I guess I’ve tired of pop radio tunes. So while I drive (and provided my wife isn’t with me) I listen to countrywestern music. It provides me some comic relief in these serious times.That music seems to glorify drinking, hopping from woman to woman, not going to school, not having a job, and dressing and [...]
It was, as it was a year ago, film noir at last week’s opening of the 2012 state legislative session: No music, no dancing, few flowers, sobriety everywhere. The residents of the so-called “People’s House” were in high re-election-year mode: all business, levity at a minimum. The Senate’s minority of one, East Honolulu Republican Sam [...]
What’s a “best movie”? My wife and I would disagree on that. She leans to the “did it entertain me” side. I demand something breaking new ground. Entertaining is No. 2 on my priority list. No. 1 is getting out ahead of the ordinary. So Life Is Beautiful, Benjamin Button, Catfish and The Hurt Locker [...]
