Finally, the Oscar post!

This is pretty much where I gush about Daniel Radcliffe, the Avengers cast and Argo.

By the way, you have no idea how ECSTATIC I was to hear that Argo won Best Picture. I'd be okay if Beasts Of The Southern Wild or Life Of Pi won. Both movies clearly deserved the honor and I was actually upset that Beasts didn't get to ( Read more... )

Mon dieu, Les Misérables! It's not a miserable film - not at all - but I do have to ask: WHAT HAPPENED, TOM HOOPER?

Compared to the 1998 adaptation of the original novel by Victor Hugo, this 2012 adaptation of the stage musical is actually the better Les Misérables. The 1998 Les Mis was horribly boring and I couldn't stand any of the female ( Read more... )

All right, I'm kicking off this year's Favorites Of The Year! And the first one is... Music!

Favorite Music (I Listened To) In 2012

Note: Be aware that there may be songs/albums here that are not current (as in "not released in 2011") but still entertained me greatly this year. When I put up these lists, I usually disregard release dates because ( Read more... )

So, how was your Christmas, people? I hope it was as enjoyable as mine was ( Read more... )

shiru_yagira has been staying in Milan for the past several months, finishing her master's degree. I envy her for living in Italy while I'm stuck here... but then she offered to buy me some stuff that I need ( Read more... )

Listen to Neil Finn's 'Song of the Lonely Mountain'

From The Hobbit's soundtrack.

"'The Song of the Lonely Mountain' was developed from a dark and mysterious theme which the dwarves sing early in the movie," Finn tells Rolling Stone. He says Jackson and his team suggested he get in a "dwarven state of mind" as he shaped the song to play over the ( Read more... )

I lost my mood to work so I abandoned all of my discipline and articles at the door. Yesterday evening, instead of working all through the night like I'd planned to, I went to a tango concert at the Netherlands Cultural Center with aranciaThe musician, Carel Kraayenhof, is a Dutch bandoneon player who collaborated with the legendary Astor Piazzolla. It ( Read more... )

I just came back from an event at the American cultural center, @atamerica. If it seems like I've been going there a lot lately, it's really true. I'm not even going to lie about it but I enjoy their lectures/seminars/discussions because they're highly relevant to my interests these days. They really have good programs even if their concept, as a ( Read more... )

This entry is supposed to be a review for the 17th episode in Glee season 3, but I got lazy writing it a quarter into the review. To be precise, I got distracted by Whitney Houston songs as I tried writing the review and decided to abandon it in favor of writing an entry about loving Whitney Houston when I was young ( Read more... )

One of the things I needed to cross out from my to-do list had something to do with the MoMA Online Courses I've been joining since a month ago at the American cultural center and today I'm particularly inspired to do what my To-Do list requires of me to do.

• Post my remarks on the last 2 MoMA lectures on Matisse & Fauvism and Kandinsky & ( Read more... )