Monthly Archives: July 2009

Good With What You’ve Got

One of my favorite things about Netflix is the availability of small, independent narratives on Instant View. I stumbled across Southbounders last night which was so spot on for thru hiking the AT (Appalachian Trail)– it felt like a documentary. The story is simple to the point of purity (life has a tendency to be [...]

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Chicken or Steak

While I have been dining, impromptu singing, running up and down urban beaches this summer, I’ve kept a shaky, handheld record of my friends and our adventures. Snapping every toast, recording every song, filming every low, breaking wave.  I like remembering things with a lot of motion and elements. Photos are nice sure, but an [...]

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We brunettes of the Non-white persuasion

  I was having a chuckle this week of who I get compared to in the looks department. They’re never white women. In high school, Wes Anderson’s Rushmore was shot near my house, and my classmates flocked to work as extras in his film. For a while, I was often asked if I had played [...]

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