I’m reminded of a previous time. What it was once like to be a kid dreaming of movies promised by trailers. Where summer guaranteed maybe not the award winners of the year, but quite possibly the most entertaining, most awe inspiring, most rewarding moments of time a young mind could soak up. A time when […]
“One is always considered mad when one perfects something that others cannot grasp.” ― Ed Wood Ed Wood is my favorite director. Not for any particular visual style or nuance of narrative design. Not because he was one of the greatest (name your thing) this world has ever seen, but because he kept making movies, […]
Until last year there was a small one screen theater on the University of Minnesota campus called the Oak Street Cinema. Now it’s condos. Or, I should say, it will be condos starting August of 2012. The theater catered to a variety of art house and revival cinema. It was a venue for the Mpls/St. Paul […]
I discovered Aaron & the Sea only a few weeks ago. Not really sure how I got directed to their Bandcamp site, but I was drawn by a free download of their new record. I must admit, I didn’t listen to the record right away. It got buried under loads of other obligations and became one […]
“Thinking is the first poison…” I am humbled and, to be honest, a bit afraid. I don’t quite know how to go about writing this review and am frightened of its implications. For in writing about it, I am in fact destroying it – if ever so slightly – limiting the ways in which you […]
