Won’t you take the time to get the music on your mind
After several days on the road, I’m now home. Here’s proof: I guess I should have him holding a copy of today’s newspaper to really prove it, but I’m hoping I’m considered a trustworthy reporter. The best part of the … Continue reading Won’t you take the time to get the music on your mind
Drive the car around the world until you get heard
Traveling always makes me weary, but I could be covering far more ground than I am. Continue reading Drive the car around the world until you get heard
People are so sad and I know why with no chance to live before you die
I’ll admit that I had a beer or two while watching the U.S. vs. U.K. World Cup match, but it sure does look different in the recap. Continue reading People are so sad and I know why with no chance to live before you die
Won’t move over, won’t get gone, won’t move over
I’ve traveled many miles today, leading a brain that’s operating on the paradoxical dual settings of “Won’t Shut Down” and “Can’t Create Anything.” So I’ll rely on another person’s ingenuity to provide you with this: Just remember this splendid Toothpaste … Continue reading Won’t move over, won’t get gone, won’t move over
Top Fifty Films of the 90s — Number Twenty-Nine
#29 — Miller’s Crossing (Joel Coen (and Ethan Coen), 1990) Joel and Ethan Coen are marvelous visual artists. They conceive of extraordinary set pieces and understand better than most of their peers how a perfectly executed sight gag or sly … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 90s — Number Twenty-Nine
When I was a kid I read all the wrong comics
I should have read the ones that looked like this: There’s more where that came from. Continue reading When I was a kid I read all the wrong comics
One for Friday: The House of Love, “I Don’t Know Why I Love You”
I don’t know why I love you Your face is a foreign food Sometimes I just lock onto one piece of a song, usually a particularly nice turn of phrase in a set of lyrics, and that stands paramount in my mind as the reason why I like this song. I can get into everything else–the strident quality of the music, the guitar sound that’s both smooth and jagged, even what the song meant to me at the particular time it was released–but I’ll always come back to whatever that little bit that most captures me, most inspires me. When … Continue reading One for Friday: The House of Love, “I Don’t Know Why I Love You”
Top Fifty Films of the 90s — Number Thirty
#30 — eXistenZ (David Cronenberg, 1999) In November of the last year of the nineties, Entertainment Weekly published a cover story that proclaimed 1999 to be “The Year That Changed Movies.” It posited that the box office success of The Matrix … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 90s — Number Thirty
Greatish Performances #3
#3 — Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine in Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942) I’d seen Casablanca many, many times before I took note of the moment in which Humphrey Bogart resets an upended little aperitif glass. It arrives in the film … Continue reading Greatish Performances #3
Man. Bat. ….
There’s nothing quite like a unique interpretation of Batman to cap off a day. There’s more where that came from. Continue reading Man. Bat. ….
