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Original Link: http://jeffpfeffer.com/gallery/
One of my friends takes amazing pictures and so I posted the link on facebook and then my old friend from Middle school blogged about it. Posting both of them!
www.livejournal.com/~youresoabsurd
Below is her blog!!!
I Love You, Ann Arbor.
These are all taken by: Jeff Pfeffer.
( From: http://jeffpfeffer.com/gallery/ )
I think that he is a friend of Lily Pan – who I’ve known from grade school.
I found his website through her.
I used to live in an apartment at 321 E. Liberty Street.
It was a nice place, owned by a retired teacher who would occasionally bake himself in the apartment with his eldest son when they had to fix the place up, and when we wern’t around.
We housed one of our housemates in the furnished basement to make the rent cheaper.
This apartment was next to the Bead Gallery, which is the best bead store in the world, and I would go buy beads to make jewelry for people.
It was also only a few blocks from campus, and was located in the most beautiful area of town.
Every morning on my way to class, I passed by this alley:
This is the best painted alleyway in Ann Arbor.
It is beautiful, and Ann Arbor’s regular street performers and beggars come here as their usual joint to do their thing.
Show their stuff.
Poke their struts.
(Remember when Shakey Jake died?)
This guy plays Michael Jackson on his stereo and dances in the shadows.
He comes here to practice once a week.
He is really really good at it.
After passing the alley on Liberty Street, I walk up to the Michigan theater, (also on Liberty Street) which is known for the selection in independent films and international films.
They also host the Ann Arbor Film Festival, which I went to my last year in Ann Arbor.
It is a magnificent theater that is very old-opera theater-like in style, with an organ-player hitting the keys before each film is played:
After passing this theater, Liberty street ends and there is a T-intersection between Liberty and State street.
At the feet of Liberty street is the State theater:
It is sort of run down and shows only a handful of the movies that have been discontinued at the larger theaters weeks before.
They also have really stale popcorn.
I usually dip into an alleyway behind this theater (located to the left of the couple in this picture: http://jeffpfeffer.com/uncategorized/midnight-stroll/ ) in order to get to my classes, a few of those classes being located in the Dow Laboratories of the Chemistry building.
The indoor atrium inside the Chemistry building.
There usually arn’t any street performers located in this atrium.
Maybe this is a crazy graduate student:
Each biochemistry, organic chemistry, and biology course I took had a laboratory requirement.
Each laboratory class ate a fuckload of additional fees in “glassware insurance,” and it was something I had to pay before taking the course.
A careful and mousey person like me never breaks glassware.
I never got to see that money again.
And so I used to steal a ton of glassware from here.
The campus also had a diag, and on the east of it stood these archways, which is always beautiful to walk through:
It also has a sign to the left of it, but authorities don’t enforce it and bikers don’t abide by it (in the most disrespectful way they can, with marker).
I don’t actually know where he took this next picture.
It was taken from either:
1. North University Street in the Hill area.
If you keep heading west towards Nichols Arboretum, you come by a graveyard.
This could be a tree in the graveyard.
2. Washtenaw Avenue, towards Yipsilanti past Truth house Co-op (where I lived).
This could be a tree in one of the (frat?) estates on Washtenaw.
Probably the graveyard.
There are various bohemian-esque boutiques scattered around Ann Arbor, and this is one of them.
This one happens to be located on the opposite area of town from the picture above.
(Or rather, located more centrally, because it is downtown Ann Arbor.)
Main Street.
When I look at these pictures, I am hit with a wave of sadness and endearment all at the same time.
It’s as if he looks into my memories to conjure up these images.
I try to memorize the minute details I am not sure I will see again.
JGL seriously…dreamy!
Probably one of my fav parts of the movie
Restaurant Week at Bella Ciao June14, 2009
1st Course Selections
Chilled Pea Soup garnished with Carrot Créme Fraîche and Crispy Lardons
Garden Salad of Mixed Baby Greens, Cherry Tomatoes, Carrots, English Cucumbers, and Shaved Red Onion with Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Balsamic Vinegar
Bruschetta topped with Chicken Liver Pâté
Asparagus and Arugula with Strawberry Champagne Vinaigrette
Suggested Wine: Prosecco di Valdobbiadene, Montesel, NV
2nd Course Selections
Soft Shell Crabs sautéed in Lemon Butter with Spring Herbs and Julienne Vegetables
Zucchini Flower Ravioli with Roasted Pepper Sauce and Basil Oil
Spinach Stuffed Amish Chicken Breast with Fontina Sauce
Marinated and Grilled Flat Iron Steak with Peppercorn Marsala Sauce
Suggested White Wine: Viognier, Qupe “Ibarra-Young” Qupe, Santa Ynez, 2006
Suggested Red Wine: Sangiovese/Colorino “Sassolino,” Pietra Santa, CA, 2005
3rd Course Selections
Ricotta Cheesecake
Espresso Panna Cotta
Fresh Raspberry and Chocolate Ganache Tart
Puff Pastry filled with Strawberries and Rhubarb
Suggested Wine: Moscato d’Asti, Bosio, 2008
Lunch Sunday ~ June 14, 2009
Yedoro Tibs: Chicken breasts marinated overnight in fresh herbs, olive oil, garlic, shallots and cilantro. Grilled to the perfection and served with choice rice or vegetables
Zilzil Wat: Choice lean beef is gradually simmered in tangy berbere, onions and purified herbed butter served with two vegetables of the day and injera bread
Vegetarian Plate: Features your choice of three vegetable dishes with Timatim Salata and served with injera bread.
