Reads that Resonated

Movie Magic

  • Hitchcock: Notorious
    Hitchcock: Notorious
    One of many great pieces. This one seems a pointedly composed visually, like a set of moving silver-dipped photos - though many other Hitchcock films work better storywise. I love him, in part, because of his masterful audience manipulation; believe this is one of his most important contributions to moviemaking, eh, baby Spielberg?
  • Krzysztof Kieslowski: Blue (Three Colors Trilogy)
    Krzysztof Kieslowski: Blue (Three Colors Trilogy)
    A fav til I die; elemental economy yielding everything
  • John Sayles: Brother From Another Planet
    John Sayles: Brother From Another Planet
    Watched this one very young and was blown away by the metaphors, the silence(s), creative vision; John Sayles continues to astound & inspire!
  • Ridley Scott: Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
    Ridley Scott: Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
    Not too familiar with this cut directly. Enjoyed this far more than Star Wars, of which George Lucas may be my favorite piece... Anyhoo, this blew me away, and continues to, each time I screen it. Futuristic, dark, cerebral, moody & character-focused :-)
  • David Mamet: House of Games
    David Mamet: House of Games
    Mamet brings Hitchcock to the street & I love it! Plays with the language in a way I'd not heard from Hollywood/ moviemaking before that still catches my ear particularly.
  • Paul Verhoeven: Total Recall
    Paul Verhoeven: Total Recall
    A smart, fun blockbuster ­ Hooray! [Hmph, I didn't note clearly PV was the ringleader here, good to know]
  • Spike Lee: Do the Right Thing
    Spike Lee: Do the Right Thing
    Cinematic mural of characters dancing race & gender one hot New York summer day. Work it, my brother!
  • Peter Greenaway: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
    Peter Greenaway: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
    Distinctly remember working on my (film) grant one hot Berkeley summer day, then sneaking off to see this racy movie only to be blown away by Smelling film (whoa!) and that kitchen, oh that kitchen...
  • Pedro Almodóvar: Talk to Her (Hable con Ella)
    Pedro Almodóvar: Talk to Her (Hable con Ella)
    Perhaps my favorite film of his (yet). Though he's definitely one of my World Idols ;-) Colorific, poignant, far fetched yet accessible, familiar dramedies that move us with curious visuals, story shifts, and everyday people.
  • Steven Soderbergh: Traffic
    Steven Soderbergh: Traffic
    Steve is one of those that keeps me excited and not so jaded about the possibilities of American, even Hollywood, filmmaking - bravo and thanks to him!!
  • Deathtrap
    Talkin' twists! I believe we have four primary ones before the credits roll
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Top 10 Queer Reads

  • Michael Jensen: Frontiers
    Michael Jensen: Frontiers
    Typically avoid historical fictions, or did. This jumped into my hands at library. May still be my favorite of all with its gorgeous allure, taste of the supernatural, and frank gay depiction - even if a few yesterdays ago. Bravo MJ!
  • Michael Nava: DEATH OF FRIENDS
    Michael Nava: DEATH OF FRIENDS
    I cried from feeling the ache of identifying with a recovering alcoholic. (is this why I’ve been hit on by so many around this time? :-)) Nava continues to develop the humanity here, than the mysteries. Kudos and thanks!
  • Paul Russell: SEA OF TRANQUILITY
    Sometimes I find art that wastes its title. Has no idea how to live up to it – this one was the opposite and left me swimming for days on end!!! [out of print]
  • E. Lynn Harris: Invisible Life
    E. Lynn Harris: Invisible Life
    Sheer power rocked me for years (3!). So pleased by his debut, skipped the 2nd fearing a sophomoric slump, yet found the 3rd just as wonderful, if not groundbreaking. Cheers to a long career!
  • Jim Grimsley: Dream Boy
    Haunting. Beautiful. Nicely ambiguous, at points. Decidedly southern. Hooray!
  • Krandall Krauss: The President’s Son
    Thank god, I thought we only wrote high-end literature and stories. This hugged my soul and said Dynasty, Dallas, et. al. BEWARE – a tribute will come. * This tipped me to realize more gay pop fictions, etc. etc. will be needed, and bought. Kensington Press exemplifies this. We'll see on the film side as players emerge.
  • Larry Duplechan: Eight Days A Week
    Lilting. Great mid-tier, or rather middle of the road author. I’d gladly BEG him for more books! * Like a gay “High Fidelity” …with the white lover and band.
  • Christopher Bram: Surprising Myself
    Captures so easily emerging out, and friendship shifts, challenges, etc.
  • R.D. Zimmerman: Closet
    R.D. Zimmerman: Closet
    Start of a serial. Set in Minneapolis! My god! Felt the winter and bite of exiting the closet again in a parallel world I know too well, yet have never lived. Bravo, r.d.
  • Alex Sanchez: Rainbow Boys
    New entry so may not be sequenced how I want...

