Since it was another pretty good year I'm again going with the top 20 films. The list does not include the films it's been impossible for me to see (Inland Empire, Pan's Labyrinth, Children of Men), but hopefully I'll be able to remember them for next year's list ( Read more... )

This was a particularly good year for films. I couldn't be restrained by ten picks. Here are the top twenty films I saw this year, and I'm kicking myself for the many I missed ( Read more... )

In the dream I am in my office, as I am now, with the knowledge that I am alone in the building, having gotten to work early as I always do. I leave the alarm door in the lobby open just the slightest crack so that the employees without keys can pry it open. There comes the black hole sound of someone walking down the hallway, obscuring the ( Read more... )

I'm obsessed with the idea that someone is going to break into my new apartment, or to put a finer point on it, that someone already has, right now, and is lurking behind a doorway, ready to spring ( Read more... )

ZachWhoSux: smarter child, tell me something ( Read more... )

In the past, insomnia has usually been the major catalyst for my writing. Lately, I haven't had the problem. I retreat into sleep to get away from work, and it comes too easily for the good of my ambitions. Tonight I can't sleep, but last night I dreamed. The dream, actually, for once, is of little consequence. It had something to do with ( Read more... )

It's been two years since I last attempted this, and I don't know why I'm doing it now. Probably I'm just a bit bored. Anyway, this list doesn't include "Million Dollar Baby," "House of Flying Daggers," "Bad Education," or any other movies on every critic's top ten lists that have been impossible for me to see ( Read more... )

I am thirsty all the time here, in the city surrounded by desert. It is not the heat, because even in the desert it is cold December. I find myself drinking water all the time, refilling the pitcher/filter in the refrigerator three times a day. The woman with whom I live says all the time things like “I’m so thirsty” and “I’m chronically ( Read more... )

Something about this is so much worse than last time. Maybe it's because last time I was in a state that went blue even though I voted green, or maybe it's because America has been lead down the crooked path by this liar, or maybe it's because at least last time the insane or stupid people were in the minority, despite their victory, or maybe-- ( Read more... )

I procured (notice I do not use the words "bought" or "purchased") a typewriter the other day, and have for whatever reason written more words on it in the short time I've had it than I have written on my computer in the past 6 months. Probably it is because I have some romanticized and/or fetishized notion of what a typewriter is and means from ( Read more... )