In the background: Why Don’t You Look Into Jesus by the late Larry Norman, which is albeit, as evidenced by the title, unabashedly “in your face”, although a great example of late 60s Jesus Music (which has since unfortunately ballooned into a 4 billion dollar a year industry). However, there is still a ridiculously cool [...]
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Yesterday was fun. Every year, the Los Angeles Film Festival (LAFF) comes to town (well, perhaps it’s “already here”). This year, I found myself at two separate screenings, both yesterday, the first entitled The Prince of Broadway about a counterfeit merchandiser’s struggle to care for a son he just found out he had. Fantastic [...]
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I’ve always believed that one of the most important skills that individuals need to acquire is the ability to discern those areas in which he or she has knowledge or skill as well as those areas in which his or her knowledge or skill is as vacuous as a black hole.
While I am certainly [...]
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In the background plays a track entitled S.P.A.T., which I’m sure is an acronym for something (although goodness knows what). It’s an instrumental track by the artist Badly Drawn Boy, who I first saw at Largo a few years back. His music is surprisingly coherent and accessible, and provides a fantastic background music that is [...]
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There are certain numbers that owner of Honda Civics should never see. This is clearly one of them.
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Yikes…it’s hot. It’s disgustingly hot. Right now, I’m sitting in my un-air-conditioned living room with three fans blowing on full blast. The sad part is that it’s still cooler inside than it is outside. Interestingly enough, I’ve realized how much of a climatic (not climactic) wimp I’ve become in the past four years of [...]
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Larry Norman’s Reader’s Digest:
Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty
I wish my mailbox looked like this (yes, it’s a shredder…)
In the background:
* Larry Norman’s Reader’s Digest, a radical “Jesus protest song” written in the aftermath of the 60s, this version however, beginning with a brilliant 5-second sample from Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty Waltz. Amazing juxtaposition. And 50 points to [...]
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Rats!!!!!
Never a good sign…
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So it’s the last week of school and the iTunes randomizer has selected the appropriate Starting Over by the Raspberries, a late 60s ballad, which musically fits the bill for something as potentially melancholic as the end of school. It’s always with such mixed feelings that I approach the end of a 2-year loop.
On the [...]
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I just got back from seeing Kung Fu Panda, which is perhaps the best kids movie I’ve seen in years. Yes, that’s right, years. Amazing animation, solid storyline, typical "Blackian" dialogue (I term which I hereby inaugurate in the same sense as the terms "Jeffersonian" or "Barthian"), and absolutely hilarious subtleties made this film one [...]
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