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Official movie poster Two words: utter ridiculousness. From the first absurdly entertaining exchange of “A Town Called Panic,” to the last off-the-wall encounter, the French stop-motion film never lets up on the goofy, frenetic chaos and affords precious few moments of coherent reality. A horse typing away on his computer or pounding out music on… Continue reading A Town Called Panic

Official movie poster How do you know when you’ve hit rock bottom? Is it when you’re puking violently into a rusty old trash can outside a rundown bowling alley in the middle of nowhere Arizona? Is it when your whiskey-induced haze causes you lose a someone else’s child in a Texas shopping mall? Or is… Continue reading Crazy Heart

Image courtesy of EncinitasCafe.com “Bacon and avo benny with browns and rye!” shouts a frazzled waitress over the clanging of dishes above the soiled aluminum countertop into the kitchen. The hustle of the kitchen staff scrambling to prepare various sandwiches, omelets and salads in the cramped quarters of the tiny Encinitas Cafe combined with the… Continue reading Encinitas’s Quaint Cafe

Image courtesy of A.D.A.M. Before my eyes even opened that foggy fall Saturday morning, I had the feeling something was wrong. By the time I had finished my morning routine and sat down to my bowl of Kashi cereal and soy milk, I knew exactly what was wrong. I had a kidney stone. Looking back,… Continue reading Personal Trauma: Kidney Stones

Image courtesy of TheGriddleCafe.com It’s the kind of place you would drive right past without thinking twice if you didn’t know what you were looking for. Yet for such an unassuming little diner crammed into the midst of the sunset strip, the line outside The Griddle in West Hollywood is curiously long. Perhaps its the… Continue reading Brunch on the Sunset Strip

Image courtesy of OaksSpa.com It all started with a simple problem: swim class instructors at The Oaks at Ojai needed a power source for their battery-operated stereos so that they could have music throughout the whole class without having it cut out halfway through. The solution seemed to be that they should run the power… Continue reading The Oaks at Ojai

Image courtesy of TheSoulOfAHorse.com Imagine in place of your 9 to 5 concrete jungle of skyscrapers and taxi cabs, rolling green pastures that stretch off into infinity. Clean country air instead of thick, orangish pollution. Horse whinnies instead of car horns. For Joe Camp, having left behind the highly profitable world of Hollywood production, this… Continue reading Book Reivew: Soul of a Horse