Monthly Archives: February 2007
Sea Fever & Siren Songs
Category Art, Movies
There’s nothing like the shore, the beach, or a day on the high seas to make you feel like you’re alive. The seas have awesome power, they cannot be conquered, and are eternal. The British poet John Masefield in his poem Sea-Fever wrote: I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea [...]
Flying Down to Rio
Category Art, Travel
Back in 1933, movie greats Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were teamed up for the first time. The movie was entitled Flying Down to Rio. While the all the principals from that movie have passed on, the idea has not. In nine days, AoV hits the skyways again. When I touch down, my taxi will [...]
Etched In Time
Category Movies
Time goes by so fast in February — this is to be expected in a month that has only 28 days. But when we watch a film that really gets to us, we no longer notice time. It passes, as it always does, but our attention is elsewhere as we are immersed in the events [...]
Chichishigure – Yoko Matsugane
Category Reviews
Chichishigure – Yoko Matsugane – Air Control/Melon The Skinny: Two Thumbs up and Must See despite some (relatively) obvious (but not crucial) drawbacks. Let’s get something out of the way before we go any further. I reviewed Yoko Matsugane’s Body Scandal DVD back in November. Here’s a quote: “But since there’s less of Yoko than [...]
Googoogajoob
Category Art, Movies, Travel
On February 17th, 1969, almost forty years ago, a popular singing group, very well known in their day (wink-wink), released a Double-sided A single 45 rpm record. The names of the songs were Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever. Maybe you recall this group – they were called The Beatles.
Mikie & Mayumi in Vietnam
Category Art, Reviews, Travel
Viet Nam – What kind of images do you conjure up when you hear these words ? Maybe you think of movies like Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter, Born on the 4th of July, or even Forrest Gump. Alternatively, you are recalling America’s longest involvement in a single war which we remember as the War [...]