What's Been Going On Lately

Well things have become quite crazy. My day job office moved and if you've ever had to move 25 file cabinets and over a thousand files, you know my pain. It has been a crazy month and a half but things are starting to calm down. I've just been working 12 hour days and been burned out. I really thought that I would be able to keep up with both my job and this project, but who knew that boxing up files for scanning, moving files to a new location, getting a major shred and office clean out and move arranged and done would burn you completely out. I will be hitting the restart button tomorrow and plan to give more details about Reckless Press and My 100 Days of Writing project then. I don't like to have to be the person to have to reset a project, especially one like this but I feel that it is needed at this time. I really do see this moving forward with Patreon within the next few days and getting started there. I just want to say thank you for sticking with me through this exhausting time, I really appreciate it and I hope that you enjoy what I'm doing do far.

What To Catch On TCM This Week - April 9- April 14, 2018

Once again a few movies to catch on TCM this week.

The Bridge on the River Kwai - Set in a Japanese prison  camp in Burma during World War II where British and American POWs are being forced to build a railway bridge connecting Bangkok to Rangoon. Beautifully shot by Jack Hildyard and directed by David Lean, this film focuses on the POWs building the bridge and their relationship with their Japanese captors. Even though it's partially incorrect historically, it's one of Alec Guiness's finest cinematic moments. Monday April 9th at 10:15 P.M. MST.

The Girl Most Likely - This movie actually makes no sense, seriously. This bubble headed girl dreams of marrying rich and ends up engaged to two average men and a millionaire at the same time, like holly crap she hit the fickin' jackpot and found not one but three guys worth marrying? and like that's the ONLY option she has in her little blonde life is to get married! Anyway, it's still a decent film and Jane Powell is a delight in this quarky comedy. Wednesday April 11th on TCM at 2:00 A.M. MST.


Gaslight - One of the best thrillers ever made. Ingrid Bergman gives one of the best performances of her career as Paula, the niece of a famous opera star who's murder was witnessed by Paula as a child. Married in haste, Paula returns to her childhood home frightened of the ghosts left behind, but turns out to be her new husband trying to find he deceased aunt's jewels. Charles Boyer is intriguing as Paula's artist husband, Gregory. It has some interesting twists and a young Angela Lansbury as a house maid. Thursday April 12th on TCM at 10:15 A.M. MST.


Suspicion- This is one of the first Hitchcock films that Cary Grant does and it's the beginning of a wonderful pairing. As usual Grant gives a charming performance as a gambling playboy, who's really just a degenerate gambler who has massive debts tries to use his new wife's life insurance to shore up his debts. Hitchcock brings out the best in his actors performances and is able to fill out the twists and turns in signature style. Thursday April 12th on TCM at 12:15 P.M. MST.

Blackboard Jungle- Teacher trying to reach students in an ethnically diverse inner-city high school. This is one of Sidney Poitier's first screen performances. TCM has listed the soundtrack in the Top 15 Most Influential Movie Soundtracks of all time. Friday April 13th on TCM at 10:15 A.M. MST.


Lolita- James Mason plays the infatuated Humbert Humbert, a French Literature professor that wife's death leaves him in charge of his young step daughter. It's the worst situation. Saturday April 14th on TCM at 1:00 P.M. MST.

The In-Laws - Straight-laced Sheldon Kornpett goes on a crazy adventure with his daughter's soon-to-be father in-law, Vince Ricardo. The name Vince Ricardo says it all, you think a little bit sleazy business man, but get a charming but sleazy undercover CIA agent. Peter Falk lays the ground for his future role as Detective Lieutenant Columbo. Sunday April 15th at 12:00 A.M. MST.

When I First Fell In Love With You

When I First Fell In Love With You 

The sky was blue and I was 22, 

When I first fell in love with you. 

And my legs fell open, 

My heart was broken, 

When I first fell in love with you. 

The Sky was blue and I was 22, 

When I first fell in love with you.

Jack White's Boarding House Reach

If Jack White is remembered for one thing it will be for trying new things with his music and for being successful at it. With his new album Boarding House Reach White takes his music in a slightly different direction. While still playing heavy on blues and Americana, he adds his own unique take on punk and hip-hop.

This is White's oddest album to date, but what else would we expect from music's Willy Wonka? One of the oddest songs is Ice Station Zebra, but in a really good way. The overlapping piano and jazz beat with the electric sounds with the rap lyrics just mesh, taking classic White and turning it up.

The song Over and Over hearkens back to White's White Stripes days, but it has a sound that grows up on you and shows how the artist has grown up into himself and how much more confident he is with his own sound.

As good as this album is there is one song that could've been left on the floor : Everything You've Learned. I get the jest of the song, consumerism in America or something of that nature, but really Jack White's done better on the subject in songs Icky Thump (The White Stripes, Icky Thump, 2007) and Entitlement (Lazaretto). I'm also not a big fan of  Esmerelda Steals the Show, but that could be personal taste.

All in all White does a great job at giving more of his fans another album to add to what is the wonderment of White.

*I know that I had hit reset on this project before, but right after that happened I got hit with the most horrible flu and bronchitis ever. So I will start up again regularly today. and follow thru till  the end July.