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Lou Nell Gerard
February 7, 2014
In “Life Without a Soundtrack” I spoke about how integral music is to me. Today I share one of the many songs that my internal DJ plays with some frequency, “Uncle John’s Band”, Grateful Dead, music and lyrics by Jerry…
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Lou Nell Gerard
January 31, 2014
Whatever happened to the summer of love? Peace? Compassion? Where? Whence comes the divisiveness Our bones are too tight, Wilma Are we looking for someone to blame? Creating our own fear? Where does that kind of hate come from? Not…
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Lou Nell Gerard
January 24, 2014
I can’t imagine life without a soundtrack. Be it our own internal DJ running playlists in our head, or our earbuds emitting favorite tracks to accompany our runs, a radio station in the car, AirPlay throughout our house condo apartment…
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Lou Nell Gerard
January 17, 2014
So I admit I have a generally negative reaction to most movie remakes, yet I never tire of going to Oregon Shakespeare Festival or out to the ACT Theater here in Seattle and seeing another Lear, Othello or A Midsummer…
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Lou Nell Gerard
January 10, 2014
“B” does not stand for “bad” but for “Not ‘A’”. These movies came out of the era when it was typical to go to the movies and get a double feature. Yes! Instead of an hour of ads for junk…
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Lou Nell Gerard
January 3, 2014
“Vandalism of art refers to intentional damage of an artwork.” (Wikipedia) Pan and scan is a method for cropping a film (most typically at the sides). One goal was to “refit” a widescreen image to viewing on the square television…
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Lou Nell Gerard
December 28, 2013
(OK, I exaggerate, but I can’t help myself…) When Klee and I took the MSF course they were teaching SIPDE: Scan, Identify, Predict, Decide, Execute; and look where you want to go. Both of these not only improved my riding…
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Lou Nell Gerard
December 19, 2013
What’s the connection? Smaug in The Desolation of Smaug put me in mind of Ray Harryhausen, master of special effects who died earlier this year. Apparently the thirteen year old Harryhausen saw the 1933 King Kong, with stop-motion animation courtesy…
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Lou Nell Gerard
December 18, 2013
There is something about Peter Jackson’s vision of Tolkien’s world that works really well for me. I think we all develop strong visuals of the books we read, especially such richly penned works like The Hobbit and The Lord of…
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Lou Nell Gerard
December 14, 2013
Être et avoir, (To Be and to Have), 2002, directed by Nicolas Philibert. French with English subtitles. This award-winning documentary captures a year at a rural one-room school in France with a dozen students ranging in age from 4 to…
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