Okay, what I am going to do for a while is ever so often interject a bunch of pictures into my daily ramblings for different Chicago neighborhoods. First up is the neighborhood most near and dear to me in Chicago. It’s called Andersonville or GirlsTown. It’s about a mile and a half [...]
Cinchel took a mental health sceening quiz online for work today and it asked general questions sort of like if you took the critieria for mood disorders and depression from the DSM-IV and made it really colloquial…like Do you often feel blue? That kind of thing. So he took it and it said [...]
I listened to Angels of the Universe last night. I had been feeling like I was in a complete creativity slump (especially regarding my writing) and it was really meant as something that would make me fall asleep. I’ve been going through a bit…we all do. Cinchel did fall asleep and I [...]
I was kind of procrastinating with this one to be sure as I finished this a week ago. I want to make this one short. I think first of all, it would be wrong to call this a love story (which some have called it) because it’s really more a combined story of [...]
I hate nature.
You siren you…beckon us closer with your beauty then you quake and break us
You replace our blood with lava, our bones with wind.
I hate you, nature. Your violence is a lesson that takes away instead of gives.
You destroy and make us follow your example.
Which is why I paint you. Because I [...]
I tell ya, Canada does it better. And I’m not praising these bands because they simply are Canadian, either. (Geez, people, need I remind everyone I hate Rush) but I will admit that I always enjoy hearing their Canadian accents that I adore. And also, Canadian bands are always nicer and more [...]
I often wonder what would happen if an alien really were to visit Earth. Best case scenario is the alien goes to the right place. If the alien landed in Canada, they might have the good sense to give him some Douglas Coupland books and a couple of bars of Coffee Crisp (because, [...]
So Miranda July has an interesting perspective and grasp on life’s fragility. I want to say that I give this film a 9/10 and I recommend seeing it. It’s not flawless and there are moments where it doesn’t come off right…like say pseudo deep-ish sort of moments but the heart and the intention [...]
Everyone should read this. It’s so short it will take you an hour-maybe an hour and a half if you have a headache and you are in the middle of a Princess Bride scene and have to fight off shrieking eels or rodents of unusual size. Just a rough estimate.
Okay, admittedly I am [...]
Okay…I want to blog about three films and three books. Luckily, it’s raining so I can’t go on my intended bike ride and instead have lots of time to catch up. I should probably blog about music too but right now these are priority.
Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut
Let me say that Vonnegut always has a [...]