little theatre and john kerry
Oct. 14th, 2004 11:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nibot1. The Little Theatre is the coolest thing in the world. The Little is Rochester's art house cinema and it exists on one of the two blocks where the lights are still on in Downtown Rochester (along with Java Cafe [kind of an interesting link, btw, about Java's plans for the future...], Spot Cafe, and Eastman School of Music). Established in 1929 and now expanded to fill what used to be a couple auto-repair garages, it is a non-profit enterprise dedicated to showing independent and foreign film on five screens in addition to providing other hedonistic and intellectual pleasure via the cafe that they operate, in which they have live jazz and all that in what is, to boot, a very classy venue. You can (optionally) "join" for a $35 tax-deductable contribution and thereafter films are a mere $4.50 and free on sundays. In summary: Coolest Thing Ever.
Similar to FilmStudion in Lund where you could pay approximately $50 for a semester-long buffet of 54 films along several semi-annually chosen themes. Berkeley (with a cinema practically on every corner downtown) certainly has no shortage of theatres showing independent film, plays partial host to the San Francisco International Film Festival, and also has the Pacific Film Archive, (and the glorious Media Center in Moffitt Library) but still there it's hard to avoid paying $9 for a screening.
2. Tonight I saw Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry at the aforementioned Little Theatre, as it was closing night for that film. This documentary is a look into the Vietnam Veterans Against The War and John Kerry's leadership in that movement, propelled by narration by those who served with John Kerry in vietnam, historians, and reporters, along with a great deal of archival footage. (The present-day John Kerry is not featured in the film.) What emerges is a John Kerry who you might not know from this current presidential campaign, an astonishingly articulate man completely dedicated to ending the war in Vietnam. The highlight of the film is Kerry's testimony before Senator Fulbright and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, which is downright thrilling. What emerges is a John Kerry who is unquestionably the better qualified man to lead this country.
3. A glorious package arrived in the mail today, surface-shipped via FedEx from San Diego, an enormous package containing, carefuly packed up in foam and peanuts and nested boxes, my neon projects from the UCSD craft center, complete with a bucket full of goodies including electrodes, insulators, and a 2.7 kV power supply (thanks so much to my instructor, Bret Daniels, for the shipping!). The two CZ signs glow so prettily, one in a bright red neon and the other a subdued violet argon. Next project is to mount them on painted plywood and finish them up, and ultimately ship them to Berkeley. Other project is to get this moving-message LED sign working, but that's now delayed indefinitely, until my computer is fixed. Yes, I dropped my computer off the couch the other day, and it landed on the power plug. I completely disassembled the laptop yesterday into a dozen pieces, and found that the tiny square of circuit board containing the power plug had actually broken off. The broken part is not at all readily accessible, so my plan of soldering wires onto the circuit board may be quite difficult to accomplish. Not sure of any other option however.
4. I came back to University of Rochester expecting to work on my quantum homework all by my lonesome, but it appears that everyone is still here, hacking away at it. I hope I didn't misestimate its difficulty...
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