I certainly do have my appetites: sex, inebriation, wanderlust, food. And, over time, I have begun to truly own these, to stamp out the Calvinist lacing that growing up in a fundamentalist religion stitched even the slightest personal want with. Less and less the cycle of discipline and license, discipline and license.

We watched Satanis this ( Read more... )

Last night, dom_ino and I watched Elizabeth. The movie more than held up on its third viewing. One of the obvious strengths of the film is Cate Blanchett's ability to show the process from vulnerable to powerful, indecisive to resolved, all in a flicker of her face, in her every gesture and movement ( Read more... )