----The time is now.
----"Sometimes someone says something really small and it just fits into this empty place in your heart."
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If you could look like anything...anything at all....what would you look like? I'd be the wind.
...........It's easy to be someone's friend when all you need is someone to console you. It's much harder to be there for them when they're happy all the time.
.............Even when I say nothing, it's a beautiful use of negative space.
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Monday, December 28, 2009
can't you figure it out?
I've almost forgotten how much I loved the Barenaked Ladies album Gordon, their debut. Half the songs are incredibly ridiculous (Be My Yoko Ono, New Kid on the Block), but half were incredibly sad and genuinely sweet. I should probably figure out where my copy has been hiding all these years. A few songs have been appearing on pandora lately, and I'm almost blown away with how I felt when I was 13 and listening to this for the first time.
Then you smile again
but you're looking at me as if there's something I'm supposed to say.
Forgive me Father,
but I'm falling in love and that's all I have for confession today.
Maybe if you'd ask me on any other given day
I wouldn't have time for you or anything that you say
but it's alright now, you can blame it on me.
2:37 PM
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Thursday, November 05, 2009
I dream of new beginnings
An open letter from one of my favorite directors talking about one of my favorite franchises (the first two, at least):
Dear Sirs/Ma'ams,
I am Joss Whedon, the mastermind behind Titan A.E., Parenthood (not the movie) (or the new series) (or the one where 'hood' was capitalized 'cause it was a pun), and myriad other legendary tales. I have heard through the 'grapevine' that the Terminator franchise is for sale, and I am prepared to make a pre-emptive bid RIGHT NOW to wrap this dealio up. This is not a joke, this is not a scam, this is not available on TV. I will write a check TODAY for $10,000, and viola! Terminator off your hands.
No, you didn't miscount. That's four -- FOUR! -- zeroes after that one. That's to show you I mean business. And I mean show business. Nikki Finke says the Terminator concept is played. Well, here's what I have to say to Nikki Finke: you are a fine journalist and please don't ever notice me. The Terminator story is as formative and important in our culture -- and my pretend play -- as any I can think of. It's far from over. And before you Terminator-Owners (I have trouble remembering names) rush to cash that sweet cheque, let me give you a taste of what I could do with that franchise:
1) Terminator... of the Rings! Yeah, what if he time-travelled TOO far... back to when there was dragons and wizards? (I think it was the Dark Ages.) Hasta La Vista, Boramir! Cool, huh? "Now you gonna be Gandalf the Red!" RRRRIP! But then he totally helps, because he's a cyborg and he doesn't give a s#&% about the ring -- it has no power over him! And he can carry it AND Frodo AND Sam AND f@%& up some orcs while he's doing it. This stuff just comes to me. I mean it. (I will also offer $10,000 for the Lord of the Rings franchise).
2) More Glau. Hey. There's a reason they're called "Summer" movies.
3) Can you say... musical? Well don't. Even I know that's an awful idea.
4) Christian Bale's John Connor will get a throat lozenge. This will also help his Batwork (ten grand for that franchise too, btw.)
5) More porn. John Connor never told Kyle Reese this, but his main objective in going to the past was to get some. What if there's a lot of future-babies that have to be made? Cue wah-wah pedal guitar -- and dollar signs!
6) The movies will stop getting less cool.
Okay. There's more -- this brain don't quit! (though it has occasionally been fired) -- but I think you get my drift. I really believe the Terminator franchise has only begun to plumb the depths of questioning the human condition during awesome stunts, and I'd like to shepherd it through the next phase. The money is there, but more importantly, the heart is there. But more importantly, money. Think about it. End this bloody bidding war before it begins, and put the Terminator in the hands of someone who watched the first one more than any other movie in college, including "Song of Norway" (no current franchise offer).
Sincerely, Joss Whedon.
8:54 AM
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Thursday, October 08, 2009
stay here
just so i can always find that video where my favorite celebrities were on fox news that one time:
http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=011008&streamingFormat=FLASH&referralObject=10479716&referralPlaylistId=a9594f0389e4ea58938175cbd26195fbedd640ad
10:07 AM
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Monday, October 05, 2009
one day
The girl sitting next to me on the train is reading a scientific american podcast. Sometimes, people aren't as awful as I think they are.
7:51 PM
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
in time
the new Flattop Grill that's across the street from my office is finally open! This is the happiest day of my life.
11:21 AM
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Friday, August 21, 2009
i would have changed my fucking locks
i'm OOCing my conversation at lunch today:
"I can't even look at you guys without my eyes watering."
to be fair, when this was said in-context, it was still pretty cold.
2:29 PM
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009
a couple evenings
this video makes me want to speak ukranian so I can tell why people are crying.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=518XP8prwZo
9:50 AM
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