I need some ominous instrumental music for this short film. Like, yesterday. This thing is showing on Sunday ( Read more... )

I have a cat.

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Two or three years ago now, I completed writing and editing my first short film, a 15 minute documentary on the Brazilian martial art of capoeira and its relationship to the social struggle of African descendants there. The story was told through a mestre (master/teacher) who teaches poor Afro-Brazilian children in his home for free ( Read more... )

So every now and then I find an album that I like so much that I'm willing to play it constantly, at least while I'm getting to know it. The last ones were probably Alligator and Boxer from The National.

Right now, it's Bon Iver's For Emma, Forever AgoI rarely find music when it's new, and this album is a little over a year old. You may already ( Read more... )

Last Thursday I went to see a kid from FnB named Alan to pick up a game I'd let him borrow, Werewolves of Miller's Hollow, so we could play it at the cabin ( Read more... )

Anyone who has spent a week or more in my presence knows that like everyone else, I have a number of less than admirable personality traits. I'm often pessimistic. Easily irritated. Sometimes depressive ( Read more... )

My journal tends to have these pendulumic swings between my external reality (impersonal news, videos, rants about national and international issues), and my internal reality (emotions, ideas and personal stories ( Read more... )

Well, well. Just decided to watch Democracy Now in entirety this morning and Chomsky is being interviewed. :)

I love these people.

London just made the highest security expenditure in British history - 10.2 million for the G20 summit. How did that work out?

Protesters trash Royal Bank of Scotland, another failing bank handing out enormous bonuses.

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You know you like the flag in the first few seconds ( Read more... )

Looks like summer weather is finally here to stay, Richmond.

An optimistic song for the season.

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