Category: Guide

  What I Watched The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2000). I have seen a movie coming out with the same name starring Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield as the Bakkers, but I really want to make sure people see this absolutely perfect documentary. It was wild, vibrant, and flamboyant. Directed by Fenton Bailey & Randy […]

To start, I just want to advertise that from June 21st to June 22nd, all blogs on this site will be free to read. I am trying to compete with Amazon, so I am doing my version of Prime Day. I hope you enjoy the significant savings. What I Watched I am out at the […]

Sorry about skipping last week; I’m sure the three of you were let down and confused, but I am back and ready to share with you my snobby cultural picks of the week. What I Watched My wife had never seen Peter Greenway’s The Pillow Book (1996), so we watched it the other night. Combining […]

What I Watched Come and See (1985), directed by Elem Klimov. One of the most devastating war movies ever shot, Come and See, is about a boy played by Aleksei Kravchenko finding a gun and joining the resistance in Belarus during Germany’s invasion in World War II. The movie is so dark and devastating that […]

What I Read With my wife and I moving from a farmhouse on the edge of a haunted cherry orchard and the sky is endless to a more urban setting on the east coast encased in lights, I can’t stop thinking about the book, Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard. The book is about the […]

What I Am Listening To Joseph Shabason’s The Fellowship. This album has a few things I love about music. It is a concept album, and the story and emotions are conveyed without lyrics. Shabason is a session saxophone player mostly known for working with Destroyer and War On Drugs but has been putting out solo […]

What Did I Watch Days of Heaven (1978) A Terence Malick masterpiece set in depression-era Texas is straight out of Andrew Wyeth’s painting Christina’s World (1948). Terence Malick is one of my favorite directors, and this was his second feature, and he wouldn’t make another film until Thin Red Line (1998). I watched it again […]