I live by a set of immalleable valuables – Adam West, Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders When you decide once and for all that you’re gonna be what you want to, and not let anybody stop you, the next step is pretty simple: have a little understanding, dig in and fully commit to it….
Life is an inexplicably complex thing, which we are constantly striving to simplify for ourselves. Unfortunately this is neither realistic nor healthy for us. We have to confront our problems head on, for fear of losing ourselves to a sea of sorrows. Manchester By The Sea (2016) Cast: Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler,…
I’m not sure why this myself, is but it’s been proven time and again that familiar music is much more likely to incite positive feelings than anything else. So if you want to induce a good mood for yourself, listen to something you already love. Whether you’re on the road, cleaning house, at work or…
I watched a really good movie last night, dear readers. The movie was called Don’t Think Twice, and it featured a cast of prominent comedians in roles as members of an improv troupe. I’d been meaning to watch it for some time now, but after HMV Canada announced their bankruptcy at the end of January…
Last year the two words whitewashing and oscars seemed to be synonymous with each other. I wrote a rather exhaustive post about it, point of fact. To be fair, I am an artist though, so it’s quite difficult not to be a lens for the big issues I find wrapped around my heart. Sigh. Now, I have written…
Decision making is hard, dear readers. And sometimes implementing an easy decision really is the wrong thing to do, while implementing the complex decision turns out to be the right one. Unfortunately for all of us, life is not quite so simple as those black and white principles, and even Luke Skywalker is probably…
Sometimes artists are misunderstood, and sometimes it’s just a case of poor translators. Or maybe those artists are operating on another level of language? A love language if you will. Oooh foreshadowing… I personally would like to think that our attempts to understand the alien are important and when a film does well at the box…
We gotta cut the strings sometime baby. We can’t rely on our mothers to coddle us forever, growing up just won’t happen otherwise. This week’s album review salutes those movers of culture. Mother Mother – No Culture released February 10, 2017 ******** 8/10 Mother Mother are a Canadian rock group from Vancouver Canada. Yay for Canadian content!…
Throughout my life I’ve heard the same mantra over and over again. Many people state that the english language is intuitive for native speakers, but very difficult to learn when you already have another language or two under your belt. Not counting all of the weird cultural idioms that have developed over the centuries, and…
There are moments when I’m sitting over there, in my easy chair, philosophising about the next big theory of the arts, where I contemplate, and others where I instead sit down with a good book and consider another perspective – ever hear the expression one man’s truth is another man’s lie? Well if you haven’t…