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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1168 Registered: 05-2005 |
I know most of y'all don't like U2, but this is very cool and clever. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VskbxuehP 3I | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 310 Registered: 08-2006 |
Holy cow, what were the licensing costs on that thing? | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1500 Registered: 03-2006 |
The Sopranos, Season 6, dubbed in Spanish. Not by choice - guess it's time to get up from the laptop and find something to watch. Actually, I think it might enhance Paulie Walnuts' character, though. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1175 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rob, I read somewhere that all the artists gave permission pretty quickly once Sinatra and Presley's estates were on board. It didn't mention the cost. I'm there was a cost though... but maybe some of them did it for the exposure being in a U2 video would bring? | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1204 Registered: 04-2005 |
Not sure I get the point of that video. Their acknowledgment that we're sick of looking at the four of them? Or just following the rule that if there's not much of a song there, make a video that people will watch repeatedly to make up for it? | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 2 Registered: 01-2007 |
Waking the Dead-great british drama | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1181 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yeah, it's not much of a song Kurt; but, as you pointed out, one that's far more noticeable because of the video. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1503 Registered: 03-2006 |
I thought that was a f-ing hoot. Loadsa fun to watch and strangely poignant. I'd love to watch a real time compilation of all the videos in full. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 167 Registered: 09-2006 |
"Superman Returns"...the affectionate references to the first film were nice...the way the new actor is encouraged to act and sound as much like Christopher Reeve as possible bugged me at first, but by the last line, where he looks and sounds SO much like Reeve it almost seems there's some digital fiddling going on it's actually sorta moving...a nice little tribute. Otherwise I thought it was basically OK, nothing to die for. | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 91 Registered: 05-2005 |
UK hospital drama 'Bodies'. Being shown here in Aus on ABC over the summer. An excellent series. Great characters - and incredibly realistic looking medical procedures (you have to look away for some scenes). Makes ER look like a sunday school picnic. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 168 Registered: 09-2006 |
Gosh, a first for me: a thread I began not only ran to over 150 posts but spawned a second volume...I...I've got something in my eye, excuse me... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1226 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mark Bodies is great isn't it!? It depressed me one of the last episodes in the new series, my wife woke me the next day I looked like glum from glumchester, not good to watch if you get down easliy! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 179 Registered: 09-2006 |
A childhood favorite: "The Andromeda Strain." a.k.a. Michael Crichton's first blip on the pop culture grid. Even today it holds up very well indeed on atmosphere and storytelling alone. The often wooden acting doesn't detract a bit because it's beside the point - Chrichton's never written an actual character in his life. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1516 Registered: 03-2006 |
Nope, and that record remains intact. I just read his latest info-thriller, about genetic engineering and its discontents, called "Next". Great, but nothing like a real character to be found. I think my favorite film of one of his novels was "The Great Train Robbery" with Sean Connery and the luscious Lesley-Anne Down. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 180 Registered: 09-2006 |
Yah yah, dat vas a qvite good vun, agreed...and then there was "Westworld," ..the preview played incessantly on TV as I recall, and my friends and I were all hot to see it - the clincher being the bit where we see James Brolin (or maybe Richard Benjamin) lying back in bed watching the animatronic hooker undo her bra from the back... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 189 Registered: 09-2006 |
Saturday Night Live, complete first season. I couldn't even make it through one minute of Janis Ian singing "At Seventeen," before I'm fast forwarding...2, 3, 5, 10, 20 times faster, and still it feels like hours are passing, stars are dying before she gets to the end of the song. I do want to commend her for keeping to her vow of never smiling until "all the coldhearted are locked away." When Paul Simon went down to the crossroads to get his talent he took the deal where his payment was to never find a haircut that works for him. He does a brilliant, spot-on imitation of a sports star being interviewed for TV, though... It's really fun so far...the Richard Pryor episode's up next. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1207 Registered: 05-2005 |
LOL at the haircut line Allen! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 988 Registered: 03-2005 |
All the X Ray Spex clips on YouTube. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1547 Registered: 03-2006 |
I have that set, Allen, and have wildly enjoyed what I've seen. Unfortunately, I don't have the discipline or sense of organization to plow through the whole thing systematically... I was delighted to see a younger Loudie perform on it, in what, the 2nd or 3rd ep. I've never been fortunate enough to see him live (you mentioned you have, right), but it looks like his Tourette's sufferer performance style was in place even back then. Excellent, sardonic song, too. Probably the last season that show was actually funny... I did manage to see "Children of Men". Beautifully executed, but quite disturbing - definitely not for the squeamish. I'm not typically bothered by screen violence and gore, but man oh man - I felt like I needed a lie down and a blankie after that one. Also saw "The Queen" (forced under duress by the girlfriend) - I must say, I don't get it, why people think it was a great movie. All I came away with was the the Royal Family are a bunch of overprivileged, cold and unfeeling, stuffed shirts. Nothing really inspired much pathos - I felt more sorry for Diana than anybody else at the end of it. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 190 Registered: 09-2006 |
I got it from the library, and may not make it through the whole thing either, though the nostalgia factor's keeping me going strong right now. I'm also fastforwarding through all the Muppet sketches (dirty Muppets - interesting idea in theory, rather nauseating in execution) It's also funny that the second musical guest on the Loudon show was ABBA. Totally impossible of course, but I would've loved to see them jam. Agnetha was ravishingly beautiful I thought, and that little white catsuit she was wearing was beyond my powers to objectively describe... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 193 Registered: 09-2006 |
Emerging from my cave, blinking in the sunlight...had no intention of doing it, but it felt right, so I just kept plowing through the SNL box set, and just finished it a little while ago. Not one episode is funny all the way through, but only three (Raquel Welch, Dyan Cannon, and the "notorious" Louise Lasser episode, which is more dull than anything else) just lie there like dead fish. See the miraculous spectacle of Chevy Chase actually being funny for minutes at a time, reminding you why anyone thought he once had promise. Then see him spoil it again and again with a smarmy fratboy grin that reminds you why it was karmically just that the rest of his career was a trainwreck. Other highlights: The Patti Smith Group ripping up the studio doing "Gloria" and "My Generation" to wild cheers. The Richard Pryor episode, by far the most consistent, with Pryor at his peak and music by the great Gil Scott-Heron. Jane Curtin (who I thought back then was the weak link), a fine comedic actor indeed. One online review says it well: "25 hours of great zeitgeist." LK, I'd agree it didn't take too long for their fade to begin, though I still think they had some juice in them: I'm keen to check out Season 2, which had the arrival and ascendance of Bill Murray and the first Steve Martin appearances, to name two... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1219 Registered: 05-2005 |
Watched The Last Seduction on DVD on Sunday night. I'd forgotten so much of it as I hadn't seen it since its cinema release in 1993/4. Great film. Last night I watched the three commentaries on the Arrested Development series 3 DVD set. Only on the third one were the comments really funny. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1553 Registered: 03-2006 |
