Computer graphics can be gorgeous but I’ve never seen it used for an effect like this. This short film–less than half an hour–is gorgeous and spooky and the only adaptation of this classic yo...
2020-12-24 20:08:39 +0000 UTC View PostI’ve tried to cut back on my Twitter time so I have an actual life, but I’ve also been neglecting my own spaces. So here goes. As you can guess from what’s below, these have been building up ...
2020-12-21 00:16:21 +0000 UTC View PostLet’s keep working backwards through the shows I’ve binged during the pandemic:
SHE-RA AND THE PRINCESSES OF POWER
Confession time: I knew nothing about She-Ra before watching...
2020-09-30 18:21:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Fiery!
If I had any brains, I would have posted this much earlier, and started sending the annou...
2020-09-29 18:38:05 +0000 UTC View PostContinuing my Binge-demic posts, let me move backwards to the show I watched before Veronica Mars.
STRANGE LUCK
It’s weird that this show has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
N...
2020-09-26 23:28:36 +0000 UTC View PostContinuing my Binge-demic posts, let me move backwards to the show I watched before Korra.
BURN NOTICE
T...
2020-09-21 22:24:55 +0000 UTC View PostHere’s my COVID lifestyle: I wake at 9am, then stumble out of bed for coffee and breakfast. With any luck, this involves some sort of sandwich. I’m a big fan of sandwiches.
Then it’s ch...
2020-09-15 00:20:08 +0000 UTC View PostRest in peace, Chadwick Boseman.
It took the passing of movie star Chadwick Boseman at the young age of 43 to make me realize that I needed to cut way back on Twitter.
See, I wanted to ...
2020-08-31 23:53:40 +0000 UTC View PostThere's not much to say here, but it absolutely needs to be said.
Today, there's a new audiobook in the Twenty Palaces series: Game of Cages.
This is the first time the book wi...
2020-08-25 17:22:01 +0000 UTC View PostLet’s make this short and sweet, so I can go back to revising The Iron Gate:
Today, the 2020-07-21 21:27:25 +0000 UTC View Post
How about we start off the day with Portuguese jazz?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTHuNASQACs
<... 2020-05-11 15:30:08 +0000 UTC View PostDumb but catchy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LBnMRWeV-E
To increase general happiness, I o...
2020-05-08 17:10:25 +0000 UTC View PostLet’s return to the Avalanches for one of the most persistent (but enjoyable) earworms of the pandemic:
2020-05-06 17:01:43 +0000 UTC View PostFor today's upbeat tune, I give you this:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/WhPvJOnHotE
There's an od...
2020-05-02 19:29:29 +0000 UTC View PostOn May 19th, this will be available:
Yep, the folks at Tantor Media have signed on to make audio...
2020-04-27 15:24:35 +0000 UTC View PostThis video hit YouTube last October, but it looks like it was designed for self-quarantine. It’s:
a group of friends
having fun
in the beautiful outdoors
with drinks
recipe incl...
Have some laid back tunes inspired by Thai Funk. I’m not sure about the guitarist’s wig, but the tunes are great.
There are lyrics here, but I can’t make heads nor tails of them. Still soothing, though, and the title fits.
Again, no music video this time, because I’m posting Cirque du Soleil, and those guys are pretty much all music video.
First, from April 3:
Not sure why I get so much pleasure from music with samples, esp audio clips from movies, but I do. I really do.
First, your musical interlude, which is Leon Redbone’s cover of Seduced:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bOj...
2020-04-06 16:54:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Cirque du Soleil has dropped an hour-long special on YouTube. It is pure delight.
No music video today, because this is a music video, sort of.
2020-03-31 17:33:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Siri, show me a dream hallucination with a mellow beat behind it.
If you’re a casual(ish) fan of Star Trek, you might enjoy this Filmjoy dive into the history of the original series, ...
2020-03-30 21:18:08 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor Mindy Klasky has been writing Coronavirus Diversion posts, highli...
2020-03-27 19:15:18 +0000 UTC View PostLots of folks are self-quarantining at the moment, and there’s a lot of tension and anxiety out there. My family feels it the same as anyone else.
There’s not much I can do about th...
2020-03-19 17:12:15 +0000 UTC View Post
First, courtesy of Greg Van Eekhout, author extraordinaire, the perfect nine-second YouTube video for our times.
Second, i...
2020-03-09 17:22:09 +0000 UTC View Post1. Remember the old days when a person would simply turn to their blog and record a bunch of thoughts, instead of giving them away to a profit-free social media company like Twitter? Man, those wer...
2020-02-04 20:47:26 +0000 UTC View PostOne Man has been on sale for nearly two months, and while sales have not been life-changing, they’ve been holding fairly steady. And that’s mainly because of the reviews.
T...
2020-01-21 21:16:54 +0000 UTC View PostI scheduled this to post over the weekend while I was working, but forgot to copy and paste here. Sorry about that.
Spoilers for Star Wars and of Veronica Mars. FYI.
Be...
2020-01-20 22:27:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Beautiful and haunting. I love it.
2019-12-18 19:26:25 +0000 UTC View Post