a salute to evil oars

Many of you may recognize this old Fayes employee and have been wondering, "What is he up to????????"

Well here are a few places to look:

http://missionmission.wordpress.com/
http://www.thesecretalley.com/bios/bio_ariel.html
and
http://www.baycat.org/

TOP 100 RENTED MOVIES

CITY OF GOD

THE OFFICE (UK)(SEASON 1)

ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE K

THE BIG LEBOWSKI

THE SQUD & THE WHALE

DONNIE DARKO

ETERNAL SUNSHINE

SIX FEET UNDER (SEASON 1)

40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN

LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE

SECRETARY

LOST IN TRANSLATION

RUSHMORE

THE BOURNE IDENTITY

NAPOLEON DYNAMITE

STRANGER THAN FICTION (2006)

CAPOTE

THE LIFE AQUATIC

THE VIRGIN SUICIDES

KILL BILL VOL. 1

Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN

BEST IN SHOW

THE WIRE (SEASON 1)

AMELIE

THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES

MAGNOLIA

DIVING BELE & THE BUTTERFLY

VOLVER

CLOSER

JUNEBUG

SIDEWAYS

THERE WILL BE BLOOD

GARDEN STATE

WALK THE LINE

BABEL

I HEART HUCKABEES

SPIRITED AWAY

O, BROTHER WHERE ART THOU

CASINO ROYALE (2006)

ZOOLANDER

THE BOURNE SUPREMACY

CHILDREN OF MEN

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

MATCH POINT

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

THE DEPARTED

WEEDS (SEASON 1)

FREAKS AND GEEKS

HALF NELSON

ANNIE HALL HUSTLE & FLOW WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER THANK YOU FOR SMOKING TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE AMORES PERROS ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER GRIZZLY MAN THE CONSTANT GARDNER THE DARJEELING LIMITED BOTTLE ROCKET PAN'S LABYRINTH HIGH FIDELITY THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP HAROLD & KUMAR GO TO W.C. SPELLBOUND (2003) THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS TRANSAMERICA BORAT FIGHT CLUB HOTEL RWANDA KNOCKED UP THE LIVES OF OTHERS MARGOT AT THE WEDDING CATCH ME IF YOU CAN GHOST WORLD THE SPANISH PRISONER LORD OF THE RINGS 1 BAD EDUCATION CRASH (2005) LITTLE CHILDREN THE SOPRANOS (SEASON 1) VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA ADAPTATION SEX AND LUCIA CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM SEASON 1 KILL BILL VOL. 2 THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND V FOR VENDETTA FRIDA THE ILLUSIONIST 25TH HOUR BIG FISH FRIENDS WITH MONEY SCHOOL OF ROCK SIX FEET UNDER (SEASON 2) WAITING FOR GUFFMAN SHORTBUS DIRTY PRETTY THINGS

N.I.N.Y. -- Michael and Mark in NY!

Fayes' own Mike McConnell (look Mike, I can spell your name) and Mark Poulin came to New York this past week because Mark makes great jewelry and participates twice a year in the New York International Gift Fair. Well, it was lovely to see these two out here. I always get excited to see SF people out in NY, in a new setting.

We had dinner, just the three of us, last Friday at Elephant & Castle. Then I stopped by to visit them at the Javits Center on Sunday, after I got let off work early because of a burst dirty water main above the kitchen. Finally, I met up with these two and their friend, Carl, last night, to go to dinner at the Empire Diner. At dinner, we talked a lot about poop, pooping in plastic bags, pooping in your overalls and shaking it out your pants leg, etc. In other words, we were all about the appropriate public dinner talk.

I'll miss all this fecal discussion. Currently, Mike and Mark are headed back on a plane to SF. But I had an excellent time with them while they were here. Good visit, M&M! Also, don't forget to look into adopting Pinky.

$2 Family Thursday - this week!

