Last night I trekked up to Wakefield, MA, where my friend Jeff was having a house concert with Elizabeth Elmore. In case you haven’t heard of Elizabeth, she was once in a great rock band called Sarge, and now fronts The Reputation (described in the Village Voice as “shimmering early-90’s indie rock glimmer reminiscent [...]
This evening I watched my first episode of Keen Eddie, one of the summer shows on FOX. It’s a pretty good cop show, with lots of style, some of which is due to the London setting and some of which comes from nice camera-work and good music. The writing isn’t half bad either. [...]
The Music of the Spheres by Elizabeth Redfern [3/5]
The Music of the Spheres is a novel which takes place mainly in 1795 London, a city that served as home for many of the French emigrants who fled the Revolution in their own country. This makes a fine setting for it’s two main plots, one [...]
The Music of the Spheres [3.5/5]
by Elizabeth Redfern
(Jove Books, a division of Penguin Putnam, August 2002)
I first spotted this book in a rest stop in Canada driving through en route to Michigan, and was intrigued by the back cover copy, which seemed to hint of vague parallels to Jack the Ripper, long a fascination of [...]
Equilibrium [4/5]
This was a movie that I had been looking forward to seeing for a while, ever since I first read a glowing review of it in November. Though the movie was apparently intended for wide release at some point, the studio, for its own mysterious reasons, changed its mind. Instead, Equilibrium [...]
Equilibrium [3.5/5]
Written and Directed by Kurt Wimmer
Cast
John Preston (Christian Bale)
Brandt (Taye Diggs)
Mary O’Brien (Emily Watson)
Dupont (Angus MacFadyen)
Partridge (Sean Bean)
Elements of this film draw on classic traditions of science fiction shown in stories such as Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, Logan’s Run, and other dystopian visions of the future, as well as the kind of special [...]
Ah….premiere night. One of the few that starts at the *beginning* of the summer, so that one might have something to watch. SG-1, the spinoff from the Stargate movie has reached its seventh season in an episode largely featuring the return of Daniel Jackson, who had previously “ascended to a higher plane” or some such. [...]
Alison Shaw’s voice….what’s the word? Ethereal….haunting….otherworldly. She whisps along in a voice that shouldn’t work with the music, but does. Sometimes she sounds lost, but almost deliberately so. Other times she grooves along in a more dramatic fashion. And I don’t think I was expected to like it as much as I do. But I [...]
This was the first week when I really noticed that there were going to be no new Buffy episodes. Since we’re usually between seasons at this point anyway, I had rather expected to make it through the summer before I realized I was hardly watching anything but FoodTV anymore. It’s really a shame that we [...]
I thought I should take a few minutes to comment on the last few books I’ve read….
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson [5/5]
William Gibson has been one of my favorite writers ever since I first got my hands on a copy of Neuromancer many years ago. While I’ve always found his ideas interesting, it’s the way [...]
