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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2189 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Hollowmen on ABC. Anyone else in Australia watching it? I thought tonight's episode (the second) was hilarious and spot on in its political satire, and that was even before they got to the stuff about Ireland! And they use a Bats song as the theme tune! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2194 Registered: 05-2005 |
Feist's reworking of 1,2,3,4 as a counting song on Sesame St. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fciD_II7 NI Hilarious. And educational. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1094 Registered: 09-2006 |
Trafic Jacques Tati's sweet-natured (well, that could fully apply to all his other films as well), brilliant fairwell to his Mr. Hulot character. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1095 Registered: 09-2006 |
Scarecrow Somehow had never gotten to this one, and was looking forward to it...a road movie from the mid-70s with Hackman and Pacino, what could go wrong? And though there are definite pleasures (Hackman may be my favorite actor ever) there's an obvious, heavy-handed symbolism to the two characters that runs through the movie and left me at the end with a pretty meh feeling about much of the enterprise. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 258 Registered: 02-2008 |
Question for ya, O film lova: My local vidyo store has a buy one Criterion get one free special. Now, one of those is going to be Spartacus, but what should I get for the freebie? Any recommendations? Contenders so far: Colonel Blimp, The Thief of Baghdad and Blast of Silence... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1097 Registered: 09-2006 |
You lucky dog, you! Haven't seen Blast of Silence yet, but it's near the top of my Netflix list. Thief I've seen a couple of times (and the newly minted version is also on my list) and like pretty well. I love Blimp, and like most of the Powell/Pressburger pictures it's eminently rewatchable. Beyond that, the field is huge...they're up to more than 400 flicks now, I think. I might say anything by Yasujiro Ozu...but (and please believe me, I don't mean this in a snide or condescending way in the slightest) I don't think he'd be to your taste. Though maybe... If you don't have it already, they recently did a very good two-disc revamp of The Third Man. You'd probably also go for Jean-Pierre Melville's noirs like Bob Le Flambeur or Le Samourai or Army of Shadows, based on his time in the French Resistance. And as mentioned before, Pickup on South Street's a great one. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1214 Registered: 01-2005 |
Some of my more recent Criterion buys: The Double Life of Veronica Ace In The Hole Pandora's Box | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1101 Registered: 09-2006 |
The Dark Knight I think I really have to stop reading reviews before I go see films, even if they're written by critics I have respect for. Stuff like "one of the best post-noir crime thrillers ever" had me expecting much more than I saw up there on the screen. The attempts at moral complexity weren't half as deep as they seemed to think, the attempts to meld crime-drama grit and the unreality of a superhero-ish world (where huge pyrotechnic-laden battles occur on busy city streets but, miraculously, not a single bystander is even injured - or not that they mention anyway) was sporadic at best. Maybe I'm just in a cranky mood... | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1220 Registered: 01-2005 |
Off to see the X-Files movie tonight after work. I became a huge X-Files fan towards the end of the third season, but the last two season were a struggle, and I stopped watching. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2197 Registered: 05-2005 |
Curb Your Enthusiasm, season six. Last weekend I saw the Israeli film The Band's Visit. It's very good and I was disappointed to hear it has been banned in Egypt (where the eponymous band come from). | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1221 Registered: 01-2005 |
The new X-Files movie is a real corker! It builds up slowly and has a nice slice of traditional X-Files "creep-out" factor. One of the best things about it is there are no explosions or cheesy CGI effects. Its as good a story as the some of the classic X-Files stand alone episodes from seasons 2-5. I hope this kicks off a string of new X-Files movies. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1102 Registered: 09-2006 |
Glad to hear it, Michael. It's always nice (but rather rare) when a show's makers will recognize when they've gone off the rails (I don't remember one thing about the final episode, except the feeling of not giving a damn) and try to find their bearings again. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 265 Registered: 02-2008 |
Shark Week | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2211 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Wire, series 4. Love it. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 278 Registered: 02-2008 |
Finally got around to watching "The Future Is Unwritten" and really loved it. So moving, really just a beautiful movie. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 483 Registered: 01-2006 |
I'm not watchin the Olympics, i'm not particularly sporty anyway but the whole event just leave a bit of a sour taste really, kinda reminds me in a roundabout way of the Olympics of the 80s when the Yanks/Commies boycotted it...and then with all the drugs you'd wonder what's the point.....when i was younger we used to have dope-smoking Olympics, jaysus they were great fun...don't ask but at least we all knew we were on drugs... | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 480 Registered: 07-2006 |
i saw a documentary at the melbourne film fesitval called "i think we're alone now", which explored the lives of two people that are obsessed with tiffany. one guy was pretty cool actually, he had asberger's but was still quite funny and good spirited about the whole thing. he had this helmet with all this radio technology stuff so that him and tiff can transfer energy between them. i would hang out with him though, for an hour or so anyway. the other was a very miserable hermaphrodite who's future did not look so promising. obviously i would've loved a lot more popstar, but it was actually a great watch. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 346 Registered: 01-2007 |
The horrors in Georgia--be afraid | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1229 Registered: 01-2005 |
