Thought Distillery

Bollywood continues. This week we started a trend by going with another Shah Rukh Khan film - Dil Se. Unlike last week’s K3G, Dil Se served us some fairly heavy plot over majestic landscape rather than petty family squabbles with too many helpings of billionaire luxury. Sadly there were no subtitles, but we were able [...]

This month Katie and I set out to explore the world of Bollywood - the Hindi language film industry of India. Bollywood movies are well known for their musical song and dance numbers which is what enticed me into giving this genre a whirl. Last week we started out out big, with the extravagent Kabhi [...]

Many thanks to Tamar for stepping up and filling in during east coast blizzards around Jersey’s WFMU. Were it not for the inclement weather (and the miracle of streaming internet radio), I would not have had the pleasure of filling my sunny west coast ears with the lovely sounds of Yamasuki. A long lost [...]

Tonight I set about doing some research on a topic that I’ve been thinking about quite a bit recently: how to say “no”. I didn’t make it past the 2nd interesting result from my initial g00gle search before I said “yes” to an über alluring music website I’d never heard of before. If you are [...]

But just a little one mind you. And to think what I was missing last night in Eugene. I’m sure the music would not have done much for me, but oh the novelty! Just goes to show that size has nothing to do with living life big.

By about 12:30 today I finally had my act assembled and stepped out to an usually bustling downtown. I guess it is the shopping season isn’t it? Off in the distance my ears detected some sweet yet familiar sounds. At about this time last year I awoke on more than one saturday to the soothing [...]

Note to self: Watching Fahrenheit 9/11 for the first time while over-endulging in chocolate covered coffee beans is probably not the best way to create a relaxing saturday evening. Between the caffeine and thoughts to ponder about our favorite administration, I’ll be lucky to get to sleep by Wednesday. I wonder how easy it would [...]

This last weekend brought a zany bunch of people to Corvallis for the annual Davinci Days Kinetic Sculpture Race. The krazy kontraptions are completely human powered and compete in a 3 stage race up the streets, through a mud bog, and down the river. In the end, everyone was a winner because the fun was [...]

Now before anyone thinks I’ve gone pink triangles, the title of this post refers to a very intriguing French film staring the lovely Audrey Tatou. Like many people, I simply fell in love with this actress upon watching Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain so naturally I was quick to jump on the wait list at [...]

Please forgive me for talking with a bit of pain in my voice. Who was I to think that I could imitate and sing along with Tom Waits successfully? Thats some powerful tonic there, Mr. Waits. I didn’t even make it halfway through Big In Japan before something went sproing in my throat! Maybe I [...]