It’s been an extremely long day, which began when I got up and went to work on Friday in L.A., and is now about to end on Sunday night here in Wellington. Even just the Wellington part has been long: getting in from Auckland, checking into my apartment, walking around, catching a documentary at a […]

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We enjoyed our fourth trip to the big event this past weekend, with the requisite red carpet claustrophobia and lobby bar sightings. Sure am glad I bought that tux all those years ago…

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As we enter a very busy month of March, a little catch-up on February before it slips away: it’s awards season, which has meant lots of screenings and some late nights of overtime. We also welcomed Caroline to L.A. from Austin, and enjoyed hanging out with her and Keith for dinner at Street as well […]

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Amidst all of the work in the run-up to the show and my ever-increasing marathon training as the big day (March 21, 38 days from today) approaches, I haven’t had a chance to reflect on the passage of another year — which is probably for the best. After our weekend in Palm Springs last week, […]

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Aimee and I put together our Top 10 (and Bottom 5) Films of the Year lists this past weekend, which reminded me that, as a life-long nostalgist and inveterate list-maker, I have done precious little reflection on the fact that we’ve just completed a decade and moved onto a new one. I haven’t gone back […]

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So it’s been a week of rain, off and on, here in L.A., which for us has meant constant monitoring of the leak situation in our office. When it was the garage, no one cared that water got in, but now that it’s the office, a leak is not a good thing, so I’ve been […]

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The annual film archivists’ conference took place last week in St. Louis, which means four days of screenings, talks, and hanging out with friends and colleagues. I also took a day after the conference to spend with Tim, my collaborator on Photobooth.net, which was a lot of fun as well. The day before the conference […]

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Technically, I’ve got a view of the arch from my hotel room window. You have to press your face up to the glass to see it, but it’s there. Off to get a closer look this afternoon, and the conference starts tomorrow.

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Back when I lived in Connecticut, I returned after a summer away to discover that the basement, where I’d been storing my stuff for the summer, had flooded, and my photos, books, and film journals had been soaked. In some cases they were salvageable, and in other cases, I had to chuck them. So, I […]

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We had a pretty busy weekend here, with lots of our typical activities. On Saturday, I did my weekly long morning run, and we took in two new movies, The Invention of Lying — a funny idea, but not enough to sustain an entire film — and A Serious Man, which was a terrific, well-observed, […]

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Today’s book, The Secret of the Unicorn, is one of the biggies. It’s half of a two-parter that is probably one of the best-known and most beloved sets in the series. It is classic middle-period Tintin, and it’s probably one of the first books we read when we were getting into the series. Like the […]

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A quick update on our weekend, before I settle into my first full week of jury duty: I went for a six mile run Saturday morning, finally starting to stretch things out a little from my normal daily routine, as I eye some fall mountain races and a February half-marathon. After that, I headed down […]

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My second Movie Week has come to an end, another enjoyable tour around some of Los Angeles’ most interesting movie-going venues. After the first time I tried it, late last year into this year, I had a list of a number of theaters I didn’t visit, ready for the next opportunity. I made it to […]

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Vista Theater Funny People Wednesday 8/5/09, 6:30 pm Price: $9.50. Concessions: Some M&Ms from Cap ‘n Cork up the street. Audience: 20 out of 638 seats, not great but still more than I expected for a movie that seems not to have found its audience. Trailers/advertising: First, the Vista’s usual ad for popcorn, in which […]

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Nuart Theater Not Quite Hollywood Tuesday 8/4/09, 7:30 pm Price: $10.50. Concessions: Gummi bears. Audience: 12 out of 660 seats, unsurprising for a sort of obscure doc on a weeknight. Trailers/advertising: Lots. Ads for the L.A. Times starring Michael Bay, HDNet and HDNet Movies, Stella Artois, the Palm Pre, and Tanqueray gin. Trailers for Still […]

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