No internal monologue

• Rolling Thunder/No Country for Old Men – nihilism
• Taxi Driver/Nightcrawler
• Attack the Block/The World’s End (brit alien invasion)
• No Country for Old Men/Sicario (Cartel)
• PCU/Old School (How dross becomes the man)
• Audition/Gone Girl (consequences of fucking with the wrong woman)
• Tell No One/Gone Girl (best in class novel to movie adaptations)
• Pineapple Express/The End
• Magnolia/Snow Angels
• Magic Mike/Spring Breakers/No Pain no Gain (Floridian late capitalism)
• Goodfellas/Boogie Nights (non-schlocky derivative)
• Rushmore/American Splendor (Sic Transit Gloria)
• Sleepaway Camp/Wet Hot American Summer (watching Sleepaway Camp first, you’ll expect WHAS to be a slasher flick and then it isn’t)
• Finding Nemo/Leviathan
• The Big Sleep/The Long Goodbye/The Big Lebowksi/Inherent Vice/Under the Silver Lake
• Inception/Last Year at Marienbad/Certified Copy
• You’re Next/Ready or Not
• Uncut Gems/Enter the Void
• Conan the Barbarian/Endless Summer 2
• Sea Fever/You’re Next
• Roma/Parasite
• The gambler/uncut gems – idiotic desperation, middle-aged, white people problems
• Out of Sight/Jackie Brown – Elmore Leonard Cinematic Universe
• Burn After Reading/In the Loop – govt incompetency
• Midsommar/Bacurau – don’t fuck with forces you can’t understand
• Bad lieutenant port of call new Orleans/wrath of man
• Say Anything/Grosse Pointe Blank + obvious
• Da 5 Bloods/Triple Frontier – ashes of the American empire
• Dr. Strange love/In the Loop – governmental spin and incompetence 
• Metropolitan/Salt burn – petit bourgeoisie genx v genz
• The Long Goodbye/Fletch/Confess Fletch
• Edge of tomorrow/sicario/the counselor

1. Sex, lies and Videotape (1989)
2. Kafka (1991)
3. King of the Hill (1993)
4. The Underneath (1995)
5. Fallen Angels – TV (1995)
6. Schizopolis (1996)
7. Gray’s Anatomy (1996)
8. Out of Sight (1998)
9. The Limey (1999)
10. Erin Brockovich (2000)
11. Traffic (2000)
12. Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
13. Full Frontal (2002)
14. Solaris (2002)
15. K Street – TV (2003)
16. Eros (2004)
17. Ocean’s Twelve (2004)
18. Bubble (2005)
19. The Good German (2006)
20. Ocean’s Thirteen (2007)
21. Che (2008)
22. The Girlfriend Experience (2009)
23. The Informant! (2009)
24. And Everything is Going Fine (2010)
25. Contagion (2011)
26. Haywire (2011)
27. Magic Mike (2012)
28. Side Effects (2013)
29. Behind the Candelabra (2013)
30. The Knick – TV (2014)
31. Logan Lucky (2017)
32. Mosaic (2018)
33. Unsane (2018)
34. High Flying Bird (2019)

1. Out of Sight
2. Traffic
3. The Limey
4. Oceans 11
5. Kafka
6. High Flying Bird
7. Contagion
8. The Good German
9. Solaris
10. Oceans 12
11. Oceans 13
12. Logan Lucky
13. Kimi
14. The Laundromat
15. Magic Mike
16. The Underneath
17. Full Frontal
18. Che
19. Haywire
20. Side Effects
21. The Informant
22. The Girlfriend Experience
23. Bubble
24. Eros – unseen?
25. Erin Brockovich – unseen
26. King of the Hill – unseen
27. Sex, Lies, Videotape – unseen
28. Let Them Talk (or some bullshite) – unseen
29. grey’s anatomy – unseen

Ringer Tears

1. Out of Sight
2. Traffic
3. The Limey
4. Oceans 11
5.  
6.  
7. High Flying Bird
8.  
9. Solaris
10. Oceans 12
11. Oceans 13
12. Logan Lucky
13. Magic Mike
14.  
15.  
16. Che
17. Contagion
18. Haywire
19. Side Effects
20. The Informant
21. The Girlfriend Experience
22.  
23. Erin Brockovich – unseen
24. King of the Hill – unseen
25. Sex, Lies, Videotape – unseen
26. The Laundromat – unseen
27. Let Them Talk (or some bullshite) – unseen
28. Kafka
29. The Underneath
30. greys anatomy – unseen
31. Full Frontal
32. Bubble
33. Eros – unseen?
34. The Good German
35. Tier 1
36. Tier 2
37. Tier 3
38. Tier 4
39. Tier 5

