Wednesday, April 09, 2008
New Thomas DiLorenzo book
From his post at the LRC blog:
Hamilton’s Curse
Hamilton invented the notion of "implied" (as opposed to actual) powers of the Constitution and advocated the broadest interpertation imaginable of the General Welfare and Commerce Clauses. His political heirs would use this reasoning to eventually destroy constitutional government in America. That's why leftists and neocons (is there a difference?) today celebrate the fact that we live in what they call "Hamilton's republic." It's also why the title of my new book, to be published on Oct. 21, is Hamilton's Curse: How Jefferson's Archenemy Betrayed the American Revolution.Amazon.com: Hamilton's Curse: How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed ...
Hamilton’s Curse
Some more vids of Maggie Cheung
Just for her beautiful voice and accent...
Maggie Cheung Interview @ HK
"In The Mood For Love" Press Conference: Tony & Maggie 1/5
Parts 2, 3, 4, 5
Her British accent:
Maggie Cheung Interview at Cinema China 07
More In the Mood for Love videos from GoldenDragonPictures
Speaking French! Cannes 2007 - Maggie Cheung Red Carpet Interview
Leslie Cheung - Maggie Cheung
Jacky Cheung - 如沒有你
梁朝伟张曼玉——花样年华
張國榮 - 日落巴黎音樂特輯(鍾楚紅,張曼玉) 1.mpg
張國榮 [日落巴黎]音樂特輯2 title?
淚的小雨(電影:甜蜜蜜) 鄧麗君
爱立信手机广告
Misc
甄妮主唱1986年楊凡電影"玫瑰的故事"主題曲周...
陳淑樺流光飛舞青蛇音樂片斷
张曼玉OLAY广告
Maggie Cheung Interview @ HK
"In The Mood For Love" Press Conference: Tony & Maggie 1/5
Parts 2, 3, 4, 5
Her British accent:
Maggie Cheung Interview at Cinema China 07
More In the Mood for Love videos from GoldenDragonPictures
Speaking French! Cannes 2007 - Maggie Cheung Red Carpet Interview
Leslie Cheung - Maggie Cheung
Jacky Cheung - 如沒有你
梁朝伟张曼玉——花样年华
張國榮 - 日落巴黎音樂特輯(鍾楚紅,張曼玉) 1.mpg
張國榮 [日落巴黎]音樂特輯2 title?
淚的小雨(電影:甜蜜蜜) 鄧麗君
爱立信手机广告
Misc
甄妮主唱1986年楊凡電影"玫瑰的故事"主題曲周...
陳淑樺流光飛舞青蛇音樂片斷
张曼玉OLAY广告
In the Mood for Love (trailer)
A gorgeous film by WKW about unconsummated human love (I prefer to think that the two characters are maintaining some measure of self-control). The score may get repetitive at times, but it is worth watching.
Deleted epilogue
Falling for Grace trailer
@ Apple
Seems like an exemplary Asian-American movie. I don't think Fay Ann Lee looks fobby enough to be mistaken for the daughter-heiress of a Chinese fashion empire, but it is her movie.
Fay Ann Lee - My official artist profile - alive not dead
About Fay Ann Lee Falling For Grace is Fay Ann Lee's feature film ...
YouTube - Fay Ann Lee of Falling for Grace on Urban Rush
YouTube - medium rare tv with Fay Ann Lee
This movie might be more suitable for Sarge. HA!
Apple trailer
My reaction based on the trailer for this movie and for the first one--
So this is what counts as inspirational fiction for young girls and teens these days? While it may get the issue of body image right, that's not enough.
ann brashares
Sisterhood Central | Your Source for All Things Sisterhood | Intro
MySpace.com - Ann - 39 - Female - NEW YORK, New York - www.myspace ...
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants DVD - Official Site
Seems like an exemplary Asian-American movie. I don't think Fay Ann Lee looks fobby enough to be mistaken for the daughter-heiress of a Chinese fashion empire, but it is her movie.
Fay Ann Lee - My official artist profile - alive not dead
About Fay Ann Lee Falling For Grace is Fay Ann Lee's feature film ...
