I’m a big proponent of canceling cable and watching free over-the-air tv. The only real hardship involved is giving up movie channels. When I was younger, there used to be a bunch of good old movies on tv. Whereas nowadays, some of my local affiliates appear to be showing more infomercials. There still are good [...]
Music Mondays I often don’t care for much pop music out these days, but Falling Slowly is a good song. The original is acoustic with just guitar, piano, and voice. Once The song was featured in a movie called Once. Once was good, although a bit different than most movies in that not a lot [...]
Train Tuesdays One of my guilty pleasures is reading Clive Cussler novels. I’ve been working my way through the Dirk Pitt series with my favorite so far being Deep Six. I’ve also been reading the new Isaac Bell series of books Cussler co-writes with Justin Scott. I like this series in part because I’m a [...]
Most movies about the future depict amazing technological advances and an evolved society. I enjoyed a Mike Judge comedy called Idiocracy starring Luke Wilson with a very different view of the future. Low-Tech Times Rating = 3 stars Learn More: Click the link to read Idiocracy reviews and/or purchase from Amazon.com: Tweet (function(d, s, id) [...]
Train Tuesdays Here’s the clip from the classic movie Stand By Me. According to a Trainorders.com discussion, the scene was filmed on the McCould River Railroad. The complete classic movie is available on DVD from Amazon.com: Tweet (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; [...]