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...

Cascadian Farm guy

Sounds like this guy is teetering dangerously between worlds

Bryant Terry, author/activist

My Spirit Sistah writes: Website is a little weird so scroll down a bit Bryant Terry, brotha organic/chef who co-authored the recently released Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen.
http://www.beyondorganic.com/template/nst.php?sn=sn2&id=041206&idy=2006

Soy yogurt...

Where might I find soy yogurt - that is vegan - covered raisins? peanuts? soy nuts? ANYTHING?!

And could something be created, and well sold, akin to Kellogg's new Yogos product, that is 100% whole foods, or mostly healthy anyhow? Yogos are small pellets with a "yogurty inside, fruity inside", Learned about from Essence magazine (May 2006, p. 251)

If I did it all over again from graduation, I do believe I would've gone into food development, stayed in Minnesota, and worked that angle. Ah well, I might've been a real tramp had I stayed beyond that first year post-graduation.

And I'm still able to do food development, albeit with different geography and corporate partners.

Vegetable dough

Back after a Mac-less month!

Vegetable dough, no grains or white flour necessary for your future breads!
http://www.bakeryandsnacks.com/news/ng.asp?n=65419&m=2bas131&c=qdrhrvoeraoqydo

Misc.

Learned about: http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2005/10/foodscaping.html
Akiko Ida and Pierre Javelle (a French pastry chef/arts photography team) create landscapes out of food: mushrooms, kiwis, salads, ice cream, watermelons, cakes. Cauliflower, even. The result is actually really funny and great, and can be seen through the duo's own photographs.
http://mapage.noos.fr/minimiam/go.htm

West Wing goes live and partially scripted :-)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051101/ap_en_tv/ap_on_tv_west_wing

Apple's New Fifth Ave. Store Gets Cubed - this sounds very cool, and splashy - hurrah for Steve, er, them!
http://www.curbed.com/archives/2005/10/31/apples_new_fifth_ave_store_gets_cubed.php

Miss match

i realized yesterday that i organize the world's largest vegan meetup, or one of, if numbers changed significantly. some questions came to mind:

  • how can i grow the membership to dwarf chicago's - which was barely a dozen or two away
  • how can i grow the attendance at our events? do i want to limit it to make sure we fit at particular places vs. NYC vegetarian meetup's 24+ people per event?
  • how do i best leverage this for myself, my aims?
  • how might i work with this to do food demos for our meetup? other large meetups, groups?
  • how does this link to the poster boy, advocate role i'm building into, assuming I am?

my volunteering

  • following decade: around MIND - education effectiveness, EQ & IQ
  • decade thereafter: around SOUL

for denver, i need a good book to read. the jul+aug magazine pile is more tame than i expected. really makes more sense to buy a book in denver OR take a more modest weighted one from here. * can use the time to write, read emails backlog - can borrow, even rent, a station * want to cafe, be out & about more this time

next decade: around BODY - world hunger (diet) esp. plus movement arts (e.g. yoga, tai chi,) [exercise]

candies

thinking of a vegan 'easter' (?egg hunt) - ah, tSoC lives again

candies

thinking of a vegan 'easter' (?egg hunt) - ah, tSoC lives again

Bankruptcy

Gardenburger goes bankrupt :-(
http://www2.standard.net/standard/business/65078/

ridiculous

Study: Most Will Be Fat Over the Long Haul
By ALEX DOMINGUEZ
Associated Press Writer
October 03,2005

BALTIMORE -- Just when we thought we couldn't get any fatter, a new
study that followed Americans for three decades suggests that over
the long haul, 9 out of 10 men and 7 out of 10 women will become
overweight.

Tastings o' Many

Martha Stewart Working on a Third TV Show
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051001/ap_en_tv/martha_stewart

ya, i should use the links thing from webpage - with safari, it's a whole different exercise - to save time and admin effort. the goal is to focus on the writing y'all :-) er, me!

*I should track down the cassette of The Gyrlz's album - song title escapes me at the moment - and dub it over that a way :-) This isn't paramount just right now.

