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KNIGHT AND DAY-- 3 STARS http://www.knightanddaymovie.com/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013743/ In the last five years, in the court of public opinion, Tom Cruise has come to define the term "outspoken."  Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines "outspoken" as "spoken or expressed without reserve."  Tom Cruise has always been vane and stalwart in his opinions making him a little inaccessible to his adoring public, unless he's selling a movie.  However, when you combine his 2005 couch-jumping, his unabashed opinions on chemical imbalance and depression from the same year, with his ever-present Scientology viewpoints, "outspoken" is an understatement.  To many, the biggest and most bankable movie star in the world has become his own hot-button topic that no one wants to touch, and it's more than starting to affect business. The question I pose is can you, as a movie watcher, separate the actor from the man?  Can you separate his views from his wo...

My son spent last week at Orchestra String Camp.  He had a great time!  We got to hear him play in both a chamber concert and an orchestra concert last weekend before we brought him home.  I didn't take these pictures. They were shared with me by a friend.  This is a group shot of the campers.  My son is in the next to last row, second from the right side.  His girlfriend is next to him on the left. I thought this was a pretty picture of the musicians on the stage.  My son is at the far right side in the back, second from the end, playing an upright bass. I really like this last photo.  My son is in the middle here. He is keeping busy this summer.  He is tutoring three younger orchestra students on the bass.  He has also been asked to play his bass in the orchestra pit of the community theater group's summer production of Oklahoma .  He played with the high school pit orchestra for their performance of South Pacific earlier this ye...

yesterday was a super productive day and things are looking much brighter today. one thing that helped a lot was this fun little playlist i put together. these are some of my favorite happy songs, so i thought i would share. happy last day of june!! {photo from weheartit}

(currently, my computer is being a little whore, and it won't let me attach any images, links, or whatnot. If you care for the poster, tough shit, because I can't even copy-and-paste the URL, because my mouse is partially broken. Holy shit, I hate my computer) -Speaking of which (look at me, acknowledging the parenthesis! I'm such a rebel!), the DVD I got is a baffling, CG-rendered Beast-like things that in no way resemble the gloriously cheesy-yet-awesome costumed werewolves of the film. Not just that, but they have sniper lights fixed on them, even though nobody once uses a sniper rifle in the entire blasted movie. I'll take a picture for you dicks when my fucking computer stops being such a cheap slut. -Anyway, the movie, about a platoon of British soldiers on what they think is a routine practice mission (or whatever) in the Highlands, when they get attacked by (real) werewolves. Holed up in a cabin that is supposedly four miles (or was it hours?) from the nearest...

My friend and fellow blogger, Diana , sent me a message that she was going to be passing by my little town.  She wanted to know if I would be free to join her and her husband for lunch.  I was delighted at this opportunity to meet her and gladly accepted her invitation.  She very generously prepared and brought a picnic lunch of chicken salad sandwiches, fruit, and her homemade Cowboy Cookies for the three of us.  Everything was delicious! I borrowed a camera so that I could take pictures of our get-together.  Diana's husband, Larry, took this picture of Diana and me in the shelter where we had our picnic in the park. Diana and her husband are celebrating their thirtieth wedding anniversary today!  Isn't that remarkable!  In honor of their anniversary, they are taking a vacation trip which happened to bring them to my part of Ohio.  It was so much fun to sit and chat with Diana and her husband while we ate our lunch.  This is a picture of Di...

June 29, 2010. Went to see When You're Strange (Tom DiCillo, 2009) with Lord Darlington. On February 20, 2008, I blogged about my admiration for Tom DiCillo. But this was when he was filming FICTION. I don't know what came over him. This Doors documentary is perfectly bland. Sure, you get to see and hear the Lizard King, wearing his leather pants and big belt (which is always a treat, obviously, and beats seeing Val Kilmer doing him), but apart from that, nothing special at all. It's just a documentary, without even as much unseen footage as one was given to understand.

For the last week or so, I've been harvesting fresh spinach from the garden. We've had it in salads, in sandwiches, and I've cooked some as a vegetable side for dinner. I've been able to freeze some, too. After vaccum packing it, it freezes beautiful so we can have freshly cooked spinach long after the warm Montana sun gives way to Old Man Winter. This frittata makes a nice light dinner, (which means there's room later for ice cream and berries)! I used Cotija cheese, but you can add whatever type of cheese you like in this recipe. Any other ingredients you'd like to add can also be included. Think artichokes, asparagus, cubed ham, crumbled bacon, etc. After chopping the tomatoes, blotting them with paper towels to absorb most of the moisture will ensure your frittata bakes up light and fluffy instead of swimming in juices. Fresh Spinach Frittata ½ large onion, chopped 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 T fresh parsley, chopped 3 handfuls of fresh spinach 6 eggs 1 tsp re...

everything has been going all wrong lately. so i needed a little inspiration. here it is. hope you're all having a lovely tuesday! {photos from here and here }

-Based off the play of the same name, the movie takes place as a frame story, from the unkempt squatter Willie (Mary Badham, Scout from To Kill A Mockingbird , except old and in a tattered dress) to a boy skipping school, on the train tracks that become a centerpiece for the story. This is about Willie's older sister, the flirt of their small Southern town, Alva, and her eventual affair with the stoic Owen (Robert Redford), who is in town to lay off several of the employees of the railroad (the main source of income for the town). -Natalie Wood is very good here, I think. I mean, I hate Southern Belle-bored-with-life-and-fool-around thing on anyone but Faye Dunaway, but she did it rather well, at times both selfish and sweet, naive and weary, bitter and hopeful in the same scene. Alva is pretty, has the attention of all the boarders at her mother's place, and knows it, but she longs for excitement and change, to get out of the town and all her forceful admirers. -Charles Bronso...

June 28, 2010. Went to see Dog Pound (Kim Shapiron, 2010) with R. Throughout the movie I was thinking, my God, this is such a ripoff, it's totally lifted from Scum (Alan Clarke, 1979), which I saw in the UK three decades ago. At times I told myself, well, this is what (cruel) life in such correctional facilities is like, so of course it reminds me of Scum . And basically I found it all extremely well-filmed, gripping and everything. A good movie. A good American movie made by a little Frenchie! And finally, reading the end credits when all the other members of the (strictly male, interestingly) audience had left, I saw "based on Scum ." There you go. My cinematic memory is really good, isn't it? Adam Butcher is particularly striking as (non-tradionally butch) Butch.

well it was another bummer of a weekend - an all-day saturday class on psychopharmacology. oy! but i did get to have some fun at the end of last week, roaming around town with one of my favorite friends {whom i'll get to live near in l.a.!!!}. we drank all the great coffee san francisco has to offer {ritual, four barrel, blue bottle}, explored hayes valley and valencia street, saw three weddings in the hallway of city hall, and visited our local wildlife... well, parklife actually. can you believe july starts this week?! how crazy! that means i'm moving in 30 days! yipp.... wait a second... i need to get packing!!!

Check the Burberry Autumn/Winter 2010 ad campaign by Mario Testino! Photo Source: Fashionising.com