I’m not the best at really anything. I can’t organize the best, I can’t build the best relationships, I can’t write the best, I can’t talk the best, I can’t play the best. But something I’m good at is getting people riled up. I know this might seem inconsequential but hear me out… First of [...]
It’s really funny how some good music can stay with you forever and almost become the soundtrack to a part of your life. It evokes certain feelings in you and the same thoughts just keep coming back every time you listen to it. A good tune, a good band has that effect on you and [...]
It is important to understand the pretext to the following observations. I spent the last two years in a place nearly devoid of popular culture to include television, movies and music. Part of my re-integration into ‘normal’ society has to do with coming to terms with the changes in society. When change happens around us [...]
Set in Minnesota (some of it in Saint Cloud) Juno has a certain appeal to it that reaches beyond the simple yet appropriate soundtrack, the impeccable cast and clever writing. Director Jason Reitman (Thank You for Smoking) has created a movie full of heart. Juno McGuff (played by soon-to-be-nominated Ellen Page) plays a sixteen year [...]
A few days ago I finished reading Cormac McCarthy’s utterly majestic ‘No country for old men’ because I wanted to be out in good time before the movie hits our cinemas. Unfortunately for us Europe is always behind when it comes to movie premieres which makes it utterly frustrating to check sites like IMDB and [...]
Get rich quick schemes used to be reserved for late night television preaching riches if you mailed a nominal sum for the packet containing instructions on how to master said system. Currently at all hours of the day can you find someone promoting a “system” or insider knowledge that has as much to do with [...]