Great Moments in Literature

“‘No, I am not a man who harbors romantic ideas about the extension of the spirit. It’s something I’d like to think I taught my sons, to partake of the physical world while it is yours to take, because that is one meaning of life with which no one can argue. To taste, to touch, to breathe in, to eat and stuff yourself–all the rest, all that takes place in the heart and mind lives in the shadow of uncertainty. But the lesson didn’t come easily to you, and you never accepted it in the end. You shot yourself in … Continue reading Great Moments in Literature

Spectrum Check

This week, I reviewed a new film that stars John Hawkes as artist Stan Herd. Hawkes is good as always; the movie has some issues. I also contributed an entry to this week’s List Inconsequential, which focused on the best film adaptations of William Shakespeare’s works. The super-secret, DVD commentary track backstory on this one is that it was initially intended to be the best and the worst of Shakespeare adaptations, but everyone wanted to write about their favorites. I’ve actually had a hard time thinking of a film bad enough to be singled out for the that sort of … Continue reading Spectrum Check

One for Friday: Happy Hate Me Nots, “Things Wearing Thin”

My music collection, at least as represented digitally, covers a lot of sonic territory. Once I became a true and total convert to my iPod and its “Shuffle Songs” feature, I worked hard to make that little device into the radio station I always long for, the radio station that already existed to a large degree in my collegiate past. I adored the vastness and variety of our music library at the college radio station, which afforded the DJs the chance to theoretically tap into every conceivable genre and subgenre of music, especially if they were artful explorers of the … Continue reading One for Friday: Happy Hate Me Nots, “Things Wearing Thin”

I won’t live long and I’m full of rot

So I’m clearly a little lax in the whole thinking, writing and typing thing this week. That’s in part because my laptop and I are having this sort of argument: Sad to say, I think it’s time for this little device to go see the doctor. Tomorrow will probably be some sort of low content mode concession as well, but I’ll try to fulfill my regular One for Friday duties. (Due credit: I swiped the image from elsewhere.) Continue reading I won’t live long and I’m full of rot