Entries from March 2007
March 28, 2007
Credit Where Credit is Due Please: Cormac McCarthy and the Oprah Book Club
Oprah has picked Cormac McCarthy’s beautiful and haunting The Road for her book club. I was over at Amazon.com looking at the message board for the new paperback edition of The Road and was struck by some posts attacking Oprah and the intelligence of her viewers. This is very sad. Oprah has promoted the [...]
March 22, 2007
Tim Supple’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Roundhouse Theatre, London
The London chronicles continue, although the vacation has ended. But vestiges of the experience find their way to this blog as I recount a few experiences and impressions from my trip. I am looking forward to talking a little about the things that surprised me about London –little day-to-day things– but I first want [...]
March 22, 2007
UFO over Trafalgar Square?
Are these photos of a UFO? I wish I could confidently believe that they indeed show a UFO to the right of Nelson but I doubt it because the photos were taken from inside the National Gallery and from behind a window pane. I’m guessing this is some kind of flare effect, reflection or dust [...]
March 18, 2007
The Tempest at the Novello Theatre, London
I just got back from spending a week in London and have alot to blog about. I will begin with some informal reflections on Rupert Goold’s astonishing production of The Tempest, featuring Patrick Stewart as Prospero, at the Novello Theater on Aldwych in the West End.
This Royal Shakespeare production cuts against the grain of what [...]
March 8, 2007
Off to London to see Shakespeare
I’m putting Patrick Stewart’s picture at the head of this post because I will be seeing him play Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest on Monday March 12th in London. I’m not going to London only to see him, but seeing a Royal Shakespeare Company production for the first time is pretty exciting and certainly one [...]
March 6, 2007
“Dime si después” Alex Cuba Band
The Alex Cuba Band fuses Cuban rhythms with the Latin American Nueva Trova tradition. Video quality is not the greatest but…
Here’s their myspace page. Try “Dramática mujer”…
March 5, 2007
Zodiac, directed by David Fincher (2007)
I saw David Fincher’s Zodiac last night over at the Studio Movie Grill in Arlington with my buddy Scott Williams, German Professor from TCU (and former UT Arlington Language Acquisiton Center Director). The first thing I want to say is that the concept of eating a full meal while watching a movie in a movie [...]
