I’m thankful for books. I would not be where I am today without books. I love movies, I crave movies, I need movies, I want to make movies. But books are who I am.
I’m thankful for pumpkin pie for breakfast.
I’m thankful for friends with whom I can discuss anything. I mean, topics I’d not even [...]
Archive for the ‘Pick of the Week’ Category
27 Nov
That it’s Friday just means I don’t need the Federal Government dictating when I’m allowed to be thankful.
22 Nov
Today I’m Reading . . .
Things That Need to Die
In Defiance of the Support Act (ie concert opening acts)
Another History of Violence
Do You Cry at Bad Movies Too?
13 Nov
A Success All Around
I attended a harp recital tonight, with some of the best harp-recital-attending company possible.
RA was great. To work that hard, that long, that persistently, to understand and wrestle and conquer . . . HARP.
I don’t fully comprehend. But I fully appreciate. Tonight, my hat is off, my glass is raised.
And my stomach is full of peanut [...]
29 Oct
Mini-Reviews
As changes the weather, so alter my listening habits. The weather is cold going on icy, meaning more and more I’m driving to work. Also, I’m making what is turning into a weekly jaunt to Madison. Driving means car. Car means CDs.
Not just any CDs. Either a mix CD or an album which is solid throughout, because hitting ’skip’ 8 times, listening to 3 tracks, and [...]
23 Oct
The best-spent consecutive 8 minutes and 33 seconds of my day so far.*
A friend of mine in Germany introduced me to this great short today. (No worries if you are as sadly singular-lingual as I; the minimal words in the actual short are in English.)
The beginning made me think of James Thurber’s “The Great Quillow,” then it gets darker (and brilliant).
http://www.ehrensenf.de/node/7462/
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*no sex involved
30 Sep
It’s Hitchcock. He Presents. What More is There to Say or be Known?
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
This show is so various it cannot be up-summed. It’s rather like short stories on celluloid. I will say I often enjoy Hitchcock’s deadpan monologues and in-jokes and mockery of The Man and the audience as much as the shorts themselves.
Can you even get away with something like this now?
I still [...]
29 Sep
Family Matters
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
The longest-running ‘live action’ sitcom in television history, this show starred a real family as themselves (similar to I Love Lucy – though here the couples actually *gasp* share a bed!). I’m all the more fascinated in the idealic production because of the dysfunction, drug use, business and music deals going on [...]
28 Sep
And Lucy Loves Me
I Love Lucy
It’s been said I Love Lucy has never been off the air since it ended – that it is always playing in some language in some time zone 24 hours a day. I don’t know if this is true, but that it’s believable should tell you something about the show’s cultural significance. Yes, [...]
21 Sep
Reading About Media
What You’re Left With Is Libertarianism
- Between shaking my head at ridiculously true statements, and shaking it because he is obviously on some of the hallucinogens he advocates, I rather enjoyed the article.
Rebel Without a God
- I’m on a bit of a kick, really.
Ja Vais Bien, Ne T’en Fais Pas (Don’t Worry, I’m Fine)
- If the review interests you at [...]
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