Fitzgerald, The - Richmond Fontaine

The Riches of Richmond

Advantages: Great for familly and anyone wishing to get healthy and enjoy sport
Disadvantages: Too far for me to go

~~RICHMOND OLYMPIC OVAL~~ The day before we were due to fly back from Canada, we decided to do a dry run to the airport to make sure we knew the route, as it would be the first time we did the route unaccompanied. Mom came with us and she asked if we would take her to see the newly build Richmond Olympic Oval; well you don?t have to ask me twice, I love visiting buildings both new and old ones, but I do prefer the older ones. So after a few hiccups we found ourselves at the Oval. Richmond BC appears to be the ideal setting for such a sporting facility as the town claims to have the longest life expectancy and the lowest obesity rates in all of Canada, so where else would they launch a new sport and fitness centre, which will also host the speed skating and other events in the 2010 Winter Olympics and the Paralympics games ...

arnoldhenryrufus 09.12.2009 (10.12.2009) · Read full review
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An American Tale

Advantages: Well-crafted songs telling poignant tales; great musicianship; evocative pedal steel
Disadvantages: None to speak of

"Post to Wire" is Richmond Fontaine's fifth studio album and the one that really turned me onto the band. Previously the Portland-based quartet were associated with dark, brooding lyrics and a much blacker feel, but "Post to Wire" really highlights not just the band's ability to compose across genres but the strengths of songwriter and frontman, Willy Vlautin, in creating vivid snapshots of the contemporary west. Labelled "Americana" or "alt-country" by a music press that always feels the need to pigeonhole, the band have developed the genre, and cemented their position in it, where the likes of Uncle Tupelo or Wilco left off. By more use of the pedal steel, the band has taken more of a country direction but Vlautin's stories of people living ordinary lives on the margins of society have ensured the band stay firmly ...

fizzytom 06.05.2008 · Read full review
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The Great F Scott Fitzgerald

Advantages: Unforgettable
Disadvantages: Depressing

of romanticism. His whole life is a fabrication built upon a dream, and as he comes ever closer to his dream it starts to shatter. Gatsby's dreams represent the American Dream and its ultimate unattainability, and the novel demonstrates all to clearly that there is a price to be paid for following the dream. Not only does Daisy prove to be an empty vessel (though, refusing to relinquish the dream, Gatsby never sees this), but she causes his downfall and destruction. For those whose dream is material wealth, the price is shown to be spiritual poverty. Fitzgerald writes this novel beautifully. Every character is superbly well-drawn and each scene is so atmospheric that you feel like you are actually there. Fitzgerald was himself a young wealthy socialite in the 1920s, and he brings that world alive so that it almost leaps off the page. You ...

sandrabarber 27.08.2002 · Read full review
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