Topic: CONTEMPLATING MY NAVEL (Read 25265 times)

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #90 on:** March 01, 2009, 10:07:58 AM »

Good Afternoon!

I'm watching "Le Damnation de Faust" on PBS/WNET/Thirteen/etc., etc., etc. It's the Robert LePage production that premiered at The Met last Fall. I saw it in person, and, well... I think that once my friend, Patrick Carfizzi, has finished singing, I shall head out for a bit of wintry walk myself.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #91 on:** March 01, 2009, 10:10:51 AM »

Quote from: Michael S on March 01, 2009, 05:58:47 AM

When you watch a movie in Academy Format do you watch the movie with black/gray bars on the left and right side of the image or so you watch it "formatted to fit widescreen TVs"?

With bars, always, as the artists intended.

der Brucer

td · « **Reply #92 on:** March 01, 2009, 10:15:45 AM »

Last night I watched HUSH, HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE; always one of my favorite of Miss Bette Davis' perfomances.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #93 on:** March 01, 2009, 10:16:34 AM »

OK.. Brander has left the stage, and now I shall leave the apartment for a little while.

Laters...

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #94 on:** March 01, 2009, 10:31:05 AM »

Auntie Tsuris vibes for Edisaurus.

der Brucer

Jennifer · « **Reply #95 on:** March 01, 2009, 11:23:38 AM »

I did actually get to watch tonight's Brothers & Sisters. Quite a riveting show. There is a lot more to say. But i will wait until tomorrow.

Looking forward to TAR tonight.

bk · « **Reply #96 on:** March 01, 2009, 11:42:37 AM »

Back from a brisk long jog - gorgeous "me" day outside. Now listening to Leith Stevens' score to The Interns.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #97 on:** March 01, 2009, 11:57:21 AM »

Quote from: bk on March 01, 2009, 11:42:37 AM

- gorgeous "me" day...

Sounds like a song cut from Li'l Abner.

der Brucer

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #98 on:** March 01, 2009, 12:31:40 PM »

Good Afternoon!

Ah! That was a nice walk.

I ended up heading over to Riverbank State Park to take in the great view of the George Washington Bridge, as well as to watch some of the hockey tournament that's going on there this weekend. I actually had a "WTF?!?" moment when I walked around the ice-skating rink and came across some big piles of snow. How long has this been hanging around? Well.. It was the shavings/scrapings from the Zamboni machine.

Laura · « **Reply #99 on:** March 01, 2009, 12:53:29 PM »

Darn. He rented a car.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #100 on:** March 01, 2009, 12:59:28 PM »

Quote from: DERBRUCER on March 01, 2009, 10:10:51 AM

Quote from: Michael S on March 01, 2009, 05:58:47 AM
When you watch a movie in Academy Format do you watch the movie with black/gray bars on the left and right side of the image or so you watch it "formatted to fit widescreen TVs"?

With bars, always, as the artists intended.

der Brucer

Most artists I've known were quite inclined toward bars...sleazy and nice ones.

Matt H. · « **Reply #101 on:** March 01, 2009, 01:10:04 PM »

It has continued raining all afternoon, not constantly but with only a few breaks. We got almost an inch yesterday and today should be the same or a little more. It's certainly helping to erase the deficit in rainfall we had accumulated since the start of the year.

Matt H. · « **Reply #102 on:** March 01, 2009, 01:11:59 PM »

I watched DAMAGES while I ate lunch. Wonderful episode with more surprising revelations, especially whom Ellen has at gunpoint in the flashforward sequence.

Matt H. · « **Reply #103 on:** March 01, 2009, 01:14:37 PM »

Next I put in the first movie in the four film box set: JAPANESE GIRLS AT THE HARBOR. It's the tritest kind of melodrama: two girls in love with the same man, one girl leaves town, the other girl marries him and gets pregnant, then the other girl comes back, and the husband is tempted to stray.

Definitely not a classic though I thoroughly enjoyed the new score for the film by Donald Sosin. It's got several very beautiful themes.

Matt H. · « **Reply #104 on:** March 01, 2009, 01:17:55 PM »

That movie was only 71 minutes, so I immediately put in the second one in the set: MR. THANK YOU, a slight but delightful little road picture. The title character is a bus driver who is so kind and considerate to everyone that he thanks people who are blocking the road as he passes them. It's basically a 20-mile trip while we get to know a little bit about various passengers. As I said, slight but charming. And there are some beautiful panoramas that are filmed as the bus trundles along the mountain road.

This is the longest of the four movies in the set: 76 minutes.

Matt H. · « **Reply #105 on:** March 01, 2009, 01:18:36 PM »

I didn't start the next one (it's only 66 minutes long), but I'm hoping to finish both of the other films tonight and still have time for BROTHERS & SISTERS.

