The Reader movie with the great Kate Winslet |
Just another example of Kate going for the honesty to the character rather than the show biz homerun. She is amazingly dedicated to her craft - as an end into itself. No emotional firworks...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:33:00 GMT |
Grateful Dead" China Cat Sunflower 4-17-72 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaQHSECrH8w
This puts all the so called jam bands to shame even over 30 years later.
Posted by on Thu, 25 Dec 2008 07:25:00 GMT |
father of LSD dies at 102 |
I was surprised this guy was still living and still believed in using acid for improving one's self - not escaping and abusing it.
Dr. Albert Hofmann - January 11 1906 - April 29 2008It saddens us to ...
Posted by on Sun, 04 May 2008 10:02:00 GMT |
Roger Ebert review of Romance and Cigarettes |
I don't always agree with Ebert the film critic but he's right on here - he loved it -this is part of his review Nov 07 >>
How did one of the most magical films of the 2005 ...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:43:00 GMT |
women are smarter - thats right |
I was thinking about that old Belafonte tune that the Dead covered. The smartest females I know of (not necessarily in order) - Naomi Klein, Carolyn Adams, Emma Thompson, Ana Egge, Kate Winslet, ...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:13:00 GMT |
movie was one hell of a ride |
Romance and Cigarettes movie had everything - full of snippets of great acting encounters - Gando and Kate was the best, broadway dancers, belly dancers, hardhats, neighborhood violence, cops, classic...
Posted by on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:44:00 GMT |
Redds the man on electric guitar |
I have to cut and run from a previous bitch on current jam band guitarists over the last 12 years unable to replace Garcia on Dead tunes.
I went and saw Redd Volkaert at a local Austin club.&nbs...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:02:00 GMT |
James Taylor at World Series |
I always thought the version of The Star Spangled banner that Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir and Vince the keyboard guy did to open the Giants season years ago was one of the best totally traditiona...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 01:13:00 GMT |
its been too long a time |
Its time to try burying the hatchets, meat cleavers, 45 automatics etc. and getting a little chemistry back for thousands of us who listen to the the good old Dead stuff - that's still ...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 23:44:00 GMT |
a little Jack |
I thought this was a cool quote from Jack Kerouac - "The depth of a woman's heart is as unknowable as that of a man's, but nothing like restlessness and feverish rue ever abides there. A man may spend...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:53:00 GMT |
