Friday Song & Cover: Classical Gas by Mason Williams, Vanessa-Mae
Friend and colleague Jeff Vaca highlighted this uniquely ’60s musical gem almost three years ago. Another instrumental from a decade dotted with them, Mason Williams‘ Classical…
Guest Post » Cinematic Rebels, Tough Guys, Rugged Individualists, Thugs And Creeps!
Greetings All and Sundry! Please allow me the opportunity to explode the myths that I may have been abducted by Agents of SMERSH (“Smert Spioman: “Death…
George Kennedy – A Two Film Tribute
This week, and we’ve had a seemingly endless spate of them, has seen another well-known, admired, and beloved actor of TV and film leave this mortal…
Like Water For Chocolate Film Review
Leap day, February 29th, is a date that only occurs, obviously, during Leap Years — an annum that is evenly divisible by 4. As we’ve done on occasion…
Kill City Blues Audiobook Review
Since I don’t write book or audiobook reviews at anything close to a regular rate, I thought to get one out before 2016 was more than…
Best Album Covers: Out of the Blue
This is the next entry in Best Album Covers, a series begun right here. The first successful long-playing microgroove record for the phonograph was introduced by Columbia Records back in June of…
Same Song, Different Movie: Take Five by the Dave Brubeck Quartet
This is the next entry in a series from early 2012 that looks at the use of “needle dropped” songs, many of them popular tunes, in movies. Specifically,…
Reblogged: 10 reasons Deadpool movie won me over
Source: 10 reasons Deadpool movie won me over For the record, Yes, I am a fan of the blogger extraordinaire Ruth of Flixchatter, but that’s not…
Friday Song & Cover: La Bamba by Ritchie Valens, Los Lobos
Given that a sad anniversary, the 57th, graced us this week, should be no surprise that we’d reflect back to it in some way or another.…
Edge of Tomorrow Film Review
It’s January, normally a cold and wet time for us in the southland, the opposite for those like the Scientist Gone Wordy who live in the southern hemisphere.…
TMT: “Now that was really close!”
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. We’re well into 2016, which is astonishing given how quickly…
Friday Song – Power Wave by Dave Grusin
Like many my age, the ’80s brought with it a total revamp of what had come before. Certainly, beyond the padded shoulders, leg warmers, and big…
Reblogged – John Kenneth Muir’s Reflections on Cult Movies and Classic TV: Tribute: Alan Rickman (1946 – 2016)
Source: John Kenneth Muir’s Reflections on Cult Movies and Classic TV: Tribute: Alan Rickman (1946 – 2016) I’m really getting quite distressed waking to such sad…
On the Lookout for Books and Movies 2016 Poll Results
As put forward back in November, having just completed another parallel post season with my partner Rachel, the blogger otherwise known as the Scientist Gone Wordy, we followed up with the same…
A Song Cover For This Day (and year): I Need You
In honor of the New Year now upon us, I selected a song from the period of the ’90s, which has been on my mind of late.…
Winter’s Tail: Year of Bests – 2015
Way back when, I did not publish a year-end piece on those articles I most enjoyed reading for the period. Routinely, my online browsing turns up a…
Merry Christmas!
Originally posted on MiddleMe:
I‘m dreaming of a White Christmas Just like the ones I used to know Where the treetops glisten and children listen To…
On the Lookout for Books and Movies Poll 2016
As put forward last month, having just completed another parallel post season with my partner Rachel, the blogger otherwise known as the Scientist Gone Wordy, we’re going back to the notion we did last year.…
Reprise – Song for the Holiday: Get Here
With the Thanksgiving Day holiday upon us today, and yesterday traditionally the busiest travel day of the year, it always reminds me of those trying to…
My Top 13 Forgotten Crime Gems
I don’t know what it is about crime movies. Found I’ve watched and enjoyed a lot of them…and still do. Fairly regularly. Yes, I still manage…
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