Clint Eastwood, Culture and Sleep

Culture Culture Culture....

For those of you who like to read, and like to listen, the BBC world book club....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/world_book_club.shtml


For those of you who work in Marketing, a piece about TV advertising....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7453357.stm


For those of you who enjoy cinema, an interview with Clint Eastwood, a filmmaker who has quietly gone about building a body of work that would rival most of the, far more acclaimed, cinema masters...

http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,2283921,00.html

TobytheTeacher's entirely unscientific list of five Clint Eastwood movies you should all sell your last Tic Tac to see:

The Outlaw Josey Wales

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/outlaw_josey_wales/

Unforgiven

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1041911-unforgiven/

Million Dollar Baby

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/million_dollar_baby/

Letters from Iwo Jima*

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/letters_from_iwo_jima/

*though I would watch 'Flags of our Fathers' first. The contrast between the two is interesting.

Heartbreak Ridge

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/heartbreak_ridge/

Always bold, always telling it straight, and more often than not, funny, Clint Eastwood movies rank amoung some of the most important and entertaining American movies ever made.


And finally, a poem that I wrote back in April. It's written in a form I came up with and was playing around with. The form is called 'name form', details are as follows....

The form describes a concept or object. The first letter of each line spells the concept / object in question. The last word of each line rhymes with the concept / object in question. Each line has the same number of syllables as the concept / object in question has letters.

Each line is a description / metaphor of the concept / object in question.

The final line of the poem is a stand alone line that consists of only one word, the word in question (this is the only time in the poem the word in question can be used).

The word in question also forms the title of the poem. Thus,

‘Sleep’

Sunday morning streets
Leaves that bed down deep
Elephants heaped
Effortless moon-leaps
Pressure off my feet

Sleep


TobytheTeacher