Enthusiastically Ambiverted Hopepunk
Happy birthday to me,
I’m now thirty-three,
I should have better words here,
but I suck at poetry.
Also: today marks two years since I decided to stop shaving my head and let my hair grow out. The result, after two years without a haircut: lots and lots of curls.
“Epilogue from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” by Cincinnati Pops Orchestra (Erich Kunzel) from the album Symphonic Star Trek (1996, 3:04).
More photos of Noah, Kevin, and Emily can be found in Saturday’s photos, and a few of Prairie and her mom are in Sunday’s photos.
When you travel to Alaska, don’t forget your bug spray. The mosquitos are something else! ;)
All images taken by Benjamin See Tong Chew in 1940, probably in Alaska, and uploaded to Flickr by Bret Arnett.
“Italian Concerto in F – Andante” by Steuerman, Jean Louis from the album Bach for Book Lovers (1997, 4:34).
I’ve been a fan of Dan Piraro‘s Bizarro comic for years, but this one gave me a really good laugh this morning. Definitely one of my favorites.
“Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 1 in B flat major op. 23: II. Andantino semplice – Presto – Tempo I” by Toperczer, Peter/Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra (Bystrik Rezucha) from the album Classic Gold: Peter Iljitch Tchaikovsky (1993, 7:06).
We’re back. Family and friends were visited, many photos were taken, fun was had. I’m starting to get photos uploaded to Flickr, though so far I’ve just taken care of Friday’s shots. The rest (including many cute shots of my nephew) will have to wait ’til I’m home from school tomorrow.
In the meantime, here’s my girl at our hotel in Corvallis…
“You’ve Got A Friend In Me” by English Chamber Orchestra (Donald Fraser) from the album Bibbidi Bobbidi Bach (1996, 4:06).
Again with the Kottke-derived movie memes. Watch these movies…
Film critic Jim Emerson recently compiled a list of 102 movies that you should see before you can consider yourself movie literate:
…they [are] the movies you just kind of figure everybody ought to have seen in order to have any sort of informed discussion about movies. They’re the common cultural currency of our time, the basic cinematic texts that everyone should know, at minimum, to be somewhat “movie-literate.”
The list is after the jump…
Prairie has an educators’ conference of some sort (she knows the details, and there’s a good chance she filled me in on them at some point…) down in Corvallis this weekend, so we’re going to be gone for the next few days. We’ll be driving down to Corvallis tomorrow, getting a hotel, and then visiting with Prairie’s friend Barbara; Saturday I’ll have the day free while Prairie’s busy to visit with my brother, sister-in-law and nephew, and we’ll have dinner with them Saturday evening; Sunday will be the drive back up to Seattle with a stop off in Vancouver (the Washingtonian one, that is) to visit with Prairie’s mom and sister.
Should be quite nice — we haven’t run away for a weekend since August (which was also a trip to Corvallis).
Back in a few days….
“An American in Paris” by San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (Seiji Ozawa) from the album Panorama: George Gershwin (1977, 18:01).
