Epinions Recent Reviews for moderngypsy

Low-Key, Wednesday, and the Technology Gods

Tue, 30 Jul 2002 18:03:00 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author moderngypsy - My favorite line from American Gods is in the first few chapters of the book. Coming from an unnamed supposed-Deity in the back of a limousine, looking like a teenager with a Chee-toes addiction, the whole anti-position of the book is summed up...

Bad Alchemy

Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:19:48 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author moderngypsy - The Magic Land (designing your own enchanted garden)

Julie Moir Messervy

1998, Macmillan press

150 pp, hardcover

From the author's bio at the back of this little book, it seems that Messervy is a garden designer in her...

Creating a Home for the Soul

Tue, 10 Jul 2001 01:17:01 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author moderngypsy - A lot has been said in recent years about the ancient art of feng shui. According to those principles, where you put your stuff affects in what areas of your life you have harmony (or trouble, if you put the wrong stuff in the wrong spot). It's the new...

Retro Revamp: Funky Projects, from Handbags to Housewares: Retro? Maybe. Revamp? Cool.

Tue, 10 Jul 2001 00:58:39 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author moderngypsy - I probably should have known by the incredibly irridescent packaging that this book wouldn't necessarily be my cup of tea. As one who's into a little bit of understatement here and there in decorating as well as art, blue and aqua irridescent covers...

How To Grow Just About Anything

Tue, 10 Jul 2001 00:23:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author moderngypsy - Talk about comprehensive! When we bought this house a year ago, i was both delighted and petrified. There are flowerbeds and gardens all over the front, sides, and back of this quarter acre, and although I love gardening in theory, my thumb is pretty...

A New Reason for Gypsies at Starbucks

Mon, 9 Jul 2001 23:54:35 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author moderngypsy - Everybody's heard of tea leaf reading. It's sort of a divination cliche, really. The old woman, the crystal ball, the tea leaves...

With this book comes something new and different -- reading the grounds in the bottom of your morning coffee in...

White Trash Just LOVE Olivia Newton-John

Mon, 9 Jul 2001 19:26:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author moderngypsy - For a long time in the early '90's, Lisa Carver wrote a zine (a homemade, hand produced magazine) called "Rollerderby" that won her a lot of admiration for her frank, funny discussions of everything from fashion mavens to politics. The style she...

Need Some Iron? How about Cheese?

Mon, 9 Jul 2001 19:04:43 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author moderngypsy - If you just aren't getting your RDA in soppy sentimentalism, or your favorite soap opera is on hiatus, don't despair! You can just pick up this book for a few hours and you'll have your fill of cheese. Set amid the wilds and plains of Nebraska, this...

D-I-V-O-R-C-E

Mon, 9 Jul 2001 18:47:57 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author moderngypsy - There were times, while reading this book, that I had to put it down and walk away. Not because of any fault of the author or the work, but because it was so accurate, so right -on- with the emotions experienced during a painful divorce that it dredged...

Save Your Dimes

Mon, 9 Jul 2001 18:33:34 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author moderngypsy - There's a certain sense of irony about Decorating on a Dime. Subtitled "the trade secrets from a style maker", this teeny-tiny volume (about seven inches square, and only 86 pages long) will set you back around a hundred and fifty of those dimes,...

An Artist's City Garden

Sun, 8 Jul 2001 19:56:27 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author moderngypsy - Most garden books are polarities: they're either packed with information and technical information, or they're artsy and informationless, inspirational but without content. A Growing Gardener is one of the few I've come across that's both, which...

Give Some To The Parrot

Sat, 7 Jul 2001 15:50:21 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author moderngypsy - If there's one thing that Joe Coomer does very well, it's capturing in words the strange, unresolved futility of life and the absolute absurdity of it simultaneously. Like Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God, one of his previous works, The...

Mary Believes in Birth Control

Sat, 7 Jul 2001 12:41:55 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author moderngypsy - THE VISITATION

by Sue Reidy,

2000, Scribner Paperback Editions

Theresa and Catherine Flynn are your stereotypical Catholic schoolgirls, in plaid skirts and pigtails, oppressed by nuns who describe Hell in vivid detail every time they...

