Archive for September, 2007

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I Am Lying On The Floor Of 4311 Walnut

September 22, 2007


How to convey the importance of one song together with one address? I can’t, but this embodies that moment in my life. It is the tiniest bit pretentious, yes, but oh, what this song means to me.

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Tickling The Ivories

September 14, 2007

A live performance of Ryuichi Sakamoto and his exquisite composition, the theme from “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” (1983, dir Nagisa Oshima).

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The CPL Gets A Plug

September 2, 2007

Though the best parts were left on the cutting room floor (i.e., the parts with me in them), I thought I’d put this up because the Collins branch is shown in a good light, and those women are my friends after all.

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How Gay?

September 1, 2007

The gayest.

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S/he’s Been Had

September 1, 2007

This nearly captures the thrilling moment in “Orlando” (1993, dir Sally Potter) when she changes from a 17th century duchess to a 19th century widow. Confused and irritated, she seeks to end her eternal mutation until. . . Tilda Swinton, who looks as if she were right out of the 15th century, stars as Orlando, Virginia Woolf’s hero/herioine.