really work in this job. So to return to my original point, I've yet to determine how blogging fits into this system. There's definitely time -- it's just that it can only happen if I'm not constantly breathless and reeling, like a baby llama brought on board a submarine and instructed to run its food service operations. | Full-on props to the latest members of the blogging community, pinkhairthing and sistra v, both of whom blog like they were born to it. Fresh new voices! Outlandishly enjoyable and unique prose stylings! Pinkhairthing's advice column usually has me in stitches, and Sistra V's ongoing examination of the travails of the rookie teacher is just fascinating. I love it! | Very interesting, very long article about why the constant pressure over the last thirty years to reduce the amount of fat we eat appears to have actually accelerated obesity and heart disease among Americans -- and has prompted the re-evaluation of the scorned "Atkins Diet". The article features the vividly-rendered sentence, "If you work out the numbers, you come to the surreal conclusion that you can eat lard straight from the can and conceivably reduce your risk of heart disease." It would be harder for me to give up carbohydrates than to give up high-fat foods -- sugar, grain, and pasta are my very lifeblood. Can't they just add protein to Chili Cheese Fritos and make everyone happy? | Wednesday, July 03, 2002
Rest in peace, Ray Brown. MP3 Of The Time Increment tribute to follow...it's just so hard to pick which of his amazing performances to make available. | |
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