"secret of nihm" 1982


So yeah, it's been raining a bunch and no sign of it letting up until Saturday. Maybe it's time to get the little one a movie and relax for a few hours. Or since the movies won't be due back until Sunday, get your Family Films for the weekend, today! why? Cause this weeks Thursday section is Kids movies... the entire section is $2!!! Relive you childhood on the cheap!

We didn't have "The Hurt Locker."

poor guy :(

Your Friday Night?

Stop by here* after work...

see some art...

get a drink...

order some pizza at delfina...

pick up a movie at fayes...

go home...

and wait for the rain.

*ID Redux

January 15–February 20, 2010
Opening: Friday, January 15, 2010, 6–8:30 pm
714 Guerrero Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

Cain Schulte Gallery is pleased to present the group show “ID Redux.” The exhibition brings together the work of one Berlin-based and three Bay-Area artists: Daniel Ochoa, Kirstine Reiner, Michael McConnell, and Lars Theuerkauff.

Portraiture becomes the unifying theme of the four artists' inquiry, the research perimeter for their intervention. The physical appearance becomes a symbol for personal identity, condensed and reduced to a single expression, expanded into the viewer’s mind into an imaginary narrative.

Facial expression and body language are usually considered as suggestive of stories laden with our personal interpretations, thus reducing in one single observed gesture the complexity of the individual. However, one soon realizes that in reality, unlike photographs that do capture an expression in a moment, painted portraits are the negation of the instant, thus raising important issues about time, truth, permanence, and perceived identity.

Daniel Ochoa presents his latest oil paintings, which engage viewers to ponder notions about human consciousness, belonging, randomness. His intense, at time grotesques portraits, raise important questions about assimilation, integration, and culture, while representing the obscurity and complex layering of human emotions.

Kirstine Reiner is the author of a series of expressionist portraits. In these subjects the artist seems to seize upon a secret meaning, an inner space less concerned with a physical likeness or the final outcome, rather striving to achieve an uncensored reaction and interpretation of the model.

The work of Michael McConnell pivots on the collection and analysis of autobiographical stories. His paintings, reminiscent of old photographs, blur the line between the observed and the imagined. A closer observation of playful images of children and animals reveals darker stories of skepticism and failure, layered with narrative possibility.

With great care, Berlin artist Lars Theuerkauff starts from a disarray of paint marks that finally unite in coherent images. The images disappear at close up, lost in a contemporary pointillism that make the images almost accidental. In his work Theuerkauff represents and gives form to the most secret and intimate of human spaces - that of the dream and of the subconscious.

N.I.N.Y. -- The Mexico Edition

¡Hola, San Francisco!

I'm here in Puebla, Mexico, on a six day trip with my honors seminar group. We flew in to Mexico City on Wednesday afternoon and spent the rest of the day touring the central zocalo. We stopped in at the Palacio Nacional to see Diego Rivera's murals, then moved on to the Catedral Nacional. We closed the Mexico City afternoon with a look at the Aztec ruins which lie off to the side of the central square.

That same evening we took a 2 hour bus ride down to Puebla, where we're spending most of our visit, with the exception of two day trips to Cholula and Cuetzalan. I've been having a great time here in Puebla. I was here 3 years ago, the only person out of our 50 person group to have been here before, so I vaguely know my way around the historical district of the city. The legal drinking age here is 18, so we've been strolling around the neighborhood at night, catching live musical performances, drinking micheladas, eating tacos, and getting free shots of tequila from the friendly local residents. Yesterday I discovered Rompope, a sweet alcoholic drink made with eggs, milk and sugar. I'll be bringing some home.

Today we took a trip to Cholula to see some of the churches along the way and visit the partially excavated pyramid and church that are the main tourist attractions in this adorable city. We trekked up over 1000 steps to reach the top of the pyramid, and I purchased a 30 cent necklace made of coffee beans. It smells excellent around my neck.

Tomorrow we take a day trip to Cuetzalan to visit a 'traditional' hospital and some steam baths. Our group is here until Tuesday, when we drive back up to Mexico City and fly back to NYC.

