About three years ago, I had the opportunity to watch a film I had heard little about, that intrigued me for some reason--this film was called The Moustache. It was the first French film I had watched that I can recall, and it was very strange indeed. I remember that I kept watching it during the slow moments because the music was wonderful--the ( Read more... )

Have I procrastinated too much to compose a thoughtful and informative 15 page paper on a subject I deeply care about before Wednesday morning ( Read more... )

This is not really a blog post ( Read more... )

Out of amusement, I posted to the board of the group "bookfails" about a book I read some years ago. It was fun....and what an awful book it was. Darkness Visible by William Golding. Yuck.

If you would like some amusing ranting about a bad book (done as critically as I could on short notice and without having read the book for 2 years), the post ( Read more... )

Dream, Morning of 11-29-09 ( Read more... )

It has been perhaps too long, and certainly a long time since I watched the Matrix movies. However, that time and distance has given me perspective, as it usually does ( Read more... )

This concerns my latest venture with Netflix (of which this is my first record) about the recent Russian movie whose title translates to "The Italian." It's about a kid named Vanya (short for Ivan) who almost gets adopted by an Italian couple (and thus earns 'the Italian' as a nickname among his fellow orphans), and then realizes that his real ( Read more... )

I spent the morning over with my parents, moving everything moderately large and fragile into the basement so they can get new carpeting put in tomorrow. It was refreshing, and now, even after an hour nap, I am exhausted ( Read more... )

And so, we come to my first post of something truly disturbing happening to me. Straight out of Twilight Zone. I kid you not ( Read more... )

During orchestra dress rehearsal this evening, we had not been playing 5 minutes when my bow felt a little funny, so I examined it perfunctorily, and noticed that I had caused something new that I had never seen happen before ( Read more... )