Pluto on TV

I wonder how much CBS' Amazing Race is connected to Pluto transiting Sag. More so, I'm curious to see what TV dads, experts, and head honchos appear into 2009 and the next decade.

                            

Mars now, and previously

mars is at the same spot today 8/10/06 as it was august 29, 2004

MultiClips 3

Sounds like Buenos Aries is very cool, if quite meat, potatoes & oil from Rex Wockner's writeup, and blogging

GCN May '05 says According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, 8% of US high school seniors have tried the drug [crystal meth] at least once. Well, hooray for that :-( * In Europe, crystal meth use remains virtually unknown, but for a drug that is devouring America how long will we remain untouched. ** Um, why is Europe so in the clear on this? And how can we notate, if not learn + implement from this?

OK, why are we spending waaay more per prisoner than (K-12) student? Very uncool, people, VERY!

Why we hate HR - provocatively titled article that helped me think deeper about (my) partnering internally (and externally) to reach company-wide goals.

I liked this Hopi piece, My Fellow Swimmers, that spirit twin shared...

I think this 80 South St Tower (click on SALES; it pans DOWN the building) is amazing! Love the title: The Vertical Manhattan Townhouse

Ah, here again, a bit about the US army having an Internet cafe in Tikrit since 2003 in holland herald (KLM's in flight magazine).

if NYC's sun conjuncts my Venus, wouldn't that be a more introverted, cloaked sort of thing highlighted? This is to re/think why i'm more behind the scenes, or at least waaay lesss social in NYC, and why that feels A-OK. More feeling to put nose to proverbial grindstone than run all about town. Though I would appreciate some munchies plus great atmosphere, music and conversation out & about, or even in someone's pad.

Looking at my planets on astro.com (it's good to be bck in the mix/mind of astrology), I see Mercury entered natal 6th house yesterday, which means the Sun is trailing (or leading?!) and will be til Thanksgiving - very cool. This suggests, to me, a strong push of spiritual|health rebirth as that duo will be particularly simpatico. Which is funny astro.com says Mercury transiting 6th is 'Mental work' - and I certainly could change my mind about things to rebound the eyes, skin, and even the weight gaining - which in theory is desired.

New Things

Geena Davis as USA Pres
Would love more timeline + astrological interpretation AND advice for her on this Commander In Chief show. (Just had an intuitive flash of this being short-lived, because of story quality...)
http://stariq.com/Main/Articles/P0006524.HTM

Somehow this Virgo Sun-Aquarian Neptune inconjuction relates to the iTunes phone (or apple's wed press conference)... guess we'll see how in 36 hrs ;-)
http://www.amandaowen.com/weekly_forecast_sept_4.htm

Black Film Lately - we're making progress, yet, of many items, MORE sisters working now...
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/10/movies/10coat.html?pagewanted=all

My inclination is still to have a PC laptop (or Apple with virtual pc?) for the astrology and genealogy software packages, perhaps MS Office too... I get very excited about putting family birthdata into both former packages, such that I can talk about patterns by way of data, and then go interview, inquire around such trends. Also, I suspect some astrology software can pick up relationships AND birthdata from GEDCOM files :-)

B Movies Invade Your TV! - love the cheap per picture budget, the grandkids of Roger Corman indeedy! So why don't we come with (many) more B (and sneak some A) movies per cultural audiences in at these budgets? Also, I'm noting the foreign (or odd, Mississippi!) film locales**
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/10/arts/television/10beal.html?pagewanted=all

**Laughed when I saw Honeymooners filmed in Dublin. As well, Ireland is going digital in movie theaters per Utne article I'm in the middle of. Maybe I need to get with Mark Cuban('s money)?

