In a season of mostly dark and dismal and just plain horrible movies, finally something positive and uplifting has shown up in the theaters. And as if Lin Manuel-Miranda knew that few people had gone to the movies at all before this one started today… there was an official welcome back to the theaters prequel by the cast before the official start to the movie. As for the movie itself it is long, as movies go these days— 2 hours... Read more
Whilst reading the book depicted above, a very interesting and scholarly treatment of Bob Dylan’s musical artistry (on which see the later post on the book itself), I began to formalize a list of Bob Dylan records which have had enormous influence on popular music since the 1960s, ranging from country, to blues, to gospel, to rock, to folk, and back again. Among other things, Bob Dylan is not only one of the most prolific musical genius’ and poets of... Read more
It’s not my normal modus operandi to read novels in reverse order when they are a series. But this is what happened in this case, as I had overlooked this one. I really like the way Hill writes, and unlike some novelists whose focus is on the word crime in the phrase crime thriller, Hill spends a lot of time on characterization, and her central characters are quite interesting, though of course flawed like all of us. This particular novel... Read more
He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity. Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man. Contraries are not mixed. Yet that which happens to any man, may happen to every man. But it is in the man’s reason as to what accounts it, and will make of it. —Ben Johnson Read more
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