the undergrad years (and a little beyond): a snippet

12/29/04 flight of the phoenix, long beach, ca
11/16/04 changes in the disparities in chronic diseases during the course of the twentieth century by robert w. fogel, hitchcock lecture, i-house
11/1/04 marilyn manson, the warfield.
10/25/04 fonda. a dozen oysters. ceviche. lamb shank. steak. pinot noir. zinfandel.
8/3/04 linuxworld, moscone center
7/10/04 fahrenheit 9/11by michael moore, grand lake theatre, oakland
6/24/04 stepford wives, shattuck cinema
4/04 la vie promise (2004), act I & II
2/13/04 sfmoma
2/04 my architect by nathaniel kahn, shattuck cinema
2/04 lost in translation by sophia coppola, shattuck cinema

12/22/03 the last samurai, w olive 16, st louis, mo
12/20/03 sears tower skydeck, chicago, il
12/20/03 blue man group, briar street theatre, chicago, il
10/15/03 jesus christ superstar, orpheum theatre
10/14/03 the notebooks of leonardo da vinci, the berkeley rep
10/10/03 kirov ballet & orchestra of the mariinsky theatre, zellerbach
9/24/04 pilgrimage by chris sharma, victoria theatre, san francisco
9/6/03 chester's bayview cafe. the yuppie omelet.
9/6/03 the shining by stanley kubrick, act I & II
9/4/03 chagall, sfmoma
7/31/03 johnny english, ontario palace theatre
5/28/03 chez panisse
5/15/03 matrix reloaded, ua berkeley 7
4/25/03 eugene onegin, julia morgan centre
3/30/03 2001: a space odyssey, castro theatre, sf
3/16/03 À la folie... pas du tout (2002) by laetitia colombani, shattuck cinema
3/13/03 elaine's birthday rock'n'roll bonanza at the blue house (3208 shattuck)
2/22/03 the chairs by eugene ionesco, the aurora theatre
1/03 adaptation by spike jonze, shattuck cinemas


12/17/02 chez panisse
11/17/02 bowling for columbine by michael moore, act I & II
10/02 julius caesar, la val's
10/27/02 n is a number by george p. csicsery, the pfa (cinemath series)
10/13/02 the shape of things by neil labute, the aurora theatre
10/08/02 twistor cohomology and physical fields by roger penrose, bowen lecture, 10 evans
8/13/02 linuxworld, moscone center
8/03/02 goldmember, california theatre
7/17/02 benefactors by michael frayn, the aurora theatre
7/13/02 sfmoma
7/7/02 sfmoma
7/6/02 bourne, ua berkeley
7/02 augustine (big hysteria) by anna furse, exit on taylor theatre
6/26/02 maria (peasant elegy) & soviet elegy by alexander sokurov, the pfa
6/7/02 star wars ii: attack of the clones, ua berkeley 7
4/26/02 on corporate and government responsibility by ralph nader, the clark kerr krutch theatre
3/26/02 the royal tenenbaums, shattuck cinema
3/14/02 warriors vs lakers, oakland coliseum
2/23/02 alvin ailey american dance theater, zellerbach
1/17/02 sfmoma

11/15/01 falstaff by giuseppe verdi, san francisco opera
10/10/01 mulholland dr by david lynch, wheeler auditorium
9/22/01 the big lebowski, act I & II
8/26/01 linuxworld, the moscone center
7/01 the glass menagerie by tennesee williams, the american repertory theatre, cambridge, ma
7/01 sackler museum, busch-reisinger museum
7/01 designing minds, the mit museum
6/24/01 memento, at the kendall square cinema
4/11/01 totally positive view of a computer microchip by alexander postnikov, mit combinatorics seminar, room 2 - 338
4/13/01 normative practical reasoning by john broome (oxford), mit philosophy colloquia, building e51, room 151
4/7/01 boston museum of science, galileo's odyssey
3/29/01 boston museum of fine arts
3/17/01 the mexican, at the harvard square cinema
3/18/01 the ninth harvard-mit graduate student conference in philosphy, emerson hall
3/11/01 traffic, the harvard square cinema


