I've struggled lately to readjust my sleep schedule so I'm not staying up, and then waking up, so late. This is a common problem for me and is made worse by being self-employed, since it means I can make my own schedule. My natural tendency is to stay up later and later since I've always been a night owl, and tend to get more energy as the day goes ( Read more... )

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I'm surprised at how long it has been since I posted something here. During the past few months I've been more in a "retreat" mode than I have for a long time. A friendship expanded into something more than that over the past year, then contracted back to smaller proportions than the friendship had ever been, leaving me back in heavy solitary mode ( Read more... )

Bold all of the following TV shows of which you've seen 3 or more episodes.
- Italicize a show if you're positive you've seen every episode.
- Asterisk if you have at least one full season on tape or DVD

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I'm not sure what made me think of John Carpenter's The Thing a few weeks ago, but I realized I hadn't seen it in a long time, and had never seen it in wide-screen format. So I placed a hold on it from the Beaverton library system and got it last week. During my lifetime I've seen critical opinion on this movie slowly shift. I remember one of those ( Read more... )

"It will take me probably the next 10 years to listen to all the music I've already downloaded from the web that I haven't got around to yet. I sometimes think it's foolish for me to still keep downloading, when I've got 90+ DVD's worth of mp3's I haven't listened to yet. And I'm way behind on my downloading. If I was caught up, the number would ( Read more... )

When I was in my mid-teens, they used to show the Victory at Sea reruns on the PBS station in Phoenix. My mom told me that she and fellow music students watched the show in the fifties just to listen to the celebrated musical score. So I watched the reruns, enjoying the music as well as the imagery of things blowing up, etc. Young men always like ( Read more... )

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“On 29 April 1936 mounted police were summoned to Carnegie Hall to restrain a huge crowd that had gathered to obtain the few remaining standing-room tickets for what was then assumed to be Arturo Toscanini’s farewell concert with the New York Philharmonic.”
(from Arturo Toscanini: The NBC Years by Mortimer H. Frank)

Somehow I doubt that mounted ( Read more... )

Today I saw an official USPS mail box downtown gussied up to look like R2D2. Apparently some tie-in with Star Wars stamp sets. Normally I'm not one for getting too caught up in anniversaries and such. Usually these are just marketing ploys to excuse re-releases of films, "special editions" and the like. But I happened to be watching second-season ( Read more... )