notes from vivace

The Way, Way Back. This is a wonderful and somewhat painful tale of flawed adults parenting awkward young teenagers. And what is truly in...

Fruitvale Station. A solid movie; however, I felt like I was getting an overly glossed up point of view of Oscar.  Also, the movie doesn...

Pacific Rim. I don't think this movie started off very well.  An early conversation goes something like this when a monster sighting w...

World War Z.   For all the talk about now this movie was a mess, I do think it turned out to be a very thrilling movie.  It is Contagion on ...

I last saw them at Silverlake Jubilee.  Loved them then and loved them a couple months back at Make Music Pasadena.

So long since Make Music Pasadena.  Here's a photo of Dom La Nena.

Been awhile since Make Music Pasadena, but I've been busy.   A photo of The Dustbowl Revival.

Monsters University. An enjoyable movie about characters who aren't scary, but want to be scary. Kids, please don't look under th...

Despicable Me 2. Minions. Birthday parties. Girls growing up. Evilness in the world that needs to be resolved. I consider this cartoon...

The Heat. When a movie is liked both by critics and audiences, I usually find myself agreeing. Not with this movie. I could have saved m...

This is the End.   The movie starts out hysterically with Seth Rogan picking up his friend Jay Baruchel at the airport. It is funny that eve...

Jail Weddings  closed out the night at Echo Country Outpost, kicking off the summer. Comment of the night:  Usually I have to ask people t...