So, I decided to make another video journal entry. The events in it are fairly disjointed since I filmed them sporadically in very different locations, but it still has a somewhat connected narrative. Most of the shots were filmed at either the Cal Neva Hotel/Casino in Lake Tahoe (where I was attending my brother's wedding a month ago), or at ( Read more... )

Not that it really matters to anyone, but I decided to revise my 2007 movie rankings, which I posted a couple of entries ago.

Just a couple of shifts within the top 5 after second viewings. No biggie.

So I've decided to post my first ever video journal entry ( Read more... )

I've been spending a lot of my internet time these days refreshing pages which display local weather predictions, waiting for a telltale sign that the summer has officially arrived. While the weather may have changed already in many places, it's been slow to make those shifts in the Northwest. For those who are unfamiliar, in the Northwest we have ( Read more... )

I love ranking films year to year; I don't know why, but it's my favorite thing to rank. I know it's almost May already, but that's usually when I've caught up enough with the last year's movies to make a well-rounded judgment. I'll leave a comment below each selection, to explain its rank, and list them from last to first. I decided not to list ( Read more... )

I have recently been considering returning to academia to pursue a second M.A. in Creative Writing. Unfortunately, I know almost nothing about graduate programs in this field, and I need some advice. I know a number of my LJ friends are writers or were, at least, at one time English or Writing students, or at the very least have been invested in ( Read more... )

For just about everyone who travels to Peru, journeying to Machu Picchu is the sweet cherry on top of the whole trip. It is the unchallenged climax of the much-trekked Gringo trail. The journey almost always begins in Cuzco, the oldest continually inhabited city in South America, and one of the most breathtaking cities you'll ever visit. Its ( Read more... )

In the feature film The Motorcycle Diaries, Che Guevara is depicted on a river trip in the Amazon with his pal, on their way to visit a leper colony, journeying from Pucallpa to Iquitos, Peru. I didn't realize at the time that this was the same journey we were on, but it was-- minus the leper colony. It began by flying into Pucallpa, which is a ( Read more... )

Well, I've returned from my trip! It takes time to adjust to being back, and I'm still feeling rather exhausted and reflective. So I figure, why not make it easy on myself and just make a series of picture posts? I'll post them in succession of their occurrence ( Read more... )

One last update: Soaking up some rays and some views in canyon country, from Arequipa, Peru! I will be flying back in a week with plenty of stories and pictures.