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There is nothing quite like the experience of Walter Hill’s 1984 film Streets of Fire because it manages to successfully combine so many elements from history, mythology, film, television, and music to create an amazingly anachronistic music v…

It’s always the perfect time for me to listen to Elton John’s musical arrangements and incomparable vocals fused with Bernie Taupin’s timeless lyrics because together they cover almost all variations of human emotion. While listeni…

*Note: this week's blog post is a little different.  I'm posting in a paper I wrote in graduate school (from November of 2000!) on the play Much Ado About Nothing, but be assured--it's still germane to the film as well :)   The first thi…

T.S. Eliot is my favorite poet.  It’s not only that I love his command of imagery and the subjects that he tends toward[1], but his rhythms and choice of language are often perfect to me.  He has lines that, apropos of nothing, live …

When I was a much younger human, I managed to stuff in even more movie watching than I do now with my only “reel” obstacle being the MPAA.  Now, while there are many excellent films rated PG-13 and under, the lingering problem for m…

I am a massive fan of music and a huge fan of movies.  Putting music and movies together is even better than the idea to combine chocolate and peanut butter.  Movies trade in emotion and the right song in the right place can amplify those …

When it comes to writing papers for school, people fall into two different camps – those who finish early and those who procrastinate until the last possible moment.  I am most decidedly in the second camp, because I enjoy the excitement …

I’ve talked a few times on the podcast about how my media taste as a child was directly related to not liking anything that my dad liked.  It was not that I intentionally tried to be a contrarian with him; we are polar opposites in any nu…

Even though I’m a voracious reader, I have somehow managed never to read a James Bond book until recently.  (I also never saw a Bond movie until Die Another Day came out in the 00s.  Now I have seen them all many times over, since Jo…

Stephen King is very well known as a supernatural horror novelist, and there is really no mystery as to why.  His early career is a greatest hits of weird literature.  His first three published books were Carrie, ‘Salem’s Lot, …