Oct
16
LITTLE GIRL BLUE
Della had spent a few days back at her apartment in a near-perpetual fog of cigarette smoke and Nina Simone
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Oct
16
HAIR PIECE
"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." - Henry David Thoreau
There's an existential void that
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Oct
15
COME A CROPOLIS
"Don't let the now destroy the forever."
I think Francis Ford Coppola has broken my brain.
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Oct
14
THE FORGETTING OF BIRTHDAYS
I may be one of the worst people when it comes to remembering a friend's birthday, so today
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Oct
13
RAY
Just a quick one:
Ray Brown was born on this day, October 13, 1926, and was one of the greatest
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Oct
13
DON G
'Don Giovanni' is an opera that, 200 years later, we're still struggling to try to understand.
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Oct
12
MCDOWELL AT THE GOLDEN GATES
Screen actor John Amos died last week, and although I can't vouch for much of his work throughout
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Oct
11
DARK ART
"Gentlemen! Let's broaden our minds." - Joker (Jack Nicholson)
Recently, on the popular film podcast Unspooled,
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Oct
10
TAKESHI
It's Takeshi Kaneshiro's 51st birthday today, and I felt compelled to pay a small tribute to
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Oct
10
THE BEAST IN ME
Having recently watched the Francis Bacon biopic Love is the Devil (1998), I was greatly impressed by Derek Jacobi'
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