Monthly Archives: December 2009

Have a Magic New Year

[via This Isn't Happiness]

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Running The Numbers: 2009 in Music

Albums released in 2009 that I listened to more than once and still have a non-trivial number of songs in my iTunes library as of today. Best way I can think of to describe what I liked last year without … Continue reading

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Running The Numbers: 2009 in Movies

What I watched in 2009. Only counting things I saw for the first time. 300 (2006) 633 Squadron (1964) 88 Minutes (2007) A Dangerous Profession (1949) The Ambushers (1967) Angels And Demons (2009) Avatar (2009) Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (2008) … Continue reading

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Running The Numbers: 2009 in Books

What I read in 2009: The Architecture of Diplomacy: Building America’s Embassies by Jane C. Loeffler Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930 by Jerrold Seigel The Call Of The Weird by Louis Theroux Empire Falls … Continue reading

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The Perfect Billboard

The Perfect Billboard. Eggshell white with romalian type. Nice. Raised lettering, a subtle 7 inch bone border, and just look at the tasteful thickness of the headline. All perched on four evenly spaced 3.2 metre powder coated stanchions. My god, … Continue reading

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What are the first three words you see?

Mine: rush, secret, dream [via kingdrake1 (suicide, scum, meme), maura (bail, fool, leave), and many more]

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Seven Years Gone

With Tom Snyder on the Tomorrow show in 1981. “The Magnificent Seven”

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Tumbling Tumbleweeds

It’s windy in Los Angeles this morning. I was confronted by this guy on the walk to work. Must have been doing some travelling as there’s not too many open fields around here.

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links for 2009-12-16

Awards Watch: Directors Roundtable Director roundtable discussion with Kathryn Bigelow, James Cameron, Lee Daniels, Peter Jackson, Jason Reitman, and Quentin Tarantino (tags: film directing)

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ExDetectives this Thursday night

Our run of shows at the Silverlake Lounge continues this Thursday night… ExDetectives, Brass Badger, Hiking, and Man’s Assassination Man. $8 Thursday, Dec. 17 starting at 9pm (we go on at 9:30 or so) Silverlake Lounge 2906 Sunset Blvd. Los … Continue reading

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