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Chapter 27
2008-03-31 02:06:00 "Visually ugly, morally non-existent and a complete black hole in the departments of insight and wit, Chapter 27 is quite possibly the most godawful, irredeemable film to yet emerge in the 21st century," declares Premiere''s Glenn Kenny. "This inverted vanity project of pretty-boy actor [Jared] Leto (he co-executive produces as well as stars), for which he packed on seventy pounds in order to portray John Lennon murderer Mark David Chapman, tries to take the viewer inside the head of the obsessive assassin. As it happens, that''s a pretty empty .........
A Cut Above The Rest
2008-03-27 02:16:00 A trendy haircut often cements your fashion status, so where better to look than to Charlie Le Mindu, hairdresser extraordinaire. Having recently relocated to UK shores from Berlin and taken residence in a deserted warehouse in the London''s east end, Charlie is to hairdressing what Gaultier is to fashion. ......... More About: Rest
Caterpillar food plants
2008-03-19 02:42:00 I’ve been reading a bit lately about butterflies and how to attract them to your yard and garden. It’s important to plant flowers whose nectar attract butterflies, but don’t forget the larvae (caterpillars). Many butterfly (and moth) caterpillars only eat specific plants. The best known example is the monarch butterfly caterpillar, which eats only the sap from Asclepias species, or milkweeds, including butterfly weed (A. tuberosa) and swamp milkweed (A. ......... More About: Food , Plants , Caterpillar
Demi Moore defends age gap with Ashton Kutcher
2008-03-13 04:03:00 Demi Moore says the age gap between her and husband Ashton Kutcher never worried her.The Hollywood star - who, at 45, is 15 years older than Ashton - can''t understand why people were so shocked by their romance.She said: "People made such a fuss about my relationship with Ashton. You would have thought they had never seen it before. Age wasn''t what I was thinking about, but to the rest of the world it was a very big deal."Ashton also revealed he makes sure he spends as much time as possible with Demi when he is not working.He told America''s Harper''s Bazaar ......... More About: Demi Moore , Demi
Weekend fests and events
2008-03-13 03:52:00 "Regarded as a modern master in Europe, on a par with Buñuel, Dreyer and Bresson (filmmakers to whom he is sometimes compared), [Manoel de] Oliveira is a more marginal figure in the United States," writes Dennis Lim. "BAMcinematek''s centennial retrospective..... is an opportunity to take stock of a singular career and to catch some rarely screened films." Through March ......... More About: Events , Weekend
Action is Everything
2008-03-10 01:52:00 . In a recent series on the hidden workings of our minds I noted that scientists, artists and writers often have considerable difficulty explaining their thought processes. isabella replies that perhaps this difficulty is a necessary part of the process:"perhaps these accounts of thought processes that are "disappointing", "unsatisfying" or "implausible" are so murky because creativity needs that muddiness, needs to work away from the light of our attention?"I think there''s a very interesting point here which I have a personal take on influenced by my own efforts at ......... More About: Action
Carry That Weight - Re-revisited
2008-03-02 14:55:00 Way back in a year they once called 2005, I made a post about a snag that had fallen on top of a nearby Blackjack Oak tree, bending it to the ground. Then, just over two years ago, I went back to the tree to see how things were holding up (or down?), and I made a post about what I found ......... More About: Weight , Carry
Single Malt Whisky Chocolate, a manly gift for Valentine's
2008-02-13 00:36:00 Traditional gift-giving for Valentine''s Day is mainly focused on the woman as the receiver of gifts, but apparently, this is not so in Japan, where Suntory (Japan''s oldest distiller) and Lotte (confectioner) have blended their efforts to concoct this whisky chocolate (the 12-year old whisky oozes out of the middle like caramel). ......... More About: Gift , Chocolate , Whisky , Single , Manly
Contest time!!
