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Amnesty Week: February 12 - 16, 2018

1/30/2018

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Do you have late/overdue fees on your Basalt Regional Library account?
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If you do, then Amnesty Week is your opportunity to wipe the slate clean.  Yes, that's right, it's Valentines day, and you're forgiven....or rather, your late fees and overdue book fines are!  Better yet, pay your fines forward by bringing in what you owe, and we'll donate your fines to Food Bank of the Rockies and clear the fines off your account.



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Please Return Our Copy of Zardoz

1/24/2018

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      There are many important and essential items which populate the shelves of the library.  Some are so necessary to the operation of this institution that we could hardly open without them. Webster’s Dictionary, War and Peace, Tom Sawyer or The Bell Jar are irreplaceable parts of our collection. The 1974 film Zardoz is not one of these essential items.  Zardoz was due back a full three weeks ago and almost every time I wander by the Z section of our DVDs I wonder, will it ever return? There are only 6 other films in that section, Zoolander, Zoolander 2, Zombieland, Zulu, Zelarny and Zorba the Greek, its not like I wouldn't notice that someone had absconded with Zardoz. 

      Please bring our copy of Zardoz back.

      There are a few things about Zardoz which immediately stick out. Its a movie about Sean Connery where he isn't James Bond, someone like James Bond, or an immortal Scottish warrior. Whoever did the set and costume design for this film is either a genius or recovering from a concussion. Academy Award nominated director John Boorman doesn't do himself any favors either. Though he had only the year before directed the Citizen Kane of hillbilly boat rides, Deliverance, Zardoz is a 180 degree departure his previous work. Deliverance  left an indelible mark on American culture. Tens of thousands of river rafting trips have been ruined by John Boorman. 
      Zardoz lacks rednecks that want you to squeal for them (like a piggy) but it makes up for that in the first ten minutes by first introducing the film with a floating head, following that floating head up with a larger floating head that vomits firearms, and introducing Sean Connery with a pony tail in a red diaper. The story is something about bored immortals who lust for death and SPOILER ALERT have taught Sean to read the Wizard of Oz to maybe kill them? Your guess is as good as mine and I have seen this film like 3 times. 
      My real point here is that there is NO reason that you shouldnt have already returned Zardoz. Please bring Zardoz back. You watch this movie two times in a week, tops. If you did check Zardoz out I hope it was to study its set and costume design and ultimately turn these elements into a theme restaurant. Zardoz the restaurant would be amazing, wait staff dressed in diaphanous robes and red diapers, mirrors on everything and a huge stone head which vomits out your appetizer. Watch out Casa Bonita. 

-Matt Cleer


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"My Life as a Child" by Bob Child

1/18/2018

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    After my entire childhood of waking to a view of gentle meadows and scrub oak, aspen groves and dark timber rising up to ridgelines and snow-capped peaks, unblemished by signs of human activity, it’s only after reading “My Life as a Child” that I fully understand the depth of what led my grandparents, Bob and Tee, to this special place, how infused the landscape is in my sense of home, and how differently it all could have turned out were it not for their efforts, along with many others, to preserve a place for its inherent natural value.  

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Dream - Essential books and films for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

1/15/2018

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The Classics



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Is Lego Batman the Best Batman Movie?

1/10/2018

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​LEGO BATMAN IS THE BEST BATMAN MOVIE
      By far Lego Batman is the best entry in both the DC comics and Lego universes, bringing humor, sly commentary and bright flashy visuals to the character's franchise. Though you might think this is just a movie for kids, it is not. Lego Batman throws in enough Batman and DC comics jokes, subtle Easter eggs and little nods to the 80 years of Batman history that many of us have grown up with to be an incredibly entertaining and funny film. Lego Batman, a self-described ‘heavy metal rapping machine’ who ‘stays out all night wearing black and listening to angry music’ is someone that I personally identify with.  This is the best Batman movie probably since Tim Burton’s entries in the series, completely blowing away Batman v. Superman (which would have been better as a terse courtroom drama like Kramer v Kramer) and slam dunking on the neon monstrosity of a nightmare that is the Suicide Squad.

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