YouTube - Fay Ann Lee of Falling for Grace on Urban Rush
YouTube - medium rare tv with Fay Ann Lee
This movie might be more suitable for Sarge. HA!
Apple trailer
My reaction based on the trailer for this movie and for the first one--
So this is what counts as inspirational fiction for young girls and teens these days? While it may get the issue of body image right, that's not enough.
ann brashares
Sisterhood Central | Your Source for All Things Sisterhood | Intro
MySpace.com - Ann - 39 - Female - NEW YORK, New York - www.myspace ...
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants DVD - Official Site
R made JM cry this morning by telling her to go to the end of the line and saying he'd tell Ms. N-- she was cutting. So she did go to the end of the line, and she did cry. I think Ms. N-- asked her what was going on, and put her back at the front of the line, because when they were walking into the classroom, she was back to being first. Last December JM would complain about R being mean to her; I don't think she plays with him that often. With soccer having been banned, I don't know what the boys play. (Though they often shoot rubber balls at the kid baskets.)
What would Gordon Ramsay be like in that sort of setting? haha.
The blonde school teacher asked me how the class was going, and I gave a negative reply, without saying anything at first, and then adding, "They're a handful." She offered to take into her classroom students who were misbehaving. Too bad she can't take in the whole class. We tried the adaptive PE equipment today, and the students couldn't sit still. I am thinking that after lunch I should make them run some laps and see if that tires them out a bit.
What would Gordon Ramsay be like in that sort of setting? haha.
The blonde school teacher asked me how the class was going, and I gave a negative reply, without saying anything at first, and then adding, "They're a handful." She offered to take into her classroom students who were misbehaving. Too bad she can't take in the whole class. We tried the adaptive PE equipment today, and the students couldn't sit still. I am thinking that after lunch I should make them run some laps and see if that tires them out a bit.
Gone from Dancing with the Stars...
Carolla Driven off Dancing
By Natalie Finn Tue Apr 8, 4:28 PM PDT
"First off, next week is not gonna happen—let's talk about right now," the good-natured radio host and star of The Hammer (in theaters now, he added) insisted when asked what he would have done differently on samba/rumba week.
"I had the time of my life. I lost 20 pounds of fat, and I gained 105 pounds of angel. I love this girl!" Carolla said, referring to partner Julianne Hough, whose two-season winning streak paso-doble'd out of town on a unicycle.
We won't be seeing them on stage again except perhaps during special performances on elimination night.
Sure to make paleos even more reluctant to vote for him
McCain won't rule out pre-emptive war
AP - 1 hour, 35 minutes ago
Are we going to see a faked report about Iran if McCain becomes president?
AP - 1 hour, 35 minutes ago
WESTPORT, Conn. - Republican Sen. John McCain refused Wednesday to rule out a pre-emptive war against another country, although he said one would be very unlikely.
"If someone is about to launch a weapon that would devastate America, or have the capability to do so, obviously, you would have to act immediately in defense of this nation's national security interests."
Are we going to see a faked report about Iran if McCain becomes president?
The Reality Report: Low energy methods for home food preservation and storage (audio)
Sharon Astyk, The Reality Report via Global Public Media
The Reality Report interviews Sharon Astyk— writer, teacher and subsistence farmer, and the author of two forthcoming books on Peak Oil and Climate Change — Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front (Fall ‘08) and A Nation of Farmers (And Cooks) (Spring ‘09), the latter co-authored with Aaron Newton.
mp3
her website
Sharon Astyk, The Reality Report via Global Public Media
The Reality Report interviews Sharon Astyk— writer, teacher and subsistence farmer, and the author of two forthcoming books on Peak Oil and Climate Change — Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front (Fall ‘08) and A Nation of Farmers (And Cooks) (Spring ‘09), the latter co-authored with Aaron Newton.
mp3
her website
AR: Master Conservers
Master Conservers
For those who lived during the last round of energy crises, grain shortages and the surging price of crude oil bring back memories of the Seventies. Some of the responses to that earlier time of troubles may offer useful tools for the round now looming over the industrial world.
AR
For those who lived during the last round of energy crises, grain shortages and the surging price of crude oil bring back memories of the Seventies. Some of the responses to that earlier time of troubles may offer useful tools for the round now looming over the industrial world.