11/10/00 spike & mike's sick & twisted festival, california theatre
10/19/00 code breaking in wwii: the enigma, the colossus, and bletchley park by anthony e. sale, bechtel auditorium
10/09/00 pather panchali by satyajit ray (india, 1955), the pfa
9/16/00 diablo ballet, the yerba buena center for the arts
9/3/00 rené magritte: les valeurs personnelles,sfmoma
8/20/00 the cell, california theatre
8/14/00 linuxworld, san jose convention center
8/11/00 cecil b demented, act I & II
7/00 defcon
7/15/00 blue & gold fleet tour from pier 41, fisherman's wharf
7/01/00 gone in 60 seconds, ua berkeley 7
5/13/00 gladiator, the california theatre
4/22/00 boys don't cry, the california theatre
4/10/00 complexity of proofs and computations by alexander razborov, tarski lecture, 10 evans
3/03/00 drowning, ua berkeley 7
1/19/00 wax, or the discovery of television among the bees, the pfa
1/14/00 the organizer by mario monicelli (italy/france, 1963); il bell'antonio by mauro bolognini (italy, 1962), the pfa
1/12/00 i do not know what it is i am like by bill viola, the pfa
00 endgame by samuel beckett, la val's

12/22/99 man on the moon, ontario mills cinema
11/29/99 battu's bioscope and the cow jumped over the moon, the pfa
11/20/99 dogma, california theatre
11/14/99 princess mononoke, embarcadero cinema
11/13/99 porco rosso by hayao miyazaki (japan, 1992); only yesterday by isao takahata (japan, 1991), the pfa
11/12/99 caligula, the uc theatre
10/29/99 spike & mike's sick & twisted festival, the uc theatre

Paula Balciunaite begins the journey.

lunch

andronico's sandwiches are the best i've had. generous slices of supremely fresh tomato, hass avocado, red onion, lettuce, and deli ham, a bit of rich mayo, on sublime sourdough. a slake of pomegranate and blueberry juice. a bit later, a tiny swig of creamy, rich, thick, melted hot chocolate. still later, a luscious whole milk vanilla yogurt swirled with whole cherries, with a cream top. et maintenant, a wee kip.

cornucopia

the bay area is superlative. take today. brian greene is talking about his new book at 7:30 at cody's on telegraph. at 8pm, bright eyes is performing at the berkeley community theatre with blonde redhead, who is, reportedly, simultaneously playing at the warfield with interpol. dr. strangelove is showing at the red vic movie house. inside deep throat, at landmarks clay. gegen die wand, at castro theatre. un long dimanche de fiançailles, at landmarks embarcadero cinema. kinsey and the motorcycle diaries, at landmarks opera plaza theater. mala educación, at landmarks lumiere theater. sideways, at landmarks bridge...

last night

césar, the last in the trilogy. lavande & lavandin de provence, from aromates des alpilles...

another sublimey sunday with fo'

the magic of satie by jean-yves thibaudet. coffee and sconehenge muffins toasted hot and slathered with peanut butter, honey, and banana slices. chez maman (portero hill, 1453 18th st) for breakfast. savoyarde, a sumptious buckwheat crêpe with béchamel sauce, tomatoes, prosciutto, and brie. a fresh-squeezed orange juice. a drive through noe valley and diamond hill. a slow saunter through hayes valley. a peek into flight 001. amaretti bianchi from masse's. dr. bob's really dark chocolate ice cream. marius, the first in the fanny trilogy by marcel pagnol. fakebook by yo la tengo. almonds and kalamatas and wallaby banana-vanilla yogurt from andronico's. "quitting the paint factory: on the virtues of idleness" by mark slouka in harper's. de serge gainsbourg à gainsbarre. for dinner, from grégoire, grilled western veal chop with mushroom stew, mixed green salad with roasted beets, and pasilla pepper potato gratin. fanny, the second in the trilogy. rodney king merlot.

wheeler

I HEART HUCKABEES. not very good. honey, almond, and banana crêpe at crepes a-go-go on university.

italian movie night

jasmine green tea at strada. amnèsia (2002), by gabriele salvatores, in 100 GPB.

