A paraphrased quotation from the better-than-I-expected kids’ film, Aliens in the Attic…
Twin#1: “They turned off the gravity — like on Halo!”
Twin #2: “Except this isn’t Xbox! It’s real — like Wii!”
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I did not grow up playing video games or computer games. In fact, my family wasn’t real big on games in general. (My preferred [...]
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Wii do, do you?
Posted in Movies Music Media, Personal on 31 August 2009 | 1 Comment »
A Philosophy of Theater
Posted in Aesthetics, Literary, Movies Music Media, Teaching, tagged classical education, theater on 29 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is a first draft of a philosophy of theater, written in preparation for the launching of a theater club at my school (SACA).
Ms. Card
Introduction
Theater is a sort of many-headed beast, the Greeks’ hydra perhaps. It consists of diverse pieces that come together to create a unified whole. Construction, painting, music, words, voice, [...]
an excerpt from Equivocation
Posted in Literary, Movies Music Media, Philosophy and Theology, Politics on 13 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SHAG (Shakespeare): I won’t write your lies.
CECIL: By the time you’re done, they won’t be lies. Here are the specifications of the dirt. The water. The wood. Anything else you need will be provided. There will have been a plot when you have written the history of it [...]
A Treatise of Equivocation
Posted in Literary, Movies Music Media, Philosophy and Theology, Politics on 13 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bill Cain’s Equivocation (2009), which I saw in Ashland last week, is set amidst the events following the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. It takes the reality that the details of the plot are still highly debated/politically-charged and the fact that Shakespeare and his Players were writing and performing at the same time as these events [...]
The New Atheists’ Easter message? ‘Grow up or die’
Posted in Movies Music Media, Philosophy and Theology on 10 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“I would far rather go back to the little church in north London this weekend and listen to the priest talk about ‘love’ and ‘redemption’ than watch or read or listen to any more shrill New Atheist propaganda.”
Honest, biting critique of the New Atheist movement (specifically, Bill Maher’s Religulous) from an atheist editor.
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You’ll cast bells. I’ll paint icons.
Posted in Movies Music Media, Teaching on 8 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last night C.H. and I had an unexpectedly open evening … and drove into LA to see Tarkovsky’s Andre Rublev; it (in all its over three hour glory) was playing at the New Beverly. I think that it is an especially fitting movie for Holy Week– as it looks into the depravity of man, [...]
Dollhouse
Posted in Movies Music Media, tagged Dollhouse, Hulu, Joss Whedon on 22 March 2009 | 1 Comment »
CH and I have been watching Joss Whedon’s new television series, Dollhouse, this spring. It’s drama about “actives” whose personalities have been wiped, who are imprinted with requested personalities and hired out to the rich … to protect them, fulfill their fantasies, etc.
So far, I’ve been a fan of most of Whedon’s work (specifically [...]
Posted in Movies Music Media, Teaching on 27 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Report Card music
The National (Boxer)
Nick Drake (Pink Moon)
Little Boxes by Malvina Reynolds
Modern Leper by Frightened Rabbit
Iron and Wine (The Sea & the Rhythm)
Report Card tv show
Buffy (season one)
Canaries in a Coal Mine
Posted in Aesthetics, Movies Music Media on 25 January 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’m not a big fan of rap, but after “The Best of Sinatra” I needed something a little jarring for my ride home. Right next to Frank was Eminem. And so I listened, very intently, to the first song, “White America.”
There is very little subtlety to his soapbox as he addresses the issues of censorship [...]
June Cleaver
Posted in Movies Music Media, Personal, Philosophy and Theology on 20 January 2009 | 4 Comments »
There is something obsession-creating about June Cleaver.
I’ve never seen an episode of “Leave it to Beaver” (that I can recollect), but I know Beaver’s mother. She epitomized the 1950’s housewife; the paragon of wifedom and motherhood. The woman who kept her house and her temper and did it all in heels and pearls.
Supposedly every man’s [...]