Fayes, I'll try and bring something shipping-friendly back to New York. that I can send home to you. The coffee here is excellent...

N.I.N.Y. -- Here for the Holidaze

And by HERE, I mean New York.

It's gotten super cold here. Even more cold than the cold weather all you people back in the Bay are complaining about. This morning when I left for work, it was a brisk 25 degrees out. I'm hoping for some more snow soon.

Today is my last day of class. Just a video art class in which we're watching everyone's final videos. Mine wasn't terribly amazing. I did a tribute to William Butler Yeats, masterpiece theatre style, with interjected cartoon sound effects and onomatopoeia text. It was silly, but that's the kind of weird humor my video art teacher seems to go for...

I live in a heavily Jewish dorm. We have NYU's only Kosher cafeteria and we host Shabbat dinners every Friday. Currently we have a fire hazard of a Hanukkah set-up placed in the front doorway where it's very susceptible to setting someone's winter coat on fire. For a dorm that doesn't allow toasters or electric kettles, this seems pretty risky.

Next Friday will be Christmas, a holiday I generally enjoy due to the family-time aspect. (We don't do gifts). So this year, to replace family time, I'm working on setting up an itinerary to keep me occupied for the holiday. On Christmas Eve, my friend Gus, a freshman at Columbia, and I will volunteer at a soup kitchen in the morning, go to Scores for a little afternoon entertainment, and see Heath Ledger's final film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, in the evening.

I'm still working out my plans for Christmas. Planning takes time. And don't even ask about New Year's Eve...

On Sunday on the train home from work, a man asked me if I shaved my knuckles, saying they were "extraordinary."
Who lets these people out of the basement?

Cheers for now. I'll be reporting back again soon, now that I have all this extra time on my hands.

Oh, and a closing note:
Everyone's good neighborhood friend, Marc Dantona (Pete's person), will be visiting NYC this weekend. I'm ready.

cute with kangaroos

yay Molly is back... and she is now famous thanks to cute with chris!
it just goes to prove that everybody is special.
and don't forget to check out...
http://chrisleavins.typepad.com/

THANKSGIVING OPENESS

THANKSGIVING DAY HOURS

FAYES will be open on 11/27

- Thanksgiving Day-

from 8am till 1pm

On Wednesday 11/26 movies are

2-for-1

(rent 1 movie get a free ‘non-new release’ rental)

New Releases that are rented on Wednesday 11/26 will be due on Friday 11/28 by 7pm

(you get an extra day on new releases rented on Wednesday- aka any movie that is due on Thursday will be due by Friday))

FRIDAY Hours

8am – 11pm

Gobble Gobble

N.I.N.Y. -- What A Crazy World We Live In

So I've had a pretty busy week, and during this week I've experienced and witnessed some pretty strange things. I apologize, none of these things directly relates to New York or Fayes Video, but that doesn't make them any less entertaining. Now I will write about them.

1.

I just found out about this kid.
http://www.justinbiebermusic.com/
Is he for real? Check out his perfectly combed hair. And all these sexy, prepubescent photos? He's 15 and wikipedia tells me he's a tween heartthrob. I lose faith in the judgement and taste of all American junior high aged girls when they make some kid who belongs on the men who look like old lesbians blog the second most googled "justin".

2.

My roomie. This girl also has given me serious reasons to doubt her taste. We have a Twilight poster hanging in our room, and today I witnessed her telling her mother over iChat that "the new Rob Thomas album is amazing!" This wouldn't be such a problem, but she likes to sing in the middle of the night, out loud, in bed, while I'm trying to sleep.

3.

Currently, I am surprising my own self. I am watching Legal Eagles. Again.

Quote of the Day, brought to you by Nina

Girl A: "What is female genital mutilation?"
Girl B: "I don't know, but I remember last season on America's Next Top Model that one girl had it."
Girl A: "True that."

Overheard while waiting at the Weinstein dorm elevator.