speaker for the dead
though in some ways i feel like this book is not written as well as it could be, it still gripped me to the extent that i stayed up later than i should have reading it and finished it a scant two (work) days after i started it.
i don't want to be seen as a pretty thing;
it's the pretty things we're always breaking
it's the pretty things we're always breaking
henry rollins
aka “a night of spoken word.” i quite enjoyed henry’s ranting, as usual. i think that i perhaps enjoyed his last show a little more, but that is not to say that i did not also enjoy this show very much.
toy shoppe
today, walking out of cub, i noticed a machine in the mini-arcade in the entryway labeled “toy shoppe : test your skill.” it was one of those machines with the tightly-stuffed-in stuffed animals and the grabber-claw - the kind that are almost impossible to win. it reminded me of that freaky screaming child-lion doll in the claw-box game at perkins in lakeville. anyway, the problem is that this “game” is neither a shop(pe) nor a skill test: it is rather a carnival attraction that does not require ye olde carne to rob your children of your money. skill is no matched for a fixed game, and your money is exchanged for nothing more than the weak whirring noise of an electric motor. and what, exactly, is it about these machines that makes them so “olde?”
lost in translation
i think i’ll have to watch this movie again, to decide exactly what i think of it. i definitely liked it, i’m just not sure how much. it kind of makes me want to watch the virgin suicides again, to compare and contrast.
mason jennings show
mason is fun to see live, and this made a nice valentine’s day activity. i especially enjoyed sorry signs on cash machines and mason’s cover of / tribute to elliott smith’s angeles.
bombay curry
seed the seranos next time - it was a little too spicy. cooking with steak is awesome.
eiger dreams
jon krakauer
i know, i know, another krakauer. so sue me. i guess i just like this stuff. it’s really fun reading.
chickpea curry
i purchased a $2.50 “curry and chilli” cookbook at border’s on friday during their student id sale. the cookbook is colorful, which is always a plus, and this was the first recipe i made out of it. not at all too difficult to prepare, and relatively tasty, if a little dry.
nowhere in africa
this movie won the best foreign film oscar in 2003, and it’s easy to see why. the film is flat out, all around amazing.