Or any of the countless stars

The reading was cool. I now own a neat paperback of Couch (2008), signed; to be saved for the holidays. Which may be tricky. The excerpts Ben Parzybok read aloud and the first twenty pages I sneaked on my own were terrific.

In which I steal a meme from darcydodo: Jim Hosney's 100 Great American Films. Bold the ones you've seen, although since I've never taken a class with him, underlining is out in this case. There are some films on this list I really should have watched by now, especially the one I own.

ACE IN THE HOLE (1951)
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (1993)
ALIEN (1979)
ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (1955)
THE APARTMENT (1960)
THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD (2007)
BADLANDS (1973)
THE BAND WAGON (1953)
THE BANK DICK (1940)
BARRY LYNDON (1975)
BIGGER THAN LIFE (1956)
BIG WEDNESDAY (1978)
BLADE RUNNER (1982)
BLUE VELVET (1986)
BONJOUR TRISTESSE (1958)
BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967)
THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935)
BRINGING UP BABY (1938)
CASABLANCA (1942)
CASINO (1995)
CHARADE (1963)
CHILDREN OF MEN (2006)
CHINATOWN (1974)
CITIZEN KANE (1941)
CITY LIGHTS (1931)
THE CONVERSATION (1974)
CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS (1989)
DEAD RINGERS (1988)
DO THE RIGHT THING (1989)
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
DOWN BY LAW (1986)
DUCK SOUP (1933)
EAST OF EDEN (1955)
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (2004)
THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (1964)
FAR FROM HEAVEN (2002)
FUNNY FACE (1957)
GIGI (1958)
THE GODFATHER I AND II (1972, 1974)
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (1966)
THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940)
GROUNDHOG DAY (1993)
HEAT (1995)
HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940)
HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941)
IMITATION OF LIFE (1958)
THE INSIDER (1999)
JFK (1991)
KLUTE (1971)
THE LADY EVE (1941)
LAURA (1944)
LOLITA (1962)
MALCOLM X (1992)
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962)
MANHATTAN (1979)
MAN OF THE WEST (1958)
THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (1976)
MCCABE & MRS. MILLER (1971)
THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK (1943)
MISSING (1981)
MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001)
MUNICH (2005)
MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (1946)
MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (1991)
NETWORK (1976)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK (1977)
NOTORIOUS (1946)
O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? (2000)
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1968)
ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)
OUT OF THE PAST (1947)
THE PARALLAX VIEW (1974)
PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID (1973)
PATTON (1969)
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)
PINOCCHIO (1940)
THE PIRATE (1948)
RAGING BULL (1980)
RISKY BUSINESS (1983)
ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968)
THE SCARLET EMPRESS (1934)
SHERLOCK JUNIOR (1924)
THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940)
SHORT CUTS (1993)
SOME CAME RUNNING (1958)
SPEEDY (1928)
A STAR IS BORN (1954)
SUNRISE (1927)
SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950)
SWEENEY TODD, THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (2007)
SWING TIME (1936)
3 WOMEN (1977)
THE THIN RED LINE (1998)
TO BE OR NOT TO BE (1942)
TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1945)
THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948)
TWO FOR THE ROAD (1967)
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
VERTIGO (1958)

The bread that is three parts chaff to wheat

I am making a savory pie with mushrooms and farro. Hell, yeah, Neolithic founder crops.