The PGA at Oakland Hills, golfs last major. I worked one of the concession stands for charity at Tuesdays practice round and got to walk around the course before my afternoon shift. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1124 Registered: 09-2006 |
Episodes from Saturday Night Live, Season 2. In which I witnessed the painful sight of James Taylor performing "Roadrunner" (The Junior Walker song, not the Jonathan Richman) and not only clapping completely off the beat (what beat his LA sessioneers could muster, of course) but obviously blissfully unaware of how off he was. In the next episode, Boz Scaggs' performance felt like the epitome of gutbucket soul in comparison. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2233 Registered: 05-2005 |
Watched Downfall last night. Brilliant. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 65 Registered: 08-2005 |
The Olympic track cycling - as a massive fan of cycling and a freelance cycling journalist it's a pleasure to watch the Brits prove to be the best in the world at something. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 286 Registered: 02-2008 |
Only season 5 of the greatest TV show ever, the Wire. Which hardly does it justice - it beats all other filmed entertainment, really all entertainment of any kind, hands down. So absorbing and involving - though you're almost literally bursting at the seams to find out what happens next, you, at the same time, wish events in it would slow down so you can savor them. One for the time capsules, so future people (if there are any) can see what life was like in the early aughties, the various ways we fecked it up and the few brave and crazy magnificent bastards who tried to put things right. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 350 Registered: 01-2007 |
Well said Simon, I like the Olympics despite its criticism, roll on London | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 291 Registered: 02-2008 |
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay. Gut-bustingly, pants-peeingly funny. | ||
| Dr Girlfriend Member Username: Doctor_girlfriend Post Number: 61 Registered: 10-2007 |
You must be a fun date at the movies, Ewan. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 297 Registered: 02-2008 |
You damn right, baby! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1140 Registered: 09-2006 |
More early SNL...Bill Murray's first show. He's not mentioned in the opening credits, suddenly he's just there, at the center of several sketches, and boy, does he make his presence known. With his dark hair and mustache he does look a little disconcertingly like Robert Goulet, though... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2238 Registered: 05-2005 |
Arrested Development, season 3. Again. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1143 Registered: 09-2006 |
The Killing Kubrick's first classic, and one of the great hardboiled crime flicks. Also personally memorable because my first viewing was ruined for me by a brainlessly smug theater audience. Seattle has a rep as a smart film fan town, with good reason mostly, but the particular folks I was surrounded with spent the entire film snickering smugly at what they considered silly, "dated" dialogue - dialogue perfectly apt for the time it was made, of course. I've never wanted to punch out 100 people before, but... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2253 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm astonished to hear that Allen. Anybody with anything above a pea brain should recognise that as a classic. I thought the dialogue was fantastic, perfect for the hardboiled film it was. And it was ripped off wholesale by Tarantino for Reservoir Dogs. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 304 Registered: 02-2008 |
Redbelt, David Mamet's newest. Flawed but fascinating. I'm really intrigued by Mamet and have seen everything he's written and/or directed, even read some of his books of essays. While this ranks below Glengarry Glen Ross, it's still well worth the time invested in it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2271 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Wind That Shakes The Barley. A very powerful film. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1247 Registered: 01-2005 |
Padraig, I scooped up a DVD of TWTSTB earlier in the year and have watched it a few times. I concur, a very powerful film. I enjoy Michael Collins as a companion piece to TWTSTB, perhaps Liam Neeson's best performance. Have you ever seen Black Robe? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2273 Registered: 05-2005 |
I haven't seen Black Robe Michael. Must check it out. I was thinking of Michael Collins while watching The Wind That Shakes The Barley too. Another great Irish film. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 352 Registered: 04-2005 |
"Dogtown and the Z-Boys" on DVD. Saw this documentary when it first came out (2000?) at the cinema, and watched it last night with my 12 year old son who is into skateboarding (and just broke his wrist whilst doing it!) It outlines the importance of a group of young surfers in the early 70s from Venice, CA that rediscover the skateboard and basically invent a lot of what todays' skateboarding is about. Brilliant mixture of original footage, stills and interviews with the addition of a wonderful 70s soundtrack. Can't say that I ever imagined saying it would be a pleasure to hear Ted Nugent... Not sure I go as far as the "skateboarding as an artform" theme, but there sure is some kinda beauty in the moves. And the human interest angle is always strong: to see Jay Adams (acknowledged as the most original member of the group) as a handsome blonde teenager and then as the drug-addled scarred man (interviewed in prison) is particularly hard to watch. A great documentary. Apparently the dramatised film version from a few years later is pretty lousy. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 329 Registered: 02-2008 |
This great video where this beautiful Swedish girl, Theresa Andersson (she's based in Nawlins now), becomes a one-woman band, by looping different instruments as she goes. All that's missing is cymbals on her elbows! I play guitar a little, but how someone can keep track of all the stuff she does is a mystery rivaling the Trinity! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2eD4GcLo hE | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 185 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nice one Ewan! Always admired musos who can do the looping thing well since I first saw John Martyn perform some live looping guitar magic back in the '70s. Another good one I've seen recently is Liam Finn (son of Neil) getting all loopy on Letterman a few months ago. Starts slowly but then layers up brilliantly as the song progresses: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2-EGFS4- ck | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2287 Registered: 05-2005 |