lichtenstein

from www.sfmoma.org:

Roy Lichtenstein: All About Art

Roy Lichtenstein's work first captured the world's attention in the 1960s, when he became known as one of America's foremost Pop artists. His signature style borrowed from mass culture — particularly comic books and advertising — bringing the look and feel of commercial printing to fine art. Lichtenstein also often paraphrased the history of art in his paintings, referencing canonical masterpieces as well as the tools of art, such as stretchers and brushstrokes. Roy Lichtenstein presents a thorough selection of these groundbreaking works — including more than 65 paintings and works on paper — chronicling the artist's fascination with the act of art-making over his long career. SFMOMA is the only U.S. venue for this major exhibition.

***

Belles Lettres: The Art of Typography


a prosciutto sandwich at working girls' cafe on new montgomery, with 'fo.

sun-day

the coit tower. polk street. the wharf. la pianiste (2001) by michael haneke.

1/16/05

from www.sfstation.com:

A Very Long Engagement (Un Long Dimanche de Fiancailles)

Albany Twin
1115 Solano Avenue, Albany, CA, 94706

Writer/director Jean-Pierre Jeunet's (Amélie) love story takes place in France near the end of World War I. Based on the novel by Sébastien Japrisot, Jeunet depicts one young woman's (Audrey Tautou) relentless, moving and sometimes comic search for her fiancé, a French soldier who has disappeared after being court-martialed and pushed out of an allied trench into an almost certain death in no-man's-land. What follows is an investigation into the absurdity of war and the enduring tenacity of the human heart. Co-starring Jodie Foster, Gaspard Ulliel, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Dominique Pinon and Tchéky Karyo. (Fully subtitled)

Cast: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Dominique Pinon, Clovis Cornillac, Jérôme Kircher, Chantal Neuwirth, Albert Dupontel, Denis Lavant, Jean-Pierre Becker, Dominique Bettenfeld, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Marion Cotillard, André Dussollier, Ticky Holgado, Jean-Paul Rouve, Jodie Foster, Bouli Lanners, Thierry Gibault, Philippe Duquesne, Solène Le Pechon, Virgil Leclaire, Julie Depardieu, Maud Rayer, Tchéky Karyo, Stéphane Butet, Marc Faure, Rodolphe Pauly, François Levantal, Michel Vuillermoz, Jean-Claude Dreyfus

Run Time: 2hrs 14mins
Release Year: 2004
Country Of Origin: France

les choristes

from www.sfstation.com:

The Chorus (Les Choristes)
Directed by Christophe Barratier

Landmarks Embarcadero Cinema
415-267-4893
1 Embarcadero Center
San Francisco, CA 94111

n 1949 in France, Clément Mathieu (Gérard Jugnot), an unsuccessful musician desperate for a job, arrives at a school for troubled boys, introducing the delinquents to something they've never experienced before—the freedom and joy of music. As the classroom fills with singing and laughter, Mathieu renews his passion for music and even finds an unexpected singing star in the class. But when a terrible crime is committed, the headmaster bans the choir from existence, forcing Mathieu and the children underground. Debut for writer/director Christophe Barratier, who also helped compose the original music for the film. Nominated for 2 Academy Awards, including Best Foreign Language Film. (Fully subtitled)

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some language.
Distributor: Miramax Films

Starring: Gerard Jugnot, Francois Berleand, Jean-Baptiste Maunier, Jean-Paul Bonnaire, Jacques Perrin

Produced by: Jacques Perrin, Arthur Cohn, Nicolas Mauvernay

yesterday

from www.sfstation.com:

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits

John Berggruen Gallery
415-781-4629 228 Grant St., 2nd/3rd Floors
San Francisco, CA 94108

This exhibition consists of 30 photographs, each in a diptych format, of porn-stars. Hailing from New York at the Mary Boone Gallery this show will make its second stop at John Berggruen Gallery.

