April 05, 2005
There and back again
Finally settled in, at least for this month. The new apartment is a converted rec room, complete with wood panelling, padded minibar, mirrors all over the damn place, and (best of all) speakers embedded in the walls. Built before plasma TVs, otherwise there would be a special cabinet. If I were twenty, I'd think it was the most bitchen place imaginable.
Anyway, I have a new-found appreciation for the traditionally nomadic peoples, like hobos, waitresses, Mongols, and international consultants. I'd also like to give a big shout-out to the good people at Brooklyn's Fourth Avenue and Flatbush Avenue U-Hauls for their patience and professionalism.
I saw Robin Williams filming in a restaurant on Twelfth Street this morning in Brooklyn. His hair was perfect.
Incidentally, see Sin City see Sin City see Sin City. I'm finally part of a target demographic!
Posted by coyu at April 5, 2005 04:23 PMWell, well, he does get around, doesn't he? Williams, I mean. My wife and daughter spotted him filming outside our pre-school just last week. He was up in our neck of the woods because it apparently looks a great deal like Wisconsin, which I'm sure you'll find amusing. :^)
Posted by: Bernard Guerrero at April 5, 2005 06:23 PMBig Frank Miller fan?
Posted by: Bernard Guerrero at April 5, 2005 07:42 PMBernard, it's almost certainly part of the same movie. What part of Wisconsin did they think looked like your neck of the woods? There was an (awful) Goldie Hawn-Kurt Russell movie which I once had to endure that put a Chinatown in the middle of Kenosha, complete with outdoor food stands that could and did get knocked over during a chase scene.
I'm not a Frank Miller fan, and the only issue of Sin City I ever picked up, I read only one page and put back. (It was the tourniquet scene.) And yet, the movie is so utterly, joyfully over the top.
Posted by: Carlos at April 6, 2005 03:16 PMSorry you had to move and store books. I have half mine or more with my dad now. On the subject of books, have you read 'The Retreat of the Elephants'?
It appears that you, Bernard and I have had a Kevin Bacon moment, since I once nearly ran Robin Williams down in a hotel lobby. I don't think he minded the interruption because he was backing slowly away from an over-enthusiastic fan. I'd have been more embarassed, but I was on my way to meet my Prime Illusion, and I was late.
j
James, yes I have read Retreat. And I even know where it and my notes on it are stored. Short version: in part it's an update of Elvin's The pattern of the Chinese past, and in part it's a much more humanistic, biologic and ecologic work. Elvin is a sensitive reader of his primary source material, which in large part are Chinese nature poets.
I think, when I dig it out, I will post about his deforestation model (since he is an economic historian as well).
C.
Posted by: Carlos at April 8, 2005 10:22 PMYeah, I suspected you had. I'll need to read it two to four more times to digest it - I always do.
One day I'll find the text you haven't read, by Crom. And on that good day, I'll Fedex it to you.
Posted by: James at April 9, 2005 07:19 AMOne day I'll find the text you haven't read, by Crom.
Snort. You too, Brute? I was wondering what to give Carlos for his upcoming birthday and books, well, books I ruled out right away.
He is quite impossibly widely read.
Posted by: claudia at April 9, 2005 10:03 AMI think I'm just going to make books up. "Two Suns in Heaven: The Collected Correspondence of Louis XIV and the Kangxi Emperor", Jonathon Spencer, ed.
Posted by: James "Brother Claymore of Forgiveness" at April 12, 2005 03:02 AM