Topic: TWITCHY AND BITCHY AND MANIC (Read 12688 times)

Julie · « **Reply #90 on:** March 05, 2010, 12:15:46 PM »

Another project I'm working on is I'm producing the MAC Awards show here in NY this May. This will be the 24th Annual Mac Awards Show, and I'm very excited to be producing it this year. But it's been a lot of work!! But I'm not complaining!!

Anyway, it will be held at B.B. King Blues Club on May 4th. We'll be presenting awards in about a dozen categories, as well as Lifetime Achievement and special Board of Director chosen honorees.

Ginny · « **Reply #91 on:** March 05, 2010, 12:22:10 PM »

Oops, did I forget to log out when I left Panera for the mall? Sorry.

Anyway, greetings from the Founders' Cafe at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary! Richard's seminar isn't scheduled to end for an hour and three-quarters, but they had a break at 3pm and I was sort of expecting him to bail. I was tired of shopping and just headed out here and even found some Graeter's toffee chip ice cream to go with my bottle of water.

Jane · « **Reply #92 on:** March 05, 2010, 12:27:37 PM »

Quote from: JMK on March 05, 2010, 11:11:44 AM

Please set your watches back to 1958 department: WELCOME WAGON just called!

obviously you don't move often. i've had many a visit & call from welcome wagon.

George · « **Reply #93 on:** March 05, 2010, 12:28:41 PM »

Quote from: Ginny on March 05, 2010, 12:22:10 PM

Oops, did I forget to log out when I left Panera for the mall? Sorry.

Don't be...I never log out. I just close my browser.

Jane · « **Reply #94 on:** March 05, 2010, 12:30:08 PM »

Quote from: Julie on March 05, 2010, 12:12:39 PM

I had my first conference call using SKYPE today. I feel so - well -- five years ago!
It's so easy and works so well -- I can't believe I never tried it before.

hi Julie. i'm glad your first experience with skype went well, it doesn't always. neither do the other services.

Jane · « **Reply #95 on:** March 05, 2010, 12:31:05 PM »

Quote from: Ginny on March 05, 2010, 12:22:10 PM

even found some Graeter's toffee chip ice cream to go with my bottle of water.

yum!!

George · « **Reply #96 on:** March 05, 2010, 12:32:06 PM »

