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Stitch Behind Stitch
Stitch, a blue furry troublemaking alien who became a Disney iconic character and a fan favorite to all since the 2000s. Now decades later, Stitch is coming back on the big screen in a Disney's live-action film. The story behind Lilo and Stitch is based on an idea behind the voice of Stitch: Chris Sanders. Chris has been the man, the myth, the voice, the magic behind Lilo and Stitch along with his colleague/co-director Dean DeBlois making a million dollar success and a huge Disney franchise.
By Gladys W. Muturi2 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Fugue for a Darkening Island" by Christopher Priest
As you know, I've been living in Nottingham for about six months now and as you also know, I am not sure I like it very much. So far, it has proven to be very small, not very city-like and a little slow for me, who is more adapted to being in Birmingham. It is February and I have been taken sick from work for mental health reasons (yes, it is that far into the gutter) and so, I decided to make myself feel a bit better by getting a library card and hanging around some books. No, the library in Nottingham is nothing compared to the one in Birmingham - but it is still something to get me out of my apartment. I brought home six new books and one of them was by Christopher Priest, writer of The Prestige (the book and the film are actually quite different).
By Annie Kapur2 years ago in Geeks
"A Thousand Dreadful Things"
Background and Context: Ah, here we are again. Yes, there are still many to come - I haven't even begun to check the notebooks I had at university where I scribbled down essay ideas. Here's some context you weren't aware of: I didn't just do this for Shakespeare, but for every one of my modules and the reason I did it is because I was scared of not being able to make up my mind when the time came to write it. A week or so before starting to write the essays, I would read and deduce what I wanted to do. This may have been a long while ago, but it has really been fun actually writing the stuff I never got to write at university. Yes, it takes a while and I work on some concurrently, but eventually it looks pretty good.
By Annie Kapur2 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Penguin Book of Elegy" ed. by Andrew Motion and Stephen Regan
At the time of writing this, I have had to take sick leave from work. Why? Well, of course it's going to be because of my mental health (have you seen my poetry? That's not the poetry of a mentally healthy person). Anyways, I needed some consolation poetry to soothe the brain and Penguin have a great anthology for that. Entitled The Penguin Anthology of Elegy, this book goes through years of thoughtful poems of death, mourning, loss and love from Catullus all the way down to Byron and beyond. If you ever think that you too, would like to read some elegy, I would highly recommend this brilliant anthology. You can tell it has been carefully and meticulously compiled to include the very best the sub-genre has to offer.
By Annie Kapur2 years ago in Geeks
The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and the Damned, published in 1922, was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s second novel and is considered one of his finest explorations of the Jazz Age’s indulgence and decadence. Following the success of his debut novel This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald was under considerable pressure to deliver a compelling follow-up. His first book had established him as a notable new voice in American literature, and he hoped The Beautiful and the Damned would solidify his position.
By Annie Kapur2 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "This is Why You Dream" by Rahul Jandial
I had absolutely no intention of reading this book seeing as I was already well read in the department of dream theory and thought it was a load of tripe. I don't think though I have ever been happier to be proven wrong. There's a lot of contention about what dreams 'mean' and I don't think I have ever thought something was more rubbish than that Freudian stuff everyone's always going on about. Jandial though, takes a different approach. Instead of prescribing meaning to your dreams, he instead tells you why you are actually dreaming at all. Instead of Freudian psychology, he looks at neuroscience. This book is a wonderful companion to Matthew Walker's phenomenal Why We Sleep.
By Annie Kapur2 years ago in Geeks
"Radical Tragedy" by Jonathan Dollimore
Background and Context: Radical Tragedy by Jonathan Dollimore is one of the best books I read whilst on my undergraduate. I first read it in my second year and used it in multiple essays, read it cover to cover and honestly, I recommend it to anyone interested in tragedy, Shakespeare and those who wrote plays at the same time as him. So you can now tell there is a good range of plays, even outside of Shakespeare himself.
By Annie Kapur2 years ago in Geeks
