Archive for July, 2005

Oh fine be that way!

Tuesday, July 26th, 2005

Alright fine. You are right. Those pictures stink!

Okay, here’s some in focus pictures of wavy buildings. Here you go. not that they are any better mind you.

(now playing for the millionth time today Jens Lekman: You Are the Light)

The Beach

Tuesday, July 26th, 2005

(I swear I will post more in focus pictures not taken from el trains reaaaal soon)

and also, I have three more books to write about and another film and all but right now, I just feel like posting out of focus pics I took on my walk around the beach last night. It was [...]

I Think I Might Be Ready To Write About This Now

Monday, July 25th, 2005

I had a dream. It was a dream about a place that people shared and yet there was no one else around. It was a dream about a place that was perpetually on the brink of closing that you always want to remember but never remember your camera to take a picture of.

There’s [...]

The Beat That My Heart Skipped

Sunday, July 24th, 2005

(or french title: De Battre Mon Coeur S’est Arrêté)

I give this film 6.5 out of 10. I didn’t really see it as having so much of a major point except perhaps being a character study and the main character wasn’t wholly satisfying enough for me to really enjoy the film as a whole. [...]

Conversations About Music With Your Love

Saturday, July 23rd, 2005

(about the Beep Beep album)

me: I think this is really good. Don’t you like it?
him: no.
me: You don’t? Why not? It combines the best of Cursive and Hot Hot Heat…don’t you see it?
(pause)
You really don’t like it?
him: no
me: I think it will grow on you
him: yeah…like a rotting fungus
me: I give [...]

March of the Penguins

Friday, July 22nd, 2005

I swear, this is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen and I’m not one for documentaries. I am just in awe of these special creatures…It’s narrated perfectly by Morgan Freeman and the cinematography is so stark and beautiful, sometimes like a moving Ansel Adams photograph only, you know, with penguins. [...]

Love in the Time of Cholera

Thursday, July 21st, 2005

I’m behind already in writing about what I have been reading. And sadly Vonnegut’s Timequake and Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead are going to have to wait for tomorrow or the weekend.

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I really enjoyed this novel more thoroughly than I did One Hundred Years [...]

It rained today.

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

I wish I could explain how it made the roof sound like it was made of tin cans.

ANNIE HALL

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

Ah Annie Hall…my second favorite Woody Allen film after Deconstructing Harry. Not only does it feature a bit of Paul Simon, but it explored the nervous and neurotic ins and outs of relationships in a way that is affecting and witty…insightful…it’s not like the slapstick more physical comedies but a thinking person’s film.

Here’s some [...]

Intonation Festival Day Two

Monday, July 18th, 2005

(Day one should appear beneath this entry)

Before I start talking about the music and post pictures of bands, I wanted to take a quick moment to post a couple of pics of the crowd and the people there:

This was taken along the side of the entrance and one of the stages….very little space to walk [...]