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New Values and a New Quest
On Sunday, Pixar’s Brave won a Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature Film. We recently had a chance to talk with its producer, Katherine Serafian. Here's what she had to say. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Aaron Belz: I have two daughters who have thick, wavy, red hair, so we really enjoyed watching Brave. Katherine Sarafian: Ah... are they teenagers? AB: One is thirteen, one is ten. KS: Wow. You have redheaded...
At Least I Author My Own Disaster
“The past is a grotesque animal,” begins the eponymously titled Of Montreal song; “and in its eyes you see / how completely wrong you can be.” What follows is a beautiful, rich, long composition, one that’s as mesmerizing lyrically as it is musically. Its lyrics might qualify for great poetry on their own, they so precisely describe the human condition. The older I get the more I see that my own past i...
The Baddest Girl Around
Maybe Canadian-born rapper Drake has never read Rainer Maria Rilke’s advice in Letters to a Young Poet: “Do not write love poems; avoid at first those forms that are too facile and commonplace: they are the most difficult, for it takes a great, fully matured power to give something of your own where good and even excellent traditions come to mind in quantity.” Or maybe he has chosen to ignore it. [caption id...
