I am too lazy to sort
It’s rather late in the day for a Link of the Day, but here’s one for you.
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If I ever expected you to have heard any songs on this album, I would expect it to be this tune, “All That We Perceive.” I think they had it on heavy rotation in any Apple Store back in the mid aughts. Back when the iTunes was first released. You could’ve found Thievery Corporation all over that iTunes version. They were the iTunes darling back then.
Now let me admit right here, for the longest time I couldn’t stand to hear this tune. It being popular (in my mind) rubbed me the wrong way. This is my band. Why should you listen to them if you’ve never heard of them before? Defensive much? Yeah, I was a while ago, but not anymore.
You’ve got to listen to this tune. Listen to this album. Listen to this band. They freaking rock!
Of course you’ll be hearing this band for another week. I’m short of half way through the album. And after hearing that, maybe you’ll feel apprehensive to hear another Thievery Corporation song. We still haven’t gotten to my favorite song.
Continuing on from yesterday’s music break, here’s the second part of the tune. It’s not the second part but they both flow very well together. Every time I hear this song, I hear the first verse as asking, “Whose bagel’s offer hope?” Now why are they singing about bagels? Is this some kind of hidden message, but said aloud? I bet you that ain’t the real lyrics. Someone, anyone, get on this and tell me what that lyric was.
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Thus I skipped on to track 3 and found some dub. It just can’t be beat.
I’ve always wanted to do try a series of posts related to holiday themed television shows. The AVClub has beat me to it. I seem to link to the AVClub every so often especially to their series of posts centered around a topic. This one is called the AVClub Advent Calendar highlighting holiday episodes of television shows. I had to post about this because the latest one features Northern Exposure, a beloved favorite of mine. If NewsRadio is my all time favorite comedy, Norther Exposure is my all time favorite dramady. The X-Files? It’s my all time favorite paranoia show.
If I was to do a series of holiday shows, I know I would be diving into Northern Exposure’s list of episodes. I want a girl who can appreciate the melancholia in this show.
As I came home from watching Hugo, I had come up with a nice way of getting into the review. But now, in the light of day, I can’t remember the hook. That’s unfortunate as I think it was gonna be a good intro that would’ve made me set up this review well and forced me to write with a better, even tone.
Hugo is about a young orphan living in one of the train stations of Paris, spending the day dodging Jean Girard, and winding the multitude of clocks of the station. He’s the son of a tinkerer who had found a windup doll in the museum which he planned to fix before his death. Hugo takes it upon himself to finish his father’s work by attempting to fix the mechanical doll. The tasks leads him to steal gears and springs from the toy shop in the station the proprietor of which carries the biggest surprise of the movie.
For the early part of the film, I was slightly bored. Hugo’s story was slow in unravelling and slightly uninteresting. It was another story about poor orphan looking for a sign his father loved him. Why am I watching this?
Hugo does finish the mechanical doll. He winds it up and lets it write the message he thought his father had left him, but instead of the trite fatherly pablum, the mechanical doll draws something whimsical, a scene by George Melies signed by Melies. This changes the movie to being about something more magical, movies.
And here’s where I remember what I was gonna write for the intro. In my former life, I had studied film and with it an introduction to then history of film. We got to see Melies, Lloyd, and Buster Keaton. Their films are as important to the history of film as they were integral to this movie especially Melies. His Voyage to the Moon is amazing and that said it made Hugo slightly worth it.
Melies makes this film for me. As he tells his tale of his life, the movie broadens up to being a tribute to a master storyteller. The tale of Hugo is the tale of finding something to fix. Hugo didn’t have to fix the mechanical doll. He had to fix history so that it remembers Melies. He had to fix Melies so that he remembers the magic. Movies are magic.
3 of 5 stars
Notes on the film: I miss the sound of the projector. Ben Kingsley in a good movie? Who would’ve thought?! Sacha Baron Cohen throwing out another one of his insane characters. I thought he should’ve been Inspector Clouseau. I was reminded of Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book. For French people, they speak with a British accent.
It’s like the Spinache Mushroom Barley Soup except without the spinach.
Used different mushrooms, rather than the plain white buttons: Porcini mushrooms to flavor the stock and some darker mushrooms. Don’t remember their names, but they taste just as good.
I followed the same recipe, but changed up the stock. I had to buy each ingredient for the stock individually rather than rely on the “soup stock” vegetable package I get the grocers. The stock is the Porcini mushroom soak, carrots, onions, celery, bell peppers, thyme, and pepper corns.
It’s very weird to spend my time cooking variations of mushroom soup. I don’t really dig mushrooms but I dig barley and the two go together. So with all this barley in my house, its only one package!, but I have to use it up. There’s still a few cups left over. Maybe sometime soon, I have to make that barely risotto I keep thinking about.
Looking at that title of this post and am amazed that we're fast approaching the end of the year!This one's for the 99% and the 1%. For #OWS and the TeaTard Party. For Republicans and Democrats. For libertarians. Especially for those tards.The US needs more revenue. The rich have the majority of the money. It makes perfect sense. Especially, if it broadens the middle class, who are the ones that make the economy work. Consumers pump money into the economy that make the producers produce more and hire more workers who get more wages who purchase more products. It's not the producers producing more that will make consumers buy products. If the consumer has no money, they aren't buying too much and producer's production is meaningless.I may be ignorant about economics, but I know if you give people money, the majority will spend it. Cash in. Jobs out.http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-01/raise-taxes-on-the-rich-to-reward-job-creators-commentary-by-nick-hanauer.html
