Well after hearing all of my friends either rave or snark about it all of yesterday I finally looked up the new Star Wars trailer and my reaction? meh. I guess the point of the first trailer was to show[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So the second episode of Game of Thrones’ fifth season conclusively proves what I was completely sure about watching the first episode. The HBO is officially it’s own independent entity. While, as I said, I knew this week all of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well once again we reach our annual Alice in Wonderland Day, the day that Alice went down the Rabbit Hole. (The way we know this because in the chapter Pigs and Pepper Alice mentions she doesn’t think the March Hare will[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I decided to go with biopics of famous directors. (or in this case one famous and one notorious) The first, Gods and Monsters, tells us the story of the last days of the life of horror director James[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My Theme for this week was seventies kitsch, the kind of slice of life comedies that did not intend to be period pieces going in but in the end turn into documentaries for the period. (In hindsight I could also[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week’s Rhapsody is Rhapsody for Orchestra by Yasushi Akutagawa. I wasn’t familiar with Akutagawa but I’m enjoying his work… This piece almost comes off like a cross between Gershwin and one of the Stravinsky to me.
A friend of mine had recommended I did an alien visitors theme, mostly in the nineteen fifties sci-fi horror theme which included the remake of the Blob, but since this was one of the few times Scarecrow didn’t have an[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Have a very happy Memorial Day and please remember what it’s all about.
A very happy 89th Birthday to Mr. Miles Davis. Let us celebrate with the “Birth of the Cool” It’s funny… By what I’ve come to expect from Miles this feels almost “tame”. Still is good to listen to though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1HK8Rma4Bo
Well I’m back from a lovely eight days of meditating in spruce forests and granite coastlines while spending some wonderful quality time with my folks. I had a great time. The only regret I have is I came in planning[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
