Agde 5/28/08 - Countryside of Plage de Conque

Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous. Some photos look like paintings...

In other news, I need "buying stuff for your nieces" rehab stat!

Agde 5/28/08 - Plage Conque

The most beautiful beach I've ever seen. Ground black rock instead of sand, breathtaking. Reminiscent of Ireland or Scotland. Wish I'd found this place earlier!

Agde 5/24/08 - Sete seaside rainey day

Sete is a fishing village about 20 minutes away from Agde by car, right on the Mediterranean, and in the foot of some mountains. A French friend of mine took me for lunch and a view of the beaches, but I didn't swim because it was cold and ready to storm. Agde and this area of southern France has turned very Paris-like lately and we have a forecast of nearly a whole week of rain. Still it was definitely beautiful though at times very violent...the sea spray can knock you over and leave you tasting salt on your face for an hour afterwards.
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Agde 5/24/08 - Riviera at night

The picture quality of the Iphone at night is not very good, but these are the best of the bunch. I was eating at one of the many riverboat restaurants that float on docks/platforms set in the river. The food is excellent and the view and breeze amazing, yet it's definitely different to be bobbing up and down while having dinner. I had pasta with fruits aux de mar (seafood) including shrimp, calamari, mussels, oysters. Mussels are really big here, and on almost every stand you can get moules and frites (mussels and fries).

Agde 5/21/08 - Riviera Boat Graveyard

Agde 5/21/08 - Riviera Houses + Streets

Agde 5/21/08 - Riviera Downtown

Street scenes from 5/19/08. I'm getting better at using the camera.

Promenade Park across the Heralt River, and a little market near my house. Highlights of today were the two old fishermen who made me hold an eel they'd caught, a kitten trying to crawl in my bedroom window to steal some salami, and a seagull in my bathroom window who apparently wanted to take a shower. Oh, and I've been mistaken for Russian twice. (Or at least I think so...they rattled off in Russian first, then looked confused and switched to French.) Kids are synonymous with bicycles here, everyone plays soccer, locals stores are closed most of the day, there are cats everywhere and its always sunny.

Agde 5/17/08 - My neighborhood

Hi all,
This is a movie I made from the photos that I took in Agde yesterday. They're mostly of my neighborhood. I'm still getting used to the camera and figuring out the flash, so some of the photos (esp St Sever church across the street from me) aren't fabulous, but I'm working on it.

More later, xoxo D

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

In the September 6, 2000 edition of The Onion A.V. Club titled "Is There A God?", celebrities were asked the question. Jolie was among those asked.

She reportedly replied: "Hmm... For some people. I hope so, for them. For the people who believe in it, I hope so. There doesn't need to be a God for me. There's something in people that's spiritual, that's godlike. I don't feel like doing things just because people say things, but I also don't really know if it's better to just not believe in anything, either."

Serendipity Obituary

Jonathan Trager, prominent television producer for ESPN, died last night from complications of losing his soul mate and his fiancee. He was 35 years old. Soft-spoken and obsessive, Trager never looked the part of a hopeless romantic. But, in the final days of his life, he revealed an unknown side of his psyche. This hidden quasi-Jungian persona surfaced during the Agatha Christie-like pursuit of his long reputed soul mate, a woman whom he only spent a few precious hours with. Sadly, the protracted search ended late Saturday night in complete and utter failure. Yet even in certain defeat, the courageous Trager secretly clung to the belief that life is not merely a series of meaningless accidents or coincidences. Uh-uh. But rather, its a tapestry of events that culminate in an exquisite, sublime plan. Asked about the loss of his dear friend, Dean Kansky, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and executive editor of the New York Times, described Jonathan as a changed man in the last days of his life. "Things were clearer for him," Kansky noted. Ultimately Jonathan concluded that if we are to live life in harmony with the universe, we must all possess a powerful faith in what the ancients used to call "fatum", what we currently refer to as destiny.