AR
Patrick Deneen, Freedom and Virtue
Freedom and Virtue
As Fr. Pinckaers just passed away this week, it might be a good time to recall the distinction he makes between freedom for excellence and freedom of indifference. This is ably summarized by George Weigel in "A Better Concept of Freedom" (CatholicEducation.org archived copy). Though I do appreciate the work that Fr. Pinckaers has done in revitalizing the Thomistic moral theology, I wonder if he is correct in tracing the origins of the problems that arose in Catholic moral theology to the voluntarists and William of Ockham. Is Ockham being made the scapegoat for something else?
How are we to explain the decline of Christendom and Western civilization? Modernity, or specifically, some intellectual system or -ism? Or the effects of sin and unrestrained appetite?
Alas, what one scholar can study the whole of medieval thought, much less the whole of 'Western' thought since Christ? And yet the encyclopaedic project of having specialists work on different areas of intellectual history can lead to an over-reliance on authority to point out continuities and discontinuities. This is especially true when looking at the transition from the medieval to the Renaissnace to the modern period, when the biases of scholars can influence them to 'discover' breaks or transformations or continuations. And here I am just talking about moral theology and the moral sciences (which includes political science or 'theory'). Things get even more tenuous when one tries to link what was being taught in the universities or written in the privacy of one's study or published in books to what was happening in society at large.
I still think that one must look primarily at what those who had power over others, the political and economic elites, were doing in order to understand how society and culture was being shaped. Ideas, popular or esoteric, may have had some influence on members of those groups, but one must be careful of giving a premature conclusion as to how those ideas impacted legislation. Is it any wonder that given the difficulty of knowing all of the historical causes and effects that some seek a simple reductionistic answer, such as some conspiracy theory or other? Then again, perhaps their intuition may be shown to have been correct one day.
Publications of the Franciscan Institute (catalog)
iirc, CUA took over the publication of the Ockham critical editions? But I could be wrong, I should check the catalog.
From Dr. Freddoso: Ockham's Ethics
The Political Thought of William of Ockham - Google Books Result
The Cambridge Companion to Ockham - Google Books Result
Passions in William Ockham's Philosophical Psychology - Google Books Result
hrm...The Physics of William of Ockham - Google Books Result
I reject the notion that given the "option" of freedom, people abandoned settled cultures and ways of life with the alacrity of rats from a sinking boat. One must see a vaster and even more nefarious story of concerted and ferocious efforts to weaken and undermine persistent forms of local culture, whether by dint of official policies that promoted mobility and encouraged indebtedness and gluttony, or more often by the subtle and nearly irresistible seductions of commerce that ultimately demolished every persistence of virtue in its path. We should note, too, that it was not easy - the battle was hard-fought and not-easily won - but being now won in most places, it is deeply and firmly entrenched and is highly satisfied that, having destroyed the necessary connection of a culture based in virtue that requires continuity between past and future, that the field has been captured and only some isolated immolation of a few injured opponents remains. Yet, even as it congratulates itself upon its victory, envisioning a globalized future of infinite prosperity, limitless growth, unchallenged mastery of nature and unending self-creation, the ancient premonitions daily assert themselves and doubt crosses the visage of the apparent victor.
As Fr. Pinckaers just passed away this week, it might be a good time to recall the distinction he makes between freedom for excellence and freedom of indifference. This is ably summarized by George Weigel in "A Better Concept of Freedom" (CatholicEducation.org archived copy). Though I do appreciate the work that Fr. Pinckaers has done in revitalizing the Thomistic moral theology, I wonder if he is correct in tracing the origins of the problems that arose in Catholic moral theology to the voluntarists and William of Ockham. Is Ockham being made the scapegoat for something else?
How are we to explain the decline of Christendom and Western civilization? Modernity, or specifically, some intellectual system or -ism? Or the effects of sin and unrestrained appetite?
