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10DMC #day6: The Aristocats

07.01.2019 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

The Alley Cats--bass fiddle, piano, accordian, guitar--from The Aristocats

I’ve always been more a cat guy.

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Categories // Prattle Tags // 10dmc, animation, aristocats, disney, movies

What I’m reading:
Matt Walker’s Why We Sleep

06.04.2019 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

If Amanda Fucking Palmer has been “having a passionate affair” with a book—if “the information [in that book] is literally, physically, technically changing [her] life on a day-to-day basis”—well, I figured it might be worth a read.

And so far, it has been.

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YOLSF: One down, twenty-four to go

06.03.2019 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

25 squares with number 1 crossed out

Back near the beginning of the year, I committed to “The Year of Living Short Fiction,” during which I would write 25 short stories in 2019. I just finished the first of those stories.

I think I’m a little behind.

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10DMC #day5: Star Wars

04.04.2019 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Destroyer chasing Leia's shuttle

There are only two movies that I saw at least a dozen times in the theater. Star Wars is one of them.

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10DMC #day4: Flashdance

04.02.2019 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Famous water scene in Flashdance

On Day 4 of the 10 Day Movie Challenge, I was accused of having lost focus. I was supposed to be listing movies that impacted me, but, one commenter said, “This seems more like the women who impacted you, Greg.”

I should be careful about protesting too much, methinks.

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10DMC #day3: Blade runner

02.10.2019 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

If I’d listed this “10 Day Movie Challenge” in order by greatest impact, Blade Runner would have been first, hands down.

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10DMC #day2: Wait until dark

02.08.2019 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Audrey Hepburn holds up a match in the darkness in Wait Until Dark

I think a week or so of lost sleep counts as “impact,” no?

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10DMC #day1: For your eyes only

02.07.2019 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Movie poster from For Your Eyes Only

Without a single explanation? Nice try.

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The wall

01.29.2019 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

I’ve wanted to do this since I was a teenager.

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The year of living short fiction

01.16.2019 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

I’m amazed at the level of fear I feel in relation to my creativity.

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