Solar Eclipse 2024
Hope we all enjoyed that one. While only a partial eclipse where I live, it was nice to have an excuse to skip out of work!
Tonight You Belong To Me [take three]
Way down by the stream. How sweet it would seem once more just to dream in the moonlight, my honey.
Someone Else
I can’t tell you how much watching this Working x K-ON! cross over MAD brought a smile to my face. You’ll just have to trust me.
Jump On It
Sex! Plain old getting down and dirty with the one you love. Knocking boots. Slapping skins. Zuma zum zum zoom and a boom boom. The bump and grind. Yeah, making the beast with two backs.
Do it with the one you love.
Akira Kurosawa 100th
If he had lived this long, today would be famed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s 100th birthday. As you know, if you’ve been following me on twitter, TCM has been showing his films every Tuesday of the month. Tonight’s Seven Samurai, a film I regard as one of the best ever made and one of my 5 favorites of all time. Earlier this month, I also caught Ikiru, also pretty awesome, and caught up with Akahige (Red Beard), a feudal drama.
There is something about Kurosawa that I can’t really express. His films I love. The most famous actors he collaborated with, Toshiro Mifune and Takeshi Shimura, I too love. His stories, re-telling Shakespeare. His samurai epics. His crime thrillers. His humanism. Great, great stuff from a master of cinema. In the pantheon of great directors, he has got to be amongst the best of the best. He’s influenced me and I don’t even direct movies.
Happy Birthday to the Emperor, Akira Kurosawa! Celebrate by watching something he directed.
Best thing since Brooks Robinson?
My dad used to have season tickets pretty close to section 34, perhaps section 35? And when we’d go we’d cheer along. “O! R! I! O! L! E! S! ORIOLES!” Just dig it. Baseball, beer and cheering ain’t that the fun. Funny thing, they lost to the Red Sux that day as well.
In like a lion
March. It’s snowing hard. Wow. We haven’t seen this since last winter. Where were you last month? Now this would be awesome for snowboarding. Time to put the gaiters on, spray some moisture guard on your jeans and head out to Oregon Ridge for a snow day.