Andy Warhol's "Time Capsules"

I have been collecting shot glasses since I was 14 years old. The first shot glass I bought was at the Little America near Green River, Wyoming. Last time I counted I had 70 shot glasses. I have saved letters, Christmas cards, and birthday cards. I saved my issues of the Bicentennial Times and issues of Time magazine that cover major events like the attacks of September 11. I have saved theater tickets and programs. I see in the Daily Telegraph that Andy Warhol was a big time pack rat. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/07/30/bawarhol130.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox
He collected objects in brown boxes. He called them his "Time Capsules" and he saw them as a conceptual work of art. The contents belong to the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and two of the capsules are traveling to Edinburgh, Scotland as part of a Warhol exhibit. So if someone is critcized for being a pack rat, he should just say that it is his "time capsule" and a "conceptual work of art"!

Film Streams opens in Omaha

This weekend Film Streams, Omaha's non profit cinema, opened at the Ruth Sokolof Theater in downtown Omaha. It is part of the ongoing renaissance of downtown. Such a theater is long overdue in the Omaha area. There is definitely a market for foreign, independent, and classic films in the Omaha area. http://www.filmstreams.org/filmstreams_home.html
Today I saw Kurosawa's classic Seven Samurai. This is the first time I have seen it and it is fantastic film. It is the story of peasants being terrorized by bandits and they hire samurai for defence. The movie reminded me of a western. In fact it was remade in America as The Magnificent Seven. Which is another movie I have not had the opportunity to see. My brother in law has the DVD and I should borrow it.