Well I have submitted my first article to New England Frequency, a review of Rich Polseno's album "The Blackbird Chaos". Rich is a great musician and a great guy. I hope they like my article and I can't wait til the first issue is published ( Read more... )

Despite my obligations to schoolwork and ... even more schoolwork (2 papers due this week, and a paper and a project due next week), I made a point of finishing season 2 of Dexter (I found a website wherein i was able to illegally stream/watch all the free Dexter I wanted).  Basically, that show stressed me out. I hyperventilated, I squealed, I ( Read more... )

I'm only three episodes in but the second season of Dexter has my heart thumping in my throat. I am not kidding. That is good TV when you can elicit this sort of reaction out of your viewers. Every minute of every episode has my skin crawling and my heart beating a mile a minute-- I mean, how many shows can I say actually do that to me? Only this ( Read more... )

I'm writing my paper about The Lady From Shanghai.  Basically, I've written how the world in which a woman (especially a femme fatale) moves the plot instead of the male protagonist is a world in which everything falls into utter chaos. I love writing about old movies because I can talk about such dated sexist ideas and have it ring true concerning ( Read more... )

His Irish brogue in The Lady From Shanghai  is quite endearing, I must say. Poor Michael O'Hara, you've fallen into one of the classic film noir traps-- falling for the beautiful Rita Hayworth is never a good move. It's a world of black and white but nothing is black and white... nothing is what it seems, as illustrated in the final scene amongst ( Read more... )