SUPER CUTE MOVIE!!
commentre: commends “UP” I haven’t laughed so much during a movie in a longgg time. 
Russell: [from trailer] Good afternoon. Are you in need of any assistance today, sir?
Carl Fredricksen: No.
Russell: I could help you cross the street.
Carl Fredricksen: No.
Russell: I could help you cross your yard?
Carl Fredricksen: No.
Russell: I could help you cross…
Carl Fredricksen: No!
[closes the door on Russell's foot]
Russell: Ow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm5e6AqrNF8
Comment: sad and emotional movie. Def recommend…it was very touching story about the 2 characters relationship and to what extent friendship and loyalty will go to. Def wanna read the book now since I heard its pretty accurate..and there were a lot of moments that could be clarified more.
Laconic and self-contained, Edward Wilson heads CIA covert operations during the Bay of Pigs. The agency suspects that Castro was tipped, so Wilson looks for the leak. As he investigates, he recalls, in a series of flashbacks, his father’s death, student days at Yale (poetry; Skull and Bones), recruitment into the fledgling OSS, truncated affairs, a shotgun marriage, cutting his teeth on spy craft in London, distance from his son, the emergence of the Cold War, and relationships with agency, British, and Soviet counterparts. We watch his idealism give way to something else: disclosing the nature of that something else is at the heart of the film’s narration as he closes in on the leak.
Comment: Must see movie! best ive seen in a while and everything tied together well. The pacing and acting of the film were great.
Ive seen this movie multiple times and still really like it.
IMDB: A wave of kidnappings has swept through Mexico, feeding a growing sense of panic among its wealthier citizens, especially parents. In one six-day period, there were twenty-four abductions, leading many to hire bodyguards for their children. Into this world enters John Creasy, a burned-out ex-CIA operative/assassin, who has given up on life. Creasy’s friend Rayburn brings him to Mexico City to be a bodyguard to nine-year-old Pita Ramos, daughter of industrialist Samuel Ramos and his wife Lisa. Creasy is not interested in being a bodyguard, especially to a youngster, but for lack of something better to do, he accepts the assignment. Creasy barely tolerates the precocious child and her pestering questions about him and his life. But slowly, she chips away at his seemingly impenetrable exterior, his defenses drop, and he opens up to her. Creasy’s new-found purpose in life is shattered when Pita is kidnapped. Despite being seriously wounded during the kidnapping, he vows to kill anyone involved in or profiting from the kidnapping. And no one can stop him.
Synopsis: Based on the novel by MYSTIC RIVER author Dennis Lehane, GONE BABY GONE marks the directorial debut of actor Ben Affleck. Featuring a solid cast that includes Ed Harris, Morgan Freeman, and Affleck’s brother Casey in the lead role as a private detective, GONE BABY GONE centers on the disappearance of a young girl in the working class neighborhood of Dorchester in South Boston. With plenty of twists and turns, the movie works as a solid crime thriller, but it’s as a study of a place–and one’s ability to either accept and embrace or ultimately break free from it–that the film flowers. Beneath the movie’s street-tough justice and cop shop politics sits a very complicated view of the world, which Affleck delves into unflinchingly, thanks in large part to his ability to extract some excellent performances from his cast. Casey Affleck offers a nice mix of both steely resolve and vulnerability, while Harris presents a strong performance as a conflicted, emotionally tortured cop. Of particular note is Amy Ryan as the mother of the abducted girl. Her character’s outrageous foul-mouthed demeanor ultimately ends up feeling both tragic and pathetic, with the only appropriate reactions being either pity or rage. It makes for an uncomfortable but affecting dichotomy. GONE BABY GONE signifies a confident and impressive turn behind the camera for one of Hollywood’s more contentious stars. A Boston native himself, Affleck takes great care in evoking his city’s entirety, from its undeniably ugly underbelly, to what feels like an almost primordial sense of community. It speaks to Affleck’s substance as a director, and of good things to come.
