tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17335205572858649882024-03-12T18:51:04.783-04:00Hard News, Good Views, Sweet TunesDave Theisen dishes it outDAVE THEISENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08349930439086579778noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1733520557285864988.post-37615880717452237512010-02-19T11:45:00.002-05:002010-02-19T11:49:45.998-05:00Good Views: Latest Chic Flick PickBefore Love, Loss, and What I Wore began, the intimacy of the theater let the audience know this was going to be a deeply personal play. Five chairs lined the edge of the stage, and each chair was partnered with a music stand. To the left of the chairs stood a coat rack, which was baron save for a few coat hangers.The chairs soon became occupied by reputable names in television, Broadway, and theDAVE THEISENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08349930439086579778noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1733520557285864988.post-34464268694233705592010-01-06T21:40:00.002-05:002010-01-06T22:12:31.214-05:00Good Views: Don't Believe The Critics, Everybody's Fine!Normally I would be the first to call out a worn out family values film full of cliches and predictable scenarios, which is just what critics did to Kirk Jones' holiday family tearjerker. "Everybody's Fine" goes beyond the traditional family reunion movie, mostly thanks to Robert De Niro's memorable performance as Frank Goode, a widowed father of four. His children, played by Drew Barrymore, KateDAVE THEISENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08349930439086579778noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1733520557285864988.post-91807439847163439082010-01-05T21:54:00.007-05:002010-01-06T15:49:53.957-05:00Hard News: The Best Christmas Present Of All Was The One That Wasn't ReceivedLess than two weeks after the failed terrorist attack, a multitude of concerned citizens remain unaware of the causes and effects of this potentially deadly incident. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab boarded the Detroit bound airliner on Christmas Day, December 25th, with an assigned mission from al-Qaeda to detinate an explosive hidden in his underwear. The explosive device was not detonated properly, DAVE THEISENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08349930439086579778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1733520557285864988.post-90753609966750515882010-01-04T21:29:00.003-05:002010-01-04T22:14:02.606-05:00Sweet Tunes: Something Old, Something True, Something Down and Dirty BlueStill think Rock and Roll began with Elvis Presley? It's time for some re-education on the origins of modern music. To truly explain these roots, I'm going to have to take you back to the early decades of the twentieth century, when a slide wasn't something you found on a playground and blues was deeper and blacker than a white kid with long hair from the 70s bending strings on a guitar.I'm DAVE THEISENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08349930439086579778noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1733520557285864988.post-67314126237562913862010-01-03T22:33:00.004-05:002010-01-03T23:40:49.360-05:00Good Views: Renting a Flick? Get Some Brick!Pressed to think of good movies from 2006? Chances are you missed a whole lot of them. Some of the most innovative films of the year challenged genres and set precedents, such as Del Toro's enchanted Pan's Labyrinth, the endearing Little Miss Sunshine, the witty and satirical Thank You For Smoking, and the magical, mystical tones of The Prestige and The Illusionist. Other films simply blew us DAVE THEISENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08349930439086579778noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1733520557285864988.post-16488934879419618242010-01-02T17:56:00.003-05:002010-01-04T14:52:20.901-05:00Hard News: Could Abortion Abort Health Care Progress?One of the key issues in the highly controversial Health Care Bill, which was approved by the Senate December 24th, 2009, and earlier that month by the House of Representatives, remains the abortion amendment. The House passed it, the Senate tabled it, and soon both must come to a compromise if any further progress will be made on the groundbreaking bill.
The amendment to the health care DAVE THEISENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08349930439086579778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1733520557285864988.post-9437916382459110252010-01-01T23:14:00.005-05:002010-01-02T01:03:41.235-05:002010To whom it may concern,As one of my several new years resolutions, I have vowed to keep a blog and update it daily. Despite getting a late start on my first entry, I plan on keeping this a fruitful project, providing non-biased insight and shedding light on current events. Readers can also look forward to movie and music reviews, weekly anecdotes and other mediocre publishings. So if you have DAVE THEISENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08349930439086579778noreply@blogger.com0