currently and previously | The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Currently, I'm sitting in the great hall at Mary Gates waiting for the person I have an appointment with this morning to arrive. Ah, the whimsical nature of faculty members who need to use the library on the weekend. The only people here are me and this 60+ guy who appears to be either homeless or a tenured professor (they have a similar air to them sometimes.) The putative homeless guy is sleepingm with his head cushioned on his ratty grey beard. Theoretically, I'm sure that I'm supposed to report this to someone, but it's relatively cold out today and he doesn't seem to be causing any trouble.

Last night, I went with rimrunner to go see the Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada at the Crest in Shoreline. I highly recommend seeing this movie, it's the best I've seen in ages. It's complex enough that it's hard to sum up at one go, but at the surface, it's the story of a man (played by Tommy Lee Jones) whose best friend (Melquiades) is killed and needs to be returned to his hometown for burial. Jones' character does this by abducting the border patrol agent who killed Melquiades and setting out south for Mexico on horseback with the disinterred body. Anyway, great, lots of good stuff in this movie; a very un-hollywood depiction of life in a small border town.

Today was originally going to be lots of working followed by brunch followed by more working followed by going to exmanhater's bday party, but it seems like the tide of work remains unturned, and at least some of those things will not happen. I am going to Kold War tonight irrespective.

a note about june and july

My trip to NYC has been moved to the July 4th weekend. My cousin's wedding got rescheduled at relatively the last minute due apparently to things and stuff. So, I'm going to be out on the east coast in July instead of June. Suggestions for things to do while I'm out there would be welcome.

My trip to the bay area was based on having people there who are now going to be on the east coast preparing for said wedding. It's been postponed, but may be preponed or maybe just p0wned. The week I was thinking of visiting friends in Europe, I'm now going to be in NYC due to the wedding.

So, previously: not around in June.
So, currently: around in June.

Largely irrelevant for most purposes, but I figured I'd tell people. Also, it would have been nice to have known this before talking to companies the last two weeks.

the annoying thing about my mac getting wiped out

the hilariously annoying thing about my mac getting wiped out was that the ratings for the songs and playlists all got lost. This means that I'm now doing random play from my full playlist, so all the songs I've collected for weird projects are now rated the same as, say, amon tobin.

Currently, I'm listening to a bulgarian cover of Tom Jones.

Next up: Massive Attack.
After that: Pat McCurdy
After that: psytrance christmas carol medley.

on the subject of muzak, i have an extra goldfrapp ticket.