Allen, I was indulging a bit of hyperbole, out of frustration with how awful the ep from the latest season I'd recently viewed was. Abysmal, completely laugh-free...Of course, SNL had its moments (Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy and if you wanted to be less stringent, Tina Fey)after that first, halcyon season, but none that none that resonated the same way, none that meant as much... I haven't made my way through all of the set, but I have to say I admire your fortitude in plowing through most of it. You sir, are some kinda ironman of the couch! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 198 Registered: 09-2006 |
I definitely know what you mean by that resonance...it's a big part of what made getting through the set surprizingly easy. For me (perhaps because back in the 70s I didn't start watching it regularly until halfway through the first season) that feeling continued through Season 2 - there were a number of great sketches I thought were going to be in the first season box but it turns out they came later. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 997 Registered: 03-2005 |
I don't think I saw the first season at all. When did Gilda Radner come in? It was her Candy Slice skits that I always loved the best. And I never ever saw Chevy Chase do anything remotely funny. It doesn't help that he always reminded me of Paul Simon. What I remember is that you could safely switch the TV off after the first half hour because there would not be another funny moment after that (but you might have to keep it on for a music performance). | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1255 Registered: 05-2005 |
Loose Change. Its the docu about 9/11. It reckons a Government cover-up. I am only part way through it. Its scary, much more frightening than Texas Chainsaw massacre ever was! Or wasn't!! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 201 Registered: 09-2006 |
Gilda was there from the beginning...Candy Slice wasn't in Season 1, so I'm guessing it was in the second - the third at the very latest. | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 93 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hmmm - I saw Loose Change recently and I reckon it is a load of old tommy rot. Reminded me a bit of that doco from a few years back about the whole US Apollo program being a giant US govt/NASA conspiracy with all the moon landings being faked. George Monbiot does a neat job at skewering Loose Change and associated conspiracy theories in this recent article in The Guardian: 2007519%2C00.html,http://film.guardian.c o.uk/features/featurepages/0,,2007519,00 .html | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1233 Registered: 05-2005 |
That Apollo program doco was hilarious though Mark. I saw it on SBS in 2003 and only realised the date halfway through - April 1! If anyone knows where to get that on DVD or video please let me know. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1256 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mark, I know what you mean, but with this docu, I'm not so sure. I decided not to focus on anything to do with politics and so on on this board, a few months ago, as I don't feel its the place to debate this stuff, but as one of the many faceless millions around the world, what I have typed up below, is the reason I felt committed to watch this docu. I've heard the Government(s) and media generated reasons, so I wanted to explore one of the many conspiracy theories for myself. I had dismissed and continue to dismiss many conspiracy theories (esp the Moon landings) as I believe they are generated by people obsessed with anarchy and their own self belief, that is often quite intolerable to listen to let alone believe in... We all know the story... that there were no WOMD in Iraq. Yet Bush led the US followed by Blair and the UK to invade Iraq (at the same time he demanded the death of terrorism and Bin Laden as a direct result of 9/11). As there were no WOMD to be found, the excuse for the invasion had a new focus, to topple Hussein. Why? For the sake of the Iraq people? The US didn't feel so strongly about many other dictator's and corrupt Governments who had comitted mass genocide and threatened their own people and World peace, so why now and why Hussein. Oil. At this point in tme, right now, the whole World including the US people and the US House of Representatives, knows full well that the US is in Iraq for no potential terrorist reason at all, its to secure Oil flow and everything else to with the Bush vision. They invaded Iraq with the UK behind them, its mayhem out there, in my opinion, its on a downward spiral, I can't envisage a time, even though I live on with optimism, when Iraq will be at peace with itself. Bin Laden is out of the news, as the US Government is embarassed at never finding the guy (that's if they wanted to), even though he's the World's most wanted person! The war carries on with no truthful justification, and yet there are more blank cheques and US and UK troops on the way. Gotta go now, but what I have typed above, is a very, very, snmall part of why I wanted to watch the docu. PS Bring on Barack Obama , or Mrs Clinton, or even Big Bird!? | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1261 Registered: 05-2005 |
Oasis on The Brits Awards, Liam Gallagher's attempt as singing/chanting has hit an all time low, he sounded like a pub landlord, he was literally just shouting and could barely project or finish each line of the song, it was very very funny me and my wife were rolling on the floor with laughter, one of her friends siad Liam sounded like the Swedish chef from The Muppets. The singer from The Killers looks like he has lost it BIG time. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1608 Registered: 03-2006 |
"Infernal Affairs" - the original flick "The Departed" was based on. Damned good, but I still probably prefer "Departed", based on the mighty Jack's star power... "Music and Lyrics" - I was sort of dragged to this, but gotta admit, I enjoyed it thoroughly. Hugh Grant, say what you will, is a gifted comic actor, with a real flair for that classic, English self-deprecating wit. And Drew Barrymore's about as cute as it gets. The whole thing featured a lot of great takedowns of 80's pop, which if you lived through it, resonates particularly delightfully... | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 579 Registered: 08-2004 |
Project Catwalk - Man, that programme is bitching. Plane crash TV for a new generation. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1407 Registered: 05-2005 |
I need to watch The Departed again LK,there is so much going on you cannot absorb it all in one viewing. I watched it on Saturday night, not the best idea as I was knackered after 6 days solid of getting out of bed for work at 05:30am, and the kids were dodging about too so was getting distracted by them at times. Agree about Jacks performance, a masterpiece. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 223 Registered: 09-2006 |
The films of Ross McElwee, who's been documenting the life of his family, the South, and how those two entities intertwine in his courtly, unpretentious, deadpan hilarious way for more than 25 years now. "Time Indefinite," where he gets married and has a child amidst a series of devastating deaths is my favorite, though "Bright Leaves," where he faces down his ancestor's role in building the great North Carolina tobacco industry, comes close. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1618 Registered: 03-2006 |
Lost - finally, back after hiatus...not that that's helping puzzle out what the hell's going on. Also, a buncha cable news. Particularly, some of the news-related cable shows, particularly Keith Olbermann's Countdown. Anybody else this side of the Pond watch it? I'm addicted... I'm also completely horrified, yet fascinated by, the trainwreck that has been the trial over disposition of poor Anna Nicole's body. Randy, you out there? What's the deal with this crazy judge, Sheidlin? How can he get away with orchestrating such a circus? | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 226 Registered: 09-2006 |
Something on the Yahoo homepage struck me as funny when I checked my mail today. The top story was the Anna Nicole thing, with three little buttons you could click covering different aspects of the story. The title on the third button: "Too much media coverage?" I love when they do that...as if, were they to arrive at the answer of "yes" that it would change one iota the amount of coverage they give the next such story. Another, deliberately funny line, regarding the movie "Happy Feet": "Human beings have legs, so when they dance, the results can be joyous and exciting. Penguins don't have legs, so a penguin tap-dancing resembles a water balloon having a seizure." | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1025 Registered: 03-2005 |
LK, I confess that Anna Nicole goes right into the Princess Diana box for me. So I haven't been paying attention, other than to mentally note how people associated with her seemed to be dying all the time. I think I've mentioned before that I don't watch all that much TV. I don't have cable or satellite or Tivo. But I'm really bummed to find out that I missed the first part of another "Prime Suspect" with Helen Mirren. I thought I'd already seen the last episode made but I guess not. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1619 Registered: 03-2006 |