Alas, what one scholar can study the whole of medieval thought, much less the whole of 'Western' thought since Christ? And yet the encyclopaedic project of having specialists work on different areas of intellectual history can lead to an over-reliance on authority to point out continuities and discontinuities. This is especially true when looking at the transition from the medieval to the Renaissnace to the modern period, when the biases of scholars can influence them to 'discover' breaks or transformations or continuations. And here I am just talking about moral theology and the moral sciences (which includes political science or 'theory'). Things get even more tenuous when one tries to link what was being taught in the universities or written in the privacy of one's study or published in books to what was happening in society at large.
I still think that one must look primarily at what those who had power over others, the political and economic elites, were doing in order to understand how society and culture was being shaped. Ideas, popular or esoteric, may have had some influence on members of those groups, but one must be careful of giving a premature conclusion as to how those ideas impacted legislation. Is it any wonder that given the difficulty of knowing all of the historical causes and effects that some seek a simple reductionistic answer, such as some conspiracy theory or other? Then again, perhaps their intuition may be shown to have been correct one day.
Publications of the Franciscan Institute (catalog)
iirc, CUA took over the publication of the Ockham critical editions? But I could be wrong, I should check the catalog.
From Dr. Freddoso: Ockham's Ethics
The Political Thought of William of Ockham - Google Books Result
The Cambridge Companion to Ockham - Google Books Result
Passions in William Ockham's Philosophical Psychology - Google Books Result
hrm...The Physics of William of Ockham - Google Books Result
Andrea Beaton and Chrissy Crowley
I discovered Andrea Beaton and Chrissy Crowley, among others, through Natalie MacMaster's links page. Cape Breton really does have a lot of local talent for traditional music. The New Scot should move there and settle down. heh.
Andrea Beaton, Troy MacGillivray & Quinn Bachand
Andrea & Kinnon Beaton Set - Part One
Andrea & Kinnon Beaton Set - Part Two
Nova Scotia Fiddlers Troy MacGillivray and Andrea Beaton #1
Andrea Beaton and Troy MacGillivray Nova Scotia Fiddlers #2
Andrea Beaton at West Mabou Hall Sept 15/07 Part 1
Andrea Beaton Sept 15/07 Part 2
Chrissy Crowley:
Chrissy Crowley at 2006 Cape Cod Celtic Fest
Chrissy Crowley with Richard Wood
THE ROLLO BAY FIDDLE FEST - Prince Edward Island's foremost ...
Check out the Cape Breton Live store
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Ms. N-- may have to take an extended leave for surgery in late May until June, so she asked me if I'd be able to sub for her class. I said I should be able to, but she should check with me again first week of May. Not sure if I could handle the class though, though at least JM won't be going to a different classroom to see me. But there's R, who apparently kneed G in the privates today. One of the other kids told me about it at lunch, and I talked to R and reminded G to tell Ms. N--. Still... the other day R said his mom was going to take him to a strip club. How the heck does a 2nd grader know about such things, and was he really just reporting what his mom said?
CEB was pretending to be a mean girl today--this week she's been telling me that she's been bad and should be benched. Hilarious. She's probably one of the more quiet and hard-working students in her class. (Though she does talk to her friend who sits right next to her from time to time. NOT PERFECT! j/k) It's nice to bring up church and Christ with her when the opportunity presents itself. I'll have to ask her which parish she goes to.
After school, there was a faculty meeting. The secretary asked me this morning if I'd like to go, since I'll be with the class for a while. The purpose of the meeting was to introduce some new equipment for adaptive PE--the replacement for the stegle (sp?). I remember using the stegle back when I was in elementary school--it had ladders, balance beams, a ramp, and some stands/pillars(?) to hang everything on. The new equipment isn't as elaborate--I don't think the ladder could be transformed into a set of monkey bars, for example.
I think about 1/2 the teachers showed up today. During the meeting a petition protesting the new state budget was circulating. Since I'm not a member of the CTA, I didn't sign. They were also collecting votes for the (CTA) State Council. I do think the the Governator's proposed budget is wrong-headed; but I don't think I'd want to be associated with a teacher's union, even if I were to become a teacher at a public school. (Unlikely.) My guess is that there are a lot of Clinton and Obama supporters at the school. I'd be surprised actually if there were any McCain supporters or 'conservative' independents. Both the blonde schoolteacher and another (blonde) teacher (6th grade, iirc) were in attendance. When I was subbing for the latter's class she had a copy of Naomi Wolf's The End of America. While there are some things in that book a paleo- or traditional conservative would agree with (PCR's Goodbye to All That), still the differences are great.
