Two quotes from Ernest Becker

"To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything."

"Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem."

Shinzi Katoh

Home Movie Day

It's a year away, but I'm already excited.

D-Bros glass

Fill the glass with water and things get scary.

Anjelica Houston

Kevin Miyazaki

"In the series Early Places, I photograph physical details that are at the heart of my earliest memories, and that remain largely unchanged... These pictures serve as a type of evidence. My motivation is based somewhat in fear - that my memory will fail me without these photographic documents. But I also wish to celebrate these small, lasting things around me that hold such intimate and powerful memory."

I feel like I have access to his memories, without actually knowing what they are. It's a strange, intimate feeling.

The human brain

It looks like a tree! Via Kottke.

Mary Travers

Roles I'm glad Brooke Shields turned down

Melanie Griffith's role in Working Girl
Michelle Pfeiffer's role (Catwoman) in Batman Returns
Geena Davis's role in A League of Their Own
Molly Ringwald's role in The Breakfast Club AND Pretty In Pink
Andie MacDowell's role in Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Diane Lane's role in The Outsiders

Only in dreams (2)

"O God, I could be bounded in a nut shell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams." Hamlet