Michael, I actually have seen Black Robe if you mean the Canadian film about the priest in a boat going down a river. It was pretty good as I recall. I saw it when it came out in 1992. I just thought at first there must be another of the same name about Ireland because you mentioned it after two Irish films! What about the Irish films reminded you of Black Robe? I'm very curious! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1250 Registered: 01-2005 |
Padraig, yes it the Bruce Beresford Canadian-Australian co-produced film I was referring to. It was the clash of cultures aspect that drew me to compare Black Robe to Irish films. Also the beautiful cinematography. Looking at wikipedia, the Black Robe book and screenplay was written by Irish-Canadian author Brian Moore, strange. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2291 Registered: 05-2005 |
That's right, I'd forgotten that it was directed by an Australian and written by an Irishman who had lived in Canada for a long time! So it connects with me in a couple of ways then! | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 338 Registered: 02-2008 |
"The Counterfeiters", as they say, "based on a true story", about Jewish POWs in a concentration camp being forced to make counterfeit money during WWII. Not for the squeamish - it's no "Life Is Beautiful" - but, if you have an interest in that sort of thing, it's fantastic. It boils down, essentially, to a great meditation on the theme of morality vs. the survival instinct, but it(and this was what was really cool about it)absolutely refuses to judge any of the characters, except of course the Nazi bastards running the damn thing. It's one of those films that stay with you - days later, I'm still haunted by it. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1253 Registered: 01-2005 |
Plenty of Union and Confedrate bastards to go around in the US Civil War, as an estimated 56,000 died in prisoner of war camps. Bad water, bad food or lack of food, lack of blankets, clothing and shelter. Both sides were equally guilty. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 342 Registered: 02-2008 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Scarlet Johanssen and Penelope Cruz make out in it. 'Nuff said? Actually, I kid. Not about them making out, but just that there's a lot more going on in it than that. A light, fizzy and fun romantic confection that features some fairly gorgeous and sumptuous Barcelonan scenery as a backdrop. There are, because it's a Woody Allen movie, some sidelong explorations of larger themes, like love, fate, and life choices. A fun, semi-brainy date movie - let's leave it at that. Javier Bardem, btw, does not wear the same 'do he had in "No Country For Old Men". | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2303 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Late Show (Aus sketch show from early 90s). | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1159 Registered: 09-2006 |
The McGarrigles, circa '77, doing "Kiss and Say Goodbye" and "Heart Like a Wheel." Kate sits there at the piano looking smart and charming, wearing a quasi-conservative blouse and hair pulled back almost primly - proof positive that sexiness isn't about oozing lust from every pore, because I could not take my eyes off of her. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1258 Registered: 01-2005 |
Allen, where did you catch the McGarrigles? | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 351 Registered: 02-2008 |
That sounds like some dread disease! "Umm, I caught the McGarrigles back in '49, in the Philippines. All I can say is, I shoulda worn the hip boots". | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1160 Registered: 09-2006 |
Aye, the creeping McGarrigles are the worst strain...you think it's finally gone, and then... Michael it was in the Saturday Night Live, Complete Season Two Box, on which there are many other excellent folks performing as well. But chances are pretty good you can find the clips on YouTube too. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1162 Registered: 09-2006 |
That smirking furk Loudon didn't deserve her, that's for sure... | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 352 Registered: 02-2008 |
Entourage - Season 4. As fizzy and fun as a fistful of Pop Rocks chased with a liter of Diet Coke, this show just keeps getting better... | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 855 Registered: 08-2004 |
My only recollections of Lauden Wainwright Jr were from Jasper Carrot's TV show. He managed to outgurn the comedy master himself. Miles Hunt performance & interview on Rockworld TV. He looks more like Vic Reeves now tban himself. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1263 Registered: 01-2005 |
Fringe, pilot episode last night on Fox, the conclusion of the pilot on Sunday. Next Tuesday is the start of the regular season. Fringe sure used The X-Files as a template. We have a female and male FBI agents exploring phenomenon much like Mulder and Scully did, minus the alien plot. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 360 Registered: 02-2008 |
But you left out the mos' important part, MB - was it any good? I was interested - all that paranormal mumbo jumbo's right up Ewan's alley - but forgot to watch it, but I think it can be found online, if it's worth catching up with... | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1265 Registered: 01-2005 |
ETM, It's worth it in spades!! Being a huge X-Files junkie, I was naturally curious. Fringe has other touchstones as well besides the X-Files, I'll leave it to you to spot them. It will be interesting to see how the show progresses and if Fox gives Fringe the time to develope like they did the X-Files in the mid-90's. Considering that apart from a half dozen or so shows in each of the first two seasons, the X-Files didn't reach true greatness until season three, so I hope they are patient if the first season episodes aren't consistently great. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1164 Registered: 09-2006 |
The Band's Visit Light, funny, with a touch of melancholy woven through, creates a wonderful little world for an hour and twenty. The meeting and commingling of Arab and Israeli is certainly part of what it's about, but even more it's about some people just spending a short time together. Sort of has the feel of a Jarmusch picture, only warmer. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1167 Registered: 09-2006 |