Naomi Wolf: Fascist America, in 10 easy steps | World news | The ...
Colbert: Naomi Wolf and Fascism in America
(See Daniel Larison's response to Ms. Wolf: Larison's Guide to Anti-Fascism)
I found this website while looking for paleo commentary on Wolf's book: Republican Renaissance
Some have commented on how the U.S., like the U.K., no longer has a conservative political party. (Peter Hitchens made this point again recently, with respect to the U.K.) I do not have much hope for the National Government, or the national political parties. There may be a chance for independent parties to flourish at the local level in certain places, but I think the local Republican party, with its ties to (and dependency upon) both the elites and the national party, is probably lost to reform as well. Tom McClintock is known as a libertarian, but what are his positions on the Constitution and decentralization? What is his view of Ron Paul? Looking at his website for his run for the U.S. Congress, I am not that impressed, though the position statements are very terse. What would the LRC make of McClintock, especially given what he says about military spending?
CEB was pretending to be a mean girl today--this week she's been telling me that she's been bad and should be benched. Hilarious. She's probably one of the more quiet and hard-working students in her class. (Though she does talk to her friend who sits right next to her from time to time. NOT PERFECT! j/k) It's nice to bring up church and Christ with her when the opportunity presents itself. I'll have to ask her which parish she goes to.
After school, there was a faculty meeting. The secretary asked me this morning if I'd like to go, since I'll be with the class for a while. The purpose of the meeting was to introduce some new equipment for adaptive PE--the replacement for the stegle (sp?). I remember using the stegle back when I was in elementary school--it had ladders, balance beams, a ramp, and some stands/pillars(?) to hang everything on. The new equipment isn't as elaborate--I don't think the ladder could be transformed into a set of monkey bars, for example.
I think about 1/2 the teachers showed up today. During the meeting a petition protesting the new state budget was circulating. Since I'm not a member of the CTA, I didn't sign. They were also collecting votes for the (CTA) State Council. I do think the the Governator's proposed budget is wrong-headed; but I don't think I'd want to be associated with a teacher's union, even if I were to become a teacher at a public school. (Unlikely.) My guess is that there are a lot of Clinton and Obama supporters at the school. I'd be surprised actually if there were any McCain supporters or 'conservative' independents. Both the blonde schoolteacher and another (blonde) teacher (6th grade, iirc) were in attendance. When I was subbing for the latter's class she had a copy of Naomi Wolf's The End of America. While there are some things in that book a paleo- or traditional conservative would agree with (PCR's Goodbye to All That), still the differences are great.
Naomi Wolf: Fascist America, in 10 easy steps | World news | The ...
Colbert: Naomi Wolf and Fascism in America
(See Daniel Larison's response to Ms. Wolf: Larison's Guide to Anti-Fascism)
I found this website while looking for paleo commentary on Wolf's book: Republican Renaissance
Some have commented on how the U.S., like the U.K., no longer has a conservative political party. (Peter Hitchens made this point again recently, with respect to the U.K.) I do not have much hope for the National Government, or the national political parties. There may be a chance for independent parties to flourish at the local level in certain places, but I think the local Republican party, with its ties to (and dependency upon) both the elites and the national party, is probably lost to reform as well. Tom McClintock is known as a libertarian, but what are his positions on the Constitution and decentralization? What is his view of Ron Paul? Looking at his website for his run for the U.S. Congress, I am not that impressed, though the position statements are very terse. What would the LRC make of McClintock, especially given what he says about military spending?
So what are our options? At least the LoS has The Grey Book. (Surprise--the hardcover edition from 2004 is available for preview at Google Books.) There doesn't seem like much can be done for political and social reform in California, at least not at this moment. All one can do here (and in many other places), is to build up strong enclaves of Faith and tradition, and to cooperate with other groups that have similar goals with respect to relocalization/decentralization and sustainability, no?Improving our national defense
We need to fully fund our nation’s military in order to protect our nation from any threat in the world. Reagan’s idea of “peace through strength” is an idea we need to return to.
