Thoughts on Living the Life Creative
Temperature is much on our minds these days. The temperatures recently have been "cooler", meaning we are no longer near 80. Daytime highs are in the low 70s with overnight lows just dipping below the 50s this week. It's the middle of October. My northern born and bred seasonal timeline keeps thinking it's September. I... Continue Reading →
Ace in the Hole - (1951) - Chuck Tatem (Kirk Douglas) is a big time newspaper reporter who has managed to get fired in every big city in the country. He ends up working for a small paper in Albuquerque, New Mexico. On his way to cover a rattlesnake round up he stumbles on just... Continue Reading →
Aging Hippies to young hipsters. Grandparents and grand children. Masters of Industry and Working Class Heroes. Tens of thousands of people all in one place because they love music. Welcome to the Richmond Folk Festival. I really had no idea what to expect. First, when you say "folk music" I automatically think Peter, Paul and... Continue Reading →
The Lady Vanishes (1938) - As young socialite Iris Henderson (Margaret Lockwood) journeys back to England to be married to a man she doesn't really love, she makes friends with a kindly older woman, Mrs. Froy (Dame May Whitty), on the train. Shortly the older woman disappears and all the other passengers deny they ever... Continue Reading →
Well, it had to happen eventually. Amidst all the fun and games something bad had to happen. It was inevitable. The weather continues to be beautiful so I decided to get out and explore on Wednesday. I haven't had the bicycle up and running all year for one reason or another. So I inflated the... Continue Reading →
Spy Handler - Memoirs of a KGB Officer - Victor Cherkashin with Gregory Feifer (2005) - In the last 30 years two spies for the U.S.S.R./Russia did more damage to American security than any others - Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen. Victor Cherkashin was the man who "ran" both of them for the Soviets from... Continue Reading →
1776 (1972) - America's Founding Fathers and the history around the creation of the Declaration of Independence are turned into a musical. The personalities and conflicts that eventually led to one of the greatest documents in American history come together in song and comedy. This is an interesting movie in many ways. Most of the... Continue Reading →
A lot of things are different between living in WNY and RVA. Some are just a little different, some are majorly different. The biggest change is simply a matter of scale. Certainly, that was something that we "expected". Moving away from a very small city in a largely rural county to to the 43rd largest... Continue Reading →
To The Vanishing Point by Alan Dean Foster (1988) - The Sonderberg family doesn't know it yet, but this isn't going to be any ordinary road trip. A quiet drive down Interstate 40 becomes a trip into an alternate reality when they pick up an unassuming hitchhiker. It turns out the family has just given a... Continue Reading →
Sophie's Choice (1982) - After World War II a young writer (Peter MacNichol) from the south arrives in New York City to follow his dream. There he meets a concentration camp survivor named Sophie (Meryl Streep) and her mercurial lover, Nathan (Kevin Kline). Stingo (MacNichol) narrates the story of the three of them. Nathan's obsession... Continue Reading →