Spartacus Revisiting the commentary tracks on this one is almost as interesting as the movie itself, as it's a mirror of the source novel, with several major characters in the story giving their accounts and opinions after it's all over, Rashomon-style. And boy, do they differ... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2318 Registered: 05-2005 |
I liked The Band's Visit too Allen. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 372 Registered: 02-2008 |
"Burn After Reading". Full of intensely dislikable, narcissistic, and incredibly dumb characters, but still super enjoyable and funny as hell. As they used to say about "Seinfeld", nobody hugs and nobody learns anything, and there are no outmoded qualities like warmth or compassion on display anywhere. I don't think it's gonna down as a stone masterpiece on the level of "No Country" or "Fargo", but that said, it's still a great time at the movies. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 498 Registered: 07-2006 |
classic oz albums - murder ballads i really quite enjoyed this. a little more of a band retrospective than the rest of the series, but possibly all the better for it. an interesting look at nick's mid 90s (arguably, defining) output. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1274 Registered: 01-2005 |
Conclusion of the Fringe pilot later this evening. It's been raining cats and dogs the last day and a half after getting only a 1/4 of an inch of rain for the whole month of August. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 375 Registered: 02-2008 |
Knife in the Water. Roman Polanski is a sick feck - let's just leave it at that. Also, at the theater, "Bottle Shock". Excellent and uplifting flick about the ascension of wine industry in California - sort of "Breaking Away" set in Napa. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 499 Registered: 07-2006 |
i saw if... last night. a friend of mine had been raving about it for months and - low and behold - i actually loved it. i'm still wrapped with glee today, one of the best endings ever! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1173 Registered: 09-2006 |
That is quite a film, joe. Probably the best work Malcolm's ever done, too. Sadly, I can't say the same for Anderson/McDowell's followup, O Lucky Man, though... to me it felt like the work of someone who'd read far too many reviews telling him what a genius he was for making "if..." | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 500 Registered: 07-2006 |
agreed allen....a must-see for angry young males. almost perversely satisfying. i saw welcome to the sticks yesterday. terrific parochial (literally) french film. my pic of the year, thus far. what it might lack in grit, surely makes up for in heart. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 231 Registered: 10-2006 |
In treatment. Wow! two people in a room talking! No jazzy computerised camera work, no car chases, no serial killers, just sharp, dramatic scripts, tremendous acting, and Gabriel Byrne finally getting the part he deserves. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1175 Registered: 09-2006 |
Perversely satisfying, joe, though I'd say not only for young males. Unlike other films (and revolutionary movements) of the period, women and gays aren't just paid lip service to, but give as good as they get. It's a wonderful payback fantasy for anyone (and there's a hell of a lot of anyones) that live under the thumb of the moneyed few and all of the social institutions that kowtow to them. I love McDowell's line about what he hates the most about his oppressors is how they "expect us to lick their frigid fingers for the rest of their frigid lives." | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 508 Registered: 07-2006 |
i guess i wasn't so much thinking about women, but i enjoyed seeing the whole spectrum of masculinities put under the microscope for a change. the scene at the gym (with the rings/his observer) is seriously one of the most beautiful things i've ever seen. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1176 Registered: 09-2006 |
As far as the women, I think it's more that in your average movie of the period (beyond the aforementioned lip service) the woman would still be far more conventionally "feminine" and would probably follow the male into the scene at the end but would be far more in the background, more plainly supportive. But in this movie she's just as much a part of instigating things as the boys. And I'd agree with you about the scene in the gym, and the acceptance of a far more wide-ranging of definition of masculinity and sexuality. Which I'm sure Lindsay Anderson's particular orientation had a bit to do with. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 389 Registered: 02-2008 |
Entourage, season 5. Stupendously, comprehensively entertaining and deeply satisfying. Best. comedy. ever. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 509 Registered: 07-2006 |
she was great wasn't she...loved the scene in the cafe. ok, i'm getting all excited again...time to lay my hands on a copy of the dvd! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1180 Registered: 09-2006 |
Finally made it through SNL, Season Three, so my obsession is over...until the Season Four box comes out. And what a place to leave off - the glorious cacaphony of Sun Ra and the cast and writing at full strength. The last few shows of the season are the most consistently excellent ever. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2609 Registered: 05-2005 |
A video (given to me as a gift from an old promoter of music in Birmingham from '84-'94) of an old band of mine from '90 supporting The Blue Aeroplanes, and the vid also features some majestic imagery, like Felt's last ever gig, Ride, The Charlatans when they were all babies! The Blue Aeroplanes footage has blown my mind, they were truly the most exciting group out of all the acts on this video, in comparison, Christ I fell asleep watching The Charlatans... The vid is a bit eerie, what with all the water passing under that bridge n all. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1181 Registered: 09-2006 |
Yes, I'm a full-blown mid-70s nostalgia addict now...straight from SNL into Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Still very fresh, but at the same time a perfect time capsule of Everyhousewife circa '76. Eno was singing about the rich girls in his song, but it could just as easily apply to Mary: "They're so confused by their new freedoms." | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 406 Registered: 02-2008 |
The Godfather II. Better than the first? I dunno, but sometimes I think so. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1183 Registered: 09-2006 |
