December 2008
2 posts
Desert Island DVDs
My family has a really bad habit of collecting media. My parents had thousands of books that they sold before moving to Portland. Back in the day, my brother habitually rented VHS tapes from Blockbuster and recorded them onto blank tapes. (You could fit three full length movies on a blank tape, so every time you popped in a cassette you got a mini Ben-curated film festival.) Anyway, I have a...
Upon viewing the movie "Singles"
This weekend I watched the movie Singles, directed by Cameron Crowe and starring Matt Dilion, Kyra Sedgwick, and 1992.
Singles is set in Seattle. Like you couldn’t tell.
These are the occupations of the main characters:
director of an environmental non-profit
barista
Department of Transportation project manager
band frontman/flower deliverer
If you add “engineer” that...