Oh, a waking thought: keep growing, improving, resurging, and let clarity on a specific, big project emerge for a FULL week, then G O! (suspect this will come as winter begins, or is in progress).

I need four meals before I fly out; actually one to take wed eve would be 5, plus drink(s) & snack. (Twill be fun to do DVD playing going forward; loved Renato's description of DVRing things directly onto a hard drive! yeehaw, don't need it yet. just love this idea of flipping into a very digital world. I see, and sense, that's not quite yet though...)

If I can buy the 2, or 3, books at work, do we have a % somewhere? Really, I bet AMZN is the way to go, so I put 1,2 of the titles in my shopping cart. Really, I don't see reading one of these on vacation. In fact, that seems contrary to the whole point/vibe of a (and this) vacation. If I change my mind, I can buy the book in my travels. ** I think I want to read the Da Vinci Code - find/borrow paperback - en routes.

OK, so I think this dessert buffet idea (Vegan EatUp) is a great idea. Need to sketch it out to be more contained, and not over doing it on the spending. Hearing under $200, likely more. I see Vegan Treats, Bethlehem as not an official event, small handpicked group to go - besides only 4-6 will fit in vehicle. Then we could/may offer to pick up items for folks that pre-pay in advance. The event itself would be later that day/evening or the next. I guess I'd do it later that same day:-) ** Now why wouldn't I simply attach on an order direct, or sub, through her Tuesday delivery? I guess because it's a fun roadtrip idea, though I'm not finding an efficiency in going - though wait wait I put it in front of Thanksgiving for people who could take something by Danielle for a holiday celebration to smack people's expectations around ;-)
Will revisit later. I do believe this is an event near Thanksgiving/before Christmas. January is much about the dieting; I'm seeing doing a vegan chocolates something for February's 2nd event. April's could be a pagan easter something - maybe the aforementioned potluck. June is a picnic, eh? August is something indoors and cool, oh so raw, eh? October is harvest themed. Next December is a cookie exchange... All sketches, nothing signed onto. (Yes yes, I know, I love event production.)


NY Eats, Village

Review of NYC's Atlas Cafe
http://satyamag.com/aug05/wyse_atlas.html

Vegan Eats on the Streets/Washington Square Park
http://satyamag.com/aug05/kumar.html

old queer bits

Love the sound of this - alas, I was in Chicago

http://www.gaycitynews.com/gcn_425/7days.html
Black Gay, Lesbian Lit: New Directions
As part of Black Pride NYC, the Nuyorican Poets Café hosts a late afternoon discussion with young gay and lesbian writers of note in the African-American community. James Early Hardy reads from his new book, “A House Is Not a Home;” slam poet Staceyann Chin performs; Alphonso Morgan, author of “Sons,” reads; rapper and musiciain Hanifah Waldifah reads from “Black Folks Guide to Black Folks.” Frank Leon Roberts, co-editor of the forthcoming “Dancing the Down Low, Remixing the Closet: Black Men, Sexuality, and Cultural Politics,” hosts. 236 E. Third St., btwn. Aves. B and C., 4 to 6 p.m.

http://www.gaycitynews.com/gcn_424/newhealtheffort.html
...press for research on depression, other gay male challenges
when I read after "...workshop will ask" I feel like this clearly calls for new arts (movement?)


sounds like the salads are definite way to go at Pukk's
http://www.villagevoice.com/nyclife/0524,sietsema,64950,15.html

IFC reopens troubled Waverly cinema as a indie film joint in the Village
http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0524,ross,64931,20.html

Praises for Kanye & Common on latter's new disc "Be"
http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0524,berry,64879,22.html

Vegetarianism 'could help climate' says non-vegie scientist

Enjoyed reading about this striking ad campaign (in Instinct!)
http://www.maketradefair.org/en/index.php?file=dumpedphotos.htm&cat=1&subcat=7&select=3

Read Shane Allison's spiced, stick it to them poem "I'm A Black Homosexual" in Windy City Times. Alas, my Googling yields no link. Found this page of a bunch of his poems though, plus an email address.
http://www.unlikelystories.org/old/allison.html