I prefer that one...more complex in character, story and tone. Did you watch it on that latest DVD rerelease? I heard that it was a great improvement picture-wise...made it look much more like it did in the theaters. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 410 Registered: 02-2008 |
It is indeed the latest version. My local used CD store made me an offer I couldn't refuse... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2355 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Office, season 3. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2358 Registered: 05-2005 |
WALL-E, with my 7-year-old. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 514 Registered: 07-2006 |
i know you had a bit of a nap throughout, but should i see wall-e padraig? i don't care for animated films much at all, but that one looks pretty sweet. i thought ratatoullie was great! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1184 Registered: 09-2006 |
Dunno if Padraig will concur, joe, but I definitely recommend WALL*E (or however you'd write it)...I'm a fool for Pixar, so I'm biased, but if you dug Ratatouille you'd probably like this one. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2360 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yeah, go to it Joe. Pixar is pretty much always on the money. (I've not seen a bad one by them anyway). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2361 Registered: 05-2005 |
You might want to borrow a niece or nephew to go to it with you Joe. Definitely don't take Bill Henson with you. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 517 Registered: 07-2006 |
i would take bill with me if he were up for it! he interacts with kids much better than I do... i tend to talk to them as if they were grown adults and they just stare at me confused and a little terrified. babies take one look at me and scream for dear life. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1190 Registered: 09-2006 |
Pet Shop Boys: Pop Art 38 videos, 1986-2002. Only 4 or 5 are less than stellar, and even those are superior to many, many people's best. Quite a testament, and I always feel quite happy after watching them. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2365 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Office, season 3. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 521 Registered: 07-2006 |
it's a great comp allen. i love the domino dancing vid in particular. though i've always felt the video to rent - my #1 psb song - was a bit of a let down. can you forgive her is great too. more emus in promo clips i say! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1191 Registered: 09-2006 |
The only possible complaint I have with the package was the commentary...at first it looks like it's going to settle into a nice balance: Neil providing info and insight and Chris being the joker, taking the piss and making sure things don't get too serious. But before long Chris's snark begins to dominate, and it almost feels like Neil becomes afraid to say anything of substance for fear Chris is going to give out with that sarcastic laugh...or maybe it's just me. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2639 Registered: 05-2005 |
Me Too. A great kids programme, all UK citie in one city, namely Edinburgh. Kids love it. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1193 Registered: 09-2006 |
The Small Back Room Typically marvelous Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger WWII drama about a war-crippled bomb expert simultaneously working on his latest case and his own bitterness. Includes an incredibly tense bomb defusing sequence. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 523 Registered: 07-2006 |
you know i've never been much for watching stuff with commentary, but from what i've heard from our man mr lowe before.....it surprises me not. it'd be interesting to hear how his ambiguity stands up as the videos become decidedly less so... | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1295 Registered: 01-2005 |
While I like the original Godfather movie, I felt it missed some of the parts of Mario Puzzo's book that could have made it a better movie. After the wedding The Godfather going to Abandando's deathbed, Johnny Fontaine's doctor that helped him get his singing voice back and also tightened up Sonny's girlfriend "down there". There pretty close, but I'll give the slight edge to Part II, as Al Pacino had become a better actor. No Brando, but the rest of the hold over actors and Bobby D. more then made up for it. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1194 Registered: 09-2006 |
That's too bad to hear, joe, especially since I was just going back through the track-by-track interview on Alternative (I've been bingeing on PSB a bit since watching the videos), in which Chris shows that if he has a mind to he can be quite open and thoughtful. And speaking of that, isn't it past time for Alternative 2? Michael, reading that chapter about Sonny's girlfriend back when I was a hyper-curious 12 was of course fascinating, but as an adult I found it sort of mystifying...he stops the story dead to spend 15 or so pages describing the vaginal reconstruction surgery of a pretty minor character? | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 529 Registered: 07-2006 |
it's true....i suppose with the reissues that recently (heh...seven years ago?) came out, we got a big hit of b sides there. the bilingual-era flipsides sported some of their best...delusions of grandeur, the truck driver and his mate, paninairo 95, the view from your balcony. it's been remix city since then! tell me....that alternative interview - is that on pop art too? some fanboy i turned out to be =D | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1195 Registered: 09-2006 |
It's actually in the CD booklet itself, so I'm guessing you've got it.  . Besides those mentioned, some of the Release extra toons are very nice as well..."Always" is better than most of the songs on the actual album. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 416 Registered: 02-2008 |
Baseball playoffs and election/financial crisis coverage. Is there anything else? | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 417 Registered: 02-2008 |
Re: Puzo and the Godfather: maybe when his editors told him the plot needed tightening, he thought they said "twat". Actually, though I've read 'em all, I always found the actual novels kinda pulpy, though, obviously, great and riveting reading. They just don't have the lyricism and beauty of the movies. I guess it helps to have actors like Brando, Duvall, and Bobby DeNiro and Al Pacino (when they could still act). | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2661 Registered: 05-2005 |
