Editor’s Note: Assorted emergencies have precluded updates; in light of recent news about Malcolm Young please enjoy this Best Of World View from August 2009. Pervasive summer fog punctuates another longish San Francisco stay and by trip’s end my condition mirrors area weather: low, even, and not letting up anytime soon. The flight is thankfully […]
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True Dat
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
“True Detective’s” greatly anticipated first season finale aired Sunday night and as warranted by its cult status received a lot of critical attention. The Internet wasn’t around in ’72 when “The Godfather” came out. Back then if you wanted to read a critique or analysis you had to do so in select newspapers or magazines. This […]
Watching The Detectives
Thursday, February 27, 2014
HBO’s new series “True Detective” has a dripping backwoods bayou setting, spookily appropriate opening funeral dirge by The Handsome Family, and musical selections hand-picked by T Bone Burnett including Lucinda Williams, Dwight Yoakam and Wu-Tang Clan. Woody Harrelson, one half of a querulous detective team, brings a cocksure “No Country For Old Men” Texas mumble […]
Just Acting
Thursday, February 6, 2014
It’s my life and it’s my wife– Lou Reed In Sidney Lumet’s “Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead” Philip Seymour Hoffman lies on the bed in his androgynous drug dealer’s Manhattan high-rise and is injected with heroin. Moments later he sits in the living room, reflecting on his job and life: “The thing about real […]
Sherman’s March
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
As a Northern California sports fan living in New York, I’ve become familiar with something commonly known as the East Coast Media Bias – a tendency for major outlets like ESPN to ignore anything happening with a ball west of the Mississippi. It registered on my first day in Brooklyn, 2003, when I picked up […]
Limitloo Sunset
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
I watched Tommy Lee Jones’ adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy play “The Sunset Limited” last night. Been watching a lot of movies of late after scoring a free year of Netflix with a new television purchase. (Actually this production was on ‘HBO-Go,’ but I’ll include that in a future posting “How I Cut The Cable […]
Never Kept A Dollar Past Sunset
Thursday, December 12, 2013
“If it looks like an antenna and acts like an antenna, then it is an antenna.” This according to affably urbane Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, angered at the ‘official’ proclamation that New York’s new World Trade Center is the tallest building in the country. The needle on top was declared something other than an antenna, […]
All Mixed Up
Monday, November 25, 2013
She’s always out makin’ pictures She’s always out makin’ scenes – Cars A long time ago, before Google Street Maps and being able to scope out every block of a strange location, I used to have this weird brain thing. It happened when I’d travel to a place I’d imagined for a long while in […]
Tonight In Louieland
Sunday, November 3, 2013
I was watching an episode of Stephen Merchant’s new tolerably decent HBO show “Hello Ladies” the other night, standard fare cringe-comedy of the sort he’s been doing with Ricky Gervais for the last decade. Merchant has yet to reach Gervais’s saturation level and as such hasn’t veered off into ‘Derek’ territory – the latter’s latest […]
Forty Three Oh Four
Sunday, October 27, 2013
This is my old San Francisco apartment building on the corner of 23rd and Douglass in Noe Valley. My flat, on the top floor, was about 900 square feet with windows in every room, a large sit-in kitchen, high ceilings, and two spacious front rooms connected by sliding pocket doors. I was paying $900 rent beginning […]