UCSB’s Arts and Lectures Summer Film Series brought us Alfred Hitchcock Nights: Eight Classic Films of Obsession, Mystery and Suspense. The films are shown on Wednesday nights on campus and on Friday nights at the Country Courthouse sunken garden. I was familiar with a couple of the movies that were to be shown but not […]
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Robin Thicke’s song of the summer, Blurred Lines, is a fun romp. Pulling the tune from Marvin Gaye’s “Got to Give it Up,” and some Prince vocal styling, this song is fun, dance-able and produces a wicked ear-worm. Then there is the whole reason the song is popular: its video. The main video features Thicke
The Netflix Original Series Orange is the the New Black is The story of Piper, a woman in her thirties who is sentenced to 15 months in prison after she is convicted of a decade old crime of transporting money for her drug dealing girlfriend. – IMDB I had heard a Moth podcast of Piper
When there is an addiction, the person who has the addiction sees their behavior as not a problem. It’s the people around the addict that has a problem with the addictive behavior. I have been told that I’m a TV addict. I would like to protest. I have had a lifetime of being sleep-challenged and
I had heard that the 2012 movie Prometheus was bad and had avoided it until the one Saturday when there was nothing else on. Then I decided to watch it as one watches a train wreck. As I watched the movie, I wrote notes about my observations. This last point gave me pause. Sure enough,
