Movie Week, Day 4

December 31st, 2008 · Comments Off on Movie Week, Day 4

The Regency Fairfax Cinemas Synecdoche, New York Wednesday, 12/31/08, 4:00 pm Price: $4.00. Concessions: I brought my Vines and bought a Sobe (for which they had to unlock the mini-fridge, and which cost me only 75¢ less than the movie itself). Audience: Approximately 30 people, in a theater that seats about 175. Trailers/advertising: Slides from […]

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2008 in review

December 31st, 2008 · Comments Off on 2008 in review

It’s time for the end of the year wrap-up, which I haven’t really done with any consistency (see the Best Live Shows of 2004 and Top Ten Films of 2004), but I’m going to give it a shot. 2008 has been an extremely busy year for us, our second full year in Los Angeles, one […]

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Movie Week, Day 3

December 30th, 2008 · Comments Off on Movie Week, Day 3

The Bridge Cinema De Lux at the Promenade Gran Torino Tuesday, 12/30/08, 7:30 pm Price: $11.75. Concessions: None (forgot to even smuggle in more Red Vines). Audience: Approximately 75 people, in a theater that seats about 500. Trailers/advertising: Ads, in progress as I entered, for Van Heusen, Verizon, and Scion. It’s just dawning on me […]

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Movie Week, Day 2

December 29th, 2008 · Comments Off on Movie Week, Day 2

The Laemmle Music Hall Wendy and Lucy Monday, 12/29/08, 7:40 pm Price: $10. Concessions: It looked like they had a full range of snacks, but I brought a few Red Vines from the bucket of leftover gingerbread house building materials Aimee brought back from her classroom. Audience: 30 or 40, out of about 150 seats. […]

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Movie Week, Day 1

December 28th, 2008 · Comments Off on Movie Week, Day 1

I’ve always wanted to try going to a concert at a different venue in L.A. every night for a week, to visit some places I like to see shows (The Troubadour, the El Rey, Largo) and to get myself out to some places I’ve never been before (The Fonda, The Echo, and so on). I […]

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Christmas comes to a close

December 28th, 2008 · Comments Off on Christmas comes to a close

Things have finally settled down a bit after an enjoyable and busy week here. Yesterday, we spent the morning at the Getty Villa, checking out the exhibitions and wandering through the gardens. It was nice to be back after our first visit there last year, and it was great to see the sun again after […]

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Morning at the Villa

December 27th, 2008 · Comments Off on Morning at the Villa

We’re spending the morning at the Getty Villa (parked in Business Parking as they anticipate a large crowd today) in Malibu. It’s cool in the shade but nice and warm in the sun, so we’re sitting outside and enjoying it, as it’s been rainy outside for the past few weeks and cold in our apartment […]

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Time to make the gl?gg

December 24th, 2008 · Comments Off on Time to make the gl?gg

I picked up my parents from LAX this morning, after they slipped through the Portland airport during a good weather window on their way down from Anchorage. We stopped at BevMo for aquavit (Norwegian this time, rather than Danish) on the way home, and Aimee had some tasty couscous waiting for us for lunch. After […]

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Rainy December

December 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off on Rainy December

We’re getting ready for my parents’ arrival on Wednesday morning (weather at the Seattle airport willing), and I’m looking forward to the short week, two days on and five days off. It’s been cold and rainy over the last week, with the exception of this weekend, thankfully, which we spent looking at houses and condos […]

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The Enigma of Ned Rhyerson

December 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment

We watched the last episode of “Chuck” for the year last night, and amidst the Die Hard and Groundhog Day references, I’m pretty sure I spotted another. Was the look of Jed Rees as “Ned Rhyerson” modeled after Bruno S., the enigmatic non-actor who portrayed the mysterious foundling Kaspar Hauser in Herzog’s Jeder f?r sich […]

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The season

December 8th, 2008 · Comments Off on The season

We’re getting ready to host a Christmas visit by my parents, our first since moving to L.A., so we picked up a tree at a lot in Larchmont on Friday and built our annual gingerbread house (one of our better ones, with no major construction gaffes and some judicious use of kitchen scissors to trim […]

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Cahuenga Corner

December 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off on Cahuenga Corner

The old head shot / photo lab on the corner of Fountain and Cahuenga next to work was finally demolished today, a week or so after its neighbors up the street. Looks like they took out the crossing signal while they were at it.

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Animals and autos in San Diego

November 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments

It’s been a relaxing four-day weekend for us, and we’re ready to greet December head on…with its high of 78? tomorrow. Hmm. Anyway, we spent Friday through Sunday in San Diego, after a nice Thanksgiving day at friends of Aimee’s from work. After an easy sub-two hour drive down, we stopped at Balboa Park and […]

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Walking Wilshire

November 27th, 2008 · Comments Off on Walking Wilshire

We started our four-day weekend (five-day for Aimee, actually) with a Walking L.A. walk, which we hadn’t done in a long time. This one was not far from us, in Wilshire Center and Koreatown, starting at the Wiltern. I’d never really noticed how green it is.I bought this shirt awhile ago, commemorating the 30th anniversary […]

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Georgian

November 17th, 2008 · Comments Off on Georgian

I returned from a great week in Savannah last night, with interesting conference sessions, some good screenings, great food, and good times with colleagues and friends from around the world. Some photos here, more later.

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