A part of this viewing list : Criterion Collection Spine #420 : Agnès Varda’s Le Bonheur.
After quite a long hiatus from watching Criterion Collection films [and an abortive reentry with Noah Baumbach’s Kicking and Screaming], I got back into the swing of things with this charmingly menacing film by Agnès Varda. Foremost, the film is beautiful to watch, with shifts in color signaling shifts in theme, and a subjective cinematography that further refines the viewer’s attention to exactly the bits that Varda is interested in us being interested in. Often a series of zip cuts will alert us to a character’s state of mind by showing us at what they are looking. For the most part those swift bits of ephemera are exactly what the character isn’t paying attention to, like the first time François visits Emilie’s apartment, he looks at everything but her, though we know she’s the only thing on his mind. A similar tactic with a different result is...
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Small ComplaintFrom: organicmechanic.org
Post Date: 2008-05-22 05:40:32
This year it seems like it is taking forever to warm up. I was riding to work earlier this week, heading northbound on West 25th when I noticed that the flags on my side of the street were blowing at me. Which is normal since I usually ride into the wind on my way to work. On the other side of the street, I noticed that the flags were blowing with me, which also makes sense, because on my way back from work I usually ride into the wind. Normally this is just slightly annoying, but even though I...
more Cleveland Housing AffordabilityFrom: organicmechanic.org
Post Date: 2008-04-28 14:23:07
There are some good interactive utilities out there for determining housing affordability based upon various metrics. The Center for Neighborhood Technology has a Housing + Transportation Affordability Index and the New York Times has a calculator that determines whether it is better to rent or buy based upon selectable criteria. There’s also WalkScore , which determines the walkability of your residence to basic needs. My place gets a 68/100 .
Before the housing disasterbacle her...
more ChoresFrom: organicmechanic.org
Post Date: 2008-04-28 14:09:55
I don’t know why this wasn’t published a couple of days ago. The new version of Wordpress has some weird bugs in it.
Life at home this week has been a flurry of task-dragon slaying. Every Thursday I clean a bit of the shed out back, piling up towers of junk on the curb for scrappers and the fantastic Cleveland Waste Management fellows to take care of. I’ve been cleaning and preparing the upstairs unit for a tenant, which results in multiple bike trips to Home Depot each nigh...
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