Louise Brooks

I was quite fascinated by Louise Brooks when I first discovered her. Something about the bookish, hard-drinking, stubborn actress really appealed to me. Now she's on T-shirt from Theadless in her most famous role, Lulu.

Will Smith - filming on 24th St.

I took this vid of Will Smith and Thandie Newton filming in front of my house this Sunday. The director had his seat set-up right next to my door and I spent sometime on the curb watching them shoot. Interesting stuff and actually pretty low key. But Will is certainly a loud fellow.

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Robots Attack!!!

I finally got a belt buckle from my friend Kyra the other week, I love it so! The stuff she makes is so awesome. Check it out!

My friend Chris got me out to see Serenity last night. After being skeptical for the first half hour, it grabbed me and made me gasp that this was it, truly good science fiction. The strong characters, the cultural pastiche, the incongruous technology, all cast for telling basic morality tales about the real conflicts between people struggling to believe they are doing the right thing. Everything was complex and multi-faceted, and yet there was still the thrill of Buck Rogers, the wild west and kung-fu fighting. All from a movie based on the failed TV series Firefly. But it was written and directed by Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy, who is a very smart guy. He just finished up an excellent year-long on X-Men and is now poised to bring Wonder Woman to the silver screen. And after seeing Serenity, I can't think of a better person to do it. He writes good, strong, and complex women that can kick some ass.

Shooting in the Mission

No, not that. Will Smith's movie The Pursuit of HappyNess starts shooting on my street this weekend. They're going to restrict parking on the block, which should suck. But I guess they're going to park some vintage 80's cars, which should be sort of cool. I gues it's based on the true story of Christopher Gardner.

Parton in the Park

I was at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass this weekend and saw Dolly. Not a show I ever would have thought I'd see, but well worth it. I was quite impressed by how genuine she appeared to be.

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Korea to Canada: Trans-Eurasia Journey Home

Was looking at this blog this morning Trans-Eurasia Journey and wishing I was in Mongolia. What a trip! Love to do it myself someday.

Insadong Memory Map

Tonight I'm feeling a little homesick for Seoul, so I made a memory map of Insadong. Saturday night I was talking with this Korean-American woman who was planning her first trip back since she was two. Just talking about it made me want to start planning my next trip back myself