My Favorite Movies: The Tree of Life
It’s a movie for a lifetime. I’ve seen Terrence Malick’s fifth film four times in its entirety, and I’ve revisited specific images and scenes even more than that. The most […]
Monthly Archives: May 2013
Facebook Links #1
You know, there’s just always interesting stuff to read on the Internet, and I still can’t stop reading and sharing it. So I’ve decided to relaunch my “What I Read […]
Double Feature: From Sunrise to Sunset
They are two of the loveliest films I’ve ever seen. A movie that consists almost exclusively of two people talking is a rare and precious thing — lacking any kind […]
The Window
[This is a total rewrite of a story I wrote way back in 2009. I rediscovered it recently on my computer and saw it could use some work. In the […]
Sitting Up Front, Staying Through the End
In seven words, that’s what my ideal experience in a movie theater is like. True, it’s also important that the movie I’m watching is good, and that the crowd I’m […]
Some Tweets I’m Proud Of
I want to be a better writer. That’s the main thing. It’s one of the primary reasons I’m still plugging away at this blog: I know I have a lot […]
When Words Get Stuck in the Memory
Learning new words, discovering culture, broadening one’s horizons of experience — it’s all on a continuum. The purpose of language from the beginning of history was to interpret our observations […]
Geppetto's Clocks 