One of the biggest and most beautiful internet videos is Where the Hell is Matt Harding? It first appeared on youtube in 2005 and became a “feel good” classic of the genre.
Now Matt Harding has come back with a powerful sequel dated 2008 that is making the internet rounds all over again. There’s a different [...]
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July 16, 2008
Weeping Joyously: Dancing Around the World with Matt Harding
November 23, 2007
Mack the Knife and Pedro Navaja: The Louis Armstrong and Ruben Blades Confluence
First, the Inimitable Mr. Louis Armstrong, doing one of his signatures.
Now, the immensely talented Ruben Blades, doing the latin descendant of Mack the Knife, “Pedro Navaja”(Peter the Knife or Switchblade). Check out Oscar H on the piano!
November 22, 2007
Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times (1936)
The one and only time the great Charlie Chaplin’s vagabond spoke was when he sung this song in “Modern Times” (1936), one of my all-time favorite movies. The lyrics are in gibberish!!
September 6, 2007
Rest in Peace Rodolfo
In 1988, I trekked to San Francisco on a bus from Santa Cruz to stand (or better said, sit) in line all day long to get a standing room only ticket to see Luciano Pavarotti in one of his signature roles, Rodolfo in Giacomo Puccini’s La Boheme. I’ve seen La Boheme over the years (3 [...]
June 16, 2007
Once
Once is currently playing at the Angelika theater in Dallas, off of Mockingbird, at the 75.
This movie is excellent. Here’s a round-up of what critics have been saying.
June 7, 2007
Blast from the Past: Snapshots of Spanish TV in the 1970’s
These guys were great…
In 1980, Felix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish T.V. personality and naturalist died in a plane crash. The immensely popular duo of Enrique y Ana memorialized him in this classic song.
The Adventures of Marco literally traumatized a generation of Spanish children. A story of a boy searching, endlessly, and excruciatingly, for his [...]
May 17, 2007
“The Sandman”, via E.T.A. Hoffman, Sigmund Freud and… Rich Ragsdale
I have been teaching E.T.A. Hoffman’s “The Sandman” and Freud’s “The Uncanny” in my Sumer Intersession course and just found this brilliant film by Rich Ragsdale, a film maker out of Venice, California. I tip my hat to Mr. Ragsdale for this film, it’s truly magnificent and I can’t wait to share it [...]
