This album seems a bit mellower than her other albums. I liked the ironic song "I’ve got money now". Some lyrics: "There is no prize. There’s no heartache if you can afford everything delivered to your door… You don’t have to like me anymore. I’ve got money now."
A much improved, but still not quite satisfying RTS from Electronic Arts. At fault is the cumbersome game play. Too many clicks for someone like me who likes to micromanage. There are voices and sound from the LOTR movies and actors including narration by Hugo Weaving.
An amazing exhibition of large format photographs taken of people living in the American West around 20 years ago. These B&W photographs show incredible detail of dirt on skin of hands and faces and tattered clothing. As you move through this exhibit you see people in very raw forms: ranchers, housekeepers, drifters, truckers, coal miners, uranium miners, and oil field workers. Quite incredible to see relatively contemporary people in America living this way. You’ll also be amazed at seeing some apparent child laborers covered in dirt and blood.
While you’re there, you can also have a look at the homoerotic exhibit, Beefcake: The Physique Photography of Dave Martin, displaying deliciously nude men appearing in 1950’s fitness magazines. Pretty stunning for the 50’s.
A bit of mindless drivel, and yet slightly entertaining. Lucas Black, the kid from Sling Blade, is now a little too old for high school, but it seems that’s what they’ve made him play — and in a, no other word to describe it, cute Japanese uniform. It’s okay to fast forward through this movie without any loss of understanding.
This book is actually focused on how poorly the mind predicts future happiness or unhappiness. In the process of trying to describe faulty mechanisms, the book uncovers many psychological anomalies, some rather interesting. The author also tries to entertain and sprinkles jokes throughout. Chapters are devoted to describing how the mind is fooled in its judgments. At the end, the book states one of the best ways to tell whether something will make you happy is to ask someone in a similar position. I didn’t enjoy this book as much as I have others with similar topics.
