Saturday, June 23, 2007

Faves update

Christopher Hitchens: runaway success (WSJ) with his new book, God is Not Great. I'm only half way through, but so far it resonates deeply. Again, chapter one alone is a brilliant manifesto.

Ryan Adams: runaway looks for success (NYT) with his new album, Easy Tiger. His trio of albums in 2005 is a landmark in pop music to my ear. Not flawless, just engaging at every turn.

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Stella

She turned 3 on Tuesday.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Route 6


Early evening sun refracts through the lens. Looks cool.

Fence


I like the angles of this fence which is a gateway off Route 6 to the Cape Cod National Seashore Province Lands, specifically Herring Cove Beach.

Wood's End Lighthouse

My two left feet

Boat with sun reflecting on the coastal water


June 18, 2007

Seagull over dunes near sunset


June 18, 2007

Provincetown Harbor


Morning of Friday, June 15, 2007

Herring Cove Beach dunes with sinking sun



6/18/07 around 7 p.m.

Saturday, June 16, 2007

In the Shadow of the Moon

I've never had more goose bumps watching a movie. Captivating, brilliant, engrossing, even thrilling. With a focus on Apollo 11, the surviving members (10) of the elite club (12) of astronauts who have walked on the moon recount their experiences in modern interviews combined with stunning archival footage. This documentary blew me away.

Friday, June 15, 2007

The Great World of Sound

Interesting film about two salesmen, opposites (shy/outgoing, white/black), who get unwittingly sucked into a bunco scheme to defraud aspiring unsigned musicians. The acting in this film, especially these two lead actors is superb.

Money, not talent, is the only pre-requisite for these amateur singers and players to get signed. Much of the film features auditions in cheap hotel rooms featuring non-actors unaware of the project for which they were being filmed. This becomes obvious as the endless cringe-worthy performances pile up...no screenwriter could ever write so much dreck.

Even though it started slowly, the film gradually becomes better until the payoff. Definitely worth a shot if you like the indie-film vibe combined with watch multiple slow moving train wrecks. The movie is a thought-provoking survey of what motivates people's behavior.

Saturday, June 09, 2007

I love this TV commercial

Friday, June 08, 2007

Paris is burning

I can't believe I feel sorry for blondie now, after the farce of the last 24 hours. Why make her serve 45 days now, instead of 23, when she didn't do anything wrong in going home yesterday? It was the sheriff who sent her home. She didn't escape. What's the explanation for returning to the original harsher sentence?

Greta on Fox was two feet from Paris in court and is suspicious that Paris was twitching and needs medical attention. (Read between the lines: drugs).

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Knocked Up

Although very funny in parts I found this movie ultimately tedious, ridiculous and way too long.

Score!

Finally, I found some Americone Dream at Whole Foods. They've been selling out whenever they get it. I bought the last two pints .

Sunday, June 03, 2007

Larkspur in the back yard

Sunday breakfast

I made lemon pecan pancakes, stacked here after coming hot off the griddle. Yum.

Saturday, June 02, 2007

No brainer

From the NYT:

Switching from incandescent to compact fluorescent light bulbs sounds like one of those small things people do mostly just to make themselves feel better.

But consider this: according to the Earth Policy Institute, if the whole world were to make the switch, 270 500-megawatt coal-burning power plants could be closed. If the United States were to switch, it could close 80 plants (earth-policy.org).

Australia plans to phase out incandescents in favor of compact fluorescents by 2010; Canada by 2012. Environmental groups, along with Philips Lighting, are trying to get the United States to make the switch by 2016.

“Sometimes an idea seems almost too good to be true,” the institute’s president, Lester R. Brown, wrote at TreeHugger. “But this one is not” (treehugger.com).