More NCGR-NYC ideas

Definitely want a seasonal SALON. More a discussion, like the sensibility that Terri Starnes had. Let this simmer bit longer. (Thinking that same Sunday afternoon, or, perhaps evening bit... before sunset somehow seems right. maybe for 90 minutes. providing some discussion questions. looking at the news and saying what's this look like, or what to watch for. breaking into smaller groups could be the deal.) I want to keep going with this idea. may premiere in winter...

(What about mid-season events instead? That's Feb May Aug Nov - hmmm, that feels more sizzlin' actually.)

Podcasting
*the bookstore panels, with that noted sponsor(ship)
*library roundtables
*library lectures (?maybe for sale c/o PayPal)... [which takes me back to moving from tapes to mp3s, and an online store. perhaps even copyright coding/digial watermarking them to reduce sharing? seems like the wrong spirit, if a real issue/concern...)
*interviews on particular topics/events... not unlike what I bet StarIQ's doing, and a beter quality version of what I'd heard on cable TV radio station in Minneapolis, and
*my hosting of a talk show series with a "Circle" of people. a title and spine brew within me. i'm seeing this initially as monthly, perhaps with live audiences from the beginning. if so i don't want it to be linear with panel-type table, and proscenium

This late one is humming and partially from robot David's idea of me and John Huber going back & forth.

Water & Wicked

Loved the NCGR NYC library roundtable Monday evening. (Perhaps might've sat with my intuition and stayed vs. run to a book reading that was more an in-crowd author/book reception.) We reviewed a bit of the Summer Conference talks, discussed Billie Holiday's chart - half water (on a 14 count) with her Capricorn moon barely above the horizon (asc/desc axis) in 12th house, with Pisces all up in the 2nd house (4 planets + Chiron). Throughly enjoyed this...

which in recollection this AM seems to be a clear outlet for my natal 8th house Capricornian Venus. (Still says sexy, conservative, clothing to me as well...) Wondering if NYC's natal sun on my natal Venus colors my chart more than I've considered. And that this is more about rebuilding, researching, and more. (Image of intense whirlpool from this combo.) I do believe this has ratcheted up my feeling, and thinking, more soberly, seriously than previous known. (Bitchy too.) Suggests a lesser threshold for bullshit(ting) with folks; I want exchanges with depth, or keep it. I've plenty o' media to chew on/work through...

NCGR-NYC ideas

Mainly, I feel like the group isn't contemporary and vigorous, though active and individually achieving. (Do I get free membership if I do portions of this work? It's time to return to a bartering of things more so than not. I'm thinking the design stuff may drive that portion of my schooling.)

RESOURCES
*Would love to have an affordable service that converts folks' lectures, readings, etc. to mp3s. Perhaps an online store to process payments, files, etc. etc.
*Would love to make the Joanna (?Shannon) library more smartly functional, and perhaps robust
*Also would like some weblinks for looking up particular event, place, etc. charts for discussions, reference, etc. etc.
*Oh, would also love a hyperlinks library, or actual digital repository, of particular articles, talks , etc. as searchable PDFs

DESIGN
*Would love to (see a) website restructure
*More so, would love to design a chapter collateral system that is quite flexible, and somewhat varied based on the elements and/or mutabilities, so it isn't so narrowly a plug & play, and keeps the dynamism of life, astrology...
*And also, same for the national organization

COMMUNITY
*Would love to intro newbies to astrology and perhaps gain new clients. [is this asking for trouble?]


(Much of this is from ideabook#73, 061105)

Cancerian country

Peeped a review of One Nation Under Therapy : How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance in TimeOutNY (June 9-15, p. 45), and immediately thought of smother mothering = enabling...