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Mamma Mia! In this dreadful post graduate school quest for a real full time job with benefits, in this soul sucking, incredibly demeaning time, there is Mamma Mia! A summer movie that is what summer movies ought to be, sweet, fresh, funny, surprising, and surprisingly beautiful; I’ve seen it three times, once for every week that it has been out at the theater. My plan is to keep on going until I decide to run away and start my all girl band, or I get… Continue

Sat next to Johnny Cash...tall man dressed in black, spent some time talking to himself about respect. Wore his hair long and in a ponytail, and he sounded the part, like he might break out in song about some lonesome whistle blowing. His shoes were shined, I wonder where he was headed.

Young man I did not look at...sat in the back, somewhere to my left, whispered murderous threats toward the bus driver every time the bus stopped to let someone off and pick someone up. I think about it,… Continue

My cat lays pressed up next to my laptop and I think he just caused it to overheat.

I'm Not There

What an amazing movie. I like Bob Dylan's music, but I'm not an aficionado, still I walked away with an idea of the complexity of the man and of the history he lived through. I don't know much about technical film language, but the structure and methodology called to mind Jeanette Winterson for some reason. I think the non-… Continue

I thought this movie was beautiful. Everything in it is improbable, but if you suspend disbelief, it's beautiful. The trailer let's us know that this is the story--orphan boy and musical prodigy, feels a connection to his biological parents through music and thinks that if he puts his music out there they'll hear him and find him. I knew that to get it I would have to step into the reality the film sets up, not the reality we live in. It's visually stimulating, a wheat field in the win… Continue

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