fuc*in amazin show http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00 dzzv2/b00dzzsq/Guitar_Heroes_at_the_BBC/ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2383 Registered: 05-2005 |
Went to see Burn After Reading in Brisbane the other day. Fantastic. Best comedy of the year for me. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 423 Registered: 02-2008 |
Madmen - the big finale. Woo-hoo! I used to think the Wire was the greatest TV show ever. I still, do, but lemme tell ya, this one is up there. Don Draper, the strangely sympathetic, but heartless, cypher that's at the center of all the action, has chucked it all - family, job, etc., and disappeared into the wilds of Palm Springs, CA, with a cruelly beautiful young tootsie and her Fellini-esque friends. It remains to be seen whether he's coming back... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1219 Registered: 09-2006 |
Wish me luck dere, ETM...after putting it off too long I've finally put Mad Men Season 1 at the top of my Netflix queue, and disc one arrives tomorrow... | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 451 Registered: 02-2008 |
Luck dere. You'll love it. Just give it time - takes a coupla eps for it to dig past the beautiful surfaces and get at the underlying rot... | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 247 Registered: 04-2005 |
Watching The Sarah Connor Chronicles series 2. The 1st episode this week here in the UK, an explosive start, which hopefully will continue. Talking about continuing, I here its getting poor rating in America, so I hope its not for pulling. Cheers Jon | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2390 Registered: 05-2005 |
The commentary tracks on the final Sopranos DVD set. A lot of commentary tracks are kind of boring. The Sopranos ones are not (with the exception of the series 6 commentary from Carmella and Meadow, which was not so great). | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 466 Registered: 02-2008 |
Wanted. Generic summer blockbuster that also happened to be highly thrilling, with some incredible special effects, not the least of which were Angelina Jolie's lips. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 365 Registered: 04-2005 |
Dylan and the Band in '66 with 'Like A Rolling Stone'. I always thought the version from the Albert Hall (Manchester) bootleg was the definitive take, but take a look at this from the Newcastle City Hall. And note the National Anthem at the end ! http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=xO0gSJGJ7F s | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 472 Registered: 02-2008 |
Hey Allen the movie guy - what do you know about this film, by the famous Bresson: Au hasard Balthazar? Reading about it, it sounds great and really moving, but I think I'm, frankly, too soft-hearted to watch it. I have a tough time with cruelty to animals... Humans? no problem - I can watch them get brutalized all day on film. Shot, stabbed? No worries. Just don't hurt the little critters.... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1230 Registered: 09-2006 |
A coincidence there...I rewatched another Bresson a few days ago and it's spurred me on to revisiting a few more, one of them Balthazar. I'll probably be getting to that one in the next day or two. The depictions of physical cruelty to Balthazar are more implied than shown, but there is a lot of emotional cruelty and coldness (towards the donkey and the other characters) that occurs. I'd say the experience is definitely worth the harsh parts, but maybe prepare yourself a little beforehand. Just finished up Mad Men Season 1...wow, quite something indeed. Plays many different shades and levels like a great violinist. Loved the outcome of some of the arcs...Burt Cooper's reaction to the revelation of Don Draper's identity is one for the ages...I laughed for about two minutes straight. It also might prove to be educational viewing to those fools (both male and female) who are under the impression that women had it better back before those libbers started poking their noses in. But I get the feeling they probably wouldn't get it even then. Padraig, going by what you've expressed a liking for I get a feeling you'd probably dig this one a lot, if you haven't already. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 474 Registered: 02-2008 |
Definitely quite something. At least people looked great back then, even if they lived those classic lives of quiet desperation. I guess "junk in the trunk" was the look back then, for women. Don Draper - what a murky, morally ambiguous character. Hard to decide if I like him, though it's definitely possible to feel a lot of empathy. Though he womanizes shamelessly and is quite remorselessly cruel to several people, most of whom deserved it, btw, he seems to have a heart of, at least, silver. The second season is as good or better. Without giving anything away, because it sounds like you'll eventually watch it, Don gets caught out on a lot of his shit... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2700 Registered: 05-2005 |
watching my mate momus perform a white trash experiment with rice... http://imomus.livejournal.com/ | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1231 Registered: 09-2006 |
Yeah ETM, a friend of mine is going to see if he can download the Season Two episodes offline and burn them to DVD-Rs for me. As far as the elusive Mr. Draper, I'd say that at least he's a hell of a lot more likeable than Tony Soprano...that's not a huge thing, but still, he definitely seems to be still wrestling with his conscience, where just about all of Tony's is long gone. He does have some very compassionate traits within him, but due to the era and worklife he's involved with, and the confused nature of human beings in general, he can often be hypocritical or downright mean. The combination of those two factors is, I think, what produces the yo-yoing he and (to a lesser extent) his boy Roger indulge in: agonize over how they're doing their wives dirt, pledge undying love...and then two scenes later be back to their whoring ways. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1234 Registered: 09-2006 |
Also, the show is one of those that does a pretty good breakdown of how things like sexism/racism/etc. get started and are maintained: 1) Set everything up to your advantage. Declare all the things that you do well to be the most valuable things in the world. Declare that anything you don't do well is far less valuable or outright worthless. 2) Claim that this state of affairs is the natural order of things. 3) Repeat it to yourself until you truly believe it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2413 Registered: 05-2005 |