Bombs, Stars, and a Big Desert

Sat, 2 Jun 2001 11:56:09 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author moderngypsy - DESERT BLUE

Rated R, Columbia Tristar, 1999

90 minutes

Morgan J Freeman, director

INTRODUCTION:

I can't put my finger on exactly why I like this film so much. It's ending was predictable from about half-way through, the...

Slices of Pizza ... and Life

Fri, 1 Jun 2001 21:45:13 GMT
rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author moderngypsy - HEAVY,

1995, Columbia Tristar

104 minutes

James Mangold, director

INTRODUCTION

As Shakespeare was fond of saying...O, the frail drama of being human! This Cannes award-winning film seems to be trying to illustrate this,...

Boy Movie in a Dress

Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:21:34 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author moderngypsy - INTRODUCTION:

I haven't read the novel that this movie was based on. And, from what I understand, this is a good thing -- if I had, I would have been disappointed, since the movie only has brief glimmers of the genius that was the novel. (Which is...

Can't Buy Me Souls

Fri, 1 Jun 2001 13:58:16 GMT
rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author moderngypsy - (WARNING: I'm planning on telling pretty much the whole plot in this review. If you have any urge to spend three bucks of your hard-earned money on this video, I'd suggest reading another review first.)

It's a funny thing about comedies:...

Believe That This Is A Great Book

Sun, 29 Apr 2001 22:27:34 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author moderngypsy - AS SEEN ON OPRAH

But don't let that dissuade you. The newest version of this book is the softcover version, put out recently to follow-up on the "overnight success" of House Of Belief after its author, Kelee Katillac (no kidding), appeared...

Fabulous Found Objects

Wed, 18 Apr 2001 21:17:32 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author moderngypsy - THE MUSEUM AT PURGATORY

Nick Bantock has consistently offered works that are intended to delight and inspire, and The Museum At Purgatory is no different. Filled with amazing illustrations, collage, and photography, this book is one...

I Was An Underwhelmed Reader

Fri, 13 Apr 2001 23:22:30 GMT
rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author moderngypsy - I WAS A TEENAGE FAIRY

Francesca Lia Block's been given a lot of good press in recent years. Her "Weetzie Bat" series is recommended very highly by groups looking to snag young readers from the clutches of the Playstation, and I have to admit --...

Crouching on DVD: A First Look **updated***

Fri, 13 Apr 2001 22:46:14 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author moderngypsy - A FIRST LOOK:

Some of you reading this might know that we own a video store. And as such, I get to have the "first look" at a lot of the upcoming DVDs and video releases that the general public may not have a chance to see for several months. I...

Technicolor Storytelling

Sat, 27 Jan 2001 17:17:48 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author moderngypsy - Something Real

"What I recall clearly about the first true painting I ever did was the feeling that night that something real was happening," says Natalie Goldberg in the preface of her newest book, _Living Color: a writer paints her world_...

Archived Web Services Reviews: Sito.org: Where Art Goes To Play

Sat, 6 Jan 2001 21:29:05 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author moderngypsy - If you're into art and collaboration, look no further! This is the site for you.

Sito.org, begun by Ed Stasny way back in the days that the web was new, is a playground for artists and those strange enough to love messing things up. There...

From the Armchairs of Babylon

Sat, 6 Jan 2001 20:59:46 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author moderngypsy - I wish I had more time to travel. Unlike my monniker (modern gypsy), I'm pretty much a stay-at-home, daytrip-a-lot kind of chickadee.

That doesn't mean I don't have a lust for it, and I have to say, Conde Nast Traveler magazine gives...

Just Say No! (or yes.)

Sat, 6 Jan 2001 20:33:26 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author moderngypsy - What IS it about these little games?

They're simple, quick to learn but slow to master, and they're more addictive than two-dollar crack. From the first time you download and install Snood (which is multiplatform, to spread the addiction...