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Too strange and wonderful not to share

Posted in Film and Pop Culture, Music and Musicians, Weirdness, tagged , , on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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A list of things my readers may not know I like

Posted in Film and Pop Culture, Randomosity, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on November 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Star Trek, especially the Original Series and Deep Space Nine
The animated Batman universe created by Paul Dini
Ridiculous Britcoms, especially As Time Goes By (not very ridiculous, actually) and Are You Being Served? (probably the lowest point of British humour)
Redheads of both sexes
Strong black tea with abundant milk and sweetener
Early jazz, such as Bix Beiderbecke, Louis [...]

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The shining of the silver screen

Posted in Film and Pop Culture, tagged , , , , , on November 3, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Piqued by a reference on Bones, featuring an actual mummy and “Bones” Brennan naming the film as a childhood favorite that sparked her interest in forensic anthropology, we followed our Halloween viewing of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! with the original The Mummy with Boris Karloff through Netflix, in glorious black and white. [...]

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The urban druid brings home the movies

Posted in Film and Pop Culture, tagged , , , , , , on October 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »

In case you were wondering, faithful readers, I’ve decided to post about… well, everything interesting here.  A public mirror of my friends-only Livejournal, leaving out the most personal bits.  I hope you enjoy these movie reviews.
Poltergeist: I was doing laundry at my mother-in-law’s yesterday and caught most of this classic 1982 film on cable, and [...]

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Susan Boyle, mezzo-soprano

Posted in Film and Pop Culture, Music and Musicians, tagged , on April 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I’ve just listened to the video that everyone’s recommending–the middle-aged Welsh lady who sang on Britain’s Got Talent.  Holy harpsichord strings, Batman, has that woman got a set of pipes, and style and presence to boot.  I wish her all the best, because forty-seven is not old!

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More Hedwig music for you

Posted in Film and Pop Culture, Music and Musicians, the work, tagged , , , , on February 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Here’s my other favorite song from Hedwig and the Angry Inch. What other rock musical has a song based on a myth from Plato’s Symposium?

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It seems the stranger’s always you

Posted in Film and Pop Culture, Music and Musicians, tagged , , , on February 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This song has given me an earworm today though I listened to it a couple days ago. It’s also one of my favorite songs from this wonderful movie.

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Why am I posting this? Out of sheer joie de vivre!

Posted in Film and Pop Culture, Randomosity, tagged , on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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True. So true.

Posted in Buddhism, Film and Pop Culture, tagged , , on January 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

more lol celebs!

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You are what you eat, and then some

Posted in Buddhism, Film and Pop Culture, Music and Musicians, Wheel of the Year, tagged on December 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »

And in my experience, you write what you read, and listen to, and pay attention to.  Herewith, a listing with some commentary of my own recent and current media intake:
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The Sharing Knife: Passage, the third in Lois Bujold’s latest series.  I am tempted to summarize this book as “Fawn and Dag meet Huck and Jim [...]

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