Film/Music: Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970

Last weekend, I had the opportunity to see this concert documentary at the Northwest Film Forum at an 11 pm show. Sitting in the dark theater, the 16mm footage close up on a rumpled Leonard Cohen, I realized two things: Leonard Cohen was hot, and more importantly, sitting there was the ( Read more... )

Lately, I've seen The Price of the Phoenix by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath recommended about. Recommended in the sense that it's UTTER CRACK in published form, which, to be fair, a lot of TOS is already.

What I hadn't seen was this cover. Which would have demanded my purchase even if I hadn't heard of it.

Preview:

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Several of you will already know this, and have talked them up better. But for those who don't, there are two new young adult fantasy novels out that you should know about. Both are by authors you may know from LJ, and both have strong fantasy settings anchored by relationships. I don't feel entirely comfortable writing full reviews so I'm just ( Read more... )

I'm reading Seven Pillars of Wisdom now, as you may know, due to a flare up of T.E. Lawrence affection prompted by the Cinerama's annual showing. One of the things that fascinates me about Lawrence is that no matter how complex the film's character was--which was got me initially--once I started looking beyond the film I found someone who wasn't ( Read more... )

My birthday gift roundup presents what I think is a fairly interesting picture of Where I Am Now. (All presented by Mr. Daroga and tkp.)

MusicThe Left Banke ("Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina ( Read more... )

I read a lot of books about film, and for some reason, rarely unequivocally enjoy them. I'm not sure why that is, though it plagues me more than it otherwise might because I want to write about film and want to do it in a manner that wouldn't annoy me should I happen to be someone else reading it. Rebello's chronicle of the making of Psycho (a film ( Read more... )

I tend to love the making of connections; I love watching a documentary about one thing that turns into a documentary about something else, or about making documentaries in general. That's why the collage-based Alice in Sunderland by British comics artist Brian Talbot intrigued me. It's an exploration not only of the origins of Alice's Adventures ( Read more... )

Five things lafemmedarla associates with me:

( The Daroga )

As you may know, I was recently on a camping trip at the southern part of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. On the way back, we (myself, Mr. Daroga, tkp and Mr. Darcy) took the scenic route, ostensibly to bask in the wonders of our glorious natural setting but in actuality to see the illustrious home of one Bella Swan and a family of perfect, ( Read more... )

[Note: I am well aware that this book hides a volatile fandom which would probably lynch me for what I am about to say. I can only assume they will not find me.]

At the behest of much buzz and with the excuse of a class in young adult lit, I finally read Meyer's vampire romance Twilight. And my feelings are both definite and mixed, if that's ( Read more... )