I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.
I know I posted a link to her site yesterday but Annatopia has posted lots of updates from her time in NY for the RNC last week. You have got to go read them, each and every one of you reading this. Click here to go there and read them. You won’t believe it. I am totally speechless.
I decided to go visit some blogs that I haven’t been to in awhile and noticed that the blog, My War, had only one post, a quote from Johnny Rotten. And the name has been changed from My War, to Over and Out. I clicked on a few links and got to the one above, explaining what he feels the situation is. It’s very interesting reading. I’m bummed that My War got shut down. I hope C’s okay.
I’ve been spending some time burning cd’s for various people this morning. One of those cd’s has Barack Obama and Kerry’s speeches at the DNC for my mom. I’m sitting here listening to Kerry’s speech again. It really is fantastic. It’s a great speech. It is so hopeful and positive. Listening to him, I can actually see light at the end of the tunnel. If you want to be uplifted, go listen to it again. He is going to make a great president! I can’t wait unit November. GO KERRY!
I published this playlist on iTunes. Unfortunately, it only published songs that I downloaded from iTunes. Drats! Anyway, here are some good songs that will get you pumped up for the election in November. Some of these are available on iTunes, which is where i got most of them. If they are not available on iTunes and they link to a download, the title goes to the page you can download it.
1. All You Fascists – Billy Bragg and Wilco. (iTunes)
9. We Got The – Beastie Boys (I took this song off my iTunes playlist because it’s hella annoying. I don’t think I can listen to it on a regular basis.)
I haven’t posted in a couple of days. I apologize. I”ve been obsessed with knitting lately and have been spending lots of time over at black sheep. I wanted to take a moment to tell you that I watched The Manchurian Candidate over the weekend. The old one. It was great! I’ve had it on my netflix queue for a long time and finally recieved it after a “long wait.” The film is about a korean war hero who has been brainwashed by communists to carry out thier bidding. It stars Frank Sinatra, Laurance Harvey, Janet Leigh, and Angela Lansbury (yes that sweet old lady from “Murder She Wrote“) plays a particularily devilish villian 😈 .
The reason why I *love* older movies is because, since they didn’t have the technology that we have today, they really depended on story to create great films. This film is an excellent example of that. The plot is very suspenseful and is driven by interesting characters and interesting conflict between these characters. Another thing that I love about older films is the cinematography. Things such as camera angles, lighting effects, etc. One of my favorite parts of this movie is the dream sequence of Sinatra’s charater. The director used some creativity to set the tone for a very uncomforatble and confusing situation. If you’ve seen the movie, you will know what I’m talking about 😉 .
