I predict that Under The Sea 3D will be one of the best 2 or 3 movies you will see this year.
I cannot reiterate enough how amazing the IMAX movie Deep Sea 3D was (my #1 movie of 2006), and now here comes another 3D IMAX movie by the same directing/writing/producing team.
Basically, if, like me, you saw Deep Sea 3D and when it ended you thought "I wish that had been twice as long", then you are in luck. (And if you saw Deep Sea 3D and didn't think that when it ended, you must have a mental deficiency.)
Jazz singer Blossom Dearie died at age 82. For a real obituary, go here.
I don't know much about her, but I have one song she did and it is certainly one of the greatest matches of singer and material I've heard. I don't know how many songs she could pull off with that voice (imagine her trying to sing "Miss Otis Regrets"), but she sure kills on this one. Here's Blossom Dearie singing "Always True To You In My Fashion" by Cole Porter. Enjoy...
Today (February 3) marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Felix Mendelssohn. And that seems like something worth celebrating.
I just learned that he wrote one of my all-time favorite pieces of music, A Midsummer Night's Dream, when he was only 17 years old. (That is, the overture, not the incidental music including the Wedding March, below, which was written years later.) That is truly amazing. I've heard the music in symphony concerts, as music for the ballet, and even as musical background for a staging of the full play at Hollywood Bowl, and it never disappoints.
I don't know enough about him, and he's written way too much great music, for me to try to discuss it with any intelligence, so at least, go and listen to something by him today in his honor. (And if you live in San Francisco, you can go hear the SF Symphony play Mendelssohn's extremely famous violin concerto on Feb. 28.)