Quote from: TCB on March 05, 2010, 09:00:43 AM

I took today off of work, because yesterday I was so angry that I thought I was going to have a stroke.

~~~Vibes of Comfort and Calmness for TCB!!~~~

Druxy · « **Reply #97 on:** March 05, 2010, 12:35:48 PM »

Thanks for all the stress test vibes.

Those tests are miserable.

First, they inject you with a radioactive fluid, then you have to lay perfectly still, arms raised above your head, for 17 minutes while they takes a picture of your heart.

Next, I had an ECO test, which wasn't bad.

Then, they put me on the tread mill, and after I got off, I thought I WAS having a heart attack. I had to lay down for 10 minutes.

Finally, they had me lay still, arms raised, for another picture, this one taking only 12 minutes.

In and out the door was 4 hours and 15 minutes.

I won't get the results until next week.

Not a fun morning.

Druxy · « **Reply #98 on:** March 05, 2010, 12:36:36 PM »

TOD:

No idea. Something from my DVD library, i suppose.

Ginny · « **Reply #99 on:** March 05, 2010, 12:37:38 PM »

Quote from: Jeanne on March 05, 2010, 11:03:43 AM

Ginny, do you have a separate closet for all your Vera Bradley things?

LOL, DR Jeanne! Not a whole closet, but one end of my closet is all shelves and the top 3 are devoted to Vera, plus some floor space for my luggage pieces. All in protective plastic, of course! And I was very good today - only bought 1 item and it was marked down. There's a very active Facebook group devoted to buying/selling/trading VB - I've bought and traded and am about to try my first sale of some pieces that I don't use.

George · « **Reply #100 on:** March 05, 2010, 12:43:46 PM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on March 05, 2010, 10:20:30 AM

Dr George: Re: your comment last night about a shaving trend among Bollywood and Hollywood men...and not liking the "prepubescent" look ---

You're not supposed to be looking there!

Well...actually, Elmore and I share similar tastes (no pun intended) in movie genres for the VCR.

Julie · « **Reply #101 on:** March 05, 2010, 12:47:08 PM »

Quote from: Jane on March 05, 2010, 12:30:08 PM

Quote from: Julie on March 05, 2010, 12:12:39 PM
I had my first conference call using SKYPE today. I feel so - well -- five years ago!
It's so easy and works so well -- I can't believe I never tried it before.

hi Julie. i'm glad your first experience with skype went well, it doesn't always. neither do the other services.

Hi Jane! I can see how it definitely would be "iffy."
But kind of fun, nonetheless. Not to mention cheaper than a conference call.

computer: $1200
internet service provider: $50
webcam: $30
microphone: $25
free conference call: priceless

Julie · « **Reply #102 on:** March 05, 2010, 12:47:38 PM »

Quote from: George on March 05, 2010, 12:43:46 PM

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on March 05, 2010, 10:20:30 AM
Dr George: Re: your comment last night about a shaving trend among Bollywood and Hollywood men...and not liking the "prepubescent" look ---

You're not supposed to be looking there!

Well...actually, Elmore and I share similar tastes (no pun intended) in movie genres for the VCR.

meaning stale?

Julie · « **Reply #103 on:** March 05, 2010, 12:48:40 PM »

Vibes for good test results, DR Druxy. Sorry you had such an unpleasant morning.

Julie · « **Reply #104 on:** March 05, 2010, 12:53:41 PM »

So I've seen some good shows recently.

Amongst my favorites -- The Orphan's Home Cycle.
This is a series of nine full length plays written by Horton Foote.
Each play has been condensed to one hour in length, and is being presented in three groups of three, so there are three separate evenings that each contain three one-act condensed plays.

I saw them in semi-marathon version. A matinee, an evening the same day, and then the matinee the next day.
The sum is really quite exquisite. It made me wonder what the full length version of the plays were like. Several of them had been full length feature films, so I plan to watch them -- they are now in my netflix queue.

Druxy · « **Reply #105 on:** March 05, 2010, 12:58:28 PM »

This is disgusting:

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/national_world&id=7314102&status=ok

Hopefully, this guy is burning in Hell and his sister will join him soon.

bk · « **Reply #106 on:** March 05, 2010, 01:19:47 PM »

Merrily entering corrections - most are fine, but some I'm not doing, and some I'm leaving for discussion with muse Margaret - but she caught some great stuff that needed fixing - stuff I would never have caught.

bk · « **Reply #107 on:** March 05, 2010, 01:20:13 PM »

As it turns out, I'm going to some play tonight with Barry Pearl. We'll sup before at Little Toni's.

Matt H. · « **Reply #108 on:** March 05, 2010, 01:21:27 PM »

Quote from: JMK on March 05, 2010, 07:06:33 AM

Didn't Jarre also win an Oscar for A PASSAGE TO INDIA? I could have sworn he did.

Of course he did. Who says otherwise?

Matt H. · « **Reply #109 on:** March 05, 2010, 01:25:45 PM »

Before I left on my Friday errands, I did manage to watch PROJECT RUNWAY.

The winner I thoroughly agreed with (though I wouldn't have put either 2nd or 3rd place in the top three). I liked someone else's design who was in the "safe" group.

I certainly would have reversed the last two finishers. On the runway, the loser's design looked kind of striking. I could understand the criticism of "costumy" but I still liked the way it looked and moved. The other one was TACKY, and we knew the truth about its creation: he didn't have enough material and this was a last resort. Ugh!

Matt H. · « **Reply #110 on:** March 05, 2010, 01:28:15 PM »

When I got in, I had time to watch one of the LAW & ORDER episodes from Monday. My gosh, how grim and grisly was that! Loved how it all worked out, and Jeremy Sisto gave a marvelous performance on the witness stand.

And loved seeing Scott Evans playing someone other than Officer Fish. There was nothing about him at all like Oliver in this brief performance.

Matt H. · « **Reply #111 on:** March 05, 2010, 01:29:28 PM »

As I ate lunch, I watched last night's THE MENTALIST. I did guess the murderer's identity; wasn't too hard once the facts about the affair came to light. Still, enjoyable show.

Matt H. · « **Reply #112 on:** March 05, 2010, 01:33:16 PM »

Then I spent much of the rest of the afternoon with THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG. It is a real Disney musical, and the animation is really gorgeous (in Blu-ray, it's spectacular). The story is involving, and there are lovable creatures and evil villains as in all the Disney classics.

The difference between this and, say, THE LITTLE MERMAID (directed by the same guys) is in the choice of composer. Randy Newman can write entertaining and enjoyable music, and he's captured the New Orleans jazz sound just fine. But he just doesn't have the compositional variety of an Alan Menken to turn out a multi-song score in which the songs don't sound like one another. I liked the songs, but each one sounded like the last in many cases. And when a song plays over the closing credits, you can tell that Randy Newman had NOTHING to do with it at all because it sounds so very different from the rest of the songs.

Matt H. · « **Reply #113 on:** March 05, 2010, 01:36:15 PM »

Then I watched all of the bonus material. There's only one feature that's longer than 20 minutes. Most of the rest are little EPK snippets of 2-3 minutes in length, touching briefly on some aspect of the movie. Fine, but lacking depth.

There is a commentary, but I was disappointed it wasn't one of those commentaries with picture-in-picture inserts coming in and out illustrating the comments of the directors and producer. You can watch the movie with the storyboards and rough animation in an upper left hand window, but that's not the same thing.

Matt H. · « **Reply #114 on:** March 05, 2010, 01:37:38 PM »

I had time to skim through today's AS THE WORLD TURNS. Nothing of interest, and Luke and Dr. Pill didn't appear in the previews for next week either.

Matt H. · « **Reply #115 on:** March 05, 2010, 01:38:43 PM »

Oliver and Kyle were in today's ONE LIFE TO LIVE, a couple of intense encounters as Kyle tries to help Oliver accept the fact that he's the baby's father.

Matt H. · « **Reply #116 on:** March 05, 2010, 01:39:23 PM »

I'm glad I'm going to have a free evening. I haven't a clue what I'm going to watch, though. I guess I need to clear some of these shows off the DVR.

Matt H. · « **Reply #117 on:** March 05, 2010, 02:02:13 PM »

Well, that finishes my afternoon surf, so I need to hop off-line and get some writing done.

WBBL.

George · « **Reply #118 on:** March 05, 2010, 02:28:43 PM »

Quote from: Julie on March 05, 2010, 12:47:38 PM

Quote from: George on March 05, 2010, 12:43:46 PM
Quote from: Ron Pulliam on March 05, 2010, 10:20:30 AM
Dr George: Re: your comment last night about a shaving trend among Bollywood and Hollywood men...and not liking the "prepubescent" look ---

You're not supposed to be looking there!

Well...actually, Elmore and I share similar tastes (no pun intended) in movie genres for the VCR.

meaning stale?

Umm...yeah, that's it.

George · « **Reply #119 on:** March 05, 2010, 02:29:01 PM »

Well, since we're so close...

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