Herbie: Fully Loaded Even when Matt Dillon is trying to be a NASCAR driver, he still sounds like Matt Dillon. Even when Justin Long is trying to be an auto mechanic, he still sounds like Warren Cheswick. Even when a Herbie movie tries to be clever and 21st-century, it’s still a Herbie movie. The Producers [...]
Walk the Line My brother Ryan was right: this was basically Ray with white people. Joaquin Phoenix (the hardest-to-spell actor that I can think of at the moment) looks more like Elvis than the actor who plays Elvis in the movie, and he lacks Cash’s rumbling voice, but the film was a good one. It [...]
Spending the first half of last decade in a suburban Indiana high school wasn’t a bad gig: I got a good high school education, built up some discipline and leadership learning to be the bass drum line’s captain at the same time that I learned to play bass drum, and thought myself a bit of [...]
Just finished The Consolation of Philosophy yesterday. The final three chapters deal with those lovely questions of divine foreknowledge, determinism, and human agency. Boethius, an unapologetic Platonist, unsurprisingly advances the Platonist argument that the same action that seems undetermined to “human” reason can be known exhaustively to a divine mind. Such an argument normally infuriates [...]
The school year is over. I uploaded my grades yesterday, and within an hour I was back in the books, reading what I want to read. Mary and I have also rejoined Blockbuster online, so I’ve watched a fair number of movies this last week or so. And in the old tradition (that cut off [...]
