"For whatever shape your family takes. "

Brilliant catchphrase. I hope it works for them, and I hope their cars work too.

They really could have killed two birds with one stone, and had a couple of drugged out kids sitting in their fathers Chevy in the garage, smoking a J.

Sorry! Posting from my iPhone via dictation when I should be sleeping seems to be a consistent problem. It is fixed now, but the book is 11/22/63.

11/22/63 I almost wish the author wasn't Stephen King, because I know it will stop some people from reading it. It almost stopped me. But I can't deny that this is his best book since the stand. And there are 80% fewer annoying Stephen King-isms in this wonderful, imaginative, and thorough novel abo...

I saw 47 Ronin tonight, a Keanu Reeves/Japanese action fantasy. Keanu, alternating between his two facial expressions of 'annoyed' and 'confused and annoyed' didn't ruin the movie. Shot in Japan with an all-Japanese cast (save for Reeves) by a non-Japanese director, it borders parody too many times ...

I will certainly have to be a better writer to pull this off than I was in this thread, Monte. The idea is more science fiction than anything else--music hasn't been repressed, just never imagined or discovered. Society without music, even without pattern recognition in sound...that intrigues me.

And the grand finale jam, my Latin take on All Blues. Good solo from Tripp Sprague on soprano, and a beauty from Duncan Moore on drums!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcuAI3RUPy8

From my concert last week in San Diego, with Bob Magnusson and Duncan Moore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzsBRevb6zg

Probably my best song with vocals in a couple of years. From my concert in San Diego last week. It's short, enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecyh7uiHBFg&list=UUHvaCEYfdoFaiQiGErP7Nqw&feature=share

Not a lot of chatter here, but what the heck--great gig! Bob Magnusson has a tone that stretches out for days, and Duncan Moore and Tripp Sprague are excellent, interactive players. I'll put a video up of some of the jazz numbers--I did others that were more singer-songwriter stuff, though always in...

Probably an alternate universe, on a world like Earth. And if I pick up on this thread of mine, it's my hope that I do approach it from a scientific view, at least at first. There will be scientists who hear the patterns but can't decipher anything, and thus they will think of it all as the emperor'...

Last year while my piano was in the hospital, I wrote my first ever novela. It was a fun experience and I felt like the theme was original, which gave me joy. Now I have another idea. Here it is. New Story Idea 2/3/14 Tone-Deaf (Working Title only) Imagine a world that does not have a concept of mus...

"Wildly overrated" makes me think of someone running down the street, frothing at the mouth and eyes bulging, yelling "THIS IS AMAZING!!!!!" ;) I saw Caught in the Web, a Chinese black comedy (I assume) about viral gossip in the age of the internet. It was interesting but a bit s...

Exactly.

Hey, Rita-- "For example, I just saw the new Jack Ryan movie as well. (Rita: Surely you all know that movie's title, but if not, Rita might supply it later...") The new Jack Ryan movie is called Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. I can see where you might have gotten confused. ;) Monte, I'm disapp...

Different strokes.

Thanks, Rita. I have been at the NAMM show for four days, walking and dictating into my iPhone. It's rare that I have the chance, or the concentration, to reread and edit my comments. I will certainly take responsibility for some of the more creative decisions I make about my writing, but the iphone...

Her, a very interesting and mostly well done movie by Spike Jonze. Also most definitely 30 minutes longer than it needed to be. Creates a new genre: subversive sci fi futuristc chick flick.

Granted, the premise is so outrageously weird that it lowered my expectations quite a bit, but if you can roll with the story (without really understanding it, as I'm not hundred percent sure I could explain in detail), And if you like super imaginative, visually stunning and literally beautiful sci...

But I've never read an interview with an actor saying that Woody coaches them to speak that way--in fact, if I'm not mistaken, the word is that he mostly lets people do what they feel like doing as actors...then again, if so many actors end up sounding like imitations, there must be more there. I ju...

Agreed about the Internship, Walto. And interestingly enough, Blue Jasmine is one of the only Woody Allen films I can remember where the actors don't sound like him. It was a relief.

Trying to catch up, as most movies open in MX far later the in the states. Wolf of Wall Stret still isn't here yet. I saw two lately: Blue Jasmine and American Hustle. I thought both were good enough to hold my interest. Cate B was excellent, twitchy and sad. Andre Dice Clay surprised me by being as...

So the site, she is still breathing?

We just watched Elton John, From Russia With Love, which chronicled his rather historic 1979 concerts in Leningrad and Moscow with percussionist Ray Cooper (who plays like a demon and looks like a demented civil servant). A good reminder of what a talented composer John was back in the day. A very s...

Fecha de Caducidad, an excellent Mexican black comedy;

Saving Mr Banks--some weak moments but mostly fun and interesting. Brought me back to my childhood.

Trouble With the Curve--Eastwood. Watchable but nothing more.

You see how that works? You lead with "I'm shutting this down, period" and you get people saying "shit, well... goodbye, I guess."

Then someone says "maybe we can keep going" and people say "yes, please!"