January 2011
26 posts
“it’s almost seems like your twenties is about having everything you ever...”
– Justine Frischmann
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“This is so true.
“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody...”
– Chuck Close (via sandyhong & @emilycarroll)
For those of you who answered my call for drawings, work is at hand! Stay tuned.
Who wants a drawing?
And what do you want?
Love is just a series of beautiful moments that haunt you.
Alien 3: Directors Cut
So I finally saw the Directors Cut of this much maligned film and can I just say, thank fuck for that. Being a fan, I was always bothered by the mis-step that Alien 3 represented in director David Fincher’s oeuvre.
I could never place my finger on why it was, but Alien 3 just never felt ‘right’. Character motivations seemed superficial and the story was a bit patchy in...
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Dinner With A Stranger
It was a cool evening that had settled upon the day. The bricks where rough, red, stacked long ways and cemented so. Two deep. We sat upon them with our meals, there on those bricks and looked out at the greyish blue sea that seemed so still. Behind us towered pine trees, filled with birds, screaming in seemed agony as the sun dipped from their view beyond the mountains.
We ate in silence for a...
On Raising Inherited Children
Most of my best friends in the “real world” have children. It’s something you do as you grow older, although I’m not there yet (hopefully someday I shall). As much as I love these kids from afar like some sort of faux “cool uncle” I still haven’t had to deal with any of the situations that DS talks about here. This piece gave me pause for thought for a...
December 2010
32 posts
Embers
There’s a moment of it or her as it flicks by you, sparking in the dark and vivid for the briefest moment. An ember. Reminds you of the feeling, to reach for it is to burn. The question becomes whether to brave the pain, live wire of the veins, a permanent scar, the memory.
Fall back and see the stars mingle with the rain as it all comes down around you and the ember’s spark...