November 30, 2012 - 2:00pm
What's in YOUR storage space?
I love attics. Cellars. Basements. Places where people keep all their junk. Give me a dark, dank room full of boxes, trinkets, and mysterious packages, and I can entertain myself for quite a while looking through all of this for anything interesting. Most homes have such a place. Things accumulate...
November 15, 2012 - 5:25pm
Sri Lankan documentary film plus Will Smith, Google updates, and free pizza!
Apologies, gentle readers: I am late today. I know there are probably at least tens of you who count exclusively on me to provide you with the hottest updates and information involving special film screenings and the like for venues such as the Floyd Theater, which we will be discussing in this...
November 9, 2012 - 5:59pm
Ron Fricke's exploration of "the ever-turning wheel of life."
In 1982, director Godfrey Reggio made an important film entitled Koyaanisqatsi, a documentary of sorts which showed images of nature juxtaposed with images of humanity, with no narration and accompanied only by an iconic musical score by Phillip Glass. The cinematographer for this film was Ron...
November 9, 2012 - 5:42pm
And mankind shall have dominion over the animals.
Kentucky is well-known for three things: bourbon, bluegrass, and horses. Hell, we boast “the most exciting two minutes in sports” every year – an event so exciting that even the Queen will show up to rub shoulders with O.J. Simpson! Horses are brilliant, majestic creatures, born...
November 2, 2012 - 10:17am
Who is Rodriguez? Where is he?
We all have our musical icons – both individually and culturally. (This is where I usually get into my pretentious rant about Beatlemania, but I think I've already done that on this platform, so that will have to suffice for that small platform of faithful readers I like to think I have...