There seems to be a stigma attached to reading self-help books if you're on the lesser side of middle aged. The stigma is not cool. So I'm pretty uncool, and it's going great. My latest obsession? The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom.
0 CommentsI watched a book, and I read a movie: Broken vistas, petrified landscapes, charred everything. Bleak and prophetic, The Road reveals a vision of a world devastated - abandoned by its maker. Mankind is left for dead, to fizzle out in a paroxysm of derelict hopes.
1 CommentsEvery year it amazes me how the members of Trinity's January Musicals can pull together a seamless series of plays in a matter of weeks. The cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, one of three productions performed this past weekend in the Austin Arts Center, proved no different in its flawless and hysterical production of the 2005 musical.
1 CommentsNina Paley's debut feature-length animated film Sita Sings the Blues is an awesome retelling of the Ramayana depicting the life of Rama and his wife, Sita. Paley created the animation for the film in her Manhattan apartment using Flash Player. The film's soundtrack revolves around original scores by Tod Michaelsen and the 1920s love scorned blues of Annette Hanshaw.
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