My Own Private Calenture: August 2008

Friday, August 29, 2008

Valley of Fire, Nevada

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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Mt. Charleston 2

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Mt. Charleston 1

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Been There

Alfred, New York
Angelica, New York
Animal Kingdom (Disneyworld), Florida
Aurora, New York
Bangkok, Thailand
Buffalo, New York
Canandaigua, New York
Cocoa Beach, Florida
Connecticut
Cooperstown, New York
Corning, NY
Dansville, New York
Eldorado, Nevada
Epcot (Disneyworld), Florida
Geneseo, New York
Grand Canyon, Arizona
Hamlin, New York
Hawaii
Hershey's World, PA
Hoover Dam, Nevada
Hornell, New York
Howes Cave, New York
Kingston, Ontario
Las Vegas, Nevada
Lockport, New York
Luray Cavern, VA
Manhattan, New York
MGM (Disneyworld), Florida
Montreal, Canada
Mt. Charleston, Nevada
Naples, New York
Nelson, Nevada
New Jersey
Niagara Falls, Canada
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada
Nunda, New York
Oakland, New York
Old Alexandria, Virginia
Old Sturbridge Village, Mass.
Penn Yann, New York
Pennsylvania
Seneca Falls, New York
Seneca Lake, New York
Skeneatles, New York
Sodus, New York
Stockbridge, Mass.
Syracuse, New York
Thousand Islands, New York
Toronto, Canada
Valley of Fire, Nevada
Washington DC

Been There 2

African Lion Safari, Canada
Aurora Inn, Aurora, NY
Canada's Wonderland, Canada
Farmers' Museum, Cooperstown, New York
Geore Washington's Mount Vernon, Washington DC
Goose Watch Winery, Romulus, NY
Howe Caverns, Howes Cave, NY
Knapp Winery and Vineyard Restaurant, Romulus, NY
Kualoa Ranch, Hawaii
MacKenzie-Childs, Aurora, NY
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Hawaii
New York Wine and Culinary Center, Canandaigua, NY
Polynesian Cultural Center, Hawaii
Pumpkin Hill Bistro, Aurora, NY
Punchbowl Cemetery, Hawaii
Sea Life Park, Hawaii
Sheldrake Point and Simply Red Bistro, Ovid, NY
Thirsty Owl Wine Co., Ovid, NY
Thousand Islands, NY
Waikiki Beach, Hawaii
Waterloo Premium Outlets, Waterloo, NY
Wet n' Wild, Hawaii

Note Books 1

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
Collected Poems by Louise MacNeice
Collected Poems by Philip Larkin
Critical Villa: Essays in Literary Criticism edited by Jonathan Chua
Doveglion and other cameos by Quijano de Manila
Footnote To Youth by Jose Garcia Villa
For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
If Tomorrow Comes By Sidney Sheldon
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Naomi by Junichiro Tanizaki
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Passional: New Poems and Some Translations by Ophelia A. Dimalanta
Poltergeist: A Study in Destructive Haunting by Colin Wilson
Selected Poems and New by Jose Garcia Villa
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
The Anchored Angel:Selected Writings by Jose Garcia Villa (Eileen Tabios ed.)
The Day The Dancers Came by Bienvenido N. Santos
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Press edited by Geneva Overholser and Kathleen Hall Jamieson
The Stranger by Albert Camus
What The Body Told by Rafael Campo
What the Hell for you left your heart in San Francisco by Bienvenido N. Santos
Whites by Norman Rush
You Lovely People by Bienvenido N. Santos

Worth watching

A Love To Hide
A Praire Home Companion
A Simple Curve
Adam and Steve
American Beauty
Another Gay Movie
Atonement
Babel
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Be With Me
Born Into Brothels
Breakfast At Tiffany's
Brokeback Mountain
California Reich
Capote
Carrie
Celluloid Closet
Coming Out
Crash
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Curse of the Golden Flower
Die Mommy Die
Doubt
Driving Miss Daisy
Drumline
Eat Drink Man Woman
Everything Is Illuminated
Fantastic Four
Fried Green Tomatoes
Good Night and Good Luck
Grapes of Wrath
House of the Spirits
Hunter X Hunter
Inuyasha
Julie and Julia
Julie and Julia
Juno
Justice League Unlimited
Kandahar: Journey into the heart of Afghanistan
Kill Bill Vols. I and II
King of Texas
Kinky Boots
Kung Fu Hustle
La Vie En Rose
Latter Days
Little Children
Little Miss Sunshine
Mambo Italiano
March of the Penguins
Meerkat Manor
Misery
Monster
Monster Ball
Mrs. Henderson
Mulligans
My Best Friend's Wedding
Night and Fog
No Country For Old Men
North County
Our Time Is Up
Priest
Princess Mononoke
Roswell
Scotland, PA
Seabiscuit
Shine
Shrek 1,2, and 3
Shutter Island
Silence of the Lambs
Skeleton Key
Slumdog Millionaire
Smoke Signals
Snow Falling On Cedars
Speed
Spellbound
Surf's Up
Thank You for Smoking
The Brave One
The Cathedral
The Chubbschubbs
The Cider House Rules
The Color Purple
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
The Departed
The Devil Wears Prada
The Grudge (Ju-on)
The Hills Have Eyes
The Hours
The Kite Runner
The Last Emperor
The Last Farm
The Lives of Others
The Long Walk Home
The Magic of Ordinary Days
The Painted Veil
The Pianist
The Prestige
The Runaway
Thinking XXX
Thirteen Ghosts
This Movie Is Not Yet Rated
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Transamerica
Up
Veronica Guerin
West Bank Story
White Elephant
Wilde
Xiaolin Soccer
Zodiac