2008-01-04 05:59:00 What it is: Everyone has that one picture of themselves looking absolutely fabulous.....and LA-Story.com wants to see it! Submit that prized photo of you in your most glamorous getup and win gorgeous gifts from designer Marc Jacobs! Show us your super chic style, bring on the glam and win! ......... More About: Contest , Time
Sega Mega Drive handheld game system
2008-01-03 23:24:00 Anyone else had a Sega Game Gear in the 90s? If so, then you''re probably already playing your new AtGames Sega Mega Drive as you read this. ......... More About: System , Handheld
Culinary laser thermometer
2008-01-03 13:30:00 This one-handed, battery-powered laser thermometermeasures the temperature of cooking surfaces without touching them. According to our friends at Kitchen Contraptions, checking the temperature of your cooking surfaces prevents burning, undercooking, and sticking, and allows you precisely follow instructions to sear, simmer and saute. I have no idea what those cooking terms mean, but maybe the chef-husbands of Chrissie or Jenna would care to comment on the usefulness of this gadget. ......... More About: Laser , Culinary , Thermometer
Sunday delivery
2007-12-28 15:24:00 Linda, of Linda’s Backroad Musings, is a rural letter carrier. She recently had a post about the survival of postal letters in the age of email. It’s an interesting post with some facts and figures. As she points out, the age of letters has not passed yet. This is the mailbox we have at Roundrock. (I showed you the mail box over at Fallen Timbers in this post.) This one is by our first fire ring (we’re on our third now) so it’s a bit off the path and unlikely to get rural free ......... More About: Sunday , Delivery
Horsebalm
2007-12-27 17:03:00 Three days from the solstice, & the shriveled leaf still smells faintly of lemon.
Are We Raising Entrepreneurs?
2007-12-16 15:03:00 Is this next generation going to steer clear of being their own boss or are we raising youth who will embrace the entrepreneur spirit? ......... More About: Entrepreneurs
Audrey Hepburn: Staring Me Down
2007-12-13 04:30:00 Here''s a tip for people who just can''t seem to make themselves pull together cute outfits as often as they''d like: Hang a huge poster of someone glamorous on your wall. One of my Hanukkah presents from my family was the above poster of Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany''s, and it has had the unexpected effect of causing me to want to wear fabulous clothing. I just can''t pull on sweats while Holly GoLightly is staring at me from the wall and sparkling with diamonds.Needless to say, I love the poster. Everyone needs that extra push to dress well when it''s freezing outside and ......... More About: Staring , Burn
Business worried about climate change
2007-12-11 03:59:00 How things have changed.Executives expect environmental issues, including climate change, to affect shareholder value far more than any other societal issue during the next five years. Their concern now exceeds that of consumers, according to a new McKinsey study. More than half nominated climate change, compared with 31 per cent in the previous survey.It coincides with reports of corporations asking politicians to agree on a comprehensive, legally binding framework to tackle climate change during the ongoing international conference in Bali.The change in business ......... More About: Business , Climate Change , Climate , Change , Worried
Senses of Cinema
2007-12-04 02:39:00 "Try writing an essay on ''leaving the movie theatre'' in this day and age." Introducing their new issue, Senses of Cinema editors Rolando Caputo and Scott Murray pick up on the tone set by Chacun son cinema (To Each His Own Cinema), the compilation of three-minute films by 33 renowned directors commissioned to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Cannes this year: to enter a movie theater now is to pay a 21st century tribute, suffused with respect and nostalgia, maybe even mourning, to a fading 20th century custom as the films themselves slip out onto smaller, more portable screens or harrumph .........
Why It's All About the Day-to-Day
2007-12-04 02:01:00 It''s one of the great paradoxes of life that we all want to be happy, yet so few of us seem to know exactly where happiness comes from. Happiness itself can be defined in many different ways, it may have all kinds of components, it may be a life''s work, or even no work at all, but we are, most of us, in pursuit of this elusive goal.Psychologists have good and bad news about our search for happiness. The bad news is that we have essentially no control over 50% of our happiness levels. Happiness, like many of our other attributes is partially set by our genes. While these do interact .........
Redhead
2007-11-20 02:43:00 We came upon this fellow on our last trip to Roundrock. H was in a sunny part of the forest just up from the supposed high water mark of the lake. What caught my attention was the bright red mottling on this boy’s head. I might otherwise have overlooked him in the leaf ......... More About: Redhead
I for India
2007-11-20 01:54:00 "I for India isn''t content just to mold years of personal footage into a fascinating drama, as we''ve already seen in such camcorder-obsessed tales of domestic dysfunction as Capturing the Friedmans and Tarnation," writes Aaron Hillis in the Voice. "[T]he film manages to lyrically explore the meaning of filial responsibility with a lasting but unsentimental tenderness. November seems late enough to call this one of the richest documentaries of the .........
