Reviews Archive
Tristan Prettyman’s music is fantastic
If you like music in the vein of Sarah McLachlan or Norah Jones, you simply must check out the music of a young musician named Tristan Prettyman.
I discovered her two albums Twentythree (2005) and ...
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A Handy List of My All-time Favorite Movies
I keep a running list, inside my PDA, of my all-time favorite movies.
Tonight it occurred to me that, in addition to being immensely valuable to me for spiritual reasons, the list is also ...
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Off the Map, Reviewed by Roger Ebert
March 31, 2008 · Category: Reviews
Often I don't share Roger Ebert's taste in movies. Tonight, however, I discovered he wrote a fantastically good review of one my favorite movies, Off the Map, starring Sam Elliott and Joan Allen.
In his ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 4 Comments »
How to Write Interesting Stuff
February 12, 2008 · Category: Intellectual, Reviews
Penelope Trunk, who is one of my new favorite bloggers, has a very interesting piece about ... how to write interesting pieces.
Huh.
She also has the same morning e-mail problem that I do.
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Ferguson Speaks from the Heart
My thanks to Andrew Schwartz for pointing out this excellent example of sincerity and integrity.
That video clip is pretty funny, as well. But part of what makes it so full of integrity is that he ...
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Walter Donway: “The Struggle for Poetry’s Soul”
Walter Donway just sent the following announcement, which explains the significance of his essay as well as anything I might hope to write:
My brief essay "The Struggle for Poetry's Soul" just went up on the ...
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Charice Pempengco on Ellen Degeneres Show
Thanks to C4Chaos for this tip about another phenomenal, world-class singer coming from the Philippines.
Her genre isn't really my genre, but I can sure hear the talent.
I had a similar reaction to the videos of ...
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Journey Finds a New Lead Singer, and He’s Filipino ... and He’s Good
His name is Arnel Pineda. First things first -- watch this video of him singing Journey's hit "Faithfully" (backed up by his Filipino band The Zoo):
Hat-tip to C4Chaos for his post "Journey Welcomes Arnel ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 6 Comments »
December Movie Trailer Reviews
December 5, 2007 · Category: Reviews
I've not been feeling well today, so I did one of my favorite "comfort" activities: I watched all the latest previews on the Apple movie trailers page.
Does the world really need so many new horror ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 22 Comments »
Web Hosting Reviews
November 29, 2007 · Category: Reviews, Web Development
I'm currently in the market for a new favorite web hosting company (or two).
From a technical standpoint, I am a Linux/Apache/PHP/MySQL guy with a preference for cPanel and WHM. However, an increasing ...
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