last lecture

so, a classmate of mine forwarded this on... the original lecture was delivered at carnegie mellon university, this is a reprisal of it on Oprah, reduced to just 10 minutes... and although i'm not an Oprah fan, this is really great.

http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=ithct48cqw

living in california

so, we've grown pretty accustomed to living here... oliver and i took marc and maureen to hollywood last month while they were visiting, and for those of you who've never seen a celebrity, here's batman... walking home.

muzak

i've decided to copy a few friends and do the music thing, we'll see what oliver thinks of it! these are just a few songs i've been into lately.. i'll have oliver add a few when he gets a hold of the account!

also, that falling slowly won an oscar for best movie song -- oliver and i heard it this summer and it's so good. really great. and their acceptance speeches were really great too. made my night.

here's a link to them... the video's off of youtube since it's copyrighted or whatever, but here's the text..

speeches

i love how glen hansard ended with just "make art! make art!" and jon stewart gave Markéta Irglová another chance on stage after the orchestra started pre-maturely and she was shooed off. he walked her back out and just said this is your moment! you should get to enjoy it! or something.