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Lemon Disco: January 2009
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I will read the Top 100 novels and watch the Top 100 films; then give my uneducated opinions as I progress. Friday, January 9, 2009. Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant. The Garden Party" by Katherine Mansfield. Rabbits may be cute, but they don't give a damn about poor people. A rich British family plans, delivers and cleans up a fancy, mid-summer garden party. Isn't it grand? Up next: "The Three-Day Blow" by Ernest Hemmingway. Thursday, January 8, 2009. A Sustained Departure - Short and Sweet.
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Lemon Disco: A Mighty Wind is Coming
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I will read the Top 100 novels and watch the Top 100 films; then give my uneducated opinions as I progress. Thursday, June 28, 2007. A Mighty Wind is Coming. Gone with the Wind. I accuse Miss Scarlett in Georgia with the Southern drawl. It's funny how a book longer than 1,000 pages can have such an abrupt ending. But. Gone With the Wind. Somehow managed to find a way - andI loved every minute of it. By the way, Rhett Butler doesn't say, " Frankly. There are many, many different facets of this book that c...
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Lemon Disco: Drunk and Windy with Ernie
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I will read the Top 100 novels and watch the Top 100 films; then give my uneducated opinions as I progress. Thursday, May 14, 2009. Drunk and Windy with Ernie. The Three-Day Blow" by Ernest Hemmingway. Don't listen to Blue Oyster Cult, the reaper is the only thing to fear. In literature, the medium of a short story is hard to compare to other arts. Would a television mini-series, a brief radio documentary (like an account on. Or a blog post be comparable? I feel like that’s not the case. Hemmingway’...
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Lemon Disco: July 2008
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I will read the Top 100 novels and watch the Top 100 films; then give my uneducated opinions as I progress. Monday, July 21, 2008. Sicily As It Was. By Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. How'd you feel if you were kicked around for eternity? Naples, from what I hear, is pretty gross). By Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa made me appreciate my father’s background a lot more. It also gave me a little justification - and relief - for not knowing much about the culture: the real Sicilian culture. As I’ve seen in...
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Lemon Disco: James Dean Ain't Got Shit on Me
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I will read the Top 100 novels and watch the Top 100 films; then give my uneducated opinions as I progress. Monday, July 6, 2009. James Dean Ain't Got Shit on Me. A Place in the Sun. Directed by George Stevens. Fonzi eventually became a corporate hack, right? It’s part of Americana to be aimless (The song “'Aaay'mless” was even sung by American rebel Fonzi in Happy Days the Musical. Even in the literary world there are the cool cats. Writers like Ernest Hemmingway and Jack Kerouac seemed just as like...
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Lemon Disco: May 2008
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I will read the Top 100 novels and watch the Top 100 films; then give my uneducated opinions as I progress. Saturday, May 31, 2008. Not From Concentrate, Plenty of Pulp. 95 Pulp Fiction - directed by Quentin Tarantino. If you think about it,. Is as hopeful as. As an early teen, I was blown away by the music, dancing, violence, ass-fucking, drug use.everything. Years later, what strikes me most about the film is the depth and heart. Fans) I mean Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma. The watch monologue or.
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Lemon Disco: June 2008
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I will read the Top 100 novels and watch the Top 100 films; then give my uneducated opinions as I progress. Tuesday, June 17, 2008. Soulja Boy Went to War Riding On a Pony. 96 - The Good Soldier Svejk. It was lights out for Svejk like it was for Tony.ambigious. A few novels in and I’ve finally found one I can rip apart. This is not to say that The Good Soldier Svejk. Honesty and accuracy is most important in comedy. Anyone can make a joke and say that President Bush is a Nazi. But a better joke w...1 Not...
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Lemon Disco: November 2008
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I will read the Top 100 novels and watch the Top 100 films; then give my uneducated opinions as I progress. Monday, November 24, 2008. I Think I Get It. 91 On the Road. Like Alicia Silverstone, I am clueless.regarding Kerouac. The Beat generation in America paved the way for the Hippies. That much am I aware. As depicted in Kerouac's so-called "novel that defined a generation" the Beats. Were without identity and wandered the country in search of something - whether it be love, euphoria, or simply joy.
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Lemon Disco: February 2009
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I will read the Top 100 novels and watch the Top 100 films; then give my uneducated opinions as I progress. Sunday, February 1, 2009. Not Wilder Than Today's Standards, Still Awesome. 93) The Apartment - directed by Billy Wilder. Thankfully for prosperity's sake, Wilder avoided discussing Ike's cue ball. His wife, Wilder latched onto the reality that people have sex for reasons other than procreation. People engage in intercourse for, gasp! AFI's Funniest Movies List. Including number one,. Wilder for hi...
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Lemon Disco: December 2007
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I will read the Top 100 novels and watch the Top 100 films; then give my uneducated opinions as I progress. Friday, December 21, 2007. Paging Doctor Acula.Dr.Acula. 97 Dracula by Bram Stoker. He's been a blood sucker longer than Carson Daily. Back in the book blogging game, I return - finally - with my Dracula. Review. A few preliminary, non-educational. Like many Frankenstein movies - alters Mary Shelley's plot, Dracula: Dead and Loving It. One of the initial aspects of Dracula. Aside from rampant chauv...
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