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Wow...so this is what this 'sunshine' stuff is that people have been talking about. Frankly I'd forgotten what the fuss was about. But not living in an underworld-like gloom does seem to have its up side. There is a certain degree of warmth...and the rain on my car roof is sparkling in a pleasing...
Of Mice and Men is about poverty and loneliness. And people have written a lot about both themes. But there is another theme as well. Two guys with nothing in common form a friendship and stick together. Other characters find it suspect because guys usually travel alone from one ranch to another...
I had to throw together a dummy site to show off its functionality, and I got to get creative with my "users". I had a Helen Troy who had set up a fundraiser entitled 'Helen's Surf-a-thon' and whose profile picture was taken from a red figure vase. Then there was Mark Aurelius, and Ian Claudius - oh...
Originally published at Essence Grooves. You can comment here or there. Here's a little something for the back half of the week with a few classics sprinkled in. Enjoy. The Playlist: Empty - Raheem DeVaughn - Amazon | iTunes Lovely Lovely - Me'Shell Ndegeocello - Amazon | iTunes Good Stuff - Kelis -...
Over the past few months, I've discovered Turner Classic Movies. It's one of those cable stations that shows old movies, but it shows them all uncut and commercial free. Nice. So I've been taking the time to watch some classic black & white films that I had never bothered with before - partly...
This was a nice surprise as I came up the escalator at the (former) BNZ Centre: a near-new Lotus Elise, very rare in these parts. As you can see, Nissan Cefiros (sold as the Maxima here) and Opel Astra Gs (Holden here) are on our streets and are more commonplace. And as New Zealand does not salt its...
After months of wailing and gnashing of teeth it turns out that I did rather well in my exams. (Why do I bother beating myself up when I know I have the smarts?) I managed to get a first in Homer and a 2:1 in Greek History; the grades I got in these two course count towards my final degree so doing...
Show us a classic: Car Movie Book TV show Performance/Artist/Song Toy/Gadget/Novelty Item 1 1967 Mustang GT500 2 Star Wars 3 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 4 Cheers 5 Bob Marley 6 Rubik's Cube
I am off to London later this week for work, and luckily the Powers That Be don't mind me flying in early so that I can spend more time with friends and family, and given that I am foregoing having a hotel I am a cost effective person to ship in. I am not really looking forward to having to commute...
Would, Kenneth Grahame, the author of The Wind in the Willows be delighted or disgusted to know that his fairy tale classic for children has had a makeover? His four main anthropomorphised animal characters Toad, Badger, Ratty and Mole will be played by a cast of entertaining women who are hell bent...
The Antonioni retrospective has sparked within me an interest in 50s and 60s cinema. This interest is by no means epicurist, but rather a childlike wonder at the alterity and enduring qualities of the times. This has been in tandem with another new interest in 18th and 19th Century England, what...
Tomorrow is July, and at some point in the next thirty-one days I will get my exam results. Cut to me banging my head on a table, and screaming "The end if nigh, the end is NIGH - aarrggghhh". Over the last month I have managed to block out all the second guessing that went on after I sat them but...
I am not one to go crazy over the classics. I don't know if it's because I don't enjoy them or I got sick of being told I had to read them when in school. Either way, this is one classic I am glad I picked up. A great read. It made me laugh, sadden and think a lot. Kafka did a great job. The story...
Here are a few more I've done today: Hamlet's soliliquy Trojan Women by Euripides Marcus Aurelius Meditations Julius Caesar Gallic Wars
So in a flurry of frustration, I finally decided to throw Raven Grimassi's Italian Witchcraft into the dark recesses of my closet shelf in an attempt to forget everything I'd just inhaled. However, I can't deny that I'm much more eagerly in the mood to read, research, and just KNOW. A couple weeks...
Andy told me about Ratatat a long while back and I have to admit so much was going on that I didn't initially give them the attention they deserved. I realized this mistake before their second release, thankfully. Somewhere between Andy telling me and me finally paying proper attention, Ratatat got...
