mushin no shin

Sometimes I think it’s important to take a step back and be grateful for the talents we have which we usually take for granted.
For example, I have the ability to watch a DVD, without subsequently dragging a cheese grater across it when I’m done. I’ve never thought much about it, but judging by the condition [...]

So… whoa. I took Jim Ridley’s advice and added I Know Who Killed Me to my netflix queue some time back. Well, here’s a pretty good summary review. But I think I can condense my review to one word:
Yikes.
Man, I don’t know if I can trust Mr. Ridley any more after this! Ha, I tease, [...]

I’ve been watching a Civil War flick. I may have more to say about that later, but for now — they just showed a scene where the Confederates held a barn dance, and I just wanted to remark on how it amuses me that the music they played, an ancestor of bluegrass, and similar to [...]

This song has come up in conversation a couple times in the past week or so, and it’s one of my all time favorites, so I thought I’d point a link. Plus I’ve seen a few people do something about “Feel Good Fridays”, but I figure the closest I can get is “Feel Dark, Reflective, [...]

I saw Son of Rambow last night, and damn if it wasn’t good enough to warrant both a tweet and a post.
As usual, Jim Ridley gives a much more proper review than I ever could. I can just say it was very funny, wonderfully imaginative, and deeply moving — one of the best movies I’ve [...]

You won’t be, after this week’s episode of … Soap!
Ha. I don’t have much to say, I just really love that line, maybe one of the best tag lines in television history.
Anyway I just got through watching Season One. I have faint memories of it coming on when I was a kid, though I [...]

weirdness
everything is just — unsettling. I’ve got a nice buzz on — partly vodka, partly oxycodone.
But I should be nearly unconscious, which as you can see, I’m not.
It’s been a weird and shitty week, as you are aware.
tomorrow, things should start to get back to normal. I suppose I’ll go back to karate, though [...]

Named in deference, of course.
OK. Background: wasted. watching Koyaanisqatsi, first time in this, erm, state of mind.
Probably for only the second of at least 3 spins tonight.
Meanwhile, a late snack, undeserved but having it anyway –
I take one morningstar southwest veggie patty, plus one of their sausage links. Why? Because they were the end of [...]

Awesome, in one night I can give example and counterexample to the ancient question of irony;
it’s not ironic that my knee injury forced me to miss karate tonight.
It is ironic that this leaves me home on a night the television happens to deliver both a show called “Bones”, and Doc Opera about an alcoholic curmudgeon [...]

Holy shit. Let me tell you how in love I am with the movie Once.
It would be hyperbolic of me to say that it has paralleled my life — but absolutely it tangentially intersected enough to feel like a 90 minute sucker punch to the heart.
I do have to share one particular scene, in [...]