Quick Movie Reviews – Big Sky Documentary Film Edition 2

THE CATS OF MIRIKITANI – “Eighty-year-old Jimmy Mirikitani survived the trauma of WWII internment camps, Hiroshima, and homelessness by creating art. But when 9/11 threatens his life on the New York City streets and a

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Quick Moive Reviews – Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Edition

The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival has arrived in Missoula again this year…. Below are a list of some of the films I was able to see thus far, either in part or in their entirety, and some quick impressions of them.

I GOT LUCKY

John Dendy’s first release, I Got Lucky is a desperate, tragic beautiful and heartfelt collection of eleven songs spanning over eight years of songwriting. Taken as a whole, they are a soundtrack to a wandering soul in search

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Kool Keith

Saw Kool Keith at the Elks Lodge last night. Yeah. Kool Keith in Missoula, Montana. It was quite surreal. Also on the bill were Ambidext, R. Biz, Verbal Threat and the F.I.L.T.H.E.E. IMMIGRANTS. It was

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AIM Mail

AOL has recently launched yet another web-based email service. Occasionally, when I am on the air I use AIM Express while in the studio. Whoever is in control of the computer there has permissions locked

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The Wildness Within

A recurring theme in the lives of many of my friends is that of uncertainty. Uncertainty about what it is we want to be doing with our lives. We are a creative bunch. Most of us have jobs

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Notes from a walk in the Art Institute

Words in italics are scraps from my notebook as I wondered the Chicago Art Institute. The rest are things that struck me in no particular order.

Been so long since I have been in a museum. Interesting to…