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I'd love to do a Christmas themed wall again. Unfortunately, I almost never paint in the winter now. Maybe I'll head to Australia one of these years or something…
This post is especially for Dan, Lorie and Sarah since I talked this guy up at dinner the other night, but all of you should be checking out Mayer Hawthorne's A Strange Arrangement. Easily one of my favorite albums of the year. I've been listening to a lot of soul music over the past couple of years, so I was primed to like this guy's stuff.
I'm way behind on reviews. I saw Casablanca at the Brattle weeks ago now and am just getting around to writing about it.
I'm awful. I know it.
Anyway, is there any better place in the world to see Casablanca than the Brattle? For starters, it's classic art-house repertory cinema and the Brattle is the classic art-house. Beyond that, the Theater has a history with the movie, so there's an extra special feeling associated with seeing it there. See, in the 1950s the Brattle made a tradition of showing Bogie's films during final exam week at Harvard. It was very popular and people would come in costume, recite lines of dialog and sing along to the Marseillaise. So there's a hint of that in the air whenever Bogart graces the screen there. And that's awesome.
Do I really need to talk about the movie? Can I just say it's incredible? Cool. Because I'll just leave it at that. No one needs me to talk about Casablanca again 
I wasn't the most profiliic photograper this year, but that doesn't mean I didn't capture a ton of cool graffiti, the occasional bike race and some cool scenes/places. What follows are some of the cooler photos I posted to Flickr this year. Interestingly, the year begins and ends with JA XTC graffiti on a truck.
Sure this sketch would be better served by being posted closer to the holiday, but I was watching Holiday Inn last night, so I only did this one sketch.
Can you blame me? That's a great movie.