Fo this week’s lineup I decided to go with comedy remakes. Preferably modern remakes of older and dated films. When I first hear that someone had done a remake of the Marx Brothers ‘ A Night at the Opera my curiosity was so piqued[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I decided to watch were deconstructions of the samurai genre one American and one Japanese. To be honest my plan was to watch a film I’d been curious about and then found something good to pair it up[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m planning to overhaul the cast page so I just began to do finished concept illustrations of the main cast. I’m starting out with Laurel (even though technically she’s 25 appearances short of being part of the main cast based on my current[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For today’s Rhapsody we return to David Hopper with his Hungarian Rhapsody for Cello and Streichorchester (String Orchestra) Opus 86
So I was spending my lunch break at Trader Joe’s to get a sandwich and some bare essentials when I saw a thing of beauty. This was a gorgeous bottle both esthetically and practically. The big problem is not getting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The intent of this week’s selection was marketing and advertising. The first on my list, How to Get Ahead in Advertising, tells the story of a smarmy advertising executive under breaking under the stress of his deadline when he can’t think[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Too true. As much as I enjoy the modern folklore that is UFOs to the point that I occasionally am willing to let myself get fooled. The whole “ancient astronauts” schtick is insulting to our species as a whole.
This week’s Rhapsody is Ernest John Moeran’s Second Rhapsody in E Minor.
My initial idea for a theme this week was something in the way of people trying to maintain the façade of an artificial reality. Unfortunately I’d seen most of the movies that could go with the movie that had inspired[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s Rhapsody we have Harriet Cohen and the London Symphony Orchestra perform Hubert Bath’s Cornish Rhapsody from the film Love Story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1-eaYCV63g
