Today my family & I attended a special performance by singer/songwriter/folk troubadour Alastair Moock at the Children’s Music Center of Jamaica Plain. Moock, himself a father of four-year-old twins, entertained both his young audience and their parents with selections from his album A Cow Says Moock, some new songs, and some timeless children’s classics. I [...]
Archive for January, 2011
28 Jan
Movie Review: The Damned United
Title: The Damned United Release Date: 27 March 2009 Director: Tom Hooper Production Co: Columbia Pictures Corporation Country: United Kingdom Language: English Genre: Biopic / Sport Rating: ***1/2 Summary/Review: This movie is a highly-fictionalized account of the life of English football manager Brian Clough (Michael Sheen) who was able to lead clubs like Derby County [...]
28 Jan
Movie Review: Little Miss Sunshine
Title: Little Miss Sunshine Release Date: 18 August 2006 Director: Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris Production Co: Fox Searchlight Pictures Country: United States Language: English Genre: Comedy Rating: **1/2 Summary/Review: This dark comedy seems to me as if the filmmakers got together and made a bet that they could make a movie about a dysfunctional [...]
28 Jan
Movie Review: Princess Mononoke
Title: Princess Mononoke Release Date: 26 November 1999 Director: Hayao Miyazaki Production Co: DENTSU Music And Entertainment Country: Japan Language: Dubbed into English Genre: Anime / Fantasy / Adventure Rating: **** Summary/Review: I don’t have much experience with anime so this was a wonderful introduction. Princess Mononoke is a gripping adventure, imaginative fantasy, and a [...]
28 Jan
Movie Review: Mathematically Alive
Title: Mathematically Alive: A Story of Fandom Release Date: 2007 Director: Joseph Coburn & Katherine Foronjy Production Co: Vitamin Enriched Inc. Country: United States Language: English Genre: Documentary / Sports Rating: *** Summary/Review: This movie is about something near and dear to my heart – fandom of the New York Mets. Set during the historic [...]
27 Jan
Movie Review: 24 Hour Party People
Title: 24 Hour Party People Release Date: 5 April 2002 Director: Michael Winterbottom Production Co: Baby Cow Productions Country: United Kingdom Language: English Genre: Biopic / Comedy / Music Rating: ***1/2 Summary/Review: This surreal, comic film tells the story of the Manchester music scene from the mid-1970′s to early-1990′s. Central to this story is Tony [...]
26 Jan
Elmo’s Song
I got tagged for a meme on Facebook and as my preference I’d rather post it here where I can find it again in a few months. I think I’ve done this one before to be honest. Most of the responses are nonsensical, but hey, there are some good songs here. These are the “rules”: [...]
25 Jan
Book Review: Boilerplate : history’s mechanical marvel by Paul Guinan and Anina Bennet
Author: Paul Guinan and Anina Bennet Title: Boilerplate : history’s mechanical marvel Publication Info: New York : Abrams Image, 2009. ISBN: 9780810989504 Summary/Review: Boilerplate reads like a textbook or maybe one of those Time-Life history books from the 1980′s covering the period 1893-1918 when Professor Archie Campion’s Mechanical Marvel walked the Earth. In hopes of [...]
25 Jan
Book Review: Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen
Author: Rivka Galchen Title: Atmospheric Disturbances Publication Info: Blackstone Audio, Inc. (2008) ISBN: 9781433214455 Summary/Review: This is an odd little novel in which a man becomes convinced that his wife has been replaced by a simulacrum and heads off on a wild-goose chase to her home in Argentina to find her. Along the way he [...]
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