Grissom: The bellows.
Hodges: I'm sorry?
Grissom: James Tilly Mathews. Early 19th century London. Mathews was in Bedlam hospital awaiting trial. Doctors were trying to determine his sanity. Several interviewed him. Half thought he was sane, half insane. Turns out he was perfectly normal, except when someone mentioned politics. At that point, he'd go into a rage about the little men who lived underground and used a bellows to push thoughts into his mind, as well as the minds of Parliament, and the Queen. A specific object or word triggers the urge to kill. That's a form of delusional psychosis. Rare, but it does exist.

We rock

Dear Colleagues,

NSF recently released its information on the top 100 Psychology Departments for FY2004. Once again, UW-Madison is ranked #1 and brought in approximately twice as much funding as the #2 ranked department (Penn State - all campuses). Other Big Ten departments in the top ten include Illinois (#5), Minnesota (#8), and Indiana (#9). Congratulations!

Joe

She Spent an Hour in Her Driveway This Morning Telling Her Car to Go

Clerk to woman trying to use debit card: You have to confirm.
Woman: How I do that?
Clerk: With the keypad you're holding.
Woman, using keypad as cell phone: I confirm!

--Electronic store, Times Square

Overheard by: French dude

Source: overheardinnewyork.com

BBC E-mail: US cat 'predicts patient deaths'

A cat that appears to be able to predict when residents at a US care home are about to die baffles experts CLICK HERE to read

Oscar meows in protest if removed from the room of a dying patient

My vote is for biochemical, but fascinating nonetheless.

M A R Q U E C O R N B L A T T

M A R Q U E C O R N B L A T T

Art of Sculpture and Robotics



About the Artist

Marque Cornblatt was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1966 and now lives in San Francisco where he is currently an MFA candidate in the Conceptual Information Arts Program at SFSU. He has a diploma in theater technology from the Baltimore School of the Arts and a B.F.A. in film and video production from New York University.

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Nine Inch Nails to become TV stars

'Year Zero' turned into show


Nine Inch Nails are reportedly getting ready to turn their album 'Year Zero' in a television programme.

The futuristic show is said to centre around a time when the US is ruled by a right wing, religious dictatorship, reflecting the record's themes.

Frontman Trent Reznor said: "We've got a producer on board and have met with writers. We're about to pitch it to the network, so we're a couple of weeks away from meeting all of the main people, and we'll see what happens."

According to Blabbermouth, Reznor said he was also interested in turning the project into a film.

article link: http://www.nme.com/news/nine-inch-nails/30370

SJ works with the Yeah Yeahs

Scarlett Johansson is working on a new album featuring the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Karen O. So it's gonna be f*&king fantabulous.

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I heart Amy Winehouse

Amy Wino carrying around a bottle of Jack Daniels. Precious. Just precious.

Sossamon interview "Chakushin Ari" (2003)

In this remake of the Japanese horror film "Chakushin Ari" (2003), several people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves -- messages which include the date, time, and some of the details of their deaths.

VIDEO INTERVIEW

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Depp Duo

The first official shot of Johnny Depp as Sweeney Todd from the upcoming Tim Burton-directed adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim musical.

also...

Depp to vamp it up Barnabas-style
Warner Bros. is teaming with Depp's Infinitum-Nihil and Graham King's GK Films to develop a feature based on the '60s daytime supernatural sudser "Dark Shadows."

Depp has said in interviews that he has always been obsessed with "Dark Shadows" and had, as a child, wanted to be Barnabas Collins, the vampire patriarch of the series. The role was originated by Jonathan Frid.

A rights deal just closed with the estate of Dan Curtis, the producer/director who created the soap that aired weekdays on ABC, from 1966 to 1971. Depp and King will produce with David Kennedy, who ran Dan Curtis Prods. until Curtis died last year of a brain tumor. Infinitum-Nihil's Christi Dembrowski served as the point person on the deal.

Over 1,225 episodes, "Dark Shadows" was a highly atmospheric, spooky soap that featured gothic horror staples like vampires, monsters, witches, werewolves, ghosts and zombies. The show has a continuing rabid fan base that populates Dark Shadows Festival conventions. Numerous TV revivals of the series and pic adaptations have been attempted over the years but none with as high-wattage a star as Depp.

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Like fine wine

Proof that men get better with age.