The Fireside

The name of this post works both ways - you can call it "live music" (pronounced 'lyve'), or "live music (pronounced 'liv').

Here are the winners...

What the Oscars are for movies, Grammys are for music, the Emmys are for TV. In this post, I take a look at the nominees, and share my thoughts.

Do any moments in your life feel like a dream? I don't mean in the sense of something positive or negative happening, but an event happening that generally feels surreal. Such as, you host a party you spend two weeks planning, and the day after, you think, "Did that happen?". One such a day for was September 11, 2001. Exactly TEN years ago

Well here we are! Another year at a close in a few months. That means, 'Oscar Season' will be starting soon.  In this post, I'll take a look at the upcoming films I want to see by year's end.

So this entry is about festival / small / independent movies. Not the movies themselves, but rather how they have weird titles, or ones NOT associated with the subject matter. One example comes to mind. It's a documentary about the American education system called "Waiting for Superman". Ummm...hello? There's nothing 'Superman' about the film! Someone who sees the movie title (and not the trailer or poster) would think it's a superhero film, but no.... ( see link here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b5/Waiting_for_Superman.jpg ) Two other examples are purposefully misspelling movie titles: Inglourious Basterds & Pursuit of Happyness. What's the aim here? So I ask you - are people naming their films, be it misspelling, giving it a title not related to the subject matter, or one with more 'oomph', trying too hard to sound artsy & intelligent?