Lost in LaMancha. The director of two of my favorite movies, Brazil and Twelve Monkeys started to film a retelling of Don Quixote starring Johnny Depp. Shortly after filming began, financing started to fall through, audio was ruined by a NATO airbase, and flash floods destroyed many of the films sets. Then […]
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Five favorite podcasts
Posted in five on Mar 20th, 2008
I gave up on the radio years ago, I’m pretty sure I haven’t turned on the radio in my car since Sidney started school, maybe 3 years? It’s all iPod all the time now. No more commercials, no more guessing what’s on a station, or wondering if the station is going to be […]
Five places I spent my childhood
Posted in Jeremy, Johnsen Family, five on Mar 13th, 2008
Some of this retreads Five good childhood memories, but now with photos! The neighborhood I grew up in was pretty quiet, so I had the run of the place. My parents let me take off, and I went anywhere I wanted in the nine block area.
1. The Scout Cabin. Not that […]
Five good childhood memories
Posted in Jeremy, Johnsen Family, five on Jan 30th, 2008
I’m talking about earliest memories here, none of them are particularly good or bad. After thinking and jotting memories down for a week, there are the five earliest I can remember. When I started thinking about it, I thought for sure all the bad memories would stand out, after all I’m a […]
Five bad childhood memories
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 14th, 2008
These are the earliest I can remember. You’d think that the pessemist in me would remember all the bad stuff, but this was pretty hard. I jotted down notes for a week for a list of five good and five bad, it it was harder than I expected.
1. The crawlspace. […]
I’ve got some great Christmas presents as an adult, but it isn’t the same when you actually have money and can buy something. Usually for Christmas now I ask for something we need, last year was money to work on our basement. This year I decided to ask for fun stuff, no more things that […]
Five Feminist Websites
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 7th, 2007
It’s my mom and dad’s fault (I guess my wife and daughter share the blame though). I grew up in a conservative area, in a patriarchal religion. There really wasn’t a good reason women’s issues should matter to me. I honestly thought men were better than women as a kid. My dad was big and […]
Five Flavors of Ice Cream
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 4th, 2007
Breyers used to be the perfect ice cream. It was all natural, something you rarely see in the freezer at a grocery store. You could usually count the number of ingredients on one hand. It’s still the best, but Unilever bought them and messed it up by adding an additional ingredient, Tara […]
Five Cover Songs
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 24th, 2007
I love cover songs. A great cover takes it and turns it into something new and interesting. Here are five cover songs that beat the originals.
1. Baby Got Back by the musical genius Jonathan Coulton (who also wrote the amazing end-credit song to the new game Portal). Originally by Sir Mix-a-Lot. […]
Five happy-cry moments
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 20th, 2007
Sidney learned early the difference between happy crying and sad crying. Britnie and I are big crybabies, usually for different reason. She tends to cry over everything, but especially when she’s really happy. For that reason we had to explain very early that mom was crying because she was happy, not because […]