Argues that post-Katrina, New Orleans hasn't been an easy place to live, it hasn't been an ... more
easy place to be in love, it hasn't been an easy place to take care of yourself or see the bright side of things. This book chronicles the epic 2005 disaster and the year that followed.
Advantages: Warms the cockles of your soul Disadvantages: You need a soul in the first place
As the winter months draw in it?s good to tuck oneself on bed with a flask, in a wood cabin, and authentic Deep South gospel blues to warm the cockles of the heart.
This year my musical and spiritual heat is being provided by the soulful hauntings of Ben Harper and The BlindBoys of Alabama with There Will Be A Light.
We are hearing the union of a combination of artists at their peak. The BlindBoys bring the raw Negro Spiritual tradition and decades of blended hymnal harmonising.
Harper and his band bring the stripped down arrangements to vocals aged in oak caskets for generations, soaking up decades and life experience.
As you expect there is variety without vanity. The lonely slide guitar in Dylan cover Well, Well, Well seems to be fighting for empathy whereas accapella lament Mother Pray is touching enough to bring ...
Advantages: Still the most beautiful city in the US Disadvantages: Hurricane Katrina
Reading the other site reviews, it seems like all of them were probably written before Hurricane Katrina did its job on NewOrleans. I've been back there several times since the storm, and have a few thoughts.
I myself am an expatriate New Orleanian. Born and raised there, I've lived away for several decades, but still have ties and visit occasionally. As it happened, one of those visits was on the weekend before Hurricane Katrina hit. I've been back three times since then, and have seen the city slowly put itself back together.
There's no sugar coating it: Katrina did a number on the city. The house I grew up in was lucky: it was on the edge of the flood zone (which covered nearly the entire city, except for the older parts of town hugging the Mississippi River), and so only (only!) had four feet (1.3 meters) of flooding ...
alexlint 04.01.2007
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Advantages: None worth mentioning Disadvantages: Melanie Griffith, other bad acting, sloppy structure
goes in a Hepburn-inspired hat box, the whole messed up conglomeration of road movie vignettes and wacky side-shows is just preposterous.
Thankfully (or unthankfully) not quite two hours, with a whole host of famous supporting actors to add to the craziness (or unlikeliness) of it all, CRAZY INALABAMA is a wholly contrived piece of cinema moulded together from at least two separate genres, at least three terribly fragmented stories and a plethora of unnecessary characters. The acting, except from Lucas Black as the young boy, is either woefully over-the-top, aka Griffith as Aunt Lucille, or just woefully inept, aka Meat Loaf as the racist sheriff. A limp debut from Banderas, who clearly didn't learn anything from his mentor, the great Spanish director Pedro Almodovar. Disappointing. ...
Charles_Strickland 19.07.2007 (30.11.2007)
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