Jessica Zafra's Blog, page 125

Why mope when you can dance?

Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston as 500-year-old vampires in Only Lovers Left Alive. The song is Trapped By A Thing Called Love by Denise Lasalle. When we saw the movie we were struck by the perfection of their hair. Of course vampires would have those masses of hair, hair continues growing after death.

Every movie we see # 74: Hercules is legendarily awful.

Movies #70-73: Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, The Mirror Crack’d, Evil Under the Sun, all adaptations of Agatha Christie novels. Orient Express is the most stylish—we’ve always wanted to take the Orient Express—but we found Albert Finney’s Hercule Poirot overdone. We prefer Peter Ustinov, who starred in Nile and Evil. The […]

What you won’t do for your hair

The hair care industry nets billions and billions of dollars globally, and a large chunk of that money is from consumers who don’t even have hair. People will try anything to ward off baldness, from expensive transplants to drug treatments to massages or quack cures. In their desperation to keep their remaining hair or add […]

Reading year 2014: Doctor Strange Season 1 is not that strange.

What we’ve read since our last report in May: Between the Woods and the Water by Patrick Leigh Fermor – Reread the second volume of the record of Patrick Leigh Fermor’s epic walk from Germany to Turkey in 1933 before starting on the last volume. Beyond Paris – Translations of stories by 20th century French […]

She never wanted to believe

…even when she was kidnapped by extraterrestrials. While watching the Scully video, this started playing in our head. We think of it as the Philippine Science High School anthem, not that “Crests and troughs of the sea of life that flows/Thy light our beacon be” crap. Speaking of science, here’s the trailer for The Imitation […]

We know nothing about Apolinario Mabini, whose 150th birthday it is today

Rigodon, an art installation by Leo Abaya showing the presidents of the Philippines as players on a chessboard. Now on view at the exhibition Triumph of Philippine Art on the third floor of Ayala Museum. Photo courtesy of the Ayala Museum. I wonder how Mabini feels about going down in history as “The Sublime Paralytic”, […]

Notes from the Uncool # 1

Mat advises you to find your feline soulmate

Hello, I am Mat and I am a rescue cat. My human rescued me from hunger and homelessness, and I rescued her from boredom and sameness. We have been together since 2001. When people see me they ask what breed I am. I may be part-tabby, but I’m not sure. I do know that if […]

The Norte screening at Alabang Town Center today, Sunday, has been cancelled.

The screening of Norte, Hangganan Ng Kasaysayan scheduled for today, 3pm at Alabang Town Center has been cancelled as electric service has not been restored in that area. (Walang koryente sa ATC.) The 3pm screening of Norte at Glorietta will go on as scheduled.

Scenes from the history of medicine

The Wellcome Library, London has made a thousand years of historical images relating to the history of medicine available free to the public. Images from Wellcome Library, London For news on works of art, music and literature in the public domain, visit The Public Domain Review.