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Friday, April 12, 2002

 
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we were vaguely french today. susan is sick (and it turns out that i might be, too) & so michael and i went to the crepe place and then went to see amélie (warning: site is in flash, but it was the only one that didn't contain unstoppable music), another movie which has surprisingly jumped onto my top-10 list. what are my top 10 movies (in no particular order)?
1. amelie
2. memento
3. the matrix
4. l.a. story
5. sneakers
6. rumble in the bronx
7. shakespeare in love
8. the princess bride
(hmm. yes, i know this is only 8. i have to think some more).

9. the fisher king (added 04.27.02)
10. fargo (added 05.03.02)

in honor of amelie, we got sticker photos of ourselves in a photo booth. then, after a brief stop at good dog, bad dog for garlic hot dogs (does life get any better than that? :), we went to powell's technical books, where i surprised both of us by not buying anything. even more surprising, it didn't rain at all, despite a 50% chance. it was warm enough, even for me. :)

we stopped by the main powell's store to pick up some book darts & to look at magic/tech books, when it suddenly dawned on me that i'm not just doing a comparison between technology and magic, or even discussing the evolution from magic to technology, but the whole meme of magic/tech, which invites comparisons to viruses/plague and would be a good segue for black magic/voodoo/hackers. i think for the first book i'll do a fairly simple concept comparison and then i'll be able to develop it further on future pieces. but i need something for the next color workshop and finding a 500-word summation of what i want is going to take me a lot more time than selecting, say, 10 themes, writing something up for both magic & tech, and finding appropriate quotes. i feel good about this process; it will help me develop the colors & pastepaper for each "chapter." michael recommends: the magician's companion: a practical & encyclopedic guide to magical & religious symbolism.

hey, the archives look like they're working again. voodoo. amazon, oddly, is completely down:

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except "the following stores" are also closed. :P