Reminds me, Randy. I'm curious - does activity in your area start to pick up as the Oscars loom? Bad traffic, more wanna be stars, hipsters and hangers-on in the street, etc.? The connection being Helen Mirren: if she doesn't win for Best Actress, it is indeed a big sham...Saw the movie, and though it was a bit like soap opera, telemovie for me, she really shined, really stood out. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1027 Registered: 03-2005 |
I got a total kick out of that movie. I thought it was the British "Mommie Dearest." Yeah, they've already blocked off a chunk of Hollywood Boulevard and it took me a bit of meandering through stores two days ago to figure out how to get to the Hollywood/Highland Red Line station thanks to all the barricades. I haven't noticed the ambient traffic level worsen yet though, which is surprising. Because I don't live off Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard I don't get the Oscars crowd at all. I just get the cigar-puffing Johnny Depp clone hipsters who attend a couple of the nearby haunts. And all the people who can't read the "Not a Through Street" signs at the entrance to my street. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 227 Registered: 09-2006 |
I believe the "Prime Suspect" finale series came out sometime last year - I don't know if that's what you're seeing or not...I haven't caught it yet but really want to, even though the last one I caught was years ago. The first thing I remember Mirren from was that piece of blah "2010," where in just a few scenes she made a huge impression on me. Enormously talented and staggeringly sexy. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 39 Registered: 10-2006 |
Ah now, the first thing most of us greyhairs will remember Mirren from is descending a staircase naked in Ken Russell's Savage Messiah...never seen the film since, but the scene had a profound effect on my 14-year old hormonal activity...I even wrote a song about it called, simply, "Helen's Body", which is, perhaps thankfully, all I can recall of the piece... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 228 Registered: 09-2006 |
Actually, right after I made that post I went and Googled Ms. Mirren and ran across numerous photos of that scene. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1620 Registered: 03-2006 |
Was not Ms.Mirren in "O Lucky Man!"? Allen, I know a rabid cinephile such as yourself has seen it. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1621 Registered: 03-2006 |
Was not Ms.Mirren in "O Lucky Man!"? Allen, I know a rabid cinephile such as yourself has seen it. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 229 Registered: 09-2006 |
Yes indeed she was...and now that I consult IMDB I discover that the first film I saw her in was actually that fine British gangster classic "The Long Good Friday," which also introduced Bob Hoskins to the larger world. Can't believe I'd forgotten that one, as she was so good as the voice of reason. La Mirren went full frontal on a number of memorable occasions...her debut was in a lesser film by the great Michael Powell, "Age of Consent" where she plays a nymphet muse who spends a lot of the film naked, driving James Mason to distraction. And then of course, a little more than 20 years later she quite proudly displayed her more mature body for nearly the entire length of "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover." | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1623 Registered: 03-2006 |
Was she nekkid in the Queen, too? Now THAT would be sumthin'... | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 580 Registered: 08-2004 |
Helen Mirren's your Lee Remick then, Stuart. The "real" Queen met model & uberslut Jordan today. I hope they both managed to keep their clothes on. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1624 Registered: 03-2006 |
Who's Jordan? Britain's answer to Britney, Paris, etc.? | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 230 Registered: 09-2006 |
Ever seen "The Long Good Friday," LK? If not, I think it'd be right up your alley...gritty, complex, tragic, all those wonderful mobster things. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 582 Registered: 08-2004 |
LK, she's more like Anna Nicole Smith, but without the looks or talent. A model/popstar/novellist/wannabe/reprobat e/party animal/stay out mother of a disabled child. A walking nightmare in other words. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1626 Registered: 03-2006 |
You got me pegged, AB. Yep - I own it. The Brits make some swell gangster flicks. Really loved "Sexy Beast", too... Even if Helen Mirren wasn't in it. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1030 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ok, everybody, Patti Smith doing "You Light Up My Life" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agl4IvNnQ Po | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 413 Registered: 08-2006 |
Oh. My. God. Black is white. Down is up. I need a drink. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1629 Registered: 03-2006 |
What? You couldn't find a clip of her doing "I've Never Been to Me"? Just like the word, "awesome", the word "surreal" is batted around way too much, but it definitely applies here... I was open-minded, but that was just...I dunno, two universes that never should meet. Kind of a creepy show: the guy with the perfect hair (cue Warren) really seems to enjoy the kiddies a little too much, and I spent half of it distracted by the nagging sense that Patti looked like somebody I couldn't quite put my finger on. Then I realized who it was: Billy Crystal. She is Billy with long hair. Thanks, Randy. I think... | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1632 Registered: 03-2006 |
Saw "A Good Year" last night, with Russell Crowe. It was more than decent. I guess with Russell and Ridley involved, no way it was going to be anything less. Not that I'm a huge fan, per se, but I don't think I've seen Russell ever be anything but great in a film. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 232 Registered: 09-2006 |
Cross-replying from the other thread, regarding ole Buford...I'm not sure what the correct pronunciation of his last name is (even his official website doesn't give a clue) because I never saw any of the movies (I like Joe Don Baker, though...in the right role he's an underrated character actor). I was extremely unfortunate to be trapped into viewing the remake with the Rock, though...(Homer Simpson shudder sound). | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 233 Registered: 09-2006 |
Oh, and I'm going to be starting in on "Weeds" Season One today. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 173 Registered: 01-2006 |
Didn't put on any music yet today but watched the Irish Rover by The Pogues & The Dubliners on YouTube, great stuff, hadn't seen it in ages... | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 416 Registered: 08-2006 |
I'm sorry, but there's a posted clip of PATTI SMITH DOING "YOU LIGHT UP MY F---ING LIFE" and we're discussing anything else? I'm sorry, but I'm having trouble moving ahead. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1635 Registered: 03-2006 |
Hard to go on after that, innit? It's like Bob DeNiro said in "Taxi Driver": "suck on that"...Her own songwriting is so light years beyond the level of that song, it makes you wonder what she saw in it, unless she was completely taking the piss...I'm still not sure she and Billy Crystal aren't the same person. Have they ever been seen in a room together? But anyways, go on I guess we must. I saw "Shut Up & Sing" this evening. It was excellent, and I recommend it highly to anyone interested in the saga the Dixie Chicks went through after Natalie Maines' much-censured comment about that genius, Dubya. It's strangely moving and they come across as decent, intelligent, real people... Ah, I'd better go help clean the kitchen before I get censured my own self... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 236 Registered: 09-2006 |
For some reason I can only get the clip to run for a few seconds before it freezes, which is perhaps for the best...I actually remember seeing that show a couple of times - it aired on Sunday morning, when we were so desperate to find anything on we'd even watch that...a show with a premise stated in the title but which, as I recall, insulted kids' intelligence at every turn. Finished "Weeds" a little while ago (not a huge accomplishment, as it's only 5 hours total). Once I made it through the pilot, which is fun but presents the characters as obnoxious "edgy" stereotypes one wouldn't want to spend five seconds with in real life, things deepened considerably, and it became a very funny, involving show. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 237 Registered: 09-2006 |
Oh, and speaking of good covers, here's a few: sho.com/site/weeds/music.do I like the McGarrigle version the best, though the Elvis C. one comes close. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 252 Registered: 09-2006 |
"Babel"... Just as in Alejandro Innaritu's previous movies ("Amores Perros" and "21 Grams") I thought there were some very nice touches and good intentions galore, but by the end I was pretty underwhelmed. To me, his themes, ironies and the dramatic connections he makes are just not half as deep as he seems to think they are. Also, Brad Pitt once more proves that he should be described in magazine profiles as a Screen Presence, not an actor. Every move he makes you can see his wheels turning. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1290 Registered: 05-2005 |