1. Out of Sight
2. Traffic
3. The Limey
4. Oceans 11
5. Kafka
6. High Flying Bird
7. The Good German
8. Solaris
9. Oceans 12
10. Oceans 13
11. Logan Lucky
12. Magic Mike
13. The Underneath
14. Full Frontal
15. Che
16. Contagion
17. Haywire
18. Side Effects
19. The Informant
20. The Girlfriend Experience
21. Bubble
22. Eros – unseen?
23. Erin Brockovich – unseen
24. King of the Hill – unseen
25. Sex, Lies, Videotape – unseen
26. The Laundromat – unseen
27. Let Them Talk (or some bullshite) – unseen
28. grey’s anatomy – unseen

Ringer Tears

1. Out of Sight
2. Traffic
3. The Limey
4. Oceans 11
5. High Flying Bird
6. Solaris
7. Oceans 12
8. Oceans 13
9. Logan Lucky
10. Magic Mike
11. Che
12. Contagion
13. Haywire
14. Side Effects
15. The Informant
16. The Girlfriend Experience
17. Erin Brockovich – unseen
18. King of the Hill – unseen
19. Sex, Lies, Videotape – unseen
20. The Laundromat – unseen
22. Let Them All Talk (or some bullshite) – unseen
23. High Flying Bird
24. schizopolis
25. Traffic
26. K Street
27. Unsane
28. Mosaic
30. Let Them All Talk
31. grays anatomy – unseen
32. Kafka
33. Bubble
34. Eros – unseen?
35. The Good German
36. Full Frontal
37. The Underneath
38. Tier 1
39. Tier 2
40. Tier 3
41. Tier 4
42. Tier 5

hainanese chicken recipe

Yield
Makes 6 servings
Active Time
35 min
Total Time
2 hrs

Ingredient
For chicken and broth
1 (3- to 3 1/2-lb) chicken
3 teaspoons salt
4 qt water
4 (1/8-inch-thick) slices fresh ginger, smashed
shallots
green onions

For chile sauce
6 (3- to 3 1/2-inch-long) fresh hot red Thai chiles or serrano chiles, chopped
1 shallot, chopped
2 tablespoons chopped peeled fresh ginger
2 medium garlic cloves, chopped
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 tsp sugar
1/3 cup fresh lime juice
mix to combine

For Ginger scallion sauce
two bunches scallions chopped
4″ piece of ginger finely diced
1/2 c grapeseed oil
hefty pinch kosher salt
1 tbsp light soy sauce
1-2 tsp sherry or rice wine vinegar
heat oil to just smoking
pour over chopped scallions, ginger
add salt, soy, vinegar

For rice
2 cups (or more) jasmine rice
4 shallots, thinly sliced
2 large garlic cloves, minced

Tbsp ginger minced

1 English or 2 persian cucumber

1 tablespoon soy sauce
2 teaspoons Asian sesame oil
1 bunch or 1 (4-oz) bag watercress, coarse stems discarded
Garnish: fresh cilantro leaves or sprigs

Prepare chicken and broth:

Remove fat from cavity of chicken and reserve for rice. Rub chicken inside and out with 1 teaspoon salt. stuff with coarsely chopped scallions, pieces of ginger

Bring water with remaining 2 teaspoons salt and ginger, scallions, shallots to a boil in a 6- to 8-quart pot wide enough to hold chicken. Put chicken, breast down, in water and return to a boil, covered. Simmer chicken, partially covered, 20 minutes and remove from heat. Let chicken stand in hot broth, covered and undisturbed, until just cooked through, 15 to 20 minutes.
Letting broth drain from chicken cavity into pot, transfer chicken to a large bowl of ice and cold water, season cold water with salt and reserve broth for rice and soup. Cool chicken completely, turning once. Drain chicken and pat dry with paper towels. Cut into serving pieces.

Make rice:

Cook reserved chicken fat in a 3-quart heavy saucepan over moderate heat, stirring, until rendered, then discard solids. Add vegetable oil if necessary to make 2 tablespoons fat.
Wash rice under cold running water until water runs clear and drain well.
Cook shallots in fat over moderate heat, stirring, until browned. Add garlic, ginger and shallots and cook, stirring, 1 minute. Add rice and cook, stirring gently, until toasted.
Add 3 cups reserved broth (or appropriate amount based on rice cooked) cook in rice cooker, when done fluff rice with a fork and cover, add salt if needed.

Assemble dishes:

Shave as many long ribbons as possible from cucumber with a U-shaped vegetable peeler and chill ribbons in another bowl of ice and cold water 15 minutes. Drain well.

Stir together soy sauce and sesame oil.
Bring 6 cups reserved broth and watercress to a boil in a 3-quart saucepan and simmer 1 minute. Remove pan from heat and let stand until watercress is a shade darker, about 3 minutes.
Drizzle soy-sesame mixture over chicken. Serve chicken with cucumber ribbons and individual bowls of rice, soup, and chile sauce.

