From singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen:

"Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered."

Week of June 8, 2008.

Nothing good on DVD this week. That's okay. Season Four of "Rescue Me" from last week is plenty of entertainment.

Eastwood Tells Spike Lee to "shut his face" at The Guardian.
http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,2283921,00.html

M. Night talks about his Hollywood career.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/02/business/media/02night.html
I dread watching his new movie: The Happening, isn't it? No, "Global Warming Attacks!" Commence hiding immediately.

Scorsese's new film "Ashecliffe" is no longer titled "Shutter Island"?
http://www.cinematical.com/2008/01/29/scorseses-shutter-island-gets-a-name-change/

I'm long overdue for a website update. I'll have to change that.

www.viewandreview.com

"You wasted life, why don't you waste death?" ~ Modest Mouse, "Ocean Breathes Salty"

There's a double meaning in that. =)

[Photo of Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow]

 

"I have a lot of pudding that I can redeem in six to eight weeks and if you give me that much time I can get enough miles to fly with you wherever you have to go . . . can you please let me redeem the mileage?" ~ Barry Egan (Adam Sandler), Punch Drunk Love

 

"Insanity oozing through telephone cables, oozing into the ears of all those poor sane people, infecting them! Whackos everywhere! A plague of madness." ~ Jeffrey (Brad Pitt), Twelve Monkeys

 

"'I know I can do it,' Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. 'I'm sure that in time, every bit of her will be gone and her death will be a mystery . . . even to me." ~ Mort Rainey [reading his story out loud] (Johnny Depp), Secret Window

 

"A storm is coming, Frank says / A storm that will swallow the children / And I will deliver them from the kingdom of pain / I will deliver the children back the their doorsteps / And send the monsters back to the underground / I'll send them back to a place where no-one else can see them / Except for me / Because I am Donnie Darko." ~ Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal), Donnie Darko

Reviews, you ask? Soon. =D

God bless