Destiny, I think, is not what lies in store for you; it’s what is already stored up inside you—and it’s as patient as death.
Maybe the most depressing line I’ve read since reading DFW’s Kenyon College Commencement.
Tag Archives: Books
Patient as Death…
17-Nov-08Forever War.
17-Oct-08
Earlier this week, I stumbled upon this article on digg. Short summary: Ridley Scott is making his first sci-fi movie since Blade Runner and Alien, based on the Joe Haldeman Book, The Forever War. This was the movie he was gonna make after Blade Runner, but something happened with the rights to the book and [...]
Australia, What Fresh Hell is This?
27-Aug-08
Revisted The Proposition on TIVO recently. Its an understatement to call this a brutal and harsh film. But it is mesmerizing.
The original score was done by Nick Cave(also wrote the screenplay) and Warren Ellis(of the Dirty Three). It perfectly sets the tone of the film.
The director, John Hillcoat, is currently adapting Cormac [...]
Coughing, and then The Road
02-Aug-08I was sick. There was much consumption of antihistamines. Eventually, I just stopped with the drugs and coughed it all out. Coughing like nasuea, where when the foul humors were finally ejected, all that was left was light headedness and a sense of relief. I mean, summer colds. wtf?
I’m basically back to normal now.
I gave up [...]
ElfQuest.
20-Mar-08Another little bit of my serious middle school years nerddom bubbles back to the surface. According to boingboing, Elf Quest is now putting every single one of their issues, all the way back to 1978, online for free. I think my old friend Johnny C introduced me to these when I was 11? 12? I thought they were so [...]
Mrs H brought this awesome book about bicycling misadventures home from the library for me.
I enjoyed most of the stories, including the mountain bike stuff. Surprising, because I have that roadie snob thing happening.
Hands down though, I loved the stories about bicycle touring. 70-100 miles a day 6 days a week for a month [...]
I don’t know why I find this clip so fascinating. I found it on the New Yorker’s new video archive. Perhaps because its a real fight that broke out on the set of some movie, perhaps because its someone wrestling/fighting with someone like Norman Mailer. None of this witty barbs with Gore [...]
#1)Pete Dexter’s Paper Trails. A collection of newspaper columns by easily the best writer I have ever heard of writing for the Daily News. The guy is a master. The story about the guys who try to settle a bet about whether or not it is possible to throw a case of beer across [...]
A nice lady hands Floyd Landis my copy of ‘Positively False’ as I walk up to his table. On the inside cover is a post it note, with ‘To Graham and Chris’ written on it, by another nice staffer at the Chester County Book and Music store. This was far and away the most [...]
Stuff I Am Working My Way Thru
09-Apr-07Licensed To Kill. Fascinating look inside private security contractors and the privatization of the global war on terror.
Paper Trails by Pete Dexter. Gritty.