Martial Arts Memoir
Literary Calendar – Sun, 13 Jun 2010 PST
Among local literary events over the coming week (free unless otherwise indicated): Richard Morgan – Presents his book “Warrior Mind: Strategy and Philosophy from the Martial Arts.” Today, 12:30 p.m., Auntie’s Bookstore, 402 W. Main Ave. (509) 838-0206
Memoirs of the Fist
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Hero (Music from the Original Soundtrack) $6.80 Tan Dun straddles the very different worlds of concert music and film scores, winning admirers in both. He’s perhaps best known for his score to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which shares with Hero a visual poetry that transcends the sword-filled action film genre. In Crouching Tiger, Tan Dun’s music was often striking. In Hero he often lapses into repetition and cliché, a failing compensated f… |
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Memoirs of a Ninja: The World’s First Martial Arts Musical Comedy $15.99 Has Political Correctness ever driven you so mad that you grabbed a gigantic foam rubber mallet and started pounding heads? Or have you ever gotten tired of all the assumptions that people make of you, based on the color of your skin, the shape of your eyes, or the size of your nose? And when was the last time that you’d been driven so insane by politics, posturing, pretentiousness, and pinheade… |