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The year was 2008, and the movie was Elizabethtown. Actually, that movie was released in 2005 but by 2008 the DVD was out. And DVDs mean only one thing: you watch the same movie over and over until you get sick of it...or until you get just plain sick. Either works. Elizabethtown is not a very good movie at all. It's got a few things going for it, though. Paul Schneider is in it. Alec Baldwin does a pithy but surprisingly amusing cameo in it. The band My Morning Jacket is in it. In point of fact...

Into the Great Wide Open, or, Road-trippin' in South Dakota

There is a place in the United States of America where if you happen to glance out your window as you drive past on the highway, you might see a metal sculpture of a skeletal man leading an equally skeletal T-Rex toward a small western town. Skeleton Man and his pet live “between.” They’re in that hazy world between the place you left and the place you want to be. They are a part of the ride that you live through before you get to where you were really going. There was a time when families used ...

I'll tell you about Texas Radio and the Big Beat

Sherman, set the WABAC machine to about 2006, I guess. I hadn't actually had anything other than a point-and-shoot camera in my hands in quite some time. I used to borrow one of those Sony Mavica MVC FD90 cameras from work just about every weekend though. Anyone remember those? You'd put a 1.44 MB (that's megabyte, not gigabyte) floppy disk in the thing as your storage medium. The disk would hold about six shitty 1.6-megapixel images on it, so if you were going anywhere, you'd either have to be ...

setting the stage

I have a confession to make. I'm not always that good at taking photos. I suppose that I shouldn't expect to be perfect all the time, but even though this is just a hobby, a guy can dream, right? Consider: I started taking photos in high school at the age of seventeen. The story is that I stole my mom's Praktica SLR (she wasn't really using it anyway!) to join the yearbook staff. In this case, join the yearbook staff really means impress a girl. She was the photo editor, and shooting photos = de...

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