Drama, Movies

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

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Breakfast at Tiffany has receive higher ratings than in my mind it deserved. It is a love story with a cute cat and an always beautiful-to-watch Audrey Hepburn. But that is about it. Watch the wonderful My Fair Lady if you want to see Hepburn and experience a much deeper story. My Review of My image [Read More]
Diary

When the US shrank in the 19th century

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The internet today is removing barriers between people living in different places. The railroads were one of the technologies (telegraph and telephone were others) that this for 19th century.  The Writer’s Almanac reports: The First Transcontinental Railroad was completed on this date in 1869. The project had been discussed since the 1830’s when Europeans were image [Read More]
Diary

Motorbike from Japan travels across the Pacific Ocean

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I could never imagine that sea currents are strong enough to wash a motorbike across the entire Pacific Ocean. Read this amazing story. TOKYO (AP)—It must have been a wild ride. Japanese media say a Harley-Davidson motorcycle lost in last year’s tsunami has washed up on a Canadian island about 6,400 kilometers (4,000 miles) away. The rusted image image [Read More]
Drama, Movies

The Maltese Falcon

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Four short year after the Golden Gate Bridge opened in 1937, this detective flick was produced in San Francisco. Humphrey Bogart plays a private detective. He is retained by a beautiful women, who under false pretenses has Bogart’s partner shadow a man, who allegedly has let her sister to run away with him to San image [Read More]
Astute Observations, Diary

A Few Good Lines by Samuel Beckett

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  “Where I am, I don’t know, I’ll never know, in the silence you don’t know, you must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.”

“My mistakes are my life.”

“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”

“Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.”

“Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.”

Movies, Phantasy

The Hunger Games

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The Hunger Games is a real surprise. Who would have thought that a film effortly makes connections between the Roman empire (bread and games), Thomas Hobbes’ life in a state of nature,  George Orwell’s 1984 nightmare of total government control, and our age’s infatuation with reality TV shows such as “Survivor.” After having seen image [Read More]