Tag Archives: Recommend

Writing Books – Good Scripts, Bad Scripts

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Sarah

by Tom Pope Pope makes the point early in his book that you can learn as much from a bad film as from a good one. If you know what to look for, that is. This book proves the point: … Continue reading →

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Writing Books – Making Comics

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Sarah

by Scott McCloud Scott McCloud, creator of Zot!, produced an important groud-breaking book some years ago, entitled Understanding Comics. That book could serve as the textbook for the first semester in a course on creating comics (be it daily strips, … Continue reading →

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Movies – Hitch

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Sarah

starring Will Smith, Eva Mendes and Kevin James directed by Andy Tennant, written by Kevin Bisch Now, I’m a fan of Will Smith’s. He’s engaging and open, and brings a joi de vivre to his work. Hitch shows off these … Continue reading →

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Television Series Sets – Mission: Impossible – Season 1

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Sarah

. The lit dynamite fuse burning across the screen. The driving theme music. The snappy images of bits of “this week’s” episode. You know what it is right away. It’s the original Mission: Impossible. Looking at the show across the … Continue reading →

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Television Series Sets – Cadfael – Set 1

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Sarah

starring Derek Jacobi, Sean Pertwee The Cadfael Mysteries are well crafted novels, plopped in the midst of mediaeval conflict. Ellis Peters conveys the historical period without forcing you to endure a history course in order to follow events. In the … Continue reading →

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Music – Grunt

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Sarah

Sandra Boynton I’m reviewing this here as “music”, but it’s a delightful confection for the over-educated (I suppose). This work was released with there was a spate of recordings of Gregorian chants. In Grunt, Boynton gives the listener, and reader … Continue reading →

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Music – Memoirs of a Geisha

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Sarah

John Williams (composer) Williams is well known for bold, brassy fanfares for heroic films. Some of those scores I find a bit too much like each other. But Memoirs of a Geisha is different. Williams captures a sound that evokes … Continue reading →

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Music – Still the Same

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Sarah

Rod Stewart Rod Stewart has one of those voices that shouldn’t really work for a singer. He’s got a rough edge to his sound. It is the fact that he can sing in tune, and has a knack for meaningful … Continue reading →

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Music – They Called Her Babylon

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Sarah

Steeleye Span The traditional music band Steeleye Span has a long history of recording old ballads and songs with modern accompanyment and musical sensibility. They Called Her Babylon, released in 2004, continues that practice: songs about exile (“Van Diemen’s Land”), … Continue reading →

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Books – Dinah of Seneca

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Sarah

Dinah of Seneca by Corrina Lawson I suppose I should reveal that Corrina Lawson is a friend. But that doesn’t change the fact that she tells a whopping good tale. Lawson plunges into the realm of alternate history and has … Continue reading →

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