( Why I support the ruling, and why it still hurts. )

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All of the above and then some.

"...give all for love... but this love must not be that of ... schoolboys and German ladies ( Read more... )

If I were to describe the bare bones of this film---a depressed romance writer's husband is leaving her, she gets a job at a newspaper to trash her own books---you might not want to see it. You might also miss the point of the film altogether. In Almodovar's own words, this is a film about abandonment. The theme was powerful and palpable, though ( Read more... )

There is a scene midway through Deborah Weisgall's The World Before Her in which Marian Evans (later to be known as George Eliot) attends a party thrown by Franz Liszt at which he plays a duet with Clara Schumann. She describes her sharp feelings of envy watching these two musicians play. Despite the fact that Clara's husband (the infamously insane ( Read more... )

Most of you know that I am generally antagonistic to romcom. Often times I watch these films and think, "Quit lying to me!" Especially if the heroine is particularly stupid, manipulative, or worse, pretty pretending to be plain. However, there are always exceptions to the rule, and one of the things that's occurred to me is that: these are still ( Read more... )

Cristina Nehring's A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-First Century might be better titled: A Vindication of Women in Love: An Polemic for Pro-Love Feminism in the 21C since the central argument is the right for women to love passionately, disastrously, and in any way their hearts might lead them without damage to their ( Read more... )

One of the very best things about yesterday was driving. I know this sounds silly, but since I've been unemployed I've avoided driving almost entirely. I require a half-tank of gas every other week. (I've made a habit of topping up whenever it goes below a half tank. This is a survivalist thing, but it also means I will have enough gas to get me to ( Read more... )

( I can't stop laughing... )