What would you improve?
2007-11-07 05:04:00 Mark Hoofnagle at Denialism has a neat article on what would you improve if you could redesign the human body. I''m fine with an appendix, I''m not female so I don''t really care about childbirth, and I''m still fairly young so I am not really concerned with my prostate. However, I would like to upgrade my senses. I''d like eyes like a hawk, ears like an owl, touch like a star-nosed mole, and a nose like bloodhound.Birds have acute vision, but also can see ultraviolet light. Their world ......... More About: Improve , Improv , Prove
UFO Hotspots Map
2007-11-07 04:46:00 Alien encounters, abductions and sightings are very much out of the picture since they were milked for televisual success by the popular series The X-Files in the 1990s.That doesn''t prevent the brave J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies from Chicago from publishing a map of UFO sightings in the US. It indicates the number of UFO reports per 100.000 people by county in the continental .........
When Your Own Mind is a Mystery
2007-11-02 01:57:00 This top 10 social psychology study not only demonstrates the ''halo effect'' but also how little access we have to our own thought processes.The ''halo effect'' is a classic finding in social psychology. It is the idea that global evaluations about a person (e.g. she is likeable) bleed over into judgements about their specific traits (e.g. she is intelligent). Hollywood stars demonstrate the halo effect perfectly. Because they are often attractive and likeable we naturally assume they are also intelligent, friendly, display good judgement and so on. That is, until we come across ......... More About: Mind , Mystery , Myst
Rails and Ties
2007-10-27 23:32:00 "It's probably not the easiest thing in the world to direct your first feature film when your dad is an icon like Clint Eastwood, but with her feature debut, Rails & Ties, helmer Alison Eastwood makes some smart decisions, most of which involve surrounding herself with people who know what they're doing," writes Kim Voynar at Cinematical, where she talks with Eastwood and Marcia Gay .........
Art of Shaving For Women
2007-10-23 04:09:00 The Art of Shaving is a well-known, highly respected, extremely upscale grooming line for men. They finally came out with a women's line that is similar to yet distinctly different from the men's line because women's shaving needs are different from men's and they aren't shaving their ......... More About: Women , For Women
October blue
2007-10-17 02:41:00 Have you ever heard that the skies in October are bluer than in other months? I can remember hearing that as a child. It was often used in an expression, such as “bluer than an October ......... More About: Blue
Phantom Vibrations
2007-10-14 23:38:00 If your hipbone is connected to your BlackBerry or your thighbone is connected to your cell phone, those vibrations you're feeling in the car, in your pajamas, in the shower, may be coming from your headbone.Many mobile phone addicts and BlackBerry junkies report feeling vibrations when there are none, or feeling as if they're wearing a cell phone when they're not. Research in the area is scant, but there are enough theories about the phenomenon, which has been termed 'ringxiety' or ......... More About: Phantom , Vibrations
The Counterfeiters in the UK.
2007-10-14 23:08:00 To hear Jonathan Freedland tell it, you'd think German cinema has only just now begun to deal with Nazism, WWII and the Holocaust. If "Downfall and The Counterfeiters suggest a watershed has been reached," we'll have to write a few names out of history, including, just for starters, Fassbinder and Syberberg, Wolfgang Staudte and Frank .........
Classical Drive's New Masthead Launched!
More articles from this author:2007-10-09 05:14:00 Our regular visitors will, I hope, notice that this site has an all-new masthead, one that symbolises both Classical Drive's editorial theme and our personal taste in automobile styling. The new masthead, by the way, was a team effort involving Creative Weblogging's art director (who did most of the work) and myself. If it suggests art deco design principles, well..... that's no co-incidence. The voluptuous automobile dominating our new design is a 1937 Delahaye 135M with coachwork by Figoni & Falaschi, an art deco icon that I was fortunate to photograph at the 2006 Pebble ......... More About: Launched , Mast , Thea 1, 2, 3 |
