September 22, 2008

Well... at least it's a good ad for Hawaiian Tropic!
There’s a fitting epitaph for just about every war (and just about every war movie) “It seemed like a good idea at the time!” Tropic Thunder is perhaps best described as the coming together of a great number of very good ideas… that, once together, all of sudden didn’t appear that good.
     Basically Tropic Thunder is a comedy about a bunch of overrated and overpaid Hollywood actors making a film about the Vietnam War. It may have been the right idea but they picked the wrong war. Two of t...
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May 30, 2010

Crystal balls are cheap; good advice will cost a little more
   “My suggestion is that people should move to Asia; and teach their kids how to speak Chinese,” says Jim Rogers, the man who made his name, and fortune, betting against Wall Street in the 1970s. In 2007 he took his own advice, moved out of Manhattan and set up shop in Singapore, where both his kids are learning to speak Chinese.
    The author of several bestselling books, including A Bull in China, Rogers remains bullish about China and, as he says, “countries that are going to benefit from the rise of Asia, such as Australia.” I recently met with JIM ROGERS at his home in Singapore.
    It’s 29 degrees Celsiu...
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April 24, 2010

Q: The Music
What if music as we know it was to cease to exist? Composition, arrangement, the harmonies, the melodies, the phrasing, the timing… all gone. What if it all vanished and, from nothing, we had to start again? How could we possibly rebuild music? Where could we start and who would we start with?
     We could start with Quincy Jones. And from his lifetime of work, his collaborations, his compositions, his arrangements and productions, you could make it all again.
     It may not be the complete world of music that we know today but from the heart and soul of Quincy Jones we could make a world of mus...
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