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Shopping: Price Engine: Street Prices.
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Art: MoMA: Jan. 6, 2006: 1.) Elisabeth Murray. Paintings on three dimensional convasses. Shape shifter. 2.) Beyond the Visible: The Art of Odilon Redon. Creepy. 3.) Pixar: 20 years of Animation.
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Literature: World Wide School. Dedicated to the collection, preservation and presentation of educational material.
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DVD: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002). w/ Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley), Emma Watson (Hermione Granger). Directed by Chris Columbus. During Harry's second year at Hogwarts, he rescues lives and ultimately the continuity of the entire school. Action driven, suspenseful at times. Some cheesy moments. Memorable quote: 'It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.' (Albus Dubledore). Overall rating: 6 out of 10.
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Video: The Bride of Frankenstein (1935). 75 min. w/ Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Ernest Thesiger. Directed by James Whale. Cheesy, melodramatic horror classic about the making of a mate for Frankenstein's monster. Overall rating 5 out of 10.
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Poetry: Lord George Gordon (Noel) Byron (1788-1824). Anglo-Scottish poet and leading figure in Romanticism. Most famous poems: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan (unfinished). In life, Byron featured extravagant living and numerous love affairs. Was friends with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his wife Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author of 'Frankenstein'. Mary's stepsister Claire Clairmont had a liaison with Lord Byron.
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Video: The Silk Road: Across the Taklamakan Desert (1990). 55 min. Music by Kitaro. Central Park Media. Taklamakan means 'The place from which nothing living returns!' Visit to the ancient Buddhist city of Miran, southwest of the legendary kingdom Lou-lan in Northern China, and the ruins of Niya. Niya is believed to have flourished from the 1st century BC to the 4th century AD, and is one of the largest ruins of the city states that were scattered along the ancient Silk Road about 1,500 years ago. Rediscovered in 1901 by the British explorer Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943.)
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Art: Michael Joo: Still Lives. September 23, 2005 - February 4, 2006. Bohen Foundation, 415 W 13th St, NYC. Mixed media installation commisioned by the Bohen Foundation. New York premier of 'Circannual Rhythm (piblotok) in a 48ft-wide nine image projection, which follows the artist's journey along the Alaskan pipeline. In addition, the center of the installation is a spiral formation of sculptures that cascades from the ceiling through the wall in the middle space, then through the floor. On the lower, level small monitors, showing live video images from the room above, replace the sculptures.
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Photography: Felice Frankel. Science photographer at MIT. Gallery at Science and the City.
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Literature: Mica Garen & Marie-Hélène Carleton: American Hostage: A Memoir of a Journalist Kidnapped in Iraq and the Remarkable Battle to Win His Release. Strory at BBC.
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Theater: Off-Off-Broadway Review (obbr): Listings and reviews.
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Music/Audio: Freesound Project: Post, find, listen to and download common and artificial sounds. Includes Search engine for similar and dissimilar sounds. 'Geotagged Samples' may not work with Internet Explorer. Firefox recommended.
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Video: The Third Man (1949). 104 min. w/ Joseph Cotten (Rollo Martins), Alida Valli (Anna Schmidt), Orson Welles (Harry Lime). Directed by Carol Reed. Story and screenplay by Graham Greene. Man in post-war Vienna tries to solve the murder of a long-time friend. Film noir. A classic. Overall rating: 6 out of 10.
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Literature: Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 1400): English poet. Best known for 'The Canterbury Tales'. Considered the beginning of English literature.
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Video: Kumonosu jô (Throne of Blood, 1957). 105 min. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. w/ Toshirô Mifune (Taketori Washizu), Isuzu Yamada (Lady Asaji Washizu). Free-flowing adaptation of Shakespeares 'Macbeth'. Ambitious fighter meets evil spirit who foretells him a successful future, but also his demise. He cannot excape his fate. Intriguing version of a classic tale. Yamada is spooky. Overall rating: 5 out of 10.
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Quote: "Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like." by Ernest Benn (1875-1954), British publisher.
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Life: Tea: Mighty Leaf. Handcrafted tea pouches. e.g., Organic Mint Melange.
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Travel: GotoBus. Bus tours and travels by bus, e.g., New York - Boston.
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Life: Tips for Rental Issues
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Video: The Living Edens: Borneo (1998). Approx. 60 min. PBS Home Video. Executive Poducers: Alex Gregory and Dennis B. Kane. Stunning pictures of the mountains, caves, rain forrest, and reefs of the third largest island in the world (after Greenland an New Guinea). Natural habitat for the Bornean orangutan, the Asian elephant, and the Sumatran rhinoceros and other almost extinct species. Politically, Borneo is divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, and more than half of the rain forrest has been sacrificed to commerce.
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Music: Sapphiel's Fall. British rock/pop band. Corrent album: "Life Half Lived". Recorded at Northampton's, Fitdog Studios.
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Astronomy: Meteorites are best found in deserts like the Sahara or Antarctica, because they appear different from their surroundings in these landscapes.
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Monday, February 20, 2006
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