Saturday, November 19, 2011
First Lines: Vikram Seth - A Suitable Boy
'You too will marry a boy I choose,' said Mrs Rupa Mehra firmly to her younger daughter.
Friday, November 18, 2011
Rambo III (1988)
Rambo's Vietnam commanding officer Colonel is held hostage in Afghanistan, and its up to Rambo to rescue him.
Standard action fair, politically blind at the time and now terribly dated.
First Lines: Jeffrey Eugenides - The Virgin Suicides
On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide - it was mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese - the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
First Lines: Marisha Pessl - Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Dad always said a person must have a magnificent reason for writing out his or her Life Story and expecting anyone to read it.
Monday, November 14, 2011
Art: Erwin Stolz
Bio:
http://www.altekunst-vienna.com/frontend/scripts/index.php?groupId=0&productId=2565&setMainAreaTemplatePath=mainarea_productdetail.html&query=&PHPSESSID=bb9c86e0671b378e945bf4709bfe987a
A day in the life, Nov. 12, 2011, plane in the sky
A day in the life, Nov. 12, 2011, plane in the sky
Sunday, November 13, 2011
First Lines: James Agee - Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
(ph: Walker Evans)
It is late in a summer night, in a room of a house set deep and solitary in the country; all in this house save myself are sleeping; I sit at a table, facing a partition wall; and I am looking at a lighted coal-oil lamp which stands on the table close to the wall, and just beyond the sleeping of my relaxed left hand; with my right hand I am from time to time writing, with a soft pencil, into a school-child's composition book; but just now, I am entirely focused on the lamp, and light.
