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Category Archives: America
Movies I’m watching: Bill Maher’s Religulous
I suppose that BIll Maher’s ego has gotten the best of him and he decided, that he just HAD to make a movie and somehow contribute to the demise of organized religion, which he believes is one of the greatest … Continue reading
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I still love this song, even after all these years. MS reminded me of it recently, she still listens to it, and so, “inspired” by that, i tried doing a cover of it just this afternoon. Powered by Podbean.com addthis_url … Continue reading
Movies I’m watching: Oliver Stone’s W.
Someone please tell me what the point of this movie is. If it’s meant to be satirical, which it is in spades, couldn’t it have been more LOL funny like SNL? If it’s meant to be some kind of historical … Continue reading
Movies I’m Watching: The Wrestler
I’m glad that Mickey Rourke won a Golden Globe for his performance in The Wrestler, because although the movie tends to be fairly predictable overall, this was one of the most honest performances I’ve seen in a while. Now everyone … Continue reading
Movies I’m Watching：Doubt
I think i read the play a number of years ago … it was good but didn’t leave a huge impression on me. The movie retains that “theatrical” feeling in the way that it’s staged, in the particular rhythm of … Continue reading
Pico Iyer does some california dreamin
Long stretches of virgin beach ran along the cliffs, and the colors were primary and stark: green fields, high blue skies, patches of flowers, and the greenish sea. Years ago, in another world, this was the place he’d dreamed of … Continue reading
Foreign Policy/AT Kearney 2008 Global cities index: where do Chinese cities stand?
This recently published ranking is supposedly measures overall globalization, taken as some kind of composite of business activity, human capital, information exchange, cultural experience, and political engagement. New York, London, Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong were the top 5. Beijing … Continue reading
Movies I’m Watching: Standard Operating Procedure
Films like this fill in a huge vacuum between the run of the mill Hollywood fare and Michael Moore’s more openly polemical films. His latest effort, about the prisoner torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib aptly demonstrates, yet again, that … Continue reading
Movies I’m Watching: Tarsem’s The Fall, Deception and Righteous Kill
A lot of critics, such as the NY Times Nathan Lee, did not like this film. Here’s some of what he says: The details of this saga, a threadbare patchwork of postcard exoticism, turgid characterizations, stilted duels and lackluster spectacle, … Continue reading
A few snippets from a David Foster Wallace appreciation on Newsweek
This from “David Foster Wallace: An Appreciation by David Gates (Newsweek Books). I suspect that Wallace was a genius who happened to be a writer, rather than a writer who happened to be a genius-Hemingway, for instance. You can’t imagine … Continue reading