Recently, two different friends asked me for suggestions of motion pictures that they may wish to watch. Having been building up my queue of films to watch through my movie rental service, I had been thinking about what films had struck me as most salient or worth seeing again. Ten years out from getting my degree in Visual Arts Media, which ( Read more... )

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For your musical delectation, please view the following Bach performances. The first is by a Russian performer on an instrument for which my friend Ricardo holds special affection, the accordion:

Vitaly Dmitriev performing Fuga in d-moll BWV 565

Besides the generally frightful nature of experiencing a grand Bach organ piece rendered on an accordion, ( Read more... )

A wind from an unexpected direction brings warm
and fragrant air. What flowers bloom up the coast?

I wrote the above couplet a year ago, musing on the pleasant possibilities unfolding after meeting a man from Northern California. He's a wonderful and delightful man, and I'm glad to still know him. The flowers, however, were a bit too far up the ( Read more... )