hello friends.
i hope your holiday seasons were joyous and rejuvinating.
i love this time of year because of the opportunities i have
to see friends i don't see often enough
and to tell family members how dear they are to me
and to eat like a royal pig.
as this season wraps up, i realize there are a few
of you out there that i haven't seen in a while.
and, now that i think of it, there are some of you i've never met.
whaddya say we check out the planet butter
and catch up on old news or start a new conversation?

this thursday the funky Planet Butter
will be playing at the zoo bar.
i figure i'll get there about 9:30 or 10:00.
hope to see you then...

:: shakespeare in film ::

my friend stephen buhler recently had a book published!!!
i can personally attest that steve's vast knowledge for the subject is only
surpassed by his passion. if you like shakespeare OR movies,
this will be informative, enlightening and entertaining...

Stephen M. Buhler, *Shakespeare in the Cinema: Ocular Proof*,
A comprehensive look at how film makers have adapted Shakespeare's plays.
As the back cover blurb says, "The book spans more than a century of film,
starting with the 1899 *King John* and extending through Michael Hoffman's
*A Midsummer Night's Dream*, Julie Taymor's *Titus*, and later releases."
Along the way, it explores the work of actors, directors, and
screenwriters such as Sarah Bernhardt, Kenneth Branagh, Helena Bonham
Carter, Laurence Fishburne, John Gielgud, Baz Luhrmann, Ian McKellen,
Trevor Nunn, Laurence Olivier, Al Pacino, Mary Pickford, Roman Polanski,
Molly Ringwald, Tom Stoppard, Orson Welles, and Franco Zeffirelli.

I think you can get copies at Barnes & Noble and other good bookstores around town.
Published by State University of New York Press (copyright 2002). With 10 full-page
black and white illustrations. Paperback price, $19.95.

peace
-m@

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by
the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-Mark Twain