From the Telegraph UK: Act repeal could make Franz Herzog von Bayern new King of England and Scotland
By Richard Alleyne and Harry de Quetteville
via LRC
A critique of the article from Andrew Cusack: You call this journalism?
Franz, Duke of Bavaria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The New Scot might like this: The Order of the Lion Rampant
Misc:
And I think the beatification site for Emperor Charles has been restored:
Emperor Charles website
Blessed Charles of Austria
By Richard Alleyne and Harry de Quetteville
via LRC
A critique of the article from Andrew Cusack: You call this journalism?
Franz, Duke of Bavaria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The New Scot might like this: The Order of the Lion Rampant
Misc:
And I think the beatification site for Emperor Charles has been restored:
Emperor Charles website
Blessed Charles of Austria
Plus: Wong Kar-Wai on "My Blueberry Nights"
US Premiere Photos
MySpace.com - My Blueberry Nights Soundtrack - NEW YORK, New York ...
‘Blueberry Nights’: Wong Kar-Wai’s bad apple - At the movies ...
AsianWeek » ‘My Blueberry Nights’
For Wong Kar Wai, 'My Blueberry Nights' is as easy as pie
Christianity Today review; Cinematical review
Apple - Trailers - My Blueberry Nights - Trailer
Spain: MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS
UK
You're premiering a re-edited version of "Ashes of Time" at Cannes. Were you previously unsatisfied with the cut that premiered in 1994? Why revisit it now?
A few years ago, we realized the master of the film was locked somewhere in pieces. So we were trying to save the film, to get material from other distributors to restore the master. But later on, when we opened this Pandora's box, we could see a lot of possibilities [to rework it]. Basically, you have to decide: Is it only a restoration, or are you going to do something differently? This is what we plan to do next.
With "Ashes of Time Redux," and all of your films for that matter, is it difficult to stop tinkering with it? When linearity isn't your primary concern, how do you know when you're ultimately satisfied?
When it's time to let go, I don't look back, and I start another project as soon as possible. One thing I remind myself is that I don't want to Photoshop my past. Today, I could do a lot of things with this film, but it's not necessarily true to the idea that I had at that point. I just want to complete that version, because when we released "Ashes of Time," it was not in the best of conditions, so I tried to preserve that. During the process, we also discovered something we hadn't used or hadn't thought of at that point. I'm trying to put these things together, and I'm really curious to see how the film turns out.
US Premiere Photos
MySpace.com - My Blueberry Nights Soundtrack - NEW YORK, New York ...
‘Blueberry Nights’: Wong Kar-Wai’s bad apple - At the movies ...
AsianWeek » ‘My Blueberry Nights’
For Wong Kar Wai, 'My Blueberry Nights' is as easy as pie
Christianity Today review; Cinematical review
Apple - Trailers - My Blueberry Nights - Trailer
Spain: MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS
UK
Ashes of Time Redux?
From Twitch: Wong Kar Wai Says The ASHES OF TIME REDUX To Debut At Cannes
Even among WKW fans Ashes of Time is not a favorite, though I am one (of the few?) who actually thinks it is well done, though if it might be too much romanticism (and self-indulgent longing and misery) even for the source material, the novels of Jin Yong. I was quite surprised to find out that WKW is planning a new cut of the movie. While I do appreciate the movie, there are parts that could be improved. (Cut scenes restored, and so on.) Many complained that they couldn't keep track of the characters and their stories, so if WKW is really aiming at clarity this time around, those who were confused by the movie will undoubtedly appreciate it. I don't think the action sequences (very shaky camera work, to the point of motion being captured as blurs on the screen) can be undone, though, but I could be wrong.
Trailer for the original:
SPC picks up 'Ashes of Time Redux' - Cannes Film Festival - Variety
Older news:
Twitch - The Rumors Are True! Wong Kar Wai's Next Project Is ...
Twitch - Sony Pictures Classics lands distro rights for WKW's ...
WKW Ashes of Time - REDUX - The Criterion Collection Forum
WKW links:
Wong Kar-wai
wiki
WongKarWai.net
Wong kar-wai : In the Mood for Wong kar-wai
Ashes of Time
Wong Kar-wai : Ashes of Time
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