I spent most of the weekend at home relaxing with lots of chai and take-out food. Tomorrow I begin my 2008 attempt at a healthy diet, so I went a little food-crazy this weekend. My goal is to eat less sugar and more fruits and vegetables (not to lose weight). Hopefully this will give me [...]

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Case Histories by Kate Atkinson Date: Monday, February 4th @ 7:30 PM Location: Solas Bar

The Lookout, directed by Scott Frank An amazing script (Scott Frank) with superb acting by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Though the movie begins as a character study, it quickly turns into a heist flick. I would have been happy to stick with the character study, but the heist is quite impressive as well. Of movies I saw [...]

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New Moon by Elliott Smith I don’t think anyone will be surprised to hear that my favorite album of 2007 was New Moon by Elliott Smith. You can read more about it in my previous post about New Moon. My favorite tracks include “Going Nowhere”, “New Monkey”, “New Disaster”, “Whatever”, and “See You Later”.

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami I must admit that I did not read as many books in 2007 as previous years – possibly due to the crazy hours I was putting in at work. However, “Kafka on the Shore” is one of the best books of contemporary fiction that I’ve read in recent [...]