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Diana Krall

<Sigh> While listening to Diana Krall at the Santa Barbara Bowl last Sunday night, I kept sighing with overwhelmed feelings. As she played the piano and elicited so much music from the one instrument, I turned to DH and said “THAT’S how you play the piano.” I saw Diana Krall at Gainey Winery in the […]

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True Blood

Summer Sunday nights on HBO are delicious. In 2008, as an advertisement for their new series True Blood, there was a “news coverage” show whereby vampires “come out of the coffin” and take their place as vampire-Americans in society. The story goes that with the invention of realistic synthetic blood (True Blood), vampires no longer

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Katy Perry Movie

One of the first lines in the Katy Perry movie is spoken by a couple of middle-aged women going to the California Dreams Tour concert who acknowledge that they might be older than the average fan. This could have been me. I love Katy Perry music. Daughter said she was rummaging around in my itunes

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Brave

This current Pixar film is lush with a modern story set in a medieval world. I loved the story. Before its release, critics were commenting that this would be the first female protagonist featured in a Pixar film, and would it fare well because of that? It grossed $66,323,594 in the US on opening weekend,

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