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Author Archives: Phillip
My Valentine’s Playlist
John Walkenbach is creating a Collaborative Vallentine’s playlist from YouTube videos. My suggestions wouldn’t go through for some reason, so I’m posting them here. Let the special man or woman in your life know how you feel by telling him … Continue reading
Posted in music & audio, reading & writing
Tagged: bob marley, holly cole, john lennon, jwalk, tom waits, valentine, yeats
Review of “Tampopo”
Tampopo (Dandelion) is a bizarre, uneven but funny Japanese movie about some guys helping a woman in Tokyo create the best noodle stand ever. There are about a dozen side stories that have no connection at all to the main … Continue reading
Posted in food & drink, movies, tv & video, reviews
“Winter’s Bone” Plays Like a Documentary
Winter’s Bone is about a dirt poor country girl trying to find her dead beat dad because he skipped bail after putting the family home up as collateral. Her world is cold, lonely, filthy, hopeless and scary, and so is … Continue reading
Posted in movies, tv & video
First Time Drinking Cachaça
A friend of mine came back from Brazil with a bottle of Cachaça for me, a type of Brazilian booze fermented from raw sugar cane. It reminds me tequila (which I don’t like), but smoother and more exotic. It was … Continue reading
Posted in food & drink
Tagged: booze, Cachaça, Caipirinha, tequila
55 Years of Body Snatching
The original version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers was released 55 years ago today in 1956. It’s a B-quality movie that’s creepy and fun. Fall asleep and your body is cloned in a big slimy alien pod outside your … Continue reading
Posted in movies, tv & video, reviews
Tagged: 4 Star Movies, b-movies, daniel craig, donald sutherland, invasion of the body snatchers, nicole kidman
