5.7.07
Lapse in time AGAIN. Back to say hi...oh so briefly. New casa, pause in work, new plans, who knows what new...Check back, say hello. I am around. : )
Just to RECAP: access the SouthEast Asia blog...
12.18.06
Saw the film BABEL tonight...demand that YOU see it too. Of all the folks making these "panoramic structured" films (Traffic, Crash, etc) Alejañdro González Iñárritu and his writingt partner are by far the most magical and genuine with their making--life and fiction melt seamlessly. Timing and nuance are invisible...
Miscommunication...misunderstanding...differences, fears, judgements, languages, customs, politics--we fight to the end to preserve the things that separate us and KEEP us opposed. Makes no sense really...
http://www.paramountvantage.com/babel/
According to the narrative in Genesis Chapter 11 of the Bible, the Tower of Babel was a tower built by a united humanity to reach the heavens. Because the hearts of men were said to be inherently evil and disobedient, they were striving to make a name for themselves instead of worshipping the God who created them. Because of this open defiance, God stopped their efforts by confusing languages so that the builders could not understand one another. As a result, they could no longer communicate and the work was halted. The builders were then scattered to different parts of Earth. This story is sometimes used to explain the existence of many different languages and races.
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12.15.06
WHAT? how long has it been? no matter really. There was the case of being out of the country for awhile... Turned off the phone, parked the car, locked the door and threw away the key. Hopped a plane and wandered for months. I recommend it for anyone who can manage to slip away from their "lives" and I require it for anyone who thinks they CAN'T.
There is nothing more rewarding than unplugging and plugging back into something completely new. A shock to the system at times, but it can only help things, really.
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6.27.06
busy as a beav... working, bouncing between night and day and sleeping and awake. working on a coen brothers film at the moment -- and counting the days until september when i hop on a plane with A and check out of life as we know it and adventure across Indonesia and SE Asia for 3 months. Life in the desert lately has been rainy and cold and it is amazing. My windowsill actually flooded two days ago and humidity entered my vocabulary briefly on Tuesday. The power went out Monday as I sipped margaritas with F and F at the Cowgirl. When the lights came back on I was almost disappointed. It was romantic to live without electricity for even 45 minutes. Candlelight and human beings. I have not written here in 5 months. I have been a busy girl. Forgive me.
1.27.06
Where is the snow? Have spent the past 3 days essentially asleep. Recouperating from my last job and preparing for the next. Amazing how our bodies adapt to keep on pushing through and then the second we sit still and let our guard down BLAMMO we get rocked with the sick--I have yet to finish the book I started to read 1 1/2 months ago. (my goal before I head back to work!) Reading Norwegian Wood upon the suggestion of my brooklyn homey Karyn with a "Y". Want to see my old neighborhood in Brookyln? Go see The Squid And The Whale. Want to stop worrying about your life's little intricate problems? Go see Syriana.
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1.1.06
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12.13.05
Three shooting stars tonight. ? Is there a meteor shower or were there just three stars sent for me to see?....plummeting down to Earth embedded in flames...they fell, so fiercely and i saw them sweep across this night sky of Albuquerque. Cold winter night and they still fly in flames... By the way. I turned 29 a few weeks ago... a day to start again--that's what a birthday is to me. Screw New Years resolutions...I take each birthday as a restart point. A day to say, Yes, I can change this and Yes I will do this better. Birthdays never felt so productive. Approaching the age of 30, a landmark only because of mathematics...otherwise a normal occurrence: this "time passing" thing. This planet revolving around this sun. These seasons changing. These leaves falling. This snow covering the brown. This time of starting over and reminding us that all things disappear...and all things return.
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12.11.05
It's been a while. After the move and the leave and the holiday and the new job...I am finally back in New Mexico. Three happy weeks in a row and loving it. Sitting here at the Baking Company and perusing the paper with Strongheart sitting next to me. Life is good. Mind is calmer. Spent the night in Madrid with a fire in the fireplace. Quiet cold and starry--that was the night.
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10.31.05
Happy Halloween. Thought for the day:
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10.29.05
There's this little brown chickadee on the windowsill by the fire escape. Shocking to see this little guy so regularly and so close. As you can tell, life has slowed down a little bit lately. Packing up the apartment. Not working very much. It's strange to see your life find its place in cardboard boxes and rubbermaid tubs. It all fits and disappears so quickly. And when it is tucked away, I wonder why I need any of it. I have put two boxes of clothes out on the sidewalk so far. Both of them are empty within 30 minutes of me placing the box. I love that about New York. The free box turnaround time here is instantaneous...Like a hungy machine . . . My hands barely escape its jaws as I set the box down. It is devoured in minutes. Amazing. It feels good to feed the machine.
I am still pondering over my Halloween costume. Any suggestions? Email Me.
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10.25.05
Rosa Parks passed away today.
Sadly, last night while walking through Union Square Anne and I passed a white woman swearing at an African American woman and her kid, calling the mother a n-----r. The white woman appeared to be homeless or disheveled...but regardless, to see a woman called that in public and in front of her daughter was awful. Many onlookers had their own words for the white woman. It seemed to stop everyone in their tracks.
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10.24.05
Went back home to Winona for Sara and Greg's wedding this past weekend. All the Wino-Kidz back together again. We managed to close down the Hei'N'Low bar one evening and introduce all of the out-of-towners to the local entertainment: bar fights and frost on the windshield. It was a nice little weekend. Autumn in that river valley is so gorgeous.
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10.18.05
I flew to Santa Fe on sunday for the cast and crew screening of North Country.
You MUST see it.
Period.
I have finally worked on the movie I have always wanted to work on.
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