Topic: MY OPENING SALVO (Read 9425 times)

bk · « **on:** October 20, 2010, 11:39:16 PM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes had both an opening and a salvo, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're currently singing a song from Once Upon A Mattress, but they've changed the title to We Have An Opening For A Salvo. Clever, these cows.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** October 20, 2010, 11:40:34 PM »

And the word of the day is: PHARISAICAL!

bk · « **Reply #2 on:** October 20, 2010, 11:41:14 PM »

Welcome nine GUESTS. At least you're not WUSSBURGERS.

bk · « **Reply #3 on:** October 20, 2010, 11:41:29 PM »

I'm going to bed early.

Ben · « **Reply #4 on:** October 21, 2010, 02:51:10 AM »

Morning all.

That is all.

Michael · « **Reply #5 on:** October 21, 2010, 04:00:30 AM »

tod

Where Eagles Dare

Jrand73 · « **Reply #6 on:** October 21, 2010, 05:02:08 AM »

Salvo used to be a laundry detergent tablet.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #7 on:** October 21, 2010, 05:02:22 AM »

Today is a work day.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #8 on:** October 21, 2010, 05:04:15 AM »

TOD:

Foreign Correspondent.....although it was sort of a pre-war movie in the U.S.
Saboteur

Where Eagles Dare - another vote for this movie, very exciting
Inglorious Basterds - even though we had some re-writing of history going on

Invisible Agent - the invisible man goes up against the Nazis

Jrand73 · « **Reply #9 on:** October 21, 2010, 05:04:41 AM »

The 49th Parallel

A German submarine ends up in Canada.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #10 on:** October 21, 2010, 05:14:57 AM »

Good morning, all! I would have been online earlier but for the actions of the Oaf Above Me, who arrived home almost immediately after I turned off the lights at 11pm, crashed around the apartmrny for a bit and left. At 3am he returned with a young lady - I could hear their voices coming through the celing - so I was awake for around 30 minutes before passing out. I don't know - and I don't care - if they had sex since I was not awakened later by the noisy bed, but when the alarm went off at 6:30, I was not ready to get out of bed and start my day. Around 7, I dragged myself to a bath, and I'm hopoing it's a short recording day.

Today, we've got to record Margaret Jane Wray and Zak Stains on a Spanish American War anthem, "Columbia," Zak's two final solo numbers, and Korliss Uecker's musical comedy numbers, including the newly-discovered song from BABES IN TOYLAND, "Evaline McCook." She will come back in November and record her three German lieder. I'm hoping to be home by 3pm. We'll see.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #11 on:** October 21, 2010, 05:24:30 AM »

Recording vibes for DR ELMORE.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #12 on:** October 21, 2010, 05:30:00 AM »

Off to work - oh well.

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #13 on:** October 21, 2010, 05:58:15 AM »

TOD:

CASABLANCA
WATCH ON THE RHINE
MRS. MINIVER
HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO
TO BE OR NOT TO BE

Cillaliz · « **Reply #14 on:** October 21, 2010, 06:07:02 AM »

Hmmm I was never much into espionage films although we saw a lot of war movies when was grwoing up.

Kerry · « **Reply #15 on:** October 21, 2010, 06:08:00 AM »

Good morning. Or so he thought.

Cillaliz · « **Reply #16 on:** October 21, 2010, 06:08:04 AM »

I am not going to talk about it today

Cillaliz · « **Reply #17 on:** October 21, 2010, 06:09:25 AM »

I am about to make a phone call to someone who may be able to help with what I'm not going to talk abotu today

Cillaliz · « **Reply #18 on:** October 21, 2010, 06:15:39 AM »

I have an appointment for 11:15 to discuss what I'm not going to talk about today. Callie is going with me

Cillaliz · « **Reply #19 on:** October 21, 2010, 06:28:00 AM »

Ok, time to go to work.

John G. · « **Reply #20 on:** October 21, 2010, 06:31:54 AM »

Morning, all.

John G. · « **Reply #21 on:** October 21, 2010, 06:32:12 AM »

Too much work to do today and no desire to do any of it.

Ginny · « **Reply #22 on:** October 21, 2010, 06:32:20 AM »

Thursday morning greetings! I have some puttering to do today, then an errand for my Mom. My book group meets tonight for our Southern Women Writers Roundtable. It's always fun to hear everybody's choices. Here's the list that I sent out and had printed in our AAUW newsletter:

Dorothy Allison (grew up in South Carolina)
Lisa Alther (born in Tennessee)
Tina McElroy Ansa (Georgia)
Daphne Athas (North Carolina)
Lois Battle (South Carolina)
Doris Betts (North Carolina)
Mary Ward Brown (Alabama)
Olive Ann Burns (Georgia)
Elizabeth Cox (Tennessee, Carolinas)
Ellen Douglas (Mississippi)
Dorothea Benton Frank, romance (South Carolina)
Kaye Gibbons (North Carolina)
Margaret Gibson, poet (Virginia)
Ellen Gilchrist (Mississippi)
Ellen Glasgow (Virginia)
Gail Godwin (North Carolina)
Shirley Ann Grau (Louisiana)
Mary Hood (Georgia)
Josephine Humphreys (South Carolina)
Zora Neale Hurston (Florida)
Gayl [sic] Jones (Kentucky)
Harper Lee (Alabama)
Beverly Lowry (Mississippi)
Margaret Maron, mystery series featuring District Court Judge Deborah Knott (North Carolina)
Bobbie Ann Mason (Kentucky)
Jill McCorkle (North Carolina)
Sharyn McCrumb (Virginia, Appalachia)
Susie Mee (Georgia)
Mary Alice Monroe, romance (South Carolina)
Berry Morgan (Mississippi)
Mary Noailles Murfree, wrote under pseudonym Charles Egbert Craddock (Tennessee)
Flannery O’Connor (Georgia)
Katherine Ann Porter (Texas)
Celia Rivenbark (North Carolina)
Dori Sanders (South Carolina)
Mary Lee Settle (West Virginia)
Anne Rivers Siddons (Georgia)
Lee Smith (Virginia)
Elizabeth Spencer (Mississippi, Tennessee, Carolinas)
Alice Walker (Georgia)
Eudora Welty (Mississippi)
Joan Williams (Tennessee, Mississippi)

