UCLA Sculpture Garden
Posted in Photography (mine) on May 29th, 2004
Today I took a tour of the UCLA sculpture garden. It wasn’t quite what I expected, but it was still pretty cool. Yes, I had my camera with me.
Monthly Archive for May, 2004
How Wide Screen Won
Posted in Movies on May 28th, 2004
Slate’s article How Widescreen Won talks about the way that letterbox has beat out full-screen as the movie format of choice. One of my old blog entries cursed the full-screen format, and there’s a minor debate going on in the comments as transitory users happen upon it as a result of one google search or [...]
Get Your Chocolate Outa My Peanut Butter
Posted in Music on May 28th, 2004
Man, that new Counting Crows song from the Shrek 2 Soundtrack is trying so hard to be an Elvis Costello song it borders on painful. I actually like a bunch of the Counting Crows stuff, and I love love LOVE Elvis Costello. Those two just do not go well together though. As long as I’m [...]
CAW CAW so, CAW CAW there are all these crows CAW CAW CAW outside my place. CAW CAW CAW CAW in the past week or so, CAW CAW CAW they’ve taken to making CAW CAW CAW this ungodly racket CAW CAW CAW you know CAW CAW CAW like way earlier than i would prefer. CAW [...]
Remarks by Al Gore
Posted in General on May 26th, 2004
Every American, every patriot, needs to read this Al Gore Speech. For the good of the United States of America, this is a message that we all, each and every one of us, must take to heart.
South Coast Botanical Gardens
Posted in Photography (mine) on May 25th, 2004
There’s an amazing botanical garden right in my backyard. I didn’t even know it was there, but if you live in the Torrance, Rancho Palos Verdes area, you have to check it out. It’s just off Crenshaw a little south (?) of PCH. It’s vast and gorgeous, and I hear it’s going to be closing [...]
Griffith Park Mnt Hollywood Hike
Posted in Photography (mine) on May 24th, 2004
I took a hike up Mount Hollywood in Griffith Park today. It was kind of smoggy or foggy or just some kind of oggy. I took photos anyway, so here they are in all their hazy glory.
Lost America
Posted in Photography (others) on May 22nd, 2004
I want to shoot pictures like the stuff Troy Paiva is doing in his Lost America night photography series. Some of these images are just … wow!
Vogue Baby
Posted in Photography (others) on May 22nd, 2004
I’m not typically a big fan of high glamour photography. However, some of Miles Aldridge’s images are truly remarkable.
The Nature of Monkey was Irrepressible
Posted in Music on May 20th, 2004
Monkey was an old Japanese show that spawned the infinitely remixable Monkey Magic. Reminds me a little of Queens “Flash Gordon” only you know with monkeys and stuff. How can you not love a song with a throw away line like “You’re not a god, you’re a birthday cake!”? If anybody has a video to [...]