I haven't seen it Allen, thanks for the tip. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 243 Registered: 10-2006 |
So far my Letter to Santa includes Mad men, Wire 5,30Rock and Ashes to Ashes...(Don't tell me it's not as good as LOM!!)But for the moment I'm deep in One Tree Hill season 5...blissfully intelligent & wonderfully manipulative soap that genius Mark Schwan manages to keep rolling forward with several episodes wholly devoted to smart dialogue. Plus three of the...no, I'm too old to say "hottest"... three of the prettiest young actresses on Tv. Aren't we blessed to be living through this Golden Age of the series? | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1250 Registered: 09-2006 |
Starting in on Mad Men, Season 2, which hits the ground running and hasn't let up thus far. The boho party at the beginning of episode two is hysterical. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 508 Registered: 02-2008 |
Changeling. Really great, but mega-depressing Clint Eastwood-directed film about a child kidnapping. Angelina Jolie is luminously beautiful in it (original observation, I know) and actually demonstrates some fine acting chops. I'm a sucker, also, for things set in L.A. in the '20s, as this was. The look and feel, as well as some plot elements, echoed other great L.A. set worthies like Chinatown, L.A. Story and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (ok, not sure that one was set in Cali). Probably not a good one to take a clinically depressed person to... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1254 Registered: 09-2006 |
Prior to the current Mad Men binge, the intensely subtle, mysteriously moving films of Robert Bresson: Diary of a Country Priest, Pickpocket, Au Hasard Balthazar, Mouchette (devastating), Les Dames de Bois de Boulougne, L'Argent, A Man Escaped, Lancelot du Lac (definitely the weirdest version of the Arthur legend, and reportedly one of the inspirations for Monty Python and the Holy Grail(!)), every last one a stone classic. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1256 Registered: 09-2006 |
Just about halfway through Mad Men Season 2, and remain mightily impressed. It deepens and gets richer as it goes, like...well, I was going to say like a good novel, but that's condescending. Like a good TV show. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2454 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ashes To Ashes. Love it. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 514 Registered: 02-2008 |
You're coming up on the ep where Don and Weaselboy head to the convention in CA, AB, which is possibly my favorite one out of both seasons. I'll be curious to see if you find it reminiscent of Fellini, as I did. I won't spoil anything, but after it, the plot developments come fast and furious, and Peggy is given one of the most incredible, epic monologues I've ever heard come out of a female's mouth, in any medium. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1261 Registered: 09-2006 |
Can't wait, and one can certainly tell that something like that monologue that's coming. Silent montage sequences (or, worse, ones with a throbbing song by someone like Death Cab for Cutie behind them) at the ends of episodes are way past cliche now, but the one at the end of the episode I just finished, where the three main female characters all quietly sense a real change in the air, was absolutely elegant and truthful. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 245 Registered: 10-2006 |
That was Six feet under, wasn't it Alan?? I thought that sequence was great, though I think it wasn't such a soap cliche at that time, then went out and bought everything that I could find by Death cab...ok, perhaps not such a great idea, I'll have to relisten to them one day. Still a lovely song though, I think. Meanwhile: Iron Man, great fun with what often sounds like semi-improvised dialogue but probably isn't. I grew up with marvel comics - sounds like a contradiction, perhaps - so I'm really enjoying seeing them finally come so dynamically to life. And Gwyneth's freckles have never looked lovelier. Some film with Ben Stiller where he marries a mad blonde. I try never to watch anything with either him, Adam Sandler or Robin Williams (except when he's on Letterman) but I was too lazy to reach for the remote and this had me hooting with laughter several times. Wire 4. McNulty fans like my wife have a hard time of it here, but otherwise still an exceptional show. Very strange the Emmies treat it with a bargepole. I don't know if Baltimore ever had a tourist industry, but I suspect this would have throttled it, unless they run Bunk & McNulty Booze crawls. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1267 Registered: 09-2006 |
The Six Feet Under sequence was certainly one of them, Stuart, and yes, at that time those montages weren't quite cliche, but only on their way to becoming so - for awhile they were really turning up everywhere, and while some were excellent, others just seemed to be copycatting as a cheap way of pumping up the drama. And I didn't mean to pick up on Death Cab, who I like alright...they just seemed to be the band of the moment for that kind of thing. I think Arcade Fire turned up in at least one, too. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 518 Registered: 02-2008 |
Despite being a big fan of most of HBO's series, I never really got into 6 Feet. It always seemed too pulpy and melodramatic, and just sort of overwrought to me, though I realize that's probably the appeal for a lot of people. It's one of a small select few of their shows that just didn't do it for me - I'd add "Carnivale" to that number, as well. Saw "Quantum of Solace" last night, which was great fun, though it's definitely not your dads' Bond. Very dark, with revenge being the main motif, but that's not a problem for me. What is a problem is my one complaint: the waaaay too muddled and confusing action scenes, shot in such a way that you wonder if they thought that jumpy, frenetic camera work would equal exciting action in people's minds. I guess they're following the shaky-camera template that the Bourne movies set...If this trend keeps up, they're going to have to start selling dramamine at concessions counters. It pains me to say it, cuz I'm a huge Sean Connery fan, particularly of him as Bond, but Daniel Craig is probably the best actor ever to play 007. Admittedly, apart from Connery, the competition is not particularly stiff. Moore, Brosnan, Lazenby, et al., couldn't act their way out of a paper bag... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1271 Registered: 09-2006 |
