Engaging Culture

I've Fallen Behind - With my new supervisor position at work, I’ve been struggling to get enough sleep. I hardly have enough time to spend with my family much less writing movie reviews and rehashing news that you can get a thousand other places. I hope that I will be able to pick up my writing again now that my training is complete, but I won’t promise anything. It’s not like I’ve missed anything these past few weeks though, almost everything that has been released is drivel and not worth anyone’s time. (0)

R.I.P. Easy Rider - Dennis Hopper, the screen legend, lost his battle with prostate cancer this morning. I’ve always loved Hopper’s way of taking even the smallest of roles and making them his own. The good folks over at Cinematical have given him a very nice tribute. (2)

What's Your Top 5? - Rolling Stone’s latest issue coming out on Friday features their list of their top 500 songs of all-time. I saw their top 5 on The Early Show this morning. 1. Like a Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan 2. Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones 3. Imagine by John Lennon 4. What’s Going On by Marvin Gaye 5. Respect by Aretha Franklin What’s your top song of all time? Mine is Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin. (1)

Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Nicholas Carr has written a new book called The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, and he shared some of his findings in an article for the June edition of WIRED Magazine. I would tell you more about it, but my brain is so fried from the internet that I didn’t retain a word of it. (0)

Updated the Summer Movie Calendar - I added my predictions for this week’s new releases. “Shrek: The Final Frontier”, “McGoober”, and next week’s Estrogen fueled, “Whiny White Women 2.” (0)