Category: Entertainment
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Like totally tubular and bodacious, it’s Nicolas Cage at last! Continuing on a sub-theme of our last post, the mallification of America, I present you with the stereotyped female embodiment of this concept, i.e. the west coast “valley girl”. Here’s a definition: A valley girl is a socioeconomic, linguistic, and youth subcultural stereotype and stock character originating during the 1980s:…
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So, in my first failed attempt to watch a Nicolas Cage movie, I watched a movie in which he did not appear. In my second attempt, I watched another movie in which Nicolas Cage did not appear. A technicality perhaps, but progress was made nonetheless. In Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Nicolas Coppola plays a…
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[editor’s note: re-dated this blog for chronological consistency, but it was first published on 2/22/23] As previously discussed, I made a bit of mistake when I tried to watch Nicolas Cage’s first film, The Best of Times (1981). After I goofed up, I decided to skip Nicolas Cage’s first credited appearance because I feared I…
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Before I decided to officially begin The World According to Cage journey with all its associated guidelines and disclaimers, I had a simpler aspiration. I just thought I would casually start watching Nicolas Cage movies from the beginning of his career to see how they (and he) evolved over time. After quick search #1 of…
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WATC(H) = World According to Cage (Hee-haaaaaii!*) A guy I know, Tom, has been working his way through all of Nicolas Cage’s movies and has been reviewing them on Instagram where he posts them to the nicolas_cage_is_a_genius. Besides enjoying his Cage-themed artwork (Tom’s an art director at a well-known game company), and the excellent reviews,…
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The man, the myth, the legend. The incomparable…Sufjan Stevens. At it again with his All Delighted People – EP. Every time I play his music in the car, my girls ask, “Isn’t this Christmas music?” I guess they have heard his Christmas album quite a lot.
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Why make art? Whether it’s music, short stories, sculptures, or plays–there are many reasons why people choose to create reflections of life–both in its beauty and suffering. One of my all-time favorite musical groups (from my generation) is Over the Rhine, a married duo who have created thought-provoking, soulful and quite “artsy” music for more…
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What an amazing performance! It was such a mesmerizing show. I was thinking about how different this show was from the one I saw at a dingy college bar in Lexington, KY over 10 years ago. At that show, Karin (the lead vocalist) berated some of the audience members for their rude manners–as they were…
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Well, there are necessities and then there are “necessities”. This weekend we acquired a free piano (seen here:) No one in our family actually plays the piano, but we’re optimistic people I guess. Anna is very musical. God has a way of rectifying talent-deficiency in the next generation–so Anna, we believe, can overcome her musical…
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I’ve been watching episodes of the short-lived sci-fi show, Surface, on Hulu.com recently. What a cool show! I am a sucker for suspenseful shows that were blatantly influenced by the X-files–with new “alien” or engineered species, government cover-ups, and heroic individuals who pursue the Truth at all costs. I guess this show was supposed to…
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