From the monthly archives:
The most surprising thing about this Samurai-genre period film by Japan’s Akira Kurosawa is that it just might be one of the best Westerns ever made.
Sure, Yojimbo is about samurai, not cowboys, but it looks and feels every bit a Western.
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I recently moved my blog from 214studios.com/blog to 214studios.com.
Apparently, something went wrong because I was having all kinds of problems. I have completely reinstalled Wordpress now, so hopefully everything is OK.
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As you can see, things look quite different around here. I’ve pretty much abandoned the old look that I spent so much time customizing, because I never seemed to get it right and it eventually became a mess that I didn’t know how to fix.
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Obama’s foreign policy speech yesterday is worth a read. Some excerpts:
Our men and women in uniform have accomplished every mission we have given them. What’s missing in our debate about Iraq – what has been missing since before the war began – is a discussion of the strategic consequences of Iraq and its dominance of our foreign policy. This war distracts [...]
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We got our pictures from the photographer, and after careful perusal I have put them on my Picasa page.
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This novel was published after the Chilean-Mexican author's death, and I'm not even sure if it was entirely finished or not. It is broken up into five parts which, while connected, stand pretty much on there own. I have not yet made it to the grim part about the murders of hundreds of women in Mexico, so I have so far found it enjoyable and even funny despite some dark underpinnings. It's had a ton of critical praise, and I like it much more than my last foray into the violent novel genre: Blood Meridian.
Been listening to this one a lot, pretty much the whole way through.