Frasier season 2. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 270 Registered: 09-2006 |
Going through a spate of that artsy foreign stuff I love: Robert Bresson's "Pickpocket" and "Au Hasard Balthazar" Chan-Wook Park's "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance" Mashahiro Shinoda's "Double Suicide" and "Samurai Spy" and Haskell Wexler's "Medium Cool" featuring a young Robert Forster. One of the first films that toyed big time with consciously blurring the line between documentary and fiction. The film's ending takes place during the riots at the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1968 - that footage, plus the film as a whole, do an amazing job of capturing the ominous, everything's-up-in-the-air mood of that time period. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 271 Registered: 09-2006 |
Re: the above post...I hasten to add that's not the same Robert Forster we know and love, but rather the actor who later made a comeback in "Jackie Brown." | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1310 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rude Boy - The Clash | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1668 Registered: 03-2006 |
Yeah Allen, I remember my disappointment at discovering that it wasn't going to be the singer from Brisbane starring in "Jackie Brown". Our Robert and Tarantino: the possibilities involved in that combination are awe-inspiring...Though it's admittedly hard to imagine Forster uttering the word "motherf-er"... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 272 Registered: 09-2006 |
Oh I dunno, I think he could make the word completely his own...people would be copying the way he pronounced it... | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 199 Registered: 05-2005 |
Heroes...send in the jetfighters! | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1670 Registered: 03-2006 |
"Stranger Than Fiction". Not a bad little flick, but I think I liked it better when it was called "The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", and before that, "Being John Malkovich"... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1259 Registered: 05-2005 |
Larry Sanders, season 1 (just now out on DVD in Oz). Brilliant. I think they could have done a better job on the transfer though. The picture quality is no better than from a video most of the time. Isn't there a DVD version of digital remastering? King Of The Hill, season 3 (out a while here but only now at a reasonable price. And you've got to buy in that reasonable price window. I wonder if Bill Gates, for instance, waits for the reasonable price window for his DVD purchases?). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1260 Registered: 05-2005 |
LK, well said on Stranger Than Fiction, Eternal Sunshine and BJM. There is a samey quality about them all. The soundtrack to STF is great though. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1677 Registered: 03-2006 |
Mostly Spoon, and the Spoon guy, eh? Yeah, I noticed and liked it. Also, I meant to mention the great use of the classic Wreckless Eric song... I, no surprise based on my other tastes, really love Larry Sanders. But alas, though they released Season 1 a few years ago, the rest have never materialized...wannhhh...are they all out in Oz, Padraig? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1265 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just season 1 so far LK. I saw it for the first time the other day and bought it immediately. The price was OK - $25 (about $18 US). | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 589 Registered: 08-2004 |
New York week on BBC 2 & 4. Some sublime live performances from Whistle Test etc, & a good documentary on the music boom in 70'/80's NY. Where inner city squalor created musical gold through Disco, Punk & Hip-Hop. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1683 Registered: 03-2006 |
"Notes On a Scandal"...brilliant...Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett are flawless - this joint is basically a master's class in acting...Cate Blanchett, hottie that she is, would be perfect to play Amanda Brown, in that fabled GBs movie. She's almost a dead ringer... Question for our UK counterparts, though: What are those wacky crown hats youse guys wear on Christmas day? I'd never seen that before this movie. Is it so you're all "King Christmas" for the day? | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 306 Registered: 09-2006 |
"Sunset Boulevard" - third or fourth viewing, not sure which. Billy Wilder at his most tragic, acidic and surreal. Rather amazing that in 1950 a film could be made concerning a moderately talented Hollywood screenwriter on the skids who becomes a literal live-in whore to an utterly demented, past-her-prime reclusive silent film star. Sordid, pathetic death results. The film star is played by actual former silent star Gloria Swanson. Cecil B. DeMille plays himself as a spineless, gladhanding asshole. Paramount Pictures, in a brave or crazy move, also plays itself. A great one. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1306 Registered: 05-2005 |
Must watch that again. It is a brilliant film. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1447 Registered: 05-2005 |
Channel hopping last night I caught the last 10 minutes of Weeds. Seemed ok, adult humour would sum it up I suppose. Anybody else seen this, is it worh tuning in again? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1075 Registered: 03-2005 |
Allen, that is a great one. It's one of the classic L.A. movies. We used to go driving around trying to find the house. Have you ever seen "The Loved One?" That's another absolutely classic L.A. movie, as true today as it was when it was made over 40 years ago. And with fabulously evil British humor. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 307 Registered: 09-2006 |
The making-of says that the house was near the corner of Wilshire and Irving, but it was demolished in 1957. There's a gas station there now. I did see "The Loved One," and remember enjoying it greatly, but it's been quite a few years. That was the one with Jonathan Winters and that insane woman who did nothing but eat, right? | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 309 Registered: 09-2006 |
Kevin, I watched the first season of "Weeds" and enjoyed it quite a bit. Like a decent cable comedy/drama, not Sopranos level, but worth the time. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1077 Registered: 03-2005 |
That's right Allen and you reminded me of that bit of trivia that I had forgotten. I work just a very short walk from the intersection of Wilshire and Irving. The area is all office buildings and condo blocks now. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1313 Registered: 05-2005 |
The BBC's cricket website as Ireland rack up the runs against Pakistan. We need 25 more for a historic win. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1315 Registered: 05-2005 |
We won. We won. WE WON! | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1718 Registered: 03-2006 |
"Zodiac". I unqualifiedly recommend it - just outstanding. Not really gory, as such, more one of those slow-build creepy things. Walking out of the theater after it, you feel as though your reality's been subtly altered and you're just the slightest bit skittish and jittery. You think, hmm, you know they never caught that guy... All in all, maybe not for the squeamish, but otherwise, incredibly absorbing and worthwhile... Also, the HBO series, "Rome", continues to astonish and delight...Sadly, it concludes next Sunday(pretty much forever - there'll be no more eps after this) ... I'm studiously avoiding history books to avoid having the ending spoiled for me...actually, that's not that big a problem... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 314 Registered: 09-2006 |
Definitely keen to see "Zodiac." Gosh, my library system's great. Stopped in there today and waiting for me on hold was "United 93," "Half Nelson,"When the Levees Broke," "Flushed Away" and Bertolucci's "1900" (with DeNiro and Depardieu). So I'm set for awhile... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1366 Registered: 05-2005 |
Entourage series 1. Bought it on Saturday and watched the whole lot over the weekend. Brilliant. Bought series 2 today. Off to watch an episode or two right now. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1807 Registered: 03-2006 |
The new Sopranos, last night. Anybody else see it? I thought it was excellent. I don't wanna get my hopes up, but they could have their mojo back. The first ep of the new Entourage season also premiered last night, and, it too was great, though their mojo never went away. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1405 Registered: 05-2005 |
Leathal Weapon 4. We watched the precious 3 over the last week, tremendous fun, Gibson was very good at his role in those films, butthrow away, but in a comfort blanket type of way. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 552 Registered: 01-2005 |
