After a week filled with cramming and catch-up, I finally finished the first of my own lists. Best of the year. Best of the decade. My deadline was set by indieWIRE, and I’m a person who tends to do better with deadlines set by others. So … I got it done. It’s a fascinating exerciseContinue reading “Blurring focus once again: Let the lists begin to roll”
Category Archives: Personal
Punch me once, shame on me
It would be too easy for me to assume that some supernatural force, I shall personify as “The Universe,” continues to conspire against my attempts to create (re-create?) a writing habit and routine. For the past several months, I keep experiencing these huge blocks; in fact, let’s call them Great Walls, analogous to China’s. HurdlingContinue reading “Punch me once, shame on me”
R.I.P. Lou
This little corner of the internet is on the verge of returning to plenty of opinion and talk about not-very-important-to-the-proverbial-grand-scheme like movies and TV ever-so-shortly, but today, I found my thoughts interrupted once again. It’s not often that I really find myself contemplating the fragility of life. I don’t mean recognizing it, but rather, seriouslyContinue reading “R.I.P. Lou”
Pardon the Interruption: We shall return to normal (regular, even?) programming shortly
When we last visited our intrepid hero, he was about to complete his summer-long journey of endurance athleticism. Against larger-than-anticipated odds (SPOILER ALERT), he survived – even thrived – in completing said journey (more on that later). He was riding a high. He was very proud. Justifiably, even. His summer project over, his 38th birthdayContinue reading “Pardon the Interruption: We shall return to normal (regular, even?) programming shortly”
Aaron’s Summer Vacation Part 2: What the hell was I thinking?
Let’s get something clear up front: when I decided to do the AIDSRide 10 years ago, I was more than happy to raise money for a worthy cause, but it was not my primary reason for doing the event. Not that much had changed in May: I did not set-out to do charity and thenContinue reading “Aaron’s Summer Vacation Part 2: What the hell was I thinking?”
Aaron’s Summer Vacation Part 1: Why not try a Tri(athlon)
Sometimes, my addled lump of grey matter gets so clogged up with random topics, it takes a while for me to clear it out, and in working towards turning my little corner of the web back into a regular stop for new and interesting (well, at the very least new) opinionated content, I stop myselfContinue reading “Aaron’s Summer Vacation Part 1: Why not try a Tri(athlon)”
The Sixth Annual Birthday Post: Time for a reset
In five months, this blog will be seven years old, but at precisely 2:56 AM Pacific Time, I turned 38. I’d love to have a convention of Sept. 21 birthdays one of these years, especially if it could somehow include those who have passed away. H.G. Wells? He’d be 143 today. The imaginative and influentialContinue reading “The Sixth Annual Birthday Post: Time for a reset”
No, I have not been thinking about it forever, and no, I’m not a fan of Point Break
I now have conclusive proof (anecdotal, sure, but personally true) that drinking is more dangerous than skydiving. You see, Monday night, at a party for the opening of IFP Independent Film Week, while drinking a beer from a bottle, I somehow managed to chip the bottom of my front tooth, which also happens to beContinue reading “No, I have not been thinking about it forever, and no, I’m not a fan of Point Break“
The 5th Annual Birthday Post
That’s right … regardless of how often I write, I can always be counted on to mention that I’ve become a year older. There was the first one in 2004 when this blog was still a newborn (and I included photos of me as the same), and each year since, without fail, I’ve included anotherContinue reading “The 5th Annual Birthday Post”
Too Much Thinking
I think. A lot. Too much. I don’t mind how much I opine, but the thinking … the thinking doesn’t stop. And the non-stop thinking sometimes, but not always, doesn’t lead to realization. It just leads to more and more thinking. I think about believing and believe in what I’m thinking, but somewhere along theContinue reading “Too Much Thinking”
Out of Focus 