Anatomy of a Fall Did he jump or was he pushed? Exciting courtroom drama through a French perspective. The mom is so German, aloof and selfish. Guilty! Someone give the kid an Oscar. And the dog too. Society of Snow Powerful, elegant, inspiring. Instead of going for a Lord of the Flies angle where the…
Category: Culture Club
Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
This is a book about Big Ideas and I enjoyed it immensely. The author Naomi Klein is persistly confused with Naomi Wolf — “Other Naomi” — who is now a red-pilled conspiricst living in the Mirror World.
Terminator 1 and 2
It’s a little jarring that the post-nuclear wasteland introduced in Terminator 1 is set in Los Angeles 2029, just five years from now. And that the premise is based on artificial intelligence: Skynet invented the Defense Network Computers that were programmed to acquire exponential knowledge. Faced with a shut down when their human masters saw…
Conductors Love Mahler
Movie maestros and the LA Phil conductors are united in their adoration of Gustav Mahler’s nine symphonies. No complaints here.