Saturday, September 15, 2012
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New Stuff: Savage Republic
This is already their second album after their reunion, so I missed out on the first one.
Friday, September 14, 2012
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First Lines: T. Coraghessan Boyle - The Road to Wellville
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, inventor of the cornflake and peanut butter, not to mention caramel-cereal coffee, Bromose, Nuttolene and some seventy-five other gastronomically correct foods, paused to level his gaze on the heavyset women in front of him.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
First Lines: John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
The Lost Jungle (1934)
An animal trainer heads a rescue party in search of his girl and her father who get lost looking for an uncharted island.
Lively adventure with lots of spectacular animal scenes.
Land of the Minotaur (1976)
So bad, it's almost an achievement: grade Z in the true sense of the word.
Maltin*1/2: "...draggy, uninteresting yarn."
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
New York
December 5, 1933. "Rockefeller Center and RCA Building from 515 Madison Avenue."
Ph: Samuel H. Gottscho
First Lines: William Peter Blatty - The Exorcist
Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed; in the shriek of what followed, in fact, was forgotten and perhaps not connected to the horror at all.
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