April 2011
44 posts
Dopplegangers, hauntings and more
I always have been obsessed by people in the world that look like us. I know its a significant theme in literature and film but its something i think about all the time. Like 11:11 I seem to find mine everywhere.
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from syphilitic poets who died young.
To thrift shop paintings painted 40 years ago.
Theres a whole other kind of double, often experienced by people in mourning where they...
Smog, and other good things.
Bear with me, really this is a hard one but I kind of like smog. Smog, fog, haze and marine layers they all take an ordinary bright sunny blue sky day and give a bit of a filter. Pre made nostalgia. Yesterday was a bright crisp sunny day in Shanghai, only today when the haze settled in did I feel like I knew the city (and liked the city) again. There is (to me) something sheltering and...
Trippy Shanghai multiverse music.
WatchI read Brian Greene’s Hidden Reality flying to shanghai yesterday. In it there’s almost 8 different theories all pointing to the idea of multiverse (multiple bubble universes.) As it turns out if our universes are infinite or even just vast, the likelihood of matter arranging itself as an exact replica of our lives, our world seems high. So right now I could be driving through the...
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Idylwild
Last summer we rented an a-frame house in the mountains above palm springs for a long weekend. The nights we’re too beautiful and clear to want to stay indoors and we could never leave the fire pit. We brought a projector and set it up inside the house making the glass wall of the a-frame into a rear projection cinema. We watched an odd assortment of movies (robinson caruso in space, less...
Sunset Ranch
There’s a strange out of context scene in the movie Mulholland Drive where the young director (Justin Theroux) goes for a midnight meeting with a mysterious cowboy in a deserted horse ranch. You watch it and wonder how does this guy get from a downtown LA hotel to a ranch in what seems like moments. Id always thought it was Lynchian time/location distortion. The ranch is real it borders...
Grilled Cheese Day
The idea and the real deal. Grilled ciabatta with peccorino, brie, and chives. Yum!
