Film great Ingmar Bergman dies at 89 July 31, 2007

By Duane Byrge

July 31, 2007
Ingmar Bergman, one of the leading influences in the development of cinema whose films probed the mysteries of human existence with indelible imagery, died in his sleep Monday at his home on an island off the coast of Sweden. He was 89.

With more than 50 feature films to his credit, together with more than 100 theatrical productions, the Swedish director gained an international following with works often inspired by Scandinavian theater and its richly developed themes of religious ritual, romantic passion and family tradition.

Three of Bergman's works won Oscars for best foreign-language film, and he was personally nominated nine times. In 1971, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded him its Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award…

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Watch… July 30, 2007

Howl's Moving Castle

hehe July 28, 2007

I just finished watching The Lost Boys

huh… July 25, 2007

I was looking through old e-mails trying to find some information I needed without having to bother someone about it when I came across a comment on a picture I had taken of mom's wheelchair when she was in the nursing facility. It's weird. Some of that stuff is fading, no not fading, receding. As soon as I looked at the picture I remembered, I was there in mind, but it was kind of a “huh” moment.

wackadoodle weirdness July 23, 2007

i went to this psychic in new hope many, many years ago a few times. each time she said i was going through a “bad cycle” or something like that. when i pointed out that said the same each time i came to see her, she then told me there was curse or something. she wanted to go pray for me, which of course included me paying her. i blew it off as her trying to rip me off. apparently my grandmom swore that a indian shaman/witch (a woman) put a curse on the women of our family.

huh.
just huh.

not saying it means anything, but i'm not saying it doesn't either.

my aunt is already looking for a spell or ritual for missy, melody and me to perform. there's the number 3 again.

jade July 23, 2007

last night as i was closing up the house to go up to bed, i was having to get the cats from the screened in porch. hemingway was no problem as he comes when i call him. jade on the other hand didn't want to come inside and every time i would go back onto the porch to try and get her inside the house, hemingway would come back onto the porch. so i put him inside the screen door but left it open a crack with the intent of grabbing her and putting her inside, only when i turned to do so she came running… straight at the screen door and straight into it. she bounced off. at that point i was laughing too hard to do anything, so i opened the screen door back up again and she ran inside a few moments later. it was one of the funniest things i've ever seen her do.

crisis averted… July 21, 2007

thursday night i went to hang out with shaun and liesel and then yesterday morning i went back to borrow their lawnmower. on both drives (they live 4 minutes away) i kept hearing this wallop-wallop, thump-thump sound, but it didn't sound like a flat tire. the first night i heard it, i kind of brushed it off thinking it was nothing, but when i heard it again the next day i decided it needed investigating. so as i was passing a wawa i decided to check out the tires. the tire was almost flat, but not totally, hence the unknown noise. i was able to fill it with air and boogie my ass to the closest garage. they plugged it in a jiffy and all was right with the world.

someone on deviantart actually requested that i make one of my pieces available for print!!

i hear a parakeet outside!!

i <3 Les Triplettes de Belle Ville July 20, 2007

hey <lj user="ashshaman">!! July 19, 2007

last night… July 19, 2007

had a party last night at her place as a welcome home for one of our friends. It was a very fun night as well as a very late one. as most of you have already seen on 's lj, there was a fire in one of the buildings in her complex. there were 10 foot flames shooting out of the window, it was completely insane. i just hope the occupants had insurance.

last night was one of those times that i really wished i'd had my camera with me. after all was said and done, one of the fire fighters pulled a lounge chair off of someones porch so he could sit down. it would have been a great pic.

oh yeah, and i got asked out on a date. heh.