Matt H. · « **Reply #106 on:** March 01, 2009, 01:19:45 PM »

With the half hour I had left, I continued watching THE BONE COLLECTOR which I had begun last night. As I watched the next few scenes, it came back to me who the killer is. I'll continue to watch the movie to its conclusion because now I'm curious as to motivations which I still don't recall.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #107 on:** March 01, 2009, 01:31:16 PM »

Quote from: Matt H. on March 01, 2009, 01:10:04 PM

It has continued raining all afternoon, not constantly but with only a few breaks. We got almost an inch yesterday and today should be the same or a little more. It's certainly helping to erase the deficit in rainfall we had accumulated since the start of the year.

Meanwhile... The projected snowfall totals here in NYC keep going up, up, up(!!!!). Heck, they're even getting snow right now in Richmond.

*And because of the snow in Atlanta, I have a couple of friends who are currently camping out at JFK and LGA. $:-\$

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #108 on:** March 01, 2009, 01:31:54 PM »

DR MattH - Is the snow skipping over Charlotte?

Matt H. · « **Reply #109 on:** March 01, 2009, 01:38:25 PM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on March 01, 2009, 01:31:54 PM

DR MattH - Is the snow skipping over Charlotte?

There was a slight chance for snow in the forecast, but so far it hasn't arrived. In fact, the rain has stopped for the last half hour, too.

Matt H. · « **Reply #110 on:** March 01, 2009, 01:39:35 PM »

I've finished up with my afternoon internet surf, so I'll close down IE and start doing some writing.

WBBL.

Ginny · « **Reply #111 on:** March 01, 2009, 01:50:14 PM »

Sunday afternoon greetings! Two round trips from here to Cincinnati in less than 24 hours - whew! We found FROST/NIXON quite gripping - it was the first non-musical we'd seen at the Aronoff and the first time we'd been there at night. Today was church, lunch at First Watch with Rob and Mary Linda, and a stroll around the new Container Store.

Ginny · « **Reply #112 on:** March 01, 2009, 01:50:41 PM »

Mega vibes for DR Edi!!!

Ginny · « **Reply #113 on:** March 01, 2009, 01:57:36 PM »

Quote from: Jeanne on March 01, 2009, 08:21:51 AM

Singdaw,
For some people the cheap, ready-made readers work fine--it depends largely on your Rx, plus how much you read. Many people have custom reading glasses made because progressives just don't meet all our needs. With a progressive lens you must look through the lowest part your lens to read, which means that your reading material must be virtually in your lap--at least for me. When I'm on the computer or reading in bed I look through the middle part of my lens, which is intended not for reading, but more "room distance" according to how the progressive is made. When I had a bifocal it drove me nuts to have to keep jumping over the line. So a progressive plus reading glasses works for me. When I need a new Rx I often get the readers first; if I can't read well with an old progressive it doesn't really bother me. I only buy a new progressive when I need a new distance Rx.

What DR Jeanne said, plus some clarifications to put DR DAW at ease:

My new lenses are progressives and are quite satisfactory for everything but long periods of reading. Since yesterday, I've determined that reading restaurant menus, theater programs, and the church hymnal/prayer book is fine. I only have difficulties, as does DR Jeanne, at the computer screen, reading the newspaper, and reading while lying down. Following in my father's footsteps, I have had a separate pair of Rx reading glasses ever since I started wearing bifocals. Usually I just have the reading Rx put into the frames I'm replacing, but this time those were unusable, so I'm still using my old readers. I might take advantage of their offer of $100 off a second pair to get new reading glasses.

Ginny · « **Reply #114 on:** March 01, 2009, 01:59:27 PM »

DR Elmore - Jayden is very cute in his tuxedo. Cute photos!

bk · « **Reply #115 on:** March 01, 2009, 02:02:25 PM »

Page four? Uh, no.

bk · « **Reply #116 on:** March 01, 2009, 02:03:00 PM »

I'm watching Room At The Top - haven't seen it before, which is odd since I was a huge fan of Brit films back then and saw mostly everything.

Jane · « **Reply #117 on:** March 01, 2009, 02:38:38 PM »

VIBES FOR DR EDISAURIS!!!

Jane · « **Reply #118 on:** March 01, 2009, 02:40:19 PM »

Quote from: ArnoldMBrockman on March 01, 2009, 06:41:16 AM

Quote from: elmore3003 on March 01, 2009, 06:30:10 AM
My adorable greatnephew Jayden was the ring bearer at his uncle's wedding yesterday. He's wearing his first tuxedo.

He is QUITE Adorable. Who is his Cutie?

DITTO!

Jane · « **Reply #119 on:** March 01, 2009, 02:47:33 PM »

I hope our travelers have safely reached their destinations!

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