Piano Teacher Wicky: movies

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Friday, June 18, 2010

Sorry I've been MIA - maybe I'll have a good new post up here soon. In the meantime, please give money to my filmy friends! They need to raise $10,000 on their own to qualify for lots more money from some other people. They make good films, and you can get free stuff from them too!
Click here and give money!

And in case you want to know the caliber of moviemakers you will be endowing, here's a link to their project from last summer, 12 films in 12 weeks.

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

2008 quick facts.

I can't necessarily say it's back by popular demand - since I don't know how many (but I have an idea of how few) people read this blog. But I liked recapping the year in this way:

Piano lessons taught: 922

Piano Recitals: 2, plus one company-wide concert

Album of the Year: Asking for Flowers by Kathleen Edwards

Runner Up: The Stand Ins by Okkervil River

Favorite band I discovered: Glen Hansard/The Frames

Runner Up: The Shout Out Louds

Best Song: All the World (I Tell Myself) by Correatown

Runner Up: The Cheapest Key by Kathleen Edwards

Favorite Movie in a Theater: Wall-E

Runner Up: Sex in the City (that's right!)

Favorite Movie from Netflix: The Assassination of Jesse James . . .

Runner Up: Anne of Green Gables trilogy

Favorite Play: Our Town, performed by David Cromer and the Hypocrites

Best Concert: Kathleen Edwards at the Metro

Best TV Show: Mad Men

Favorite Book: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Runner Up: Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld

Favorite Game: Apples to Apples

Cubs Games Attended: 13 (including one post-season)

Number of those games they won: 11

New City I visited: Milwaukee, WI

Best thing I did there (other than go to a Cubs Game): the free tour of the Miller Brewery!

Monday, September 8, 2008

Movie Minutes

My netflix queue has over 50 movies on it, most of which are old and I'm not interested in seeing. This is what happens when you live with a boy whose main objective in life is to see every film in the American Film Institute's list of top 100 movies of all time. That is an exaggeration, but not much of one.

I try to always have one girly movie from netflix in the house. Sometimes they're mindless goodness like 27 Dresses. Lately I've been taking netflix's suggestions. They say because I liked the original Parent Trap, that I would enjoy watching "The Courtship of Eddie's Father," a movie that made me realize that a very young Ronnie Howard was not such a great actor but still very cute. The plot was also surprisingly complex - I always expect movies from that era to be pretty predictable. This one was, but only after going through a few plot twists. I have also been enjoying the "Anne of Green Gables" series thanks to Netflix.

This past Thursday, Nate and I went to the Landmark Century theater, which shows mostly independent and foreign films. We used to go all the time, when we lived a little closer to it. We decided to go see "Man on Wire," a movie about the french tight-rope walker who walked between the tops of the 2 towers of the World Trade Center. It was a good way to spend a rainy afternoon. A lot of the movie was centered around the act of breaking in to the WTC in order to get to the roof and set up for the stunt, which is a very uncomfortable subject for all Americans at this point. The guy was definitely a little crazy, but that is unfortunately the mark of most great artists.