Season 2 of Twin Peaks on DVD. The sound and picture are great, but the bonus features pale in comparison to the Season 1 box on Artisan. Spence, I though Gibson in the 1980's had some great roles other besides Leathal Weapon. Gallipoli, The Year Of Living Dangerously, The Bounty, The River and even Tequila Sunrise. I never did see LW4, but I have 1-3 on DVD. Although I like some parts of Braveheart, the story was altered too much from the true life of William Wallace that it ruined it for me. I enjoyed Rob Roy a lot more than Braveheart. Too bad they were shooting at the same time as Liam would have made a much more convincing Wallace than Gibson did. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 554 Registered: 01-2005 |
LK, I watched the season opener of The Sopranos last night, and I concure with your grade of excellent. It was much better than every one of the episodes from last season, which I still haven't gotten on DVD and might never get. I love the lake scenes. Was that lake one of the finger lakes of upper New York state. It's pretty amazing when you look at a map of New York and see the finger lakes all lined up like the digits of a hand. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 612 Registered: 08-2004 |
Yeah, saw The Sopranos, good as ever. Even in the most peaceful of settings & among friends & family, violence is never far away. The wives are just as bad!!! | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1813 Registered: 03-2006 |
I got last season on DVD, but mainly out of completism...The lake scenes really were great and the tranquillity of the lake served as a great contrast to the extremely brutal goings on...I wasn't aware you could play Monopoly as a full-contact sport! How do youse guys think the series is going to end? Not to be too bloodthirsty or wish bad things on our Tone, but I think the only satisfying way will be for him to be behind bars or on a slab someplace...it is the fate of most of those guys...Bad stuff, too, should happen to many of the characters around him. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 555 Registered: 01-2005 |
LK, In the slammer with Johnny Sac! They won't get to share the same comfy room thought like Paulie, Henry and Johnny Dio did in Goodfellas! Here's an interesting bit about Hesh: Herman "Hesh" Rabkin, played by Jerry Adler, is an advisor and friend to Tony Soprano on the fictional HBO television series, The Sopranos. The character Hesh Rabkin may have been inspired by Morris "Mo" Levy, founder of Roulette Records, who had connections to the Mafia and owned a string of racehorses which he kept at his ranch in Ghent, New York. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1816 Registered: 03-2006 |
Huh. Maybe we should start a pool...Do you agree that it will be disappointing if everybody lives happily ever after? It'll seem too false. Yeah, I knew the Jewish Mafia character had some basis in real life. Godfather II had some Mo Levy-inspired stuff too, didn't it? I've read a couple of books on the Jewish mob and they were easily as tough as their Italian counterparts... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1376 Registered: 05-2005 |
In an episode in series 3 (I think) of The Sopranos Tony ribbed Hesh about robbing the copyright of some songs by black musicians. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 613 Registered: 08-2004 |
There was a whole episode devoted to the record industry. Where Hesh was challenged to an out of court settlement over unpaid royalties to a late artists family. There is a book all about the Jewish mob, the title escapes me. They were basically running the whole shebang from the off. It was more than just good PR that landed the Italians with the Cosa Nostra/Mafia handle & therefore the blame for just about everything. There's always going to be problems with "Billy Bats" running New York!!! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 557 Registered: 01-2005 |
More about Mo: Morris Levy ran the Roulette label from it's inception. He was born poor in the East Bronx, New York. He went into the nightclub business and eventually owned several big nightclubs in mid-town Manhattan. Levy was in business with disc jockey Alan Freed, and with Freed promoted the hugely successful Rock and Roll shows at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater. Levy's real money came from publishing copyrights that accumulated into a vast fortune over the years. It was hardly a secret that Levy had many "silent partners" in the Mafia underworld. Levy claimed he was being harassed by the government and had numerous run-ins with the law because of his association with the Genovese family, but he avoided serious prosecution for many years. Levy's luck ran out in May 1988 when he was convicted on extortion charges and drew a ten-year sentence, but he remained free on bail after an appeal, and died of cancer in 1990. The story of Morris Levy and Roulette Records is chronicled in the book Hit Men by Fredric Danner in the chapter titled "Lullaby of Gangland." As far as chart success, it was a long time coming for Roulette. Although they started issuing albums in 1957, it wasn't until 1961, after well over 200 albums had been issued, that Roulette had a charter with a Murray the K compilation. Although many of the 150 pop albums released to that point had been forgettable, there were a number of albums by very popular artists like Jimmie Rodgers, the Playmates, and Ronnie Hawkins that for some reason just didn't click. After the Murray the K disc, Roulette had a fair amount of chart success with compilations in the early 1960s, especially their Golden Goodies series. But it was the "second" twist craze in late 1961 that really put them on the charts big time. Joey Dee and the Starlighters' "Peppermint Twist" propelled the corresponding album to the #2 spot on the Billboard charts. It was also about this time that Roulette lured Dinah Washington and Sarah Vaughan away from Mercury, and Dinah's chart success before her untimely death at the end of 1963 helped make Roulette a common label on the Top 200. By the mid '60s, it was the likes of Tommy James and the Shondells that kept the label on the charts. The '70s saw the chart action wane, but by 1975, Levy saw the possibilities of marketing his huge catalog through television advertising, and started the Adam VIII label. The Adam VIII label, of course, was most notorious for issuing a controversial John Lennon album over which Lennon sued. By the 1980s, Roulette itself issued only a few reissue albums and rock and roll compilations, and later some poorly mastered compact discs. In 1989, as Levy was getting on in years and faced legal problems, he sold Roulette and his other label holdings to a Rhino-EMI partnership, and Rhino put out some high quality compact disc reissues. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1822 Registered: 03-2006 |
There was a Mo character in Godfather, too, that I thought was based on Bugsy Siegel, but maybe it was meant to allude to Mo Levy, as well. I saw a couple of excellent movies over the weekend, on HBO, I meant to mention here: "16 Blocks" - On the surface, maybe a little generic, but the acting by Bruce Willis and Mos Def, who frankly steals the show, elevate it beyond its pedestrian underpinnings. Great flick. Why don't the bad guys know that even though Bruce Willis looks old and tired, and is a drunk to boot, that they shouldn't mess with him, that it's only going to end in tears? Didn't they see the Die Hard movies? "Separate Lies" - written and directed by the guy who wrote "Gosford Park", whose name escapes me. A complete surprise - it was just extraordinary. It's about a married couple who get embroiled in a negligent homicide coverup, and has Rupert Everett and Emily Watson in it. One of the flicks I've seen in my life where it was impossible to guess what was going to happen next. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1381 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hit Men by Fredric Danner is a superb book; good spot Michael. Watching series 2 of the US version of The Office at the moment. I love it, I think it's the only US remake that comes close to matching the original. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1127 Registered: 03-2005 |
Great post Michael. It also reminds me what a crap label Roulette was. They did very little of real value. It's amazing that they lured Dinah Washington and Sarah Vaughn. And it reminds me of the cynical attitude at so many of the (usually NYC) record labels that the younger generation of musicians had to punch against, which explains the rise of regional companies like Chess, Sun and Motown. | ||
| Matthias Member Username: Matthias Post Number: 210 Registered: 05-2005 |
LK, I just got back from vacation in FLA and saw the premiere episode of the Sopranos. I think Christopher gets killed off this season. I think Tony goes to Jail. BTW, what is a reco case? After viewing, I think Bobby gets busted for his first kill. The guy grabbed his shirt (DNA) and he left the gun in the tunnel. Dumb dumb. A couple major players have got to kick the can. Will Furio return... | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1826 Registered: 03-2006 |
