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Movie: Bull Durham
The ankle injury is finally paying off with some movie reviews. This is a baseball movie that features Kevin Costner. Despite those two strikes against it, it recovers marvelously. Tim Robbins wears garters and breathes through his eyelids while he pitches, sings of wooly women, and survives nights tied up in Susan Sarandon’s bed while…
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Movie: Patton
Probably the best portrait-film I’ve seen. It deftly catches so many facets of the character’s personality, many completely contradictory, that I soon gave in to a sort of overwhelmed oscillation between awe and revulsion. There are great quotes throughout the dialog, lots of maps, convincing battle scenes, poetry, and historical soliloquoies. Definitely a perspective on…
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weekend encounters
So far, resting the ankle has not made life dull. On the contrary, it’s brought some rewarding and unexpected experiences. This weekend’s encounters included new and strange wildflowers, a bear, and a sort of underground superhero.
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Movie: Liam
Well done, but came across to me as a dramatization of stereotypes of depression-era Catholic schools and fascist movements. To this Yankee, the setting in 1930’s Liverpool was totally convincing, more interesting to me than the contrived plot. amazon.com entry
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Nathan Lorenz
My close friend from my school days in Chicago, I’m honored that Nathan will be attending my wedding both as friend and photographer. Nathan and I are not only college chums, we have also wandered Europe and spent many happy hours in some of Chicago’s finer establishments together. Photo alterations by Andy Sheppard, original photo…
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We have a minister
We found a minister to officiate at our Joshua Tree wedding: Reverend Irma Kaye Sawyer. She is a non-denominational minister who has a home in Yucca Valley and loves doing wedding ceremonies in the park. Just what we were looking for! We met her this weekend and are excited and relieved to have another piece…
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The Beach
I have now lived in southern california for a year and a half, and finally went to the beach. Ann and I pulled into Huntington Beach about noon with all rest of the beachgoers and fought for our parking spot in the midst of many driving maneuvers that were new to me. Walking down the…
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Wagon Wheel
Had a nice bouldering session with Ted near the Big Loaf today. Did some long, slow traverses to warm up. The temperature was perfect, a little windy, but good. I felt good for a while, then as I landed a few times my ankle started to hurt again. Soon I realized it wasn’t ready for…
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Movie: Heart of Light
This movie from Greenland is packed full of absolutely magical snowscapes, which alone are mesmerizing enough to win me over. In that setting the movie tells a mythic tale of the impact of modern Danish culture on native Greenlanders. Another salient reminder of the rewards of having good filmmakers in distant parts of the world.
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Movie: Two Family House
I rent movies through the mail, and now and then one shows up that I can’t imagine why I rented. In this case it turned out to be a great movie to watch on the boulder pad with my fiancee after three days of hauling heavy loads together over rock and snow fields. A lot…