I love owning stuff, and my music collection has been a source of continuing pride for me since I got my first job when I was 16 and had enough disposable income to start buying music regularly. Back then it was cassettes. I had a million of ’em. I had a cassette deck in my […]
The Library
It’s a cold and rainy Sunday morning in Brooklyn. I’ve spent the last thirty minutes using the laser pointer to send Jinx scurrying all over the library rug. I’ve got a mug of chocolate chai tea, and Iron & Wine on the iPod. My side hurts, but I’m just going to ignore it today. I […]
Tech Talk
My new iPaq 6515 Personal PC/phone fucking rocks. It runs Windows, is made by HP (just like my home computer), and has MS Office and Windows Media Player built in. It can do anything my old PDA, Phone, and iPod can do, plus a shitload more. I write every day on the mini keyboard, send […]
House of Flying Daggers
Went to see House of Flying Daggers yesterday. I wanted to just do a 2-minute mini-review, but as usual, this essay has grown uncontrollably, this time into a pseudo-dissertation on Hong Kong-style martial arts films in general. House of Flying Daggers: Cons: 1)The plot was overly convoluted and choppy, so that while it was not […]
The Lion, the Witch, and the Giant Gorilla
This weekend, my goal was to watch 2 movies: Narnia and Kong. I expected to love Narnia and think Kong was so-so. In reality, the opposite was true. Narnia left me unsatisfied, while Kong blew me the fuck away. I won’t say I didn’t like The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the […]