Book: Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss Publication date: 2006 Publisher: Penguin Canada, Toronto, ON The novel as a literary form is a road map of social division, a means of exploring caste in order to transcend it, a field guide listing the tools needed to emerge from the social order with humanity intact, enhanced… Read more »
DVD: For Your Consideration Release date: February 20, 2007 Director: Christopher Guest. Written by Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy Starring Catherine O’Hara, Ed Begley Jr., Bob Balaban, Michael McKean, Eugene Levy, Harry Shearer, John Michael Higgins, Christopher Guest, Parker Posey, Rachael Harris, Jennifer Coolidge, Chris Moynihan, Fred Willard, Jane Lynch The movie opens with a… Read more »
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The Jonathan Coulton Interview Describe the development of the Thing a Week experiment. I had just left my day job to pursue music full-time, and this seemed as good a way as any to pretend that writing songs was my job. I also wanted to challenge myself a little, push the envelope of what I… Read more »
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CD Box Set: Jonathan Coulton, Thing a Week Release date: 2006 Gals, remember that guy who used to bring his guitar over and sing you love ballads, gently fingerpicking those suspended fourth and major seventh chords and crooning in that teen-idol voice, smooth as cream soda? He would have had you if it hadn’t been… Read more »
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DVD: Mile Zero Release date: 2007 Director: Andrew Currie. Written by Andrew Currie and Michael Melski Starring Michael Riley, Connor Widdows, and Sabrina Grdevich How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! Isaiah 14:12 (NIV) You start with two good parents. Eventually these parents fall afoul of each other and… Read more »
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DVD: Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles Release date: 2006 Director: Zhang Yimou. Written by Zhang Yimou, Zou Jingzhi, and Wang Bin Takata, an elderly Japanese fisherman, launches himself on an odyssey of reunion. He is trying to win back the affections of his dying son Ken-ichi before it is too late. Takata hopes that… Read more »