Halfway through the Mad Men convention episode...yeah, I'd agree on Fellini, with a dash of Antonioni. Best tossed-off timewarp exchange: "Have you ever had Mexican food?" Don: "No." Carnivale was kind of a bust but I've happily made my way through Six Feet Under twice - it's never felt overwrought to me, and not any soapier than any of the other HBO ones. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 576 Registered: 07-2006 |
i think six feet under was one of the few hbo series able to make one feel genuine sympathy for the characters, even the weaker/more self-involved ones. i want a family like that. and their house! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1272 Registered: 09-2006 |
And man, could they get self-involved. . Agreed about the house, too, though personally I'd move it out of LA...nothing against the place, I'm just a rain lover. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 519 Registered: 02-2008 |
I vaguely remember rain. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 577 Registered: 07-2006 |
that was part of the fun...one step back for every step forward. i think david was completely botched and tedious, but the rest of the family were gold! i like how they were all wasted at the dinner table, at least once. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1273 Registered: 09-2006 |
Part of the fun and also part of the point, I'm sure. I actually liked David's character and his slow path to being a (somewhat) less obsessively-controlled person. Though I liked Nate a lot, too, he was the one I wanted to slap around a bit. Brenda's assessment during their breakup argument, that he always wants to be seen as Mr. Good Guy, pegs him just right. And call me foolish, call me irresponsible, but I did love the amount of casual drug use (of many various types) on the show. Sometimes destructive and yicchy, sometimes fun and illuminating, just like real life. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 579 Registered: 07-2006 |
i think my problem with david is that he was obviously the family neurotic, but then they they also ascribed him all the stock standard homo character traits which generally seemed at odds with his hangups, ie. promiscuous and teetering on on lecherous at times. the real david would be painfully alone, socially awkward and incredibly distrustful, not getting so much as a nibble. to pardon the pun. i loved nate. i found a little too much common ground with him....my sisters tended to agree. i've never gotten stoned AND gone for a run, mind. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1275 Registered: 09-2006 |
I'd say he was the most neurotic, though his mom gave him a run for his money in that department, but all the rest of them had a strong strain of that as well - again, I think part of the point. Having no personal experience I can't speak for the veracity of his social interactions with other gay folk, but in other aspects of his life I think that having to step into the running of the family business (and especially that particular family business) would've gone a ways toward improving his social skills. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1276 Registered: 09-2006 |
ETM, the final episode of Mad Men 2 is downloading right now, and I should be watching it within the hour. Another nice quote: "Maybe the only thing keeping us from happiness is the belief that we're alone." | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 580 Registered: 07-2006 |
heh...ruth was pretty great wasn't she? i take your point, i just found the whole uptight christian family man didn't so much lend itself to the way in which he carried out his sexuality. he obviously lightened up a bit as the show went on, which was sweet. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 520 Registered: 02-2008 |
Kudos to you for your resourcefulness in obtaining the 2nd series, AB. Yeah, the final episode is yet another corker - lotsa stuff going on. The whole season was great, but that final 3 episode arc was just super. I was thinking about the "time warp" moments, which even if the great acting, fantastic production values and existential dread of all the characters weren't there, you could be solidly entertained by all of the wacky and non-PC things they did back then in the early '60s. One in particular I got a kick out of was when Don took Betty and the kids on a picnic after buying the whiz-bang car. Lovely, bucolic area - so how does Betty clean up all their trash? By shaking all their garbage out of the blanket out onto the ground! Don's method for getting rid of his beer bottle? Throw it as far as you can! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1277 Registered: 09-2006 |
Oh yeah, I was a big Ruth fan - she consciously, happily chose to be a housewife and then when her husband dies she finds herself in 2001 just as women did back in the mid-60s, but in a much different world... excitement at her independence, mixed with terror, and amped up to 11, so she's going ten directions at once. Finished Mad Men, and once again the word that comes up is elegant, in the best sense of that word...in the story, in the way it's told, and in the characters. Even the ones who lean more towards caricature, like Roger or Pete, have plenty of facets to them. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1278 Registered: 09-2006 |
Yes, I *loved* that picnic scene, and the way it was played...that slow walk away from all the trash on the ground towards the car, and I'm grinning, thinking, "are they really going to drive away and leave it there? Yes, they are." In addition to it being a timewarp thing I also kinda thought it was also something of a comment on their new financial station in life...that they just don't have to care about stuff like that. For born-into-wealth Betty it's just a return to that place, of course. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 247 Registered: 10-2006 |
Must have been an American thing, that - my folks and me always cleaned up after our picnics! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1281 Registered: 09-2006 |
Yeah, there certainly was that brainless, as-yet-unsullied sense of entitlement back then, coupled with the idea that who needs to worry about pollution...look at all the unspoiled landscape we've got left! Gosh, I'm so glad things are different now... | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 521 Registered: 02-2008 |
It was enough to make an old Native American chief cry... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1282 Registered: 09-2006 |
And speaking of trash all over the ground, just got WALL*E on DVD. Even sweeter the second time around, and the bonus disc has a nifty history of Pixar on it. |