Films of Finding Your Voice (without finding a dude)

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May 3rd, 2011

Once again, a faculty member here at MHGS, soon to be renamed The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology, asked me to come up with a list of film recommendations for a class. For this list, the goal was finding films that show a young woman coming into her own voice/coming-of-age. Sounds easy at first [...]

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My Bookshelves Are Organized By Color

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May 2nd, 2011

Thus, when I receive an email like this from my roommate, “Do you have any of these? Plato’s The Symposium Saint Augustine’s Confessions Thomas Aquinas Summa Contra Gentiles: God Rene Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy Immanuel Kant Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics If so, can i borrow them? b” My response turns out like this, [...]

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Sounds of Synestheisa: The Gentle Season

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April 23rd, 2011

Spring is here more or less. At least enough for introspection to turn its eyes out to the garden and wait for the tulips to bloom and for love to grow. It’s the season for music of pastel blushes and soft blues tinged with green and yellow tips. While all my seasonal playlists have some [...]

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Block-Busted

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April 16th, 2011

Only a few weeks ago, I stepped out of the Closing Sale of the Lower Queen Anne Blockbuster holding the copy of Jane Campion’s Bright Star I’d just purchased for $5.99, and found myself facing the closed movie theater across the street where I had seen the film one year ago. Both businesses now bereft [...]

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“What Yankee Candle Means to Me” Episode 4

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April 6th, 2011

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“What Yankee Candle Means to Me” Vlog Part 3

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March 25th, 2011

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Narrative Mixology

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March 21st, 2011

I’ve fallen a bit behind in my cocktail recipe posts. Something I’ve been super excited about is that at the end of last season I launched Intiman’s first Signature Cocktail Menu, offering a selection of crafted cocktails in addition to the two Show Specialty drinks we do for every production. The genesis of the Signature [...]

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Bulletin Board of the Brain Video Blog Segment 2

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March 17th, 2011

My video series on the Yank Can continues, with ANOTHER 12+ minutes. (sorry for the shaky camera at times- the weight of the candles affected the surface I was filming from. oops)

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Film Prescriptions

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March 16th, 2011

A friend and I are doing a trade where he’s giving me a list (CD) of music I should know and I’m giving him a list of films he should know. To keep it simple, I started just with films I own. It’s not comprehensive, and it’s got some he’s probably already seen, but as [...]

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The Time Machine of Not Leaving

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February 17th, 2011

Early last December, I was checking movie times online and it appeared that my favorite Lower Queen Anne movie theatre was no longer operating. “That can’t be!,” I thought, for just a few days ago, I had picked up my friend Richard there after he watched a matinee of “The Social Network.” How could it [...]

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