Matt, they're talking about RICO, which is an acronym for something like Racketeering-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations act...it's, in short, the crime of "racketeering" which I'm fuzzy on, but I think is basically committing two or more federal or state crimes from a designated list, within a certain time period. If you do so, it ups the sentence. I think crimes on the list include obvious stuff like murder and kidnapping, but extend to all kinds of fraud. I think it was basically developed to give the Feds a kind of catch-all tool in prosecuting mobsters. Where's our dang lawyer guy, Randy? Is that what it is, dude? Christopher could well be sleeping with the fishes before it's all over. Or, he may try to whack Tony - he has a host of reasons to be pissed at him. Which, the other characters might tell him, he's gonna have to go to the back of the line for, because T has a lot of people with beefs against him: Johnny Sack, Phil Leotardo, and sure, Furio. Wouldn't that be great if he came back, though I've given up on the Russian. I think, to be true to itself, the show can't have anything like a happy ending. It just wouldn't ring true or resonate. Though I have read that David Chase, the creator, is a contrary cuss and doesn't want to have any moralistic, "Hayes code" type punishment of Tony. At any rate, it should be very interesting and the highly excellent 1st ep was very promising, I thought. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1416 Registered: 05-2005 |
This on ebay! Kurt, jeff, how cool is this!!!!!!? http://cgi.ebay.com/1971-Fender-Jaguar-C ustom-Color-Maple-Neck-Black-Blocks_W0QQ itemZ220101757447QQihZ012QQcategoryZ1189 89QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem I bet the guy who owned this went on to play sessions for Dukes of Hazzard et al!!!!!! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1384 Registered: 05-2005 |
My take on how Sopranos will end, and I've been telling anyone who will listen since series 2, is that Tony will get whacked and Meadow will take over the family. Thus leaving the way open for a spin-off series. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 537 Registered: 08-2006 |
Finally saw "Casino Royale" last night. I know everyone chimed in about this a while back, but I was really impressed. Daniel Craig really has an air of menace about him, which is refreshing. It's the first Bond film I've completely enjoyed in forever. | ||
| Michelle M Member Username: Michelle Post Number: 38 Registered: 09-2004 |
I have never been able to watch a Bond movie through to the end. Obviously I have never paid the price of the cinema ticket for a Bond movie either. Yet I do like the look of Sean and Roger and Pierce. I don't know why I can't abide the tales. Maybe it is all the explosions or the use of women as attractive background scenery. However, because Rob says he was impressed and I do respect his opinion, I will take a chance on Daniel. I consider him to be the least attractive of the Bonds and I am including George here. I checked Wikipedia and apparently Fleming commissioned an image of James Bond to aid the Daily Express comic strip artists and the image was probably something akin to Daniel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond So, Rob, given your assessment I am certainly going to give this movie a viewing sometime soon. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 538 Registered: 08-2006 |
I'd recommend it, Michelle. It has some of the faults of the Bond genre generally - primarily, its male/female portrayals are antiquated - but it struck me as a bit more genuine on a lot of fronts. I'd be curious to know what you make of it. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 40 Registered: 01-2007 |
Life on Mars | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 560 Registered: 01-2005 |
I finished up watching all the Season 2 episodes of Twin Peaks over the weekend. Some of those episodes I hadn't seen since 1991 when they were first aired. I had bought all the season 1 and pilot episodes on VHS back in the day, but the season 2 VHS pre-recorded tapes picture quality was so bad I never picked them up. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1129 Registered: 03-2005 |
I just finished a YouTube video of Prefab Sprout's "When Love Breaks Down." I didn't realize they did that song. I like the jagged ambition of the "Swoon" songs better but it fits in well enough. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1832 Registered: 03-2006 |
Ep 2 of the new Sopranos - another great one. Glad they're keeping up their 2 episode streak. Bonus pts. for using John Cooper Clarke's great "Evidently Chickentown". | ||
| Matthias Member Username: Matthias Post Number: 211 Registered: 05-2005 |
Will Tony snap a kill Christopher? Or will it be Phil Leoretardo who exacts cousin for cousin revenge? The N.Y. family is even more disfunctional than N.J. And who will finally silence Paulie? Stay tuned... | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1835 Registered: 03-2006 |
It looked to me as though they were setting something up with the Tony/Christofuh thing. It looked as though the screenwriter's (the one Christofuh's always beating up on) attempt to take the blame for the incriminating parts of "Cleaver" didn't fly... So maybe the thing between the two comes to a head and Cristofuh whacks Tone and becomes boss. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1837 Registered: 03-2006 |
"Grindhouse". Incredibly entertaining - almost more fun than humans should be allowed to have. The three hours went by like two hours and 55 minutes...I liked the Tarantino half a little better, because it was full of a lot of his great bullshooting dialogue and great, offbeat cultural references. Plus, it was set in Austin, and based on my few visits there, it looks like he really nailed it. He even had a bit in Guero's the great and famous Mexican restaurant there. Any movie that features this obscure pop culture signifier is alright in my book: "Hey good lookin', we'll be back to pick you up later". | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 544 Registered: 08-2006 |
Ah, Mr. Microphone, where hast thou gone? Me, I watched a BBC documentary on Richard Thompson called "Solitary Life." It's on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_qu ery=richard+thompson+solitary+life&searc h=Search Well done for them who's interested in such things. Lots of good live clips, interesting comments from Linda Thompson plus other luminaries. And, I'm happy to report, not a single milkmaid -a-churnin'. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1434 Registered: 05-2005 |
Snatch the film. Thanks for the Thompson link Rob | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1838 Registered: 03-2006 |
Awright, Rob. No flies on you... And thanks - not being averse to a little milkmaid action, I'll have to watch the Thompson doc. Hey there's an idea: I've always thought that all musical acts in the world should be required by law to have go-go dancers with them on stage. Thompson should have milkmaids onstage with him, doing choreographed churning routines to his songs...how cool would that be? | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 546 Registered: 08-2006 |
Imagine trying to work up routines to "Dimming of the Day" or "The Sun Never Shines on the Poor" or, hell, shoot out the lights. Them'd be some sad-ass milkmaids. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1137 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thank you very much Rob. That was a really nice hour I just spent. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1436 Registered: 05-2005 |
He looks quite fragile Mr Thompson, I think his beret covers a multitude of things about his appearance, and without it he looks thinner to me, mind you better than being 80 stone I guess. Lovely doc, its nice to get an insight on the man. I was first brought to the attention of Richard via a guy called Angelo Bruschini, who plays with Blue Aeroplanes and now Massive Attack. I first gigged with the BA's in 1988, and Angelo had loads of tapes of Richard's solo stuff. He was big influence on Angelo around this point, and you can see it, especially on Swagger and Beatsongs. Angelo then influenced me greatly, and I found myself copying Angelo's style when really it was Richard's. So I ended up buying tons of Richards' stuff as his style felt similar to what I enjoyed playing and it was natural. So this doc really was a thrill for me, its part of the beauty of this board isn't it, that other people open your eyes to other things, that you love, or mean an awful lot to you in the world of music but might've missed!! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1386 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bought all three Twin Peaks DVD sets yesterday. Watching the pilot last night and it has not lost any of it's power in the 17years since I first saw it. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 547 Registered: 08-2006 |
Glad you liked the doc, gents. I enjoyed it, too. I thought it was particularly nice that Linda contributed at such length and with such candor. One point I found interesting was whoeveritwas saying RT's much more popular here in the States than in the UK. I know he lives here now, but it still surprises me. Usually, UK artists need a strong foothold at home before they ever attempt to crash the US. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1139 Registered: 03-2005 |
