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Movie: The Lives of Others (2006)
A finely crafted portrait of life in East Berlin before the wall came down, this movie is full of tiny details that bring your mind back to sift through long after it’s over. Certified Fresh
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A little sun at the Palace
Clare comes up from Denver hoping for sun, but high clouds just seem to thicken. The temperature still hasn’t reached freezing when she gets here, but she’s game to do a little hiking if it’s too cold for climbing, so we head up Poudre Canyon anyway. The clouds don’t lift, but it is warmer at…
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Book: The Foundation Trilogy
author: Isaac Asimov name: Dylan average rating: 4.44 book published: 1964 rating: 4 read at: 02/08 date added: 02/03/08 shelves: review: I wanted to read the three books Asimov wrote in his early twenties first. The most amazing thing to me is how the writing, even as it stretches imagination and creativity with almost shocking…
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Movie: Venus (2006)
Peter O’Toole faces old age and death with longing, lust, and humor. It felt really good to laugh through a movie after the heavy film diet we’ve been on. The subject is not belittled at all though, this is the sort of laughing at ourselves that gets us through the hard times. Certified Fresh
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Movie: Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
Not at all what I expected – I would call this primarily a war horror movie. The gore was nearly too much for me. I made it through because it is a good concept, following both the inner and outer life of a child in a war situation. Certified Fresh
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Grays Peak Road Ski
Ann, Dad, and I make our way up the road to the Grays Peak trailhead, and have a nice run back down again. (Ann literally had a run, in her snowshoes.) I’m still playing with flash slideshows – mouse over “Notes” to see captions on this one: Grays Peak Road Ski at EveryTrail:
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Live Music: CSO & Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg
Due to some imprudent timing of caffeine and alcohol intake, I was drowsy when we arrived at Boettcher concert hall. As a result, the energetic program of 20th century big-hitters thrust me into a turbulent half-dream world that I won’t soon forget. Britten’s “Four Sea Interludes†from Peter Grimes began the spell with an hypnotic…
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Northern Colorado Climbers Coalition
I went to this pre-meeting mostly just to listen in and see what’s up. My only contribution was when people were yelling out ideas for the website. Everything people wanted I recognized as features of a wiki, so I yelled out “Make it a wiki!” And everyone yelled out, “No!” Here are the minutes mailed…
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Movie: Return To Schralptown (2007)
Steep would have been enough ski porn for awhile, but then I saw that Return to Schralptown was playing at New Belgium Brewery as a fundraiser for the excellent Colorado Avalanche Information Center. With beer. For donations. A cause too worthy to ignore. I enjoyed this movie more than Steep. The emphasis is less on…
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Movie: Babel (2006)
A movie in the same vein as Amores Perros (also by director Alejandro González Iñárritu), several disparate characters with some common tie are followed. This time the settings spread across the globe instead of just Mexico City. Also like Amores Perros it’s very effective, but unrelentingly heavy. The title theme seems to apply at least…