http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11jJu5hMrn8 Honorable mentions: “No One Is Alone,” “Giants in the Sky” The farther away from my English degree I get, and the longer I spend teaching English, the more I find myself thinking about genre. This is one of my great weaknesses, a reason why I don’t intend to go back to school for an… Read More Songs from Musicals: #29, “Children Will Listen,” from Into the Woods
Rules: Yes, I stole this idea from my older brother. He can complain to someone else about it, because people pay him to write stuff in real life and I have a blog that no one cares about. I’ve chosen fifty musicals that mean at least a little something to me, and then picked some… Read More Songs from Musicals: Intro and Links
Dir. Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson. Starring Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz Shrek, when it came out, was an enormous breath of fresh air. Like dawn going down to day, the Disney Renaissance had ended two years before with Tarzan, in my mind one of the more uneven features of that group. Dinosaur and… Read More Shrek (2001)
Seeing Things Secondhand 