The Duck Has Landed!
DUCK!!!!!!!!!
Usually it’s wine that arrives for twitter tastings.
But when I was invited to participate in a twitter tasting for DUCK #BWEChat #discoverduck I said HECK YEAH!
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Happy Chinese New Year of the Goat: Celebrate and Make Mandalas
Not everyone in the world celebrates the New Year’s on January 1.
In fact different cultures celebrate the “new” year at different times of the year. For example, Jewish and Chumash celebrate the new year at the Fall Equinox. (Baseball players celebrate the New Year during the first week of April.)
Many Asian cultures, on the other hand, recognize the new year in connection with the moon, and winter solstice: Chinese New Year usually falls on the second new moon after the winter solstice. That’s why the date changes every year.
A monk at An Lac Buddhist Temple in Ventura this morning told me the red flowers are for long life and the pink cherry blossoms are for good luck. The statue is Guan Yin who I wrote about yesterday.
Myth And a Desire to Live
Today is the 5th Anniversary of the day when my husband broke his neck in a “Hangman’s Break”, where 95% of the injured die instantly; of the 5% who live all but 3% are quadriplegic. (Read a post from right after the accident here or read a post from last year about it here).
Here’s one version of that story, a mythic version, a depth psychological version, one that explores myths and synchronicity. It is up to you to decide what is real and what is myth.
Read more…
What does the fox say? Find out 2/5/15
53 is
- The maximum number of players on a National Football League roster (and all of the players are Union members!)
Linklater’s “Boyhood”: yay or nay?
Usually I agree with the reviews that Ron Wells does on a somewhat regular basis here on Art Predator. I guess if I disagreed with them more I’d not be as likely to publish them! But when it comes to Boyhood by Richard Linklater, I agree more with the Academy than with Ron:Boyhood is up for six Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Ethan Hawke), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Patricia Arquette), Best Director (Richard Linklater), Best Film Editing (Sandra Adair) and Best Original Screenplay (Richard Linklater). It’s already won the Golden Globe Award Winner for Best Picture for Drama and Patricia Arquette is the Golden Globe Award Winner for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture and Richard Linklater is the Golden Globe Award Winner for Best Director.
Review of Boyhood by Ron Wells
I saw Boyhood the week it opened and was very excited.
I walked out wondering what I had missed.
Why the accolades from virtually everyone? Not that it’s a bad film; it’s not. It’s just that there is no there…. there. I marvel at Linklater’s ability to hold the cast and crew together and paint a portrait of a boy’s growth over twelve years of filming off and on. He even got some of the nuances right (Mason doesn’t always finish things he starts, for example.) Ellar Coltrane did a remarkable job of acting.
Other than that, what am I watching for 2 hours and 45 minutes? I was looking at my watch after 2 hours and 10 minutes and wondering how much longer this would go on. It just seemed empty.
Like Kenneth Turan of the LA Times, I was much more taken with Michael Apted’s documentary series, Up, where real people’s lives took interesting and surprising changes of growth and disposition. Even when they were young.
What’s your take? Do you agree with me or Ron? How would you vote it you were a member of the Academy?
Help Bottle at Cantara Cellars Jan 31
Will you work for wine? If so, give Cantara a call!
If you’re not attending ZAP this weekend in SF, and if you’ve ever wondered how wine gets into the bottle, or if you’ve ever wanted to be involved in bottling wine or experience the workings of a winery, tomorrow is your chance
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Protected: Rangers Tarot Deck
Still no Mexican authors at Chipolte Mexican Grill…
The fast food chain Chipolte Mexican Grill prides itself on offering fresh, quality food and beverages in a thoughtful and thought-provoking wrapper.
Last year, Chipolte introduced “The Cultivating Thought Author Series.” Read more…
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