Spence, your entry reminds me of questions I've long had. How much does a "stone" weigh? In pounds? I have a similar question with "cwt" which I find in old Autocar reviews of automobiles. I figure it means "hundredweight" but it sure doesn't translate out to 100 pounds because the numbers don't add up. Moving to money, is a "bob" a pound sterling? What about quid? | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 391 Registered: 09-2006 |
Hope you're still enjoying those sets, Padraig. That's a series I can jump into at any time and just lose myself - a very seductive world. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 392 Registered: 09-2006 |
Re: the RT doc...loved the Billy Connolly comment: "He looks like a big English wally in his shorts. And he knows it. And he doesn't care..." Going to see "Grindhouse" tomorrow, LK. Greatly anticipating it. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 173 Registered: 07-2006 |
twin peaks season two on dvd. obviously not up there with the first, but stll heads and shoulders above almost everything else. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 227 Registered: 01-2006 |
Joe I take it your TP season 2 set is Region 1? Region 2 not out until August here unfortunately | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 174 Registered: 07-2006 |
umm....it's the australian region. i'm afraid i have to plead ignorance as to what number that is... it just came out the other day. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1854 Registered: 03-2006 |
"Not Just the Best of the Larry Sanders Show". Mind-blowingly good. Give blood, sell organs on the black market in China, pawn the children, etc. - do whatever you have to do to obtain this set. It's that good. My favorite line so far of the eps I've watched: Larry Sanders has discovered that Alec Baldwin has slept with his ex-wife and is complaining to the Rip Torn character, "I can't get the image of them doing it, with her on top, out of my mind". Rip Torn's response: "the lazy bastard!"... | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 557 Registered: 08-2006 |
I think the failure of the full "Larry Sanders" oeuvre to show up on DVD is a disgrace, LK. I'll buy the new compilation to go with my Season One DVD, but how is it that one of the great TV shows ever, anywhere is reduced to a greatest hits package, however good that package is? Rip Torn was genius in the show. Did you ever see the episode from the first season when Larry ends up hosting a party at his house, Artie gets drunk on salty dogs and ends up kicking down Larry's bedroom door to get his wife (and everyone's coats) out? It's amazingly good. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1857 Registered: 03-2006 |
It is indeed a disgrace, a travesty and an outrage...however, that doesn't detract from what a great, ass-kicking set it is...I'll proudly stick it up on the shelf next to Season 1. Hope springs eternal - maybe if enough people buy this, the rest of the seasons will come out. And I did see that ep. Hi-larious. I love Rip Torn - he is an underrated comedic genius. The extras I've watched so far are so much better than the usual filler. For instance, for the interview with Alec Baldwin, they are both sparring in a boxing gym, whilst having a fairly serious, in-depth conversation about their acting philosophies. And, it's not staged - they're really sparring. Very funny. Btw, I like Alec Baldwin a lot, but you can tell, just by watching him box, that he might be harboring a rage issue, or two. I'm just sayin'... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1142 Registered: 03-2005 |
The Al Gore movie "An Inconvenient Truth" believe it or not. I assumed that I knew enough about the subject not to bother and that's true but it was still a sobering show to sit through. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1402 Registered: 05-2005 |
The new Spinal Tap film for Live Earth. It's brilliant. http://liveearth.msn.com/ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1403 Registered: 05-2005 |
Off to start on Twin Peaks season two right now. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1405 Registered: 05-2005 |
An Australian film called Jindabyne has just opened in New York and LA (with the flyover states to follow I assume). Don't think we've got any New Yorkers on this board, but Randy and LK and any others in SoCal, I recommend seeing it. NYT review http://movies2.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/mo vies/27jind.html?th&emc=th | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 56 Registered: 01-2007 |
Randy a quid is Ł1 a bob i think is 5 pence,why are you using these old weights etc go for metric | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 565 Registered: 08-2006 |
Padraig, that's the movie based on the Raymond Carver story, "So Much Water, So Close to Home," yes? Unless I'm mistaken, Paul Kelly also penned a song about that story. What's up with Oz and Raymond Carver? I give them credit for their good taste, of course. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1862 Registered: 03-2006 |
The Altman film, "Short Cuts", based completely on Carver stories, also had a vignette based on "So Much Water", but I guess there's enough juice in that (creepy) story to base another movie on... Randy, I, of course, loved "An Inconvenient Truth", even if it was sobering and, frankly, depressing. Fun to think of it raising the pressure of all the dickhead, Repub, global warming denialists.... I rented one over the weekend that was great, that I actually think you'd enjoy too, Randy, cynical man that you are. "Thank You For Smoking", all about a tobacco industry lobbyist. Very intelligent, very black comedy. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1445 Registered: 05-2005 |
Watched a docu on Robin Hitchcock on BBC 4. Seems like a really nice bloke. Mr Buck was with him most of the way, very quiet looking man, good band, tight and exciting. There's a real depth to his songwriting, i like that, he reminds me of Pat Fish The Jazz Butcher in many ways, similar style, similar delivery, must be the Englishness, though Pat does suffer for his comedy sometimes. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1406 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yes Rob, based on the Carver story. As was part of Short Cuts as LK says. Amazing to get one whole movie and part of a very long movie from a short story that's only about 3000 words long. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1412 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Lives Of Others. It won the best foreign language Oscar. I just saw it in the local art house cinema last night and thought it was incredible; best film I've seen in a very long time. I don't know what the title is in German, but it was set in East Germany in 1984/5 and is about the Stasi investigating a writer and other artistic people. Anyone else see it? Andreas and the other German posters; what did you think of it? If you have not seen it you should do so. It's probably out on DVD in the US and Europe by now I'm sure. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 568 Registered: 08-2006 |
Funny, Padraig, I was just yesterday talking to friend about the film and saying I wanted to see it. I'm sorry I missed it in the theaters. Everything I read about it was lavish with praise. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1866 Registered: 03-2006 |
Still heavily into "Not Just the Best of Larry Sanders", and it's still epic stuff. As I think I said before, the extras in this set are not just the typical bullshit filler. Also, "Royal Flash" which was way better than I remembered it. Maybe I was being anal-retentive about the casting. Malcolm MacDowell is not a big hulking brute, but now I see, he is otherwise perfect. And, you couldn't ask for a more perfect director than Dick Lester for a Flashy movie. It's a shame the success, or lack thereof, of this stab at the character, didn't warrant it becoming a series, a la Bond. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 404 Registered: 09-2006 |
I'll have to check the Flashman movie out, LK...I've been meaning to for years...the series also seems ripe for someone else to take a crack at it, now that morally ambivalent heroes (to say the least) are back in vogue... As for me, old Kid Creole & the Coconuts videos on YouTube..."Endicott" remains a true wonder and an inexhaustible groove... | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 574 Registered: 01-2005 |
A couple of outstanding chick flicks written and directed by Nicole Holofcenter. "Walking and Talking" which has some great Billy Bragg songs in it, and "Lovely & Amazing". | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 405 Registered: 09-2006 |
I liked both of those a lot, Michael, especially the latter...they were also very helpful for me in regards to my feelings about the actress Catherine Keener. I first saw her in "Being John Malkovich" and "Your Friends and Neighbors," where she played characters so monstrous that if I ever met up with someone similar in real life I'd cross the street (maybe even the continent) to avoid them. She was so convincing in those roles I was actually highly reluctant to check her out in anything else, but I'm glad I did...she's very gifted. | ||
| Matthias Member Username: Matthias Post Number: 213 Registered: 05-2005 |
