Comment Archives: stories: Arts and Culture
Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
Who in their right mind would try to please everyone. It is accomplished in all of the arts by gently stroking the Emotions, the emotions of the performers touching the viewers, or readers and turning them into participants. Apathy is failure. Emotional response is success!
Re: “In The Future, Al Gore warns readers of cliffs far more precarious than fiscal ones”
Human beings are making such extraordinary demands on the environment that the natural cycles can no longer provide a seemingly unlimited supply of resources. Our rate of borrowing has become too great. Tropical forests are being cut at a rapid rate for their timber or to make new agricultural land. The fertility of soils in many parts of the world is being depleted by poor agricultural practices. Species and their habitats are being destroyed by human activity at a rate never experienced before. There is overuse of the renewable resources-air, water, food, timber- but of nonrenewable resources as well. The minerals and fossil fuels that have become the basis of civilization are being consumed at a rate that ensure their depletion before many more generations have passed. -Science as a way of knowing-John A. Moore, Intro page 2.
Re: “A Fan's Notes: What Does and Doesn't Work About Star Trek Into Darkness (With Spoilers)”
I dunno--I thought of it as Wrath of Khan meets Groundhog Day, writ over 300 years instead of February 2.
Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
They took all the trees
And put them in a tree museum
And they charged all the people
A dollar and a half just to see'em
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Til it's gone. They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot. - Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi
Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
Another great work by Hannah Kahn
Family History
My name is Eve
My husband is Adam
My address is Eden
And I have two sons
One is Cain
One is Abel
(My whole life
Sounds like a fable)
There was an apple
And there was a snake
What a mistake
For a woman to make.....
We'll have to find
Another town
It might take ages
To live this down.
"The persona behind these poems emerges clearly as the voices behind the poetry as prophetic, humanitarian: the voices behind the poetry are those of Dickinson and Blake. A sly wit prevents the satire and prophesy from becoming pompous. Time.Wait has the potential of reaching a large audience: poetry that is accessible and intelligent."
- Peter Meinke
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Re: “What To Wear: The Source Family Edition”
Why does joining a cult have to look so pretty, but be so ugly?
Re: “What To Wear: The Source Family Edition”
I'd say the hats are more BILLY JACK, but that fits into the whole hippy-cult thing too. Hippie Cults are the best.
Re: “Help Trespass Gallery Give Street Art a Downtown Home”
Thank you for the write up. We greatly appreciate it! Hope we raise the funds and open the doors soon. The lineup of artists for the opening exhibit is already looking great!
Re: “Remembering Don Evans, artist, professor and creative catalyst, for whom the big bang was not a theory”
Looks like he was a great Artist.......who left his Legacy behind for others to follow.....
Re: “Belcourt, Meet Amity Island: Jaws Screens Over the Weekend”
Indianapolis (CA-35), not Indiana.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_%28CA-35%29
Re: “Belcourt, Meet Amity Island: Jaws Screens Over the Weekend”
There were plenty of jumps and screams at the severed-head reveal at the Sunday night screening even though a pre-movie poll by the FLiCX moderator found that nearly everyone in the nearly-full house had seen the flick before. My fave sequence is Quint's monologue about the sinking of the Indiana: "black eyes, like a doll's eyes..."
Re: “Nashville Recap: ‘A Picture From Life’s Other Side’”
I just...this recap...why did I not know these were here until now?! 4 times on Judge Judy?! The tuff Nana jacket?! And, the line that had me scream-laughing, Scarlett as a 7 year old Japanese girl inside a white girl's body? Too much awesome. Well done.
Re: “Remembering Don Evans, artist, professor and creative catalyst, for whom the big bang was not a theory”
So long Don. Your creative energy and encouragement were inspirational to me.
-will
class of '89
Re: “Music That Stings”
It was so great being one of those kids in Dayton.
I miss Iodine.
Re: “Steeplechase: Come for the Hat Contest, Stay for the Fistfight”
^ It's nice to see an official acknowledgement by management. Kristen Mcarther Miles (the girl in pink) of Nashville may have finally gotten the memo it is not acceptable to hit strangers...
https://twitter.com/NC5_AGhassemi/status/3…
Re: “Nashville Recap: ‘A Picture From Life’s Other Side’”
How ironic that "Vandy radio" gets resurrected as a fictional station?! I was just glad they didn't call it WRVU. That would've been too painful.
Love these re-caps! I read the AV Club and Rolling Stone ones too and this is my fave (sorry Adam)
Re: “Remembering Don Evans, artist, professor and creative catalyst, for whom the big bang was not a theory”
Wonderful tribute to a wonderful man.
Re: “Nashville Recap: ‘A Picture From Life’s Other Side’”
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: we need to get Sylvia Jefferies into a gritty indie drama set in the 1970s, in the South, with John Hawkes as her troubled love interest. There can be a nine-year-old who is weird and dark, and obviously some kind of murder.
Re: “Nashville Recap: ‘A Picture From Life’s Other Side’”
Was everyone listening "Vandy Radio" on an HD radio?
Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence. - Goethe