It has been about ten years since the first time I watched Schindler’s List in class, and although it made a big impression on me at the time, I haven’t seen the whole movie again before this evening. I didn’t remember the whole story, but a few things stuck with me. The girl in the red […]
As a movie nerd, of course I had to visit Christ Church University while I was in Oxford! It was absolutely breathtaking with it’s green meadows and lawns, old historic buildings, beautiful architecture and wonderful athmosphere. The place I wanted to see was closed until after lunch, so I had about an hour and a half […]
“You can’t run from the wind. You trim your sails, face the music, and keep going.” ” ‘White Squall’ is the true story of a ship school called the ‘Albatross’. The school is run by the captain, Christopher “Skipper” Sheldon and his wife, Dr. Alice Sheldon. In the year of 1960, the couple took aboard […]
“To die, to sleep. To sleep, perchance to dream – aye, there’s the rub, for in that sleep of death, what dreams may come..” From “Hamlet”, act III scene I We follow the river down into the stream That’s where my dream began I left my worries to the people who stare And dreamed without […]
As you might already know, I’m a big film nerd, and I love the old Hollywood classics. I also like to read the biographies of people who inspire me, or at least buy them so they can make my future bookshelf look interesting. A year ago or so, I bought the biography of Sonja Henie, […]
Time of Solitude 