Lifes Rich Pageantthe musings and snippets of life of a peripatetic aussie now in new york city....Hotel Chevalier- September 28, 2007 Wes Anderson's latest film The Darjeeling Limited opens the New York Film festival tonight. At the Apple store Soho last Wednesday he and Jason Schwartzman launched the short film prequel - Hotel Chevalier. Schwartzman is so short. It was also...http://lifesrichpageant.typepad.com/lifes_rich_pageant/2007/09/hotel-chevalier.html Touch the Sky- September 28, 2007 Last night, a warm humid evening, in Washington Square Park New York City around 25,000 of us packed in to Touch the Sky with Barack...an amazing crowd was enamoured with an inspiring, humorous and serious speech from a true warm...http://lifesrichpageant.typepad.com/lifes_rich_pageant/2007/09/touch-the-sky.html Jeff Wall- September 26, 2007 Visiting one of America's, if not the world's, largest and most impressive collection at the Art Institute of Chicago stumbled upon a major exhibition by Canadian photographer Jeff Wall. Wall is the pre-eminent photoconceptualist - a group centered around Vancouver...http://lifesrichpageant.typepad.com/lifes_rich_pageant/2007/09/jeff-wall.html Thoughts- September 25, 2007 "If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it" Margaret Fuller (Sarah) Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1810 - 1850) - a journalist, critic and womens rights activist. She was probably the most important gender theorist of her time. Born...http://lifesrichpageant.typepad.com/lifes_rich_pageant/2007/09/thoughts.html Fall Morning in the Park- September 25, 2007http://lifesrichpageant.typepad.com/lifes_rich_pageant/2007/09/fall-morning-in.html Venezuela- September 25, 2007 My friend in Caracas, Arturo Serrano, is a brave, intelligent and intellectually honest academic. I met him in London and have always been impressed by his strength of his convictions and character. He is a vocal critic of Venezuelan President...http://lifesrichpageant.typepad.com/lifes_rich_pageant/2007/09/venezuala.html Yucatan Breakfast- September 25, 2007 Starting the day right at the Hotel Deseo Playa Del Carmen on the Yucatan Peninsular Mexico...sunshine, coffee a sweet sea breeze and some huevos....paradisehttp://lifesrichpageant.typepad.com/lifes_rich_pageant/2007/09/yucatan-breakfa.html On Chesil Beach- September 25, 2007 Another Booker Prize Shortlist and one by 1998 winner Ian McEwan (for Amsterdam). This sad short novel - more of a novella ( a theme amongst this years nominees) - is about relationships, abuse, missed opportunities, and the gloomy world...http://lifesrichpageant.typepad.com/lifes_rich_pageant/2007/09/on-chesil-beach.html Cali- September 24, 2007 So Cal - fish tacos on Mission beach in San Diego; ice cold beers on terraces overlooking the Pacific and bare chested Cali boys playing horseshoes; enjoying life with good friends watching the world wander by the Boardwalk on bikes,...http://lifesrichpageant.typepad.com/lifes_rich_pageant/2007/09/cali.html The Face of Hate- September 24, 2007 So I saw the face of hatred and intolerance today. It wasn't President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, but he was close, I did see him go by on Broadway in his motorcade. He was the cause of the fracas though....http://lifesrichpageant.typepad.com/lifes_rich_pageant/2007/09/the-face-of-hat.html |