The most emphatic recommendations are emphasized

By Woody Allen
1. Annie Hall
2. Bananas
3. Zelig

By Kurosawa
4. Seven Samurai
5. Rashomon
6. Drunken Angel

By Sydney Lumet
7. Dog Day Afternoon
8. 12 Angry Men

By Kubrick
9. Dr. Strangelove
10. The Shining

Starring Dustin Hoffman
11. Tootsie12. All the President's Men ( Read more... )

My most emphatic recommendations are emphasized:

1. Middlemarch by George Elliot
2. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
3. Youth by JM Coetzee
4. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
5. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
6. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
7. Nicholas Nickelby by Charles Dickens
8. The Idiot by Dostoyevsky
9. The Story of a Marriage by Andrew ( Read more... )

The ones that I recommend most highly are emphasized

54. Rabbit-Proof Fence
55. Howl's Moving Castle by Hideo Miyazaki
56. Philadelphia Story
57. I'm Gonna Get You Sucka58. Persepolis (projected on a wall in the parking lot by Murrays ( Read more... )

A list of movies watched so far this year. My highest recommendations are emphasized

Unsorted

1. Trouble in Paradise
2. Eastern Promises by David Cronenberg
3. The Fallen Idol
4. Inside Man
5. Arsenic and the Old Lace
6. Late Marriage
7. The Conversation
8. Ran by Kurosawa9. The Butcher Boy by Neil Jordan ( Read more... )

The books I have read since the beginning of January are listed below. Ones that I would recommend to everyone are emphasized:

1. Middlemarch by George Elliot
2. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
3. Youth by JM Coetzee
4. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
5. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad6. Orlando by Virginia Woolf ( Read more... )

So, since I'm moving to DC on Saturday (I'm going to be teaching Japanese to middle-school-aged kids, by the way), I had to get a professional-looking haircut and shave off the beard. My first priority, once I'm confirmed that I can pay my way with the japanese gig, alone, is to regrow it (and thereby look like less of a jerk). Here is my beard, ( Read more... )

expiration dating

To start a relationship that has a defined end date; e.g., one of the people is moving soon.

"I hear you started dating some new girl."
"Yeah, but she's moving across the country in a month, so we're planning on breaking up."
"A little expiration dating, eh?"My only regret is that I wasn't at the bar where this was coined so ( Read more... )

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Best Amazon review quote of the night comes from a Miss Bamadilla's five-star review of If You Want It, Come and Get It by the queen of New Orleans soul, Irma Thomas:

"Anyone who'd give Miss Irma 4 stars probably eats fried chicken with a knife and fork."

Preach it.

So, I think I've mentioned my rap project, The Eubonics in my LJ before, but I wanted to mention it again because if you are on myspace, or inclined to listen to me bust flows, I'd really like you to listen, friend me, whatever. We just did our first track with this producer Sly and the Street Beat--it's called "The Temptress" and probably within ( Read more... )