Artist Timothy Greenfield-Sanders is renown for his portraits of members of the art world such as artists, musicians and critics. Inspired by "Boogie Nights", a Hollywood film about the private lives of porn-stars, Greenfield-Sanders began a new series of portraits in this vein. He chose to photograph people from all aspects of the industry: old and young, famous and unknown, gay and straight, male and female. Each portrait consists of two images side-by-side: one of the person clothed, and one in the nude.

According to Greenfield-Sanders, his goal was not to pass judgment on this industry, but instead to expose the essential dignity, beauty, and humanness of these porn-stars. He asked his sitters to act naturally in front of the camera and avoid a sexy, “pin-uppy” stance. The result is a series of portraits that confront the viewer with an honest and directed stare. The presence of these people is both startling and commanding as the depth of their individuality and psychology is revealed.

Greenfield-Sanders’ most recent publication: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits, which contains all thirty portraits, has received extensive press nationwide. In addition, both HBO and “60 Minutes” have produced documentaries on the process of this project (the "60 Minutes" episode has not yet aired).

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders was schooled in New York at Columbia University. For almost two decades he has been represented by the Mary Boone Gallery in New York. His work is shown internationally and is a part of many museum collections such as the Marimura Art Museum in Japan, the Museo de Arte Moderno e Contemporania in Italy, the Museum of Design in Germany, the Museo Contemporaneo in Mexico, and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas.

*****

American Modern

Hackett-Freedman Gallery
415-362-7152 250 Sutter St., 4th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108

Hackett-Freedman Gallery presents “American Modern,” an exhibition highlighting the development of modernism in the American visual arts. Curated by Director Michael Hackett, the exhibition brings together superb examples of American modernist painting, sculpture, and works on paper created between 1907 and 1942.

Works by Milton Avery, Arthur Dove, John Graham, Marsden Hartley, Hans Hofmann, Walt Kuhn, Gaston Lachaise, John Marin, Elie Nadelman, Georgia O'Keeffe, Max Weber and others

torta della nonna and a coffee at emporio rulli, the union square cafe. chicken at il pollaio in north beach.

taiko tonight: kodo

from http://www.calperfs.com/:

Venue: Zellerbach Hall

"Superlatives don't really exist to convey the primal power and bravura beauty of Kodo," says the Chicago Tribune. The undisputed masters of the ancient art of taiko drumming, this revered ensemble is a global phenomenon, creating exhilarating soundscapes that cast a spell on sold-out audiences wherever Kodo appears. Performing in a centuries-old tradition of group drumming that utilizes handmade instruments of various sizes and timbres — from delicate bamboo flutes to the thunderous 800-pound o-daiko drum — the members of Kodo are known for both the musical and athletic dynamism of their performances, synthesizing thrilling sounds with the rigorous technique of martial arts.

two-up tuesday

from www.berkeley.edu/calendar

Date:	Tuesday, February 1, 2005
Time:	4:00PM
Title:	Is Functional MRI the New Phrenology? Life Sciences & Genomics Seminar
Speaker:	Mark D'Esposito (Professor, Neuroscience & Psychology, UC Berkeley)
Location:	Bldg 66 Auditorium, LBNL
Type:	Seminar
Sponsor:	Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

from www.codysbooks.com
MARTIN JAY
discusses SONGS OF EXPERIENCE: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE is a remarkable history of Western ideas about the nature of human experience written by one of our best-known intellectual historians. With sweeping reach and lucid comparative analysis, Martin Jay explores Western discourse from the sixteenth century to the present, asking why the concept of experience has been such a magnet for controversy. As he explores the manifold contexts for understanding experience - epistemological, religious, aesthetic, political, and historical - Jay engages an exceptionally broad range of European and American traditions and thinkers from the American pragmatists and British Marxist humanists to the Frankfurt School and the French poststructuralists, delving into the thought of individual philosophers as well, including Montaigne, Bacon, Locke, Hume and Kant, Oakeshott, Collingwood, and Ankersmit. Provocative, engaging, erudite, this key work will be an essential source for anyone who joins the ongoing debate about the material, linguistic, cultural, and theoretical meaning of "experience" in modern cultures. Martin Jay is Sidney Hellmen Ehrman Professor of History at UC Berkeley. 7:30 PM at Telegraph Avenue