With Valentine’s Day taking place over the weekend I decided to base my selection on that greatest of romantic stories (or as some might argue greatest failure of Romance) Romeo and Juliet. I’d seen most of the straight adaptations so[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I just did my fourth Dune event Tuesday. So here’s last month’s entry. I didn’t have any ideas for a comic this time so I did a pen version of an idea for an up date Illustration of “The Walrus[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I think I just tapped into a new source for this series in Haydn Wood! This guy wrote nearly as many Rhapsodies as Liszt (okay, I admit that was hyperbole, half, but that’s still plenty to work with!) So let[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I finally got around to watching Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It was about what I expected, stupid and fun at the same time with some good special effects. In short I found myself comparing it to a nice big[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well I watched last night’s Oscars expecting nothing and enjoying despite everything. I generally don’t pay much attention to the Academy Awards that much generally finding them little more than an aging old boys club that publicly pats itself on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In an attempt to clean my palette from last weeks material I found myself leaning towards comedy but since the I was feeling just a little snarky I went for the dark cynical kind. Especially the kind of dark humor[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It occurred to me that I haven’t done one of Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies for Tuesday Rhapsodies for a while, so here’s Number Seven performed by Georges Cziffra.
This week I decided to go with watching a few young adult films (or at least ones with young adult protagonists) The first film in my selection, Secondhand Lions stars Robert Duval and Micheal Caine as two eccentric Texas brothers[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well I hit that low where since I couldn’t think of a good theme for the week and was forced to dip into my list of ideas I didn’t like that much but saved them for just this sort of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A very Happy Birthday to my sister, Juliet Aucreman. Hope you have something great planned, Jul.
