Lofty Aspirations
We may be very close to signing a lease on a loft apartment in SF (fingers crossed), which means I can step away from Craigslist for a moment, and start daydreaming about the stuff I’m going to fill...
View ArticleLately: 01.06.14
Listening to Wildewoman by Lucius. This record has been the soundtrack of my time in San Francisco so far and my favorite album of 2013. It’s retro pop cool with a number of standout tracks that make...
View ArticleSoul School 101
Aaron and I have always had an interest in the oldies, Aaron with his girl groups and me and my Sam, but lately, we’ve been getting pretty serious about it. We’re going to Soul School and welcome you...
View ArticleClosing the Gap
Something I need to hear on pretty much a daily basis. Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste....
View ArticleBaltimore Favorites
Dear Baltimore, Longtime no see. You’ve been kind of cold and sort of distant lately. I know it’s my fault. I was the one who left and all. But I do miss you and all my favorite things about you, like...
View ArticleTop Docs | January
01. On the surface Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell is the deeply personal story of an uncovered family secret, but it’s also about memory, storytelling, and our own unreliability. Oh yeah, and the...
View ArticleTop Docs | February
1. I watched two Oscar-nominated docs in February. Twenty Feet from Stardom was the first. And it’s a good film, one of the best I saw in February. How can you not love a movie about these amazingly...
View ArticleNote to Self: Create
Note to everyone else: I am so excited about the video I’ve been working on this month and can’t wait to share it with the world later this week. Stay tuned. (Photo by Rob de Vries)
View ArticleLately: 08.02.14
Watching Life Itself. If you were thinking about releasing a documentary in 2014, don’t even bother. Life Itself is a lock for everyone’s favorite doc this year and pretty much has been since its...
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