So, everyone has a fav movie, right?
Blade Runner is mine.
Why? Maybe because I was an impressionable 10-years-old when I first saw it. Maybe because I already loved flying cars and science fiction. Maybe because I’d just read Neuromancer, and the opening 10 seconds perfectly visualize the dystopian ruined-industrial vision of LA that I’d imagined while reading […]
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Movie reivew: “State of the Union“, starring Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn.
An industrialist (Tracy) starts a run for the presidency. He begins with fire and ideas, but twists to follow the professional politicos who promise to get him elected.
(transcribed from the DVD, all credit goes to the real writers)
The politicos talking about their man, and a long-standing […]
Ah, the Esoterics. I went to an Eso concert yesterday, where they assembled a set of Shostakovich’s acapella works for choir. It was all in the original Russian, with English translations, and it was gorgeous-o!
Maybe it helps that I can still read Russian script, and recognize most of the roots, even if my vocabulary is […]