{"id":2035,"date":"2010-02-10T13:35:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T21:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2010-02-10T13:42:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T21:42:45","slug":"another_year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/02\/10\/another_year.html","title":{"rendered":"Another year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst all of the work in the run-up to the show and my ever-increasing marathon training as the big day (<A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.lamarathon.com\/\">March 21, 38 days from today<\/A>) approaches, I haven&#8217;t had a chance to reflect on the passage of another year &#8212; which is probably for the best.  <\/p>\n<p>After our weekend in Palm Springs last week, we celebrated my 35th at home, with a few of my favorite things. On Friday night, we watched our new Blu-ray disc of the Criterion Collection&#8217;s presentation of Truffaut&#8217;s <I>The 400 Blows<\/i>, which is not only one of my favorite films of all time, but was directed by a man who is perhaps my favorite of all of my <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/February_6#Births\">birthday buddies<\/A>. Add in a little Carvel ice cream cake, and it&#8217;s a pretty great night.  After a somewhat dreadful twenty mile run in the rain on Saturday morning, we fixed things in a hurry by having lunch at <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.fathersoffice.com\/\">Father&#8217;s Office<\/A>: one of their amazing burgers, a basket of sweet potato fries, and some of their great craft beers on tap.  We came back to the same neck of the woods for dinner, at <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.beacon-la.com\/\">Beacon Caf\u00e9<\/A>, which was very tasty &#8212; especially the ahi pizza &#8212; and ended the night at <A HREF=http:\/\/www.bigfootlodge.com\/\">Bigfoot West<\/A>, which we&#8217;d never been to before. It turned out to be fancier than we&#8217;d expected, which was actually a pleasant surprise.  Many of my lovely gifts were books, which is good, as I&#8217;m currently enjoying <I><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Intuitionist-Novel-Colson-Whitehead\/dp\/0385493002\">The Intuitionist<\/A><\/I>, the fourth book I&#8217;ve read this year, and hope to keep up the pace. Which reminds me&#8230;thank you notes.    <\/p>\n<p>The nomination screenings have begun &#8212; I&#8217;ve seen <I>In the Loop<\/I> and <I>Un prophete<\/I> so far &#8212; and even though I didn&#8217;t think there was a lot I had left to see, we&#8217;ve got a bunch of screenings on our list over the next three weeks.  We&#8217;re also about to start the double shifts at the post house, which means long hours in dark rooms with stocked fridges, which is always fun.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t had a chance to reflect on the passage of another year &#8212; which is probably for the best. After our weekend in Palm Springs last week, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6,21,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-film","category-los_angeles","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2035"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2046,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions\/2046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}