Ginny · « **Reply #23 on:** October 21, 2010, 06:33:18 AM »

DR Cillaliz - I hope that thing you're not talking about turns out OK

John G. · « **Reply #24 on:** October 21, 2010, 06:37:15 AM »

TOD:

I just saw the movie "Man Hunt" with Walter Pigeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders and a very young Roddy McDowell. Wonderfully suspenseful and not at all like a Hollywood production. Alfred Newman's score uses "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" to great effect. It was about a hunter who had his chance to shoot Hitler but ends up being hunted himself. Takes place before the start of the war, but was wonderful nonetheless. Fritz Lang directed.

Others include "Casablanca," which I never get tired of watching, "To Be or Not to Be," "The Great Escape," "Das Boot," "Paisan" and a guilty pleasure, "Ilse, She-Wolf of the S.S."

John G. · « **Reply #25 on:** October 21, 2010, 06:40:32 AM »

Quote from: Ginny on October 21, 2010, 06:32:20 AM

Thursday morning greetings! I have some puttering to do today, then an errand for my Mom. My book group meets tonight for our Southern Women Writers Roundtable. It's always fun to hear everybody's choices. Here's the list that I sent out and had printed in our AAUW newsletter:

Dorothy Allison (grew up in South Carolina)
Lisa Alther (born in Tennessee)
Tina McElroy Ansa (Georgia)
Daphne Athas (North Carolina)
Lois Battle (South Carolina)
Doris Betts (North Carolina)
Mary Ward Brown (Alabama)
Olive Ann Burns (Georgia)
Elizabeth Cox (Tennessee, Carolinas)
Ellen Douglas (Mississippi)
Dorothea Benton Frank, romance (South Carolina)
Kaye Gibbons (North Carolina)
Margaret Gibson, poet (Virginia)
Ellen Gilchrist (Mississippi)
Ellen Glasgow (Virginia)
Gail Godwin (North Carolina)
Shirley Ann Grau (Louisiana)
Mary Hood (Georgia)
Josephine Humphreys (South Carolina)
Zora Neale Hurston (Florida)
Gayl [sic] Jones (Kentucky)
Harper Lee (Alabama)
Beverly Lowry (Mississippi)
Margaret Maron, mystery series featuring District Court Judge Deborah Knott (North Carolina)
Bobbie Ann Mason (Kentucky)
Jill McCorkle (North Carolina)
Sharyn McCrumb (Virginia, Appalachia)
Susie Mee (Georgia)
Mary Alice Monroe, romance (South Carolina)
Berry Morgan (Mississippi)
Mary Noailles Murfree, wrote under pseudonym Charles Egbert Craddock (Tennessee)
Flannery O’Connor (Georgia)
Katherine Ann Porter (Texas)
Celia Rivenbark (North Carolina)
Dori Sanders (South Carolina)
Mary Lee Settle (West Virginia)
Anne Rivers Siddons (Georgia)
Lee Smith (Virginia)
Elizabeth Spencer (Mississippi, Tennessee, Carolinas)
Alice Walker (Georgia)
Eudora Welty (Mississippi)
Joan Williams (Tennessee, Mississippi)

Great list. Has some of my favorites, Hurston, Welty, O'Connor and Ansa, on it. And a few more for me to check out.

Druxy · « **Reply #26 on:** October 21, 2010, 06:51:13 AM »

TOD:

CASABLANCA
WHERE EAGLES DARE
THE COUNTERFEIT TRAITOR
FIVE FINGERS

Druxy · « **Reply #27 on:** October 21, 2010, 07:00:05 AM »

I watched MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS last night.

I'd never seen it before and, truthfully, I was very disappointed

(Sorry BK)

Frankly, despite any faults, I like DEAD OF WINTER much better.

The performances, particularly by my late former client (Nina Foch), are fine, but the script is a mess. There is absolutely not logic whatsoever to it. The characters' actions/reactions are totally unbelievable.

Perhaps it was a great thriller in its day, but it certainly doesn't hold up.

JMK · « **Reply #28 on:** October 21, 2010, 07:06:18 AM »

Quote from: Druxy on October 21, 2010, 07:00:05 AM

I watched MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS last night.

I'd never seen it before and, truthfully, I was very disappointed

(Sorry BK)

Frankly, despite any faults, I like DEAD OF WINTER much better.

The performances, particularly by my late former client (Nina Foch), are fine, but the script is a mess. There is absolutely not logic whatsoever to it. The characters' actions/reactions are totally unbelievable.

Perhaps it was a great thriller in its day, but it certainly doesn't hold up.

Dead of Winter was the very first VHS I rented from our local video store (remember those?) after I bought my very first VCR.

Jennifer · « **Reply #29 on:** October 21, 2010, 07:17:18 AM »

Great news DR Vixmom about your mom. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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