I'm bossy.I won't deny it.But I think I have some good ideas and being bossy helps get my people to cooperate. ;-) And I'm cognizant most of the year that we will eventually be putting together a video to entertain the family at Christmas. So when there's any kind of reunion (like this one in Miami this year), I ...
Film
The Christmas Video
One of the gifts we give our family for Christmas each year is a movie. My daughter, Amy Kikita studied film for years and is brilliant when it comes to movie-making and film-editing. The process is neither quick nor easy. We spend hours, days, and weeks listening to music and looking at pictures and watching video footage of old home ...
The Ending to the Story
Kikita here. It all started with Adam and a random text message: "What's the name of the kid in The NeverEnding Story?" "Bastian," I replied automatically. "Why the nostalgia?" (Note: I didn't quite put it that way, but hey, I'm using poetic license here.) Adam was at the video store and he had seen the ...
Bilingual brain fart
I like to own movies that I know I'll watch over and over. We have quite the extensive video/dvd library. Seriously, how else could we play the Kevin Bacon Game?? ;-)And as you already know, I'm really easily entertained. So, I'm cruising through Target the other day and I found this dvd on sale:Disney does ...
Making it look easy
For the past few weeks, Amy Kikita and I have been meeting regularly to work on a video/slideshow. In this case, it was to honor my nephew, Rafa, who just turned 40. When you see the final project, you realize there's more art than science to cutting together a good film. It is sweet and poignant and cute and funny. The song she ...
Guilty pleasure
We saw the following movie trailer recently and it looked cute and pretty funny. After all, it's a Disney film and the trailer cracked me up...Seriously, I was totally laughing out loud and thinking okay, maybe we'll see the film. Or not. In fact, I wasn't really tempted, until I read a synopsis that included the following: "A ...
Bilbo? Quien es Bilbo?
The following post has been brought to you by the fabulous Kikita: Every year I go through the same thing. Every year it cracks me up. Every year I am reminded of what an Uber-geek I am when it comes to this Lord of the Rings stuff. Ever since we've been throwing these parties for Bilbo's (and Frodo's) birthday, we have to get a ...
Celebrating birthdays in Middle-earth
NOTE: If you know what I mean when I refer to Middle-earth, and you consider yourself a Tolkien uber-geek, then read on.... (If not, then come back in a few days when I will be posting a delicious recipe for a Cuban Pudín de Pan or Cuban bread pudding). ;-) You would think that for all the fuss we go through that it's a family ...
It’s better to give than… (whatever…)
Look at how generous I am. I am going to spare you the pain of sitting through an entire waste-of-time movie but which has one brilliant laugh-out-loud scene, which doesn't come anywhere near redeeming the entire thing, but that's not important right now. I'm a giver that way. =D Happy Friday! ...
Masquerade!
(Can you guess tonight's movie?) THE original suggestion was a simple one. PerHaps we can have AN end-of-summer barbecue for our residenT yOung thespians. They're here every Friday anyway. Maybe we can watch a Movie, too. Ah, but you know what can happen to the best laid plans OF mice and men... There was festive ...
