some thoughts

--Having a blackberry is new and uncharted territory. It feels like a right of passage. Having a blackberry is like having a bat mitzvah.

--Patrick posted some pictures from his recent time in NYC. Only a handful. But they reinvigorated my need to go back there, and reminded me of my excitement for the future.

--Rico is coming to visit on Thursday!

--While home sick I watched the following: Big Love (season 2), Ocean's 13, The Last Mimzy, Talk To Me, Eli Stone (4 episodes), Sarah Connor Chronicles (4 episodes) Introducing the Dwights, Bridge to Terabithia, a whole lot of youtube.

--I started reading "I Am A Strange Loop." Sometimes I want to write all over it with notes and love. Sometimes I want to put it down and not read another page so frustrated and disagreeable has it made me. Douglas Hofstadter, why do you tease me so?

every one should be so lucky

Spread the love.

paco had a baby

Yes, 'tis true. Paco had a baby boy. Since the birth, the following has been overheard in relation to said baby boy:

"So have you seen the baby yet?"
"You mean fucking Suri Cruz? No."

(paco gets a new job) "Hey, now you can start a college fund."
"Yeah, that's what my wife said. But I think I'm gonna use the money to buy more gobots."

sucker for all things literary

Yay LAT. You have made me smile. Click on the link. You will smile too. Sherman Alexie! Junot Diaz! Douglas Hofstadter!

(Have you read "The Toughest Indian In the World"? Have you read "Godel Escher Bach"? Go now friend! Go!)

she started it

Ertel has begun a war. To her latest blog post re: Be Kind Rewind I say "ouch."

I would like to defend the movie, though only briefly.

Its simplicity, its naivete, its illogical underpinnings, its consistent skimming of the surface... was THE POINT. (And also most of these and other supposed faults were largely just direct callbacks and/or homages to other movies.)

It was a film, NOT for the child in each of us, but rather for the child who loved to watch "Ghostbusters" in each of us.

Not every one was that child. I get that. This movie is not for those people. But if yes, you were the seven year old with wide eyes over every Amblin film to cross your path... you are in luck. Because Gondry was catering to you with this one. And I believe as a result that he accomplished exactly what he set out to do.

sonic boom!

Interviewed.

Peter Kember is ever so slightly before my time, but thank god for JF who forced me through several various albums and an echoplex show. He also admitted that he named his son, Kember, after the man.

No joke.

best movie poster in ages

Now I just need the movie to be good enough to justify framing this.

i was so wrong

THIS is the best wikipedia page ever.

Though, according to Mark and John, the original entry they discovered ever so long ago included quite a few controversial gems now quietly kicked under the creative commons rug.