Thoughts on Living the Life Creative
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson (1886) - This is a book that we all believe we know well. We are usually quite wrong in that assessment. Yes, this is the story of Dr. Henry Jekyl. In his research he discovers an astounding and terrifying compound that releases a... Continue Reading →
It's been a couple weeks away from these posts. There's been a lot going on and my focus has been on other things. As noted elsewhere on this blog, I am in the middle of a job change. Last week I spent 5 days on the road. My eating has been sketchy at best, my... Continue Reading →
Two movies this week but they really deserve to be together. They follow the lives of Simon Grim (James Urbaniak), his sister Fay (Parker Posey), and a bombastic but vastly untalented writer with a mysterious past Henry Fool (Thomas Jay Ryan). Written and directed by Hal Hartley the movies are both funny and deeply serious.... Continue Reading →
Now comes the hard part. Not the packing. Not the finding a new place to live. Not the deciding what is coming and what we're letting go. It's the saying good bye part. It's the "The last time I'll..." part. I had a feeling last summer that I wouldn't be back to our summer camps.... Continue Reading →
Shaking Out The Dead by K. M. Cholewa - The story of three adults struggling with what it means to love and be loved. Tatum is positive that she is unlovable, Paris wants to love her but spends too much time being "invisible" to believe it could happen. Geneva is an older woman struggling with... Continue Reading →
White Heat (1949) - James Cagney stars with Virginia Mayo and Edmond O'Brien in one of the great gangster movies of all time. Cody Jarrett (Cagney) is a psychopath with mother issues. He leads a gang of robbers and murderers on an extensive crime spree with his girlfriend Verna (Mayo). Ma Jarrett is Cody's only... Continue Reading →
"The View From the Phlipside" is a media commentary program airing on WRFA-LP, Jamestown NY. It can be heard Monday through Friday just after 8 AM and 5 PM. The following are scripts which may not exactly match the aired version of the program. Mostly because the host may suddenly choose to add or subtract words... Continue Reading →
Stunning. This was supposed to be a longer process. There was another job that I had agreed to do a face to face interview with this past weekend. Then we would weigh the issues and make a decision. The problem was that the longer my lady wife and I talked the more we realized we... Continue Reading →
(Best of the Web is an occasional series of posts looking at what I believe is the World Wide Web being used to its absolute best) PostSecret is an art project that has taken on a life of its own. In 2005 Frank Warren took the idea of a community art project and launched it... Continue Reading →
Diggers (2006) - It's the 1970s on Long Island. For generations men have gone out into the waters near shore to search for clams. But a corporation is intruding on the shallows where the diggers ply their trade. Four childhood friends try to figure out what they're going to do if they can't do what... Continue Reading →
