I have commented enough on my predictable music tastes that it seems … not worth mentioning. Read More
Los Angeles
aka L.A., City of Angels, Lalaland, Southland, The Big Orange
Old Becomes New (again)
Dicky | September 6th, 2012
The Dark Knight … Rises?
Dicky | August 4th, 2012
Since Christopher Noland’s last Batman movie struck me as a horrifying conservative apologia for why we need the Patriot Act and that, although we might be opposed to it morally, it is a necessary evil sometimes to torture terrorists in order to get information, I was fully expecting his newest release to be equally politically appalling. Read More
Charming, Old-Fashioned TV
Dicky | April 14th, 2012
Who hasn’t been watching Downton Abbey? Ages ago, it seems, my friend was telling me that he had this new British TV show he was watching about a manor house in England, and how wonderful it was. Read More
Clocks & Donuts
Dicky | April 3rd, 2012
With a 24 hour long work of art, what better way to feed yourself than on the most reliably available food at any given hour of the day—donuts. Read More
The Extravagant Films of Peter Mays
Dicky | February 6th, 2012
Still from Death of the Gorilla by Peter Mays
Los Angeles has been overrun with events put on as part of the Pacific Standard Time initiative of the Getty Foundation; far too many to actually keep up with. Read More
Winter desserts
Dicky | February 2nd, 2012
Have I mentioned how much I love dessert? Well, it’s winter, and so nice warm desserts are high in demand in my stomach, which I am only too happy to oblige. Read More
Random recent things
Dicky | January 31st, 2012
There’s a pretty clear formula for producing music that I will like. Read More
A little love for Kodak
Dicky | January 27th, 2012
It’s been talked about for months now, and yet when I got home the other night and saw that Kodak had declared bankruptcy, I was still shocked. Read More
The end of a wondrous road
Dicky | January 2nd, 2012
I’ve already mentioned that the harpsichord is probably my favorite instrument. Not just for the sound, but also for the repertoire associated with it. Anyone who loves the instrument, or Baroque music in general, is certainly familiar with Gustav Leonhardt. Read More
Whiskey love letters
Dicky | January 2nd, 2012
Ever since it’s opened, I’ve tried to avoid going in The Thirsty Crow. Whenever I ride my bicycle past at night on weekends, there are horrific crowds, and sometimes drunkenly stumbling over with friends they always seem to be “at capacity”. What a pleasant surprise, then, when I went in on a Sunday in the late afternoon for happy hour with a couple of friends. Five dollar cocktails greeted us, and a plate full of a nice sharp cheddar, and a largely empty bar. The bar specializes in whiskeys of varying kinds, with an extensive selection. It might be a little too steampunk for my taste, but the sloe gin fizz is a delicious dessert alternative. Read More
Anxiously awaited releases
Dicky | December 30th, 2011
I find it increasingly embarrassing how much the new music I am into sounds like the music I listened to when I was a teenager. Maybe in 10 years it will sound different, but, for now, I guess I just have to learn to live with myself. I heard Dunes play live recently, and was really into them. I couldn’t help thinking about Siouxsie & the Banshees’ album Kaleidoscope, which I have since started listening to incessantly. Anyway, Dunes don’t sound nearly as Siouxsie-esque on record as they did live, but they’re still pretty awesome. I have their 7” and 12” EP, and am very much looking forward to their full-length, coming out early next year on PPM. Read More
Many great things are free
Dicky | December 30th, 2011
The AFI Film Festival decided a couple of years ago that they would make all the screening free to anyone who wanted to go. I have no idea what attendance was like before they did this, but, it’s certainly packed with people. I frantically went to see as many films as I could over the three days of the festival I had spare time—spending all of it in the theater, from noon until midnight each day. Read More
Let’s make a picture
Dicky | December 29th, 2011
As film companies are cutting back on the stocks they manufacture, labs are closing or cutting back services (I still can’t get over that A&I is ending their E-6 processing), and basically everyone is constantly talking about how “film is dead”, it is a pretty audacious act to unveil a newly designed, hand-cranked, 35 mm motion picture camera. Read More
we are the ones who travel through time
Dicky | September 12th, 2011
My initial reaction whenever a friend sends me a link to listen to some new music that they think I will like is always to hate it. Read More
Jodie Mack’s joyful cinema
Dicky | September 7th, 2011
Unsubscribe No. 3: Glitch Envy
There are people in this world who acquire and discard endless amounts of things without compunction; there are other people whose guilt over throwing away even the garbage that they never asked for or wanted is so great that they feel compelled to make use of it. Read More