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Derek Recommends:radio show: Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me
 Things sure have changed since the early 70s.
Daily Condition:In CD Player: Liz Phair, Exile in Guyville My condition: Trying to adjust to my new glasses. Compared to my lithe, gossamer pince nez, these feel like welding goggles. The pince nez are in the shop, getting new lenses fitted.
Derek Recommends:radio: This American Life art - news - documentary - literature - entertainment - all - none. They even admit it on their website, the show is almost indescribable. Best experienced, and in their wonderful grace the TAL people have RealAudio versions of most everything they've done online.
Daily Condition:In CD Player: soundtrack Run Lola Run my condition: Tired. Looking forward to furniture shopping after work.
Derek Recommends:drug: Diphenhydramine Hydrochloride sure,CD-1 mouse infant mortality during the dosing period (i.e., gestational day 11 through 14) was 8.6% (3/35) in the high dose group, but at least it helps chear up my itchy, runny nose!
There's a commercial I see often. I'm not sure what it's for; hair-regrowth medication, antihistamines, preventing herpes outbreaks, not sure, I know it's a medication. Can't remember which one exactly. That classic rock song "After Midnight" is playing in the background, as men & women frolick.Probably the reason I don't remember anything else about the commercial is due to one scene in the middle of the commercial. There's a guy standing in the water, with a girl on his shoulders. Then, he flips her over, and the film cuts away just as she goes in, backwards and head-first.The reason I grimace, that the 1-second scene has made such an impact on my mind, is that the water barely comes up to his waist. I can only imagine the neck injuries sustained in that instant after the camera cuts away, when the headfirst-woman's skull hits the sandy bottom.ok, he's probably standing on a box in much deeper water, but it's still a disturbing scene)
Ah, the little cylindrical Fisher Price people with ball-shaped heads. I played with many in my youth, never choked on one, but the new Fisher Price people are bigger than a child's esophagus (and, in my opinion, less play-worthy). Man, those Little People were fun! As you've read in an earlier message, my parents keep everything. After a quick visit last week, I came home with as many classic Fisher Price toys as possible. My daughter has been playing with them non-stop since they were unpacked. Little farmers, little elephants, that strange anthropomorphic black dog (comparable in size to the humans), little horses, and a little barn which moos when you open it. After she goes to bed, it's my turn!
Derek Recommends:place: Circle B Ranch Cowboy dinner theatre may sound hokey, but it's not in the least. Excellent food, fun entertainment, and great music just make up a great evening.
I participated in a survey a few months ago, and the findings are quite interesting.
Derek Recommends:film: 1984 By someone who has not seen the film, I was warned "it won't be as good as the book. They never are."In the case of 1984, the two are not mutually exclusive. Had I not read the book, the movie would not have made sense. It seems as though this cooperation of media was intended. There are innumerable subtleties which are explained in the book, but are left unsaid in the movie. The movie does not explain what happens - that's why you read the book. The movie shows the contents of the book. On the whole, the film was very true to the book, with minor differences (the passing of Goldstein's book, for instance). The film was not entertainment: it was demonstration, it was expression of Orwell's thoughts. The things which make you wince as you read them make you wince as you watch, the parts which force you to think make you think again. Knowing the outcome is irrelevant. And, for that, I recommend the movie to anyone who has read the book, especially if it was forced upon you in the name of education.Everyone else should read the book anyways.And, the soundtrack full of prototechno music from the Eurhytmics was excellent.
I've been reading other blogs, trying to see why a site like "stile project" would ever attract attention. Or most other blogs, for that matter. Some blogs attract enormous amounts of traffic; but, why?I think the difference between me and the other blogs are:a: I don't vent personal opinions;b: I don't relate overly personal bits of my life.I don't feel a need to do either of these, so that's why my site is laid out this way. My opinions are pretty much restricted to computers, music, reading material, and the like, but not much else, nothing significant. I do well with my personal life on my own, so blabbing about it to the online world doesn't have much satisfaction for me. So, I write about the things I see, the things I experience, bits of the world around me, in hopes that those bits make up a whole, in the end.But, that doesn't attract visitors, so why do I do it?Hmmmmm........
Derek Recommends:film: SE7EN This has to be one of the greatest movies ever. It follows much of the structure of greek tragedy, it has a self-contained story, and amazing cinematography all make this the best movie I have ever seen.
Daily Condition:In CD Player: Self, subliminal plastic motives -- Rescued from the $2 bin at a thrift shop, it caught my eye. Pleasantly catchy, just enough creativity to make it listenable, it's pretty good, but not neccesarily great. Well worth the $2. My condition: looking forward to the 3-day weekend.
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