Or just drizzle with sesame oil

1. Graveyard @ The Bootleg (1/28/2012)
2. This Will Destroy You/A Far Cry @ Royale, Boston, MA (2/8/2012)
3. Poliça @ The Bootleg (2/21/2012)
4. Veronica Falls @ The Bootleg (2/25/2012)
5. Beware of Safety @ The Satellite (3/3/2012)
6. Sharon Van Etten @ The Avalon (3/20/2012)
7. Clint Mansell @ The Largo (4/5/2012)
8. Explosions in the Sky/We Were Promised Jetpacks @ The Glasshouse (4/18/2012)
9. St. Vincent/tUnE-yArDs @ The Glasshouse (4/19/2012)
10. Silian Rail @ The Bootleg (5/15/2012)
11. This Will Destroy You @ The Casbah (6/5/2012)
12. Action Bronson @ The Observatory (6/11/2012)
13. Thrice/Animals as Leaders @ The Observatory (6/18/2012)
14. Russian Circles/And So I Watch you From Afar/Chelsea Wolfe @ The El Rey (6/29/2012)

It’s always interesting looking back on these lists and seeing just how much time I have wasted on mediocre movies. While I am at work I always daydream about new intellectual pursuits, 52 weeks of classic films!, Hitchcock marathons!, Finally watching the Decalogue! But when I get home, all my time disappears and I never accomplish anything.

1. Winter’s Bone
2. Un Prophete
3. I Am Love
4. Inception
5. Exit Through the Giftshop
6. El Secreto De Sus Ojos
7. Black Swan
8. Greenberg/Cyrus
9. Enter the Void
10. The American

6th 1990-1991

7th 1991-1992

First CD, I think was Nirvana – Nevermind, released September 24, 1991, probably purchased pretty soon thereafter.

Pearl Jam – Ten (August 27, 1991)

Not that I was necessarily a huge fan of grunge, but these two purchases represent the enormous influence of MTV during this era. These two bands were hyped greatly and mercilessly on MTV so naturally, these were amongst my first actual CD purchases. I’m pretty sure I may have purchased an odd cassette here or there, but this will definitely require more thought.

X-Clan – Xodus May 19, 1992 – Cassette

Also of great influence, The Source magazine – I would scour the shit out of this magazine for stuff that was off the beaten path.

EPMD – Business Never Personal (released July 28, 1992) Got into EPMD backwards, Das Efx – Dead Serious was the initiator (EPMD found/produced for Das Efx) “They Want Efx” was main single from Dead Serious.

Brand Nubian

I think this may have been when I purchased my first CD – Public Enemy – Fear of a Black Planet

Early days, lots of hip-hop, even then I had somewhat discerning tastes? Ice Cube, NWA,

Pete Rock & CL Smooth – Mecca and the Soul Brother June 9, 1992

8th 1992-1993

Da Lench Mob – Guerillas in tha Mist September 22, 1992

9th 1993-1994

Souls of Mischief/Hieroglyphics – ’93 til Infinity September 28, 1993

Wu-Tang Clan – Enter the 36 Chambers November 9, 1993

Nas – Illmatic April 19, 1994 motherfucking classic.

Green Day – Dookie remember listening to at the time, did not understand the appeal (still do not understand the appeal of Green Day).

10th 1994-1995

Mobb Deep – The Infamous – April 25, 1995

11th 1995-1996

Started getting into Jazz, mostly prompted by access to 88.1 KKJZ radio station. Initially huge fan of John Coltrane and then moved outwards – Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner, somewhere in here got really into Antonio Carlos-Jobim and Bossa Nova, Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto.

12th 1996-1997

DJ Shadow – Endtroducing November 19, 1996

Bjork – Homogenic September 22, 1997 Had gotten into Bjork during this time period. Remember seeing video for “Oh so quiet” and thinking it was cool, but not really thinking anything too much for the music. Will have to think some more about impetus for fandom.

Got into The Cardigans during this period. Partly because of “Lovefool,” but really because of “Carnival.”

Fresh 1997-1998

Roni Size – New Forms October 28, 1997

Drum ‘n Bass

Amon Tobin somewhere up in here.

random ass websites to download mp3s

Soph 1998-1999

Mogwai??

IRC to download mp3s

beginnings of early listening to J-pop and J-rock

Junior 1999-2000

With introduction of Napster – musical exposure grew exponentially

Somewhere in here got into the Pillows because of FLCL

Senior 2000-2001

“As much as I’d like to have a single device that does everything I need or want, it will probably never exist. As it stands, once I have the A2 my standard device loadout will consist of the A2 for videos, long haul MP3 usage and text reading, the Ditty for podcast listening, and my SDA for PDA types of things, which still leaves with me 3 devices (used to be Axim 30 for video/text reading, T610 cell and 4g iPod).”

That was posted back in November, 2006. Amazing that a little bit more than 6 months later that device came into being, namely the first iPhone. I personally didn’t own an iPhone until around the end of 2007, but it was definitely a life changing experience (I support hyperbole). Now almost 3 years later, I can still attest to the beauty of having one device that handles all of my needs – music, video, books!, internet… oh yeah, and a phone. So yeah, iPhones are cool.

Of course I know what it’s like to live life I didn’t plan on. What the fuck do you think I’m doing right now?