Day 14: Running on Fumes
March 12, 2009
Day 14, Week -1; March 12, 2009 @ 600AM
3 Miles, Treadmill – 24m 05sec
Threw in a rough workout after the running. Running on less than four hours of sleep becuase of work, but the physical strain was much needed to reset my spirits for the day.
San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival 2009 starts today!
Support!
I was DP on the short One For Three, a short we shot in the sweltering hawt bastion of suburbia known as Fremont. Good times, if you can get into the program it’s one of the stronger ones in the shorts series.
See y’all there…
Day ???: Summary
March 10, 2009
I’ve been running. Just haven’t been updating. :/
Day 8, Week -3; February 26, 2009
Ran 5 miles; Saw From Monument to Masses and a bunch of old friends. FMTM is truly cinematic. I’d like to work with them to do a doc on their tour, but I’m sure somebody’s already got them covered that way.
Day 9, Week -3; February 28, 2009
Ran 6 miles – Up and down Twin Peaks. Anyone else try that yet?? It’s not a bad hill run via the paved road, to make it challenging one should run up and down the paths and get their knees beat. Sight was loverly, I probably saw you down there either with loved ones, or chillin’ by yourself.
Day 10, Week -2; March 2, 2009
Ran 4.0 miles
Day 11, Week -2; March 3, 2009
Ran 3.5 miles. Ran outside. Along Embarcadero, through Chinatown. I hit up the Manilatown Heritage Foundation space and saw Jerome R. and Jose T. Jerome has been holding classes there and is working on something pretty awesome-like, it’s top secret, so I’m not at liberty to say other than it involves memory and space.
Day 12, Week -2; March 4, 2009
Ran 5 miles @ 7:30PM. Treadmill running.
Day ?, Week -1; March 9, 2009
Ran 2.5 miles @ 5:30AM; I chased the moon, and ran from it. It was cold, felt like 45, ice down my lungs.
Ran 3.0 miles @ 2:30PM; I walked with Jerry for a bit, asked about his health. Ran up embarcadero, and through Chinatown.
This morning I woke up with a stronger cough. Thanks.
Aside from the continuing regimen, I’ve been watching these movies:
Played at Cinequest. It’s about a young man regaining his identity after being imprisoned for 10 years due to his political involvement in a failed Turkish rebellion. Set against a forested backdrop, the film works to isolate his anguish. The lead heads to the city often and falls for a sullen prostitute. Their dynamic is the familiar Holy-Mary-Mother-Whore relationship. I was on the fence about it, however, the cinematography was on-point, which narrative nods to Dr. Zhivago, Autumn is still an honest attempt at never being quite the same ever again.
Also played at Cinequest. Films an ambitious, and indulgent road tour on the existential Argentinian male. Traversing rural, and abandoned landscapes, the geographies match their mutual protagonists. The writing is a romp, and the direction is committed in its hubris, with a voice-over film hitting a little over four hours. Yes, four hours.
Also played at Cinequest. Caught this one here because the SFIAAFF screening is sold out. Y’all are missing out if you don’t get to catch this film. I’ve always held in high esteem films about falling apart, implosion, dissolution, and eventual rebirth-malformed as it may become. This film is absolutely that. You’ll love the forays into the nuclear family webbing becoming undone, and the butterfly that emerges – and yes, I probably ruined the film for you at that point… not really. Watch it whereever you catch it.
Caught this at 4AM. I only got through 2 chapters of the comic, and a couple of articles, so I had a superficial understanding. Loved it. You need to watch it, Moore purist or not. If you’re a hater, please tell me what the last comic film that seemed to be hermenutic AND hermetic all at once (pretentious, of course).
I’ve been filling myself with this too:
I’m not the only one diggin this ish:
Paz.
