January 2009
52 posts
And the WATCH year begins: Oliver! at Port Tobacco Players and Children of Eden at Greenbelt Arts Center.
Napoleon Dynamite (2004): Bad John Waters in Idaho with patronizing reaction shots. 2/5
Several icy patches on the trail. No traction, no fun.
Bang bang! My other neighbor is doing some remodeling.
A Song Sparrow on my neighbor’s overgrown rosebush, letting us know what his name is.
As we dig out from the slush, I’m off to a presentation by Microsoft tonight.
If I hadn’t done right and made way for the other two cars coming down the hill at Woodend, I would have made it up the hill just fine.
First snow of the season that I’ll have to go out and shovel.
Wow, I’m going to have to do some real work for this class.
Another day for doing filing.
Aargh. It’s prime time on the internet.
I’m glad that my neighbor only plays his music in the afternoon.
Tension (1949): Lame Clark Kent eyeglasses plot device. Some nice music from Andre Previn. 2/5
We saw a good production of David Auburn’s Proof at Rockville Little Theatre last night.
Has City Paper given up on trying to keep its movie listings up-to-date? It’s Friday afternoon and nothing is posted.
Going out for a walk on the southern stretch of the Cross County Trail.
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949): Joan Greenwood was a bit of alright, wasn’t she? 3/5
Bleah. No real NHL hockey until Tuesday.
I found a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker in Eakin Park on an NVBC walk.
Revolutionary Road (2008): Excellent birdsong design; music underscoring was perhaps a bit obvious. Michael Shannon owns his scenes. 3/5
At the Metro station, a guy was selling Washington Posts and Newsweeks like an old-time newsie hawking extras.
Executive One is wheels up from the Capitol.
The Great Work begins:
It’s rare to see a Ruby-crowned Kinglet from above, like the one I surprised on the blacktop of the trail, as the snow began to flurry. No ruby visible.
Congratulations to the WATCH nominees for 2008!
Le Doulos (1962): Melville does like him some tracking shots. 3/5
Kids are skating on the canal by Chain Bridge. That can’t be safe, can it?
Zipped the hood back on to my parka: now this is winter.
Going to check out the first session of the Maryland Community Theatre Festival this evening. Brian has an original script entered.
3 more casts this week, 1 nibble.
A workman over at the school complex has a power saw that, when it’s spinning up, sounds like a piccolo playing rising scales.
If ZIP codes didn’t already exist, I think the web would have had to invent them.
The Reader (2008): The strongest scene is Michael’s wordless visit to the camp. 3/5
Oh, boy! An escrow surplus of $41.67!
Feather in Bas-Relief →
By Allen Edwin Butt.
I got a box of books!
Where Danger Lives (1950): Nice score by Roy Webb, with musical direction by C. Bakaleinikoff. 3/5
We hung out with Kat, and Mikey, and Sherry, and Christine while David sang rocked out.
Sally and I are going to hear David Jourdan play at Fat Tuesdays in Fairfax.
Ride Lonesome (1959): Good character relationships. Randolph Scott’s face should be on a quarter. 3/5
Ad pages have crashed in this week’s New Yorker, but two of the articles are clippers.
Thinking peaceful thoughts for Skip.
Another sleeper responded.
Burn after Reading (2008): All-star fluff, no ending. 3/5
Citizen Science →
New gateway for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s various projects.
Sent out 4 today.
Mystery Men (1999): Greg Kinnear is adorably underrated. Go team! 3/5
If I read Google Maps correctly, one of the houses that I used to live in now has two Coke vending machines sitting on the front porch.
One more party to go to for the season. Maybe this time I won’t meet anybody from a show that I’d rather forget.
Frost/Nixon (2008): Nixon gets all of the good lines. 4/5