Alan Arkin — RIP
June 30, 2023Sad note this Friday morning: One of my most-favorite entertainers/actors of all time, Alan Arkin, has died at 89. He blew me away in “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming,” an odd, humane-funny,…
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Sunday Serenade: Movie Intros — ‘Comings On’
March 26, 2023Sunshine-breezy this late-afternoon Sunday here in California’s Central Valley — rain expected again mid-week. In an attempt to shy away from the horrific horror of American politics (T-Rump/GOP) and the horrific horror of American weather,…
Sunday Serenade — Big Screen Opening-Music Memories
February 6, 2022Instead of political bullshit — surfed the InterWebs this afternoon/early evening, but nothing odd or significant to catch the eye — I instead listened to the main title of one of my way-most-favorite movies, “Lawrence…
Opening Sequences In Movies — Part One: ‘The Matrix’
February 27, 2021In lieu of real news to shit on, I’ve decided to start a new series commemorating a vital segment of movies — the opening sequence, also sometimes called the title sequence, which in the best…
‘Envious’ Emotions — An App For That
September 21, 2016Overcast-gray with a bit of patchy ground fog this early Wednesday on California’s north coast — another day in the life along the shoreline. Weather the weather… Beyond the horror of T-Rump this morning, science…
Impulse Ending — A Life Cut Short
December 23, 2012In the midst of weather-storms, and life-storms, and all kinds of tempest boiling-up everywhere, I’d surfed across the IMDB birthday list for today, and with a heart-pang saw Elizabeth Hartman’s name. She would have been…
blowed away
November 3, 2012(Illustration found here). Even as a tiny, little shit — vs an old shit now — I’ve always been a full-blown movie nut. In countless darkened theaters as flickering images played across gigantic screens, these…
Say Good-Bye to ‘Heartburn’
June 27, 2012Amongst all the bad news pouring out of so many different sources, sometimes it’s hard to be shocked by shit, but yesterday, the announcement of the death of Nora Ephron was like a slap to the…
‘Run, Forrest, Run’
December 28, 2011Books and movies are two completely different countries. In one you read by yourself (unless you’re in a group-grope book club), the other you see and hear — and the two supposedly connect when the…
Cool? No, He’s Just Abstract Thinking
November 7, 2010Thirty years ago today Steven Terrence McQueen died. McQueen was only 50. He died one day after an operation to remove several metastatic tumors in his abdomen, the end result of a fight against mesothelioma.…