The Best of SIFF 2012: Week One
Goodbye (d: Mohammad Rasoulof, c: Leila Zare, Hasssan Pourshirazi, Behname Tashakor, Iran 2011, 104 min) Last year, I didn’t go to Pacific …
Category Archives: Creative Endeavors
A Night at the Opera….Simulcast
Seattle did a cool thing last Saturday night; it simulcast the opening night of Madama Butterfly–for free–in Key Arena. If …
The Film Festival Cometh…
Today I went to my first press screening (ever) for the Seattle International Film Festival. This is where the press, …
How I Spent My Birthday
My birthday was on a Wednesday this year, which meant that no one was free to do anything with me …
My First Memory
A rocking horse. That is my first memory of the world.
There was nothing special about the rocking horse, other than its use as a children’s toy, nor the location where it was located, in the upstairs hallway. I remember the carpet was blue, and the horse slightly off center from the top of the stairs. Of this last detail, however, I cannot be certain.
On its own, the image has no importance. What gives it importance are the circumstances which created it; namely, its being my first memory, the first thing I remember seeing in this world—even though, now, it exists only as a memory of a memory.