Allen, she's in 40 year old virgin. She plays the hot grandma ;-) | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 453 Registered: 04-2006 |
I run across Bruce Springsteen's Pete Seeger Session on TV. It looked like a lot of fun the Band and the audience had. The Seeger songs sounded fresh. Espescially the Brass was fantastic. Does the album sounds similar? | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 575 Registered: 01-2005 |
Allen, I agree with you, Catherine Keener is very gifted. Did you see the third Nicole Holofcener movie, "Friends With Money"? I haven't as of yet. I'm not a huge Jennifer Anniston fan, although I thought see was decent in "The Good Girl". | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 576 Registered: 01-2005 |
Allen, I agree with you, Catherine Keener is very gifted. Did you see the third Nicole Holofcener movie, "Friends With Money"? I haven't as of yet. I'm not a huge Jennifer Anniston fan, although I thought see was decent in "The Good Girl". | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 408 Registered: 09-2006 |
Haven't seen that one yet...waiting for it to come in at the library. I've heard good and bad things about it, but Aniston's tolerable in the right role, and there's so many other good people involved it's got to be watchable at the very least... | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 60 Registered: 01-2007 |
I was watching Liverpool beat Chelsea! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1415 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wasn't it awesome Frank? When Liverpool scored the decisive penalty I cheered so loudly I frightened my daughter! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1416 Registered: 05-2005 |
Catherine Keener is a fine actress. And beautiful too, but not in a typical Hollywood way. (I don't think I've ever commented on someone's looks here before, but I'll make an exception for Ms Keener). | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 229 Registered: 01-2006 |
A terrible game though and a poor advertisemsnt for English footall. Hopefully Man Utd will get through tonight and wipe the floor with Liverpool in the final... | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 623 Registered: 08-2004 |
Milan will edge it tonight, I think and set up a revenge final with Liverpool. It can't be as good as the 2005 final, can it? | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 577 Registered: 01-2005 |
Padraig, have you noticed that from certain angles Catherine Keener looks like Charlotte Rampling 20 years ago? | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 410 Registered: 09-2006 |
"Kiss Me Deadly" - from the mid-50s, a classic near-existentialist, A-Bomb paranoia noir that just gets crazier as it goes...featuring a lead character (Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer) who's nothing but a self-serving amoral thug in way over his head. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 582 Registered: 01-2005 |
Allen, nothing like a great film noir movie. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 251 Registered: 04-2005 |
Last night at the cinema Werner Herzog's astonishing documentary "Grizzly Man". Haunting soundtrack music from (Kevin's fave) Richard Thompson too. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 252 Registered: 04-2005 |
The Tim Buckley compilation DVD 'My Fleeting House'. Some excellent stuff that I had never seen before (the Dutch TV 'Sing A Song For You') and interesting interviews/comments with Larry Beckett and Lee Underwood. However one major grumble: why include only 2 songs from the famous 'Boboquivari' TV show from the 'Starsailor' period? There would have been plenty of space on the DVD to put the whole show on? Let's face it, the DVD is only going to sell to us fanatics so it does not have to be a balanced chronological representation. 'Song to the Siren' remains one of the most beautiful and lyrically mysterious songs ever. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1906 Registered: 03-2006 |
Here's a brief little MTV piece on the excellent Leslie Feist. I didn't realize that, in addition to being a great recording artist, she's made some really cool and creative videos. Kev, you Feistaholic, this one's for you, baby: http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1559282 &vid=148364 | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 631 Registered: 08-2004 |
Recent trips to the local fleapit have been mixed affairs. Mr. Bean's Holiday (so so) & Hot Fuzz (hilarious, what is it about Cornetto's?) Today I watched Stop Making Sense. First time I've seen it start to finish in ages. That film was a personal obsession once upon a time. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 632 Registered: 08-2004 |
BTW Grinderman are on Later... tonight. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1482 Registered: 05-2005 |
Shiiiiit! Grinderman in the house eh? They terrify me, I am literally shitting a brick, boy am i scared - I mean it fellas, I'm outta here! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 426 Registered: 09-2006 |
"American Hardcore," which covers the American punk/hardcore scene from 80 to 86. Very entertaining and I learned some things, but far from complete...one big f'rinstance: Black Flag are rightfully one of the centers of the film, but (aside from I think one passing remark about the Descendents) not one of the other seminal bands that recorded for SST are even mentioned... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1436 Registered: 05-2005 |
Onto the second part of series two of Twin Peaks now. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1913 Registered: 03-2006 |
The Sopranos, last night. Anyone else see it? How shocking was that? Big Tone really is headed straight to hell. | ||
| Matthias Member Username: Matthias Post Number: 217 Registered: 05-2005 |
LK, Still unable to process it. But I'll try. What a horrible episode! David Chase always said what gave Tony his humanity (well, what little he has) was that he never crossed over the line of eating his own. Guess Chase decided to go out with a bang. That was the ugliest piece of TV I have ever seen. Not only does he off Christopher but then in true form he goes off to Vegas to divert the pain and gravity of what he did, ends up sleeping with one of Chris' ole gals and doing peyote with her. The hyprocrisy is too much to take. Will Anthony, Jr. commit suicide? Stay tuned... | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1915 Registered: 03-2006 |
I think "ugly" as a description of the episode is pretty hard to improve on. But, mulling it overnight, I realize that, though it's hell on our sympathy for Tony, I guess Chase decided to remind us, once again, that T is not some cuddly teddy bear, but the same psychopathic thug he's been all along, and that that makes for much better art. It's a harder kind of reality portrayed, but it's much truer, I think. His betrayal of everything remotely human in his own psyche is pretty much complete at this point. | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 110 Registered: 05-2005 |
Damned - wish I handn't read that. Takes ages for the Sopranos to get to Austrlia (Pádraig will know what I mean). Now you've really whetted my appetite. I remember the actor who plays Christopher being asked on Letterman once how he thought the series would end. "Not sure" he replied "but it sure ain't gonna be pretty!". How right he was. | ||
| Matthias Member Username: Matthias Post Number: 218 Registered: 05-2005 |
Padraig, your first post here is no longer accessible. What was it? | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 595 Registered: 01-2005 |
LK and Matthias, you are right, T is nothing more than a evil thug. He is right there with Bob from Twin Peaks. Not since Leyland/Bob killed his niece Maddy have I witnessed such a disturbing death. Leyland at lease found peace and expressed remorse before he passed into the white light. Tony is beyond all hope. If there are no plans for any movies, I hope he gets whacked in the final episode. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1922 Registered: 03-2006 |
It's hard to regard Tony as human, at this point. A lot of it's probably testament to how great an actor Gandolfini is. That expression he had while he killed Christophuh...it had all the empathy of the shark from Jaws. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 184 Registered: 07-2006 |
bah - i've just started watching season six! heh. i think the sopranos makes for some of the best television ever, but it does bother me that people tend to be so soft on tony. without wanting to internalise it too much (often the show rings very close to home)...the man is a merciless sociopath and has been from the getgo. whilst carmella obviously struggles with her conscience...tony seems to think his is simply the work of his anxiety (external/third person) getting the better of him, something which even dr melfi doesn't really go near either. i also hated christopher so the more anguish over that way the better. poor ade.... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1445 Registered: 05-2005 |
Matthias, it was some U2 video, but I can't remember which one! Their last single probably. It made it seem as if people such as Frank Sinatra and Iggy Pop and loads more were singing the words. It was all very clever. |