• watched Monster's Ball (2001)

• watched The Shape of Things (2003)

• watched Songs From the Second Floor "Sånger från andra våningen" (2000) by Roy Andersson
  
  
  
  • Blessed is the one who sits down
  
  
  • Life is a market. It's all about buying something that you can sell later... with an extra zero on the end. Or two.
  
  

• watched S1m0ne (2002)

Word of the Day

blackguard \BLAG-uhrd\, noun:
1. A rude or unscrupulous person; a scoundrel.
2. A person who uses foul or abusive language.

adjective: Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, "blackguard language."
transitive verb: To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.

Douglas was not a saint, though, so his behaviour and attitude were, as he wrote, 'neither better nor worse than my contemporaries -- that is to say, [I became] a finished young blackguard, ripe for any kind of wickedness'. -- Douglas Murray, Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas

Bosie's ambition: "To clutch Life's hair, and thrust one naked phrase/ Like a lean knife between the ribs of Time."

• listened to First, Break All the Rules : What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently by Marcus Buckingham (Narrator), Curt Coffman (1999) -- dispelling management myths; find employees roles that play to their talents


• listened to Secrets of the Vine : Breaking Through to Abundance by Bruce Wilkinson (2001)
  
  
  
  • An analysis of John 15
  
  
  • Setbacks are God pruning your vine to be more productive
  
  
  • Pruning will intensify as God's shears cut closer to the core of who you are
  
  
  • God whispers through pleasure, but shouts through pain -- C.S. Lewis
  
  
  • Repentance is turning away from one thing and turning toward another
  
  
  • The vine (you) always favors more growth v. more fuit. Rampant growth means less fruit.
  
  


• watched Tobruk (1967)

• watched Courage Under Fire (1996)

• listened to The Good Marriage by Judith S. Wallerstein (1996)
  
  
  
  • 4 types: romantic, rescue, companionate, and traditional
  
  
  • A good marriage is a safe place for conflict
  
  

• watched Monster (2004)

• read Flipping Properties : Generate Instant Cash Profits in Real Estate by William Bronchick and Robert Dahlstrom (2001)

• listened to (The Strange Case of) Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886) -- heard multiple times; melodic tone puts me right to sleep

• listened to The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (2002) -- Shitbucket!

• listened to The Best Awful written and read by Carrie Fisher -- sex, drugs, gay men, and Carrie Fisher book review in The Advocate