Quality Assessment: Patrick Wolf’s “The Bachelor”

I know, I know, I’ve been taking my sweet ass time with this one, but here it is at last.
Let me begin with the at once surprising and obvious: Is Patrick Wolf incapable of producing albums that are anything but great piece of art?  Yes, that sounds a bit pretentious but how else to describe [...]

Quality Assessment: Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s “The Angel’s Game”

If you have not read Mr. Zafon’s beloved worldwide Phenomenon “The Shadow of the Wind” you are missing one of the most amazingly-rich literature tales of the last few decades.  That book has it all: romance, mystery, horror, comedy, action, suspense, heartbreak, it even plays as a sort of thriller that may or may not [...]

Quality Assessment: Bright Star

Bright Star is in a way just another British period piece of love and class and therefore struggle, but unlike the other 99 percent of British period pieces, on this one, it is the male who doesn’t have any money not the woman.  Not that she is rich though not poor either.

It is mostly just [...]

Quality Assessment: The Time Traveler’s Wife

If you’ve spend time around this lair then you know that Rachel McAdams is my future wife and I’ve been waiting patiently (unable to time travel to opening day) to see this movie on her account.

From the moment Rachel McAdams appears on screen and she sees Eric Bana, her intended lover, and she opens those [...]

Incoming: The Time Traveler’s Wife

If you read ’round this parts then you may or may not know that I’m engaged to Rachel McAdams, but don’t tell her, it’s a surprise.  So I’ll watch anything with her in it, which just gave me an idea for another post about following actors and actresses but I digress.
Basically Rachel plays a woman who [...]

The Difference Between Yours and Mine.

Before I start telling you what you have and what I have and how mine is bigger, Let me announce that the long delayed new entry of Booze & Me has been posted; you can click here or the tab above to check it out.  As you may recall, I was out celebrating, Record Store Day, [...]