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Author Archives: aamontgomery
Birds a la Hitchcock, Ballanchine, and Boogaloo
On Wednesday I woke up and looked out our front door to find snow, ice, and swarms of birds (and I mean hundreds, not just a tweeting few) raucously flip-flapping as if they were reenacting a scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s … Continue reading
Posted in "Pets", Autobiographical, Backyard Nature, Books, Childhood, Courage, Freedom, Love, Screen, The Arts, Writing
Tagged Art house cinema, Birds, Boogaloo and Graham, Books of the Times, Downtown West, Dwight Garner, George Ballanchine, goshawks, Helen Macdonald, Live Action Short Films, Pet chickens, Robert Frost, The Academy Awards, The New York Times, The Oscars
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“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life . . . “
“It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity.” ~ Melody Beattie, The Language of Letting Go
I’d rather die standing than live on my knees . . .
“I am not afraid of retaliation. I have no kids, no wife, no car, no credit. It perhaps sounds pompous, but I prefer to die standing to living on my knees.” ~ Stephane “Charb” Charbonnier At the Paris office of Charlie … Continue reading
Posted in Courage, Freedom, Ideas, Op/Ed Thoughts
Tagged Charlie Hebdo, Je suis Charlie, Stephane Charbonnier
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Hello 2015: What to Watch, Eat, and Read, Right Now!
What to Watch. Ok. Stop everything you are doing and run out and see the Indian (as in Asian, not as in Native Americans) movie called “PK”. I’m gonna fully admit something here, but I have not had time to … Continue reading
Posted in Food, John Irving, Joy (Joie de General), Knoxville, Screen
Tagged Aamir Khan, Anushka Sharma, Australia, Dublin, Fresh to Order, Hello From the Gillespies, India, Knoxville, Monica McInerney, PK
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The Best (and Worst) Movies of a Disappointing Movie Year: 2014
When I was 5 years old in the final days of August 1963, we visited Daddy’s relatives who lived just outside Washington, DC, in Silver Spring, Maryland. My family was not politically aware: Daddy concerned himself with trying to make … Continue reading
Posted in Screen
Tagged A Walk Among the Tombstones, Belle, Best Movies of 2014, Beyond the Lights, Birdman, Boyhood, Chef, Chief Dan George, Chris Rock, Doctor Zhivago, Ellar Coltrane, Emma Stone, Ethan Hawke, Harvey, I Have a Dream, Jeremiah Johnson, Jimmy Stewart, Jon Manchip White, Liam Neeson, Linda Hamilton, M*A*S*H, march on Washington, Michael Keaton, Moonrise Kingdom, Ordinary People, Patricia Arquette, Queen Margot, Richard Linklater, Summer Magic, The Dancer Upstairs, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Sting, Top Five, Whiplash
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Words a Woman Needs: It Starts With Damn . . .
[On November 30, 2014, I wrote the following blogpost about how I grew up in a sheltered, no-cussing household, but found that, as I got older, I needed a few choice words to illustrate my life. Four years later I find … Continue reading
Knoxville’s Metro Pulse Weekly Silenced by Owner Scripps After 23 Years
I just heard the devastating news that Scripps has decided to pull the plug on Knoxville’s alternative weekly paper, the Metro Pulse, after the issue that hits the stands today. Since August 1991, the Metro Pulse has been this area’s … Continue reading
Knoxville, the Centeral of Our Universe
Yes, Knoxville is the centeral (south centeral, to be exact!) of our universe. And especially at the corner of Gay and Church Streets downtown. We Knoxvillians are gifted spellers as well . . .
Posted in Knoxville, Uncategorized
Tagged Church Street, detour signs, editing problems, Gay Street, Knoxville, misspellings, Seen downtown, Tennessee
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This Southern American Woman Says Aye!
As I have been reading in the New York Times and USAToday, the registered voters of Scotland who are 16 years of age and over are voting today on whether they want their independence from the British. Sean Connery, Alan Cumming, and … Continue reading
He Stopped Passing the Open Windows
When I was young and struggling to raise my son on a secretary’s meager pay while working on my degree, my friend Amy and I used to say to each other, “Keep passing those open windows.” This way of encouraging … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, John Irving, Joy (Joie de General), Op/Ed Thoughts, Screen, Tribute
Tagged Anna Kendrick, Ben Affleck, Billy Crystal, Captain, Dead Poets Society, Donald Justice, Garp, Glenn Close, Good Will Hunting, Jenny Fields, John Irving, John Keating, John Lithgow, Keep Passing the Open Windows, Matt Damon, O Captain, Robin Williams, Sean Maguire, The Hotel New Hampshire, The World According to Garp, USO, Walt Whitman, Whoopie Goldberg
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