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Waxing [cinematically]: Boyhood
It’s been five full days since I saw Richard Linklater’s new movie ‘Boyhood’. I’ve thought about it multiple times in each of those days since. In writing this, I’m almost more consumed by my thoughts...
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Waxing [cinematically]: The One I Love
The billing sold me first. Mark Duplass and Elisabeth Moss. And then I read it was really only those two. Ted Danson is in there. For, what, a minute? Two? So we have two favorites. 90 minutes. With...
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Waxing [Cinematically]: The Ending of ‘Short Term 12′
I saw Destin Daniel Cretton’s Short Term 12 three months ago. It hasn’t left my mind since. It’s a movie that sticks with you — thanks to a brilliant cast, great pace, and most of all, a focus on...
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Waxing [Musically]: Lucinda Williams’‘Car Wheels On A Gravel Road’
It took me seventeen listens to realize that Car Wheels on a Gravel Road is the story of a breakup. It took my slightly fewer listens to realize the lyrical genius of Ms. Williams. See, when you start...
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Waxing [Literarily]: Travels with Charley {John Steinbeck}
There’s been much debate on the reality of what happened with John Steinbeck in 1960. His book, Travels with Charley in Search of America, details some (of his/not his) journeys through that year and...
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Waxing [Literarily]: One Summer [Bill Bryson]
It was on a sunny Saturday in Vancouver, BC that I embarked on two history-learning journeys: (1) starting ‘One Summer’, Bill Bryson’s book on the exciting summer of 1927; and (2) Dan Carlin’s...
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Waxing [Cinematically]: Love & Mercy
Let’s start with a few simple facts on this one. Love & Mercy is a music-focused biopic on Brian Wilson — member of the Beach Boys, producer, and noted recluse for much of the decades after...
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Waxing [Musically]: John Wesley Harding
Starting on March 22, 1965, Bob Dylan released, it the span of 14 months, perhaps the three greatest rock n’ roll albums of all time. The triad output of Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61...
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Waxing [Cinematically]: Gleason
I’ve seen some really good movies lately. I finally saw Philomena which was great. I saw The Verdict, Sidney Lumet’s 1980s courtroom drama with a drunk Bostonian Paul Newman. Pleasure, for sure....
View ArticleWaxing [Poetically] Frank In Love
Some nights you find yourself happening back upon the words of your favorite poet and it’s pure bliss. This one to Vincent, from Frank. Notice the acrostic of it. “We’re all for the captured time of...
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