BlueOregon's Diary http://BlueOregon.hulver.com/ BlueOregon's Diary on Hulver's site en-us Copyright 2003 - Hulver's site 2008-07-24T06:02:58Z BlueOregon's Diary BlueOregon's Diary on Hulver's site Hulver's site http://www.hulver.com/images/topics/husi-topic.png http://www.hulver.com/scoop/ 2008.01.31: Goodbye Cool World http://www.hulver.com/scoop/story/2008/2/1/05817/08180 This Day in German Culture: Born January 31, 1797, Franz Schubert. Ave Maria The Trout Quintet (piano quintet in A) Fantasy in C, "Wanderer" Symphony No. 8 in b minor, "Unfinished" Trio in B-Flat, D898 There are other Schubert pieces I like, but these are, perhaps, my favorites. Also born on this day: the author Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901–1974) and Theodor Heuss (1884–1963), who was the first person elected to a regular term as president of the BRD after WWII. Inside: Life sucks, the most irrational number, the day in review, and life rocks. 2008.01.30: Yerba Buena no more (1847) http://www.hulver.com/scoop/story/2008/1/31/04444/8276 Chicken pot pie are cubed. [ Pit Bull (E. Kusturica and t.N.S.O.) ] Inside: Reading and not reading, watching and listening, that sort of thing. 2008.01.29: I am not an atomic playboy http://www.hulver.com/scoop/story/2008/1/30/0037/45353 Yesterday it was 40ish; tonight it's windy and about 4F. For now. Oh, wait, now it's 1. [ Second Reality: original (PC); c64 adaptation—I loved this all those years ago ] Inside: Read, watched, whatever. 2008.01.28: There's no need to lie. http://www.hulver.com/scoop/story/2008/1/28/223051/817 It's like poker. The truth is best. The others still think you're bluffing, so you win. PF: What is your greatest ambition in life? Pa: To become immortal... and then die. Inside: reading, watching, and listening. 2008.01.27: "Er war so exaltiert / Because er hatte Flair" http://www.hulver.com/scoop/story/2008/1/27/221849/491 Thank you, Falco: Er war ein Punker Und er lebte in der großen Stadt Es war Wien, war Vienna Wo er alles tat Inside: Keeping it brief; just me, this day in "German" culture, and whatever ... your favorite Mozart piece? 2008.01.26: "Money doesn't buy happiness. But happiness isn't everything." http://www.hulver.com/scoop/story/2008/1/26/225350/096 So said Jean Seberg. Poll: What do you do with your coffee grounds? Inside: Links, comics, the daily update, on this day in German literature, and the spam of the day. 2008.01.25: "interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art." (Sontag) http://www.hulver.com/scoop/story/2008/1/25/221316/539 City Battles Giant Blob. Both the N.Y. Times (Manohla Dargis) and the Onion A.V. Club like 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days: "You may already have heard something about '4 Months,' which was awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival last year, only to be shut out from Academy Award consideration a few weeks ago by the philistines who select the foreign-language nominees." (Dargis). The A.V. Club was not so kind in reviewing Meet the Spartans (Grade: a rare F—"At the beginning of the year [...] Friedberg and Seltzer release another half-assed, quickie spoof flick [...] and the strategy so far has led to big opening weekends followed by precipitous drop-offs once word gets around that, shockingly, their movies are fucking terrible.") Inside: A day of things not going quite as planned. 2008.01.24: It's alpha and omega's kingdom come http://www.hulver.com/scoop/story/2008/1/24/23719/8710 Beer leads to more beer. Math rocks. Always: The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie (courtesy of ni). Prolific author Edward D. Hoch is dead; I'd never heard of him, either. And the whirlwind is in the thorn trees The virgins are all trimming their wicks The whirlwind is in the thorn trees It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks Till Armageddon no shalam no shalom Inside: The day in review (movies, work, etc.), briefly. 2008.01.23: fack this -- "Alone, in a hotel room, in Redmond" http://www.hulver.com/scoop/story/2008/1/24/0755/90578 At least I'm not stuck in Redmond. Instead you get an update from the cold upper Midwest. Inside: You know what to expect. Poll: coffee preparation preference. 2008.01.22: It's not Neuschwanzstein http://www.hulver.com/scoop/story/2008/1/22/235724/450 I'm sorry, but this isn't nearly as good as verbal tea. Nathan Rabin's Commentary Tracks of the Damned "finished" today with entry #104, Tom Tykwer's Perfume, reevaluated (after Rabin's initial dislike) as a "Secret Success," and I agree to a great extent, for it's a flawed film but one that strives and is interesting. I watched it last fall with my roommate; this, I believe, I related here already (and if not, just imagine that I did). I seem to have both a German and English version of the novel on my shelves. Both unread. Curiouser and curiouser. And I have some Ransmeyr on a shelf. That sounds dirty. Inside: A Tuesday in review.