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Four Quartets
Yesterday at the Avon Cinema in Providence I caught A Late Quartet with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Christopher Walken. It's a bit flawed, but of great interest to me because of the musical topic. Beethoven's Opus 131 figures heavily in the story, as played on the soundtrack by the Brentano String Quartet ( Read more... ) -
I left my heart in...
San Francisco ( Read more... ) -
Libera me
Yesterday I went to Tanglewood for an all-Mozart program with the BSO. I like to go there at least once each summer, and have missed only one summer in fifty years ( Read more... ) -
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Jessica Ahlquist, brava!!!!
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Caffè
Today, a momentous affirmation. I can say without doubt that Lavazza espresso is superior to Medaglia d'Oro. -
Raiders and Fassbinder
A film-exhibition-history researcher contacted me today asking where I might have seen Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981. I e-mailed him back:
"I first saw Raiders of the Lost Ark on June 18, 1981 at the Lincoln Mall Cinemas in Lincoln, RI. I saw it again a month later on August 26 at the Imperial Theatre in Montreal. I noted that it was shown ( Read more... ) -
The deer in the yard.
For more than a month a deer has been living in my large back yard and that of my sister next door. It forages among the twigs, fir branches, dried foliage, as it quietly tracks through the long-standing snow. It is a female deer or doe. (♫ Doe, a deer, a female deer. Re, a drop of golden sun! ♫) She really is so beautiful and so magical, that I ( Read more... ) -
"Pasca', o' mare"
In the electrifying final minutes of Vittorio De Sica's 1948 Italian film masterpiece Sciuscià (Shoe Shine), the Neapolitan Raffaele and the other boys trapped in the Roman reformatory are watching a newsreel of the war in the Pacific. Raffaele (Aniello Mele) looks up at the screen with glowing eyes. He sees not the war scenes but the sea of his ( Read more... ) -
Macadamosis
Macadamia nuts. Love them. But perhaps in excess. They have become more than an obsession. A psychosis, really. Unrelenting. Overwhelming. I chomp. I crunch them. They are crunching me.
Macadamia,
macadamia,
che infamia,
che infamia!
