Une orange sur la table
Ta robe sur le tapis
Et toi dans mon lit
Doux présent du présent
Fraîcheur de la nuit
Chaleur de ma vie
An orange on the table
Your dress on the carpet
And you in my bed
Sweet present from the present
Freshness of the night
Warmth of my life
Jacques Prévert
I spent the past two weeks in France. I stayed with […]
Three weeks ago I bought a Sony PlayStation 2.
I made the purchase with misgivings. I left it in the closet while I wrestled between the desire for our family to have a cooler gaming system than Nintendo Gamecube and the shame of gross consumption with the potential of violent behavior. I had visions of my […]
The recent talk on this blog about Googling people, in particular new romantic interests or old lost friends, has made me think about the other ways that the Internet has exposed our private lives — for good and bad. There are a few websites that I have come across recently that reveal all kinds of […]
I’ve been grading too many papers, deciphering and producing too many words.
So, just a few more… Saturday night. Sushi with Nikki. Then, Silversun Pickups opening for The Elected at the El Rey. Then, Silversun Pickups blowing The Elected out of the water at the El Rey. (I might be a little biased.) Finally, drinking backstage […]
One of the happiest outcomes of Bennett Miller’s extraordinary and deserved success with last year’s Capote is that his debut film, the 1998 documentary The Cruise, has finally been released on DVD. Long a cult favorite among NYC-o-philes, Miller’s first film followed the mundane — but poetic — antics of Timothy “Speed” Levitch, a New York […]