web meanderings

i think i like just about everything at witold riedel's. it's like a little sunday drive. or an afternoon in a cafe. nice chat. cool things to look at. a seemingly warm heart.

nigel's back from a brief hiatus, which should create a small bit of internet applause. nigel's words meander around him like streams with exclamation points and teasing commas. but his photos — they'll break your heart every time. nigel may be a pup in the grand scheme of things, but his eye is strictly old soul.

scroll to the bottom of this page to see some of his really great older ones. i remember two years ago when going to nigel's site was a daily web journey for me. what image would lay awaiting? and he's had some of the more creative web names out there. especially backwoods and forwards. i loved that.

eight performances down. eight more to go. saying the words on stage almost feels like... remember when you were a kid and you'd have to spell and spell and spell a word over and over and pretty soon the letters seemed foreign and the word no longer made sense? i'm almost there with my lines. what do they mean? am i saying them correctly? can you understand them?

i've really enjoyed meeting and getting to know the cast and crew. i dig it when you see somebody's personality unfold. maybe it was out there all along and it was just your eye that needed to unfold, to open up to see them? i love that process. that little get to know you surprise. maybe that sounds corny. i'm too lazy to edit it to make it sound meaningful or at least compact.

tonight dan and i caught the last showing of about schmidt. that is a painful movie to sit through and thank god for the laughs. but who are you laughing at? at whose expense? it's like they found every awkward, alienated, painful part of life and put it on the screen. it should have been in black and white. but, i guess the washed out colors served it better.

and the landscape.

so many people say they hate the flat plains... and i realized... maybe that is where the clouds are the tallest, the steepest, the most showiest? everything balances out. you just have to know where to look to get the beautiful scenery.

but man, between dermot mulroney's hair and kathy bates baring all in the hot tub -- those are actors who have a lot of guts. hard movie to watch.