Not Fade Away-Music in the 60's and 70's

Young love and bands

During the cusp of the rise of UK bands such as the Rolling Stones and The Beatles, American bands started to show their mettle too through high school kids and blue-collar workers.

The discovery of blues and music of the American South were to influence their appreciation of such music.

The movie shows the issues of family as hard-working parents could not understand why their kids would not want to pursue college in favour on that new 'family' feeling to belong to a band.

Second chances

The acrimony and petty jealousies among band members was also displayed through this movie with its parties and hard glass bottles of soda and soft drinks.

Distant

If you like a smooth ride through the 60's and 70's, looking at touchstones and the relationship with the advent of music, this movie has that.

Bella magic

The part that should have been further developed is the relationship of the protagonist, John Magaro as Douglas and Grace, the eye candy of the movie, Bella Heathcote.

Pouting Bella

Nice movie to watch.

Charming

Officer Down-Poly Versions

Great Editing

This movie called 'Officer Down' presents to us three versions of its meanings.

The first one is that of an officer being gunned down normally by criminals while doing his work. This is the standard version.

The second version is those gunned down  by their own force for whatever reasons.

The third is the version where the cop calls out for support with the 'Office down" warning call-out before going on a manslaughter.

This movie has all the versions with Stephen Dorff playing the protagonist who is trapped in a criminal world and police corruption besides being drown in liquor at most times..

What I like about the movie is not its star credits because Dorff does not draw in the crowd. It is more the twist in the plot line and the great editing that makes the movie interesting to watch.

I would say that this is fairly good movie.

Earth Hour 23 March 2013

Doing our bit......

Well, it's Earth Hour again and everyone is supposed to do their bit for Mother Earth.

For my wife and daughter, this is what they did.

My wife decided just to switch off the lights but yet went on watching a  Korean series.

Switch off sleep

As for my daughter, this hour is done on a horizontal plane with her switching off for one hour to take her rest from a hard day's work at the office!

As for me, it is blogging and my son is on the computer, cleaning out stuff to make the hard disk more pliable.

And that, my friends, is Earth Hour for us this year!