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On the big screen

Published Date: April 30th, 2008
Category: reviews, pers

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 […]

This is a great movie

Published Date: April 12th, 2008
Category: reviews, pol

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 […]

Too-late-for-you Review

Published Date: October 16th, 2006
Category: reviews

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 […]