"We reach the end of the road and find out no one else can make us happy/ we've waged all the wars of drama and control/ we've sacrificed it all for wives, husbands, money, children, false religion/ that old line about gaining the world but losing your soul/ so it's always back to living with yourself or whoever it is living in your body/ grandpa said don't put the horse before the cart." Tom Russell - Four Chambered Heart

"If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken a lot better care of myself." Bobby Layne/Mickey Mantle

"If I can't picture it, I can't understand it." Albert Einstein

The movie "reviews" are just for my own page, and may contain spoilers. Note: Some of my ratings were given from memory in 2009–2010. My taste in films has changed considerably since 2009, and even more since last actually seeing those films, for which reason those ratings may not reflect my present taste. This is evident in many of my 5 star ratings: nowadays I find it almost impossible to give a movie full 5 stars upon seeing it the first time. Thus my 5 star films include many films that at one point have been very important to me, but which possibly would not impress me today. Of course this is to some extent a problem with all older ratings: I am not the same person I was say, three years ago. And yet I am. So let's keep those ratings in place until if I ever watch the films in question again –and feel differently enough of them to bother to change the ratings.