Topic: PROCRASTINATING (Read 41304 times)

Matt H. · « **Reply #60 on:** June 24, 2008, 07:42:30 AM »

I may be adding NIXON to the list. It's scheduled to be the next Disney Blu-ray I'll be reviewing, but it hasn't arrived yet, and I never saw it in the theater.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #61 on:** June 24, 2008, 07:45:26 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on June 24, 2008, 07:11:40 AM

Just back from the dentist.

No cavities!

Where was he looking?

Matt H. · « **Reply #62 on:** June 24, 2008, 07:45:39 AM »

Page Three Dorothy and Toto Dance!!!

Ginny · « **Reply #63 on:** June 24, 2008, 07:45:58 AM »

Tuesday morning greetings! I have been visited by a home care nurse (I thought that was for old people

) and inhaled 3 cups of good coffee. Hospital coffee leaves a lot to be desired. Richard is at the nearby Episcopal church teaching their Tuesday morning Bible study and Rob is here mom-sitting.

FJL · « **Reply #64 on:** June 24, 2008, 07:46:18 AM »

Just checking in.

I had somehow missed the sad news about Amy's cousin. Condolences from us to your family, Amy

singdaw · « **Reply #65 on:** June 24, 2008, 07:46:44 AM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on June 24, 2008, 07:45:26 AM

Where was he looking?

For love, in all the wrong places?

Ginny · « **Reply #66 on:** June 24, 2008, 07:46:58 AM »

Quote from: Edisaurus on June 24, 2008, 07:00:56 AM

Welcome home, Ginny! I'm sending a few nubians your way via Fed-X ground.

Thanks, DR Edi! Do they look like the guys in the picture that DR Elmore posted earlier?

Edisaurus · « **Reply #67 on:** June 24, 2008, 07:47:22 AM »

Quote from: S. Woody White on June 24, 2008, 07:21:07 AM

And what exactly happened on your first "unofficial" date?

We wrangled ants, swept floors, fed pigs, painted the face of an actor with liquid paper substitute and then hit him with giant typwriter keys, cooked pancakes for a crew over an open fire in the NC mountains, marched in a Founder's Day parade in Iowa, drank lots of coffee, rode in gondolas in Texas, spied on bingo players in Missouri while being spied upon by a curious cat, and were attacked by teamsters in St. Louis, and plotted revenge on a tyrannical director. Basically, we happened to fall in love while working on a lot of very strange jobs together.

Ginny · « **Reply #68 on:** June 24, 2008, 07:47:31 AM »

TOD - The American President

MBarnum · « **Reply #69 on:** June 24, 2008, 07:48:14 AM »

My all time favorite political movie is the 2001 Bollywood film NAYAK.

It is the film that brought us the wonderful song SHAKALAK BOOM, BOOM.

MBarnum · « **Reply #70 on:** June 24, 2008, 07:50:23 AM »

When I got into my car this morning a large, huge spider scamperd from the passenger seat to the floor. He is still wandering around inside my car. I am not pleased.

Edisaurus · « **Reply #71 on:** June 24, 2008, 07:51:02 AM »

Thank you all for the rest of the condolences. I won't be able to go to the memorial service but I was glad to hear that the family, even though they are against cremation, honored my cousin's wishes, which she apparently expressed to her step-father years ago.

MBarnum · « **Reply #72 on:** June 24, 2008, 07:51:14 AM »

Amy, I can't recall if I stated my condolences on your cousin, either. What a sad story of how she ended up. I am sorry.

Edisaurus · « **Reply #73 on:** June 24, 2008, 07:51:54 AM »

Quote from: Ginny on June 24, 2008, 07:46:58 AM

Thanks, DR Edi! Do they look like the guys in the picture that DR Elmore posted earlier?

No, sorry. If they had, I probably would have kept them here in the editing room!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #74 on:** June 24, 2008, 07:56:22 AM »

Dependent upon who you listen to, DR MBarnum, that spider may be an omen of good luck for you.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #75 on:** June 24, 2008, 07:56:53 AM »

It could have been a "money spider".

JMK · « **Reply #76 on:** June 24, 2008, 07:58:53 AM »

I have played many a strange wedding request in my life, two of the more memorable being:

The daughter of a hippie couple was getting hitched outdoors in Portland's beautiful Washington Park Rose Gardens. Their bridal march? Stairway to Heaven.

One of my favorite weddings ever was a couple where the groom owned one of Portland's little "art house" movie theaters (in fact, I remember it was showing "Land of the Pharoahs" when they came to see me to plan the music). Because he owned the movie house, he wanted all of the music in the service to be from films. It turned out he was a big Lani Hall fan (he saw my Mendes CD collection when he came), so he had me sing "Never Say Never Again" as seating music, but the best part was he had me play Monty Norman's 007 Theme for his entrance and he came running down the aisle in various Bond poses holding a toy gun! It was actually cute, as weird as it sounds.

singdaw · « **Reply #77 on:** June 24, 2008, 07:58:59 AM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on June 24, 2008, 07:56:53 AM

a "money spider"

Do they weave legal currency?

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #78 on:** June 24, 2008, 07:59:36 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on June 24, 2008, 01:45:11 AM

WOD:

Procrustean? At HHW?

You make me laugh...

You said it, Toots!

JMK · « **Reply #79 on:** June 24, 2008, 08:00:17 AM »

I'm a day or two behind MattH (blame the site I review for, which either gets things ridiculously early--like months--or a day or two before street date), so I just started MAD MEN last night. Nice reveal at the end of Episode 1. I assume Draper and Ms. JAP (that's a technical term) are going to get involved.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #80 on:** June 24, 2008, 08:01:17 AM »

Quote from: JMK on June 24, 2008, 07:58:53 AM

..., but the best part was he had me play Monty Norman's 007 Theme for his entrance and he came running down the aisle in various Bond poses holding a toy gun! It was actually cute, as weird as it sounds.

Rather, John Barry's arrangement/salvation of Monty Norman's 007 theme.

JMK · « **Reply #81 on:** June 24, 2008, 08:01:17 AM »

Also finished FANNY, which despite some lovely cinematography and nice underscore, left me somewhat underwhelmed. What is with Joshua Logan and these looming close-ups of people's nostrils?

JMK · « **Reply #82 on:** June 24, 2008, 08:03:01 AM »

The kids and I also started watching another gigantic boxed set I have to review, the anime series FINAL FANTASY, which I assumed would look like the CGI feature film. Ummmmm.....not.

We also have NOIR, another anime series which is supposed to have a great score, to check out today. And I have a new Criterion release of the only film Mishima made.

JMK · « **Reply #83 on:** June 24, 2008, 08:07:51 AM »

For you musical theater fans (and who here isn't?

)--I am currently MDing and, heaven forfend, directing, a Revue that is being presented at a neat little theater out on Portland's far east side at Mt. Hood Community College (where the well-known Mt. Hood Jazz Festival is held every year). Anyhoo, in the unbelievable department--they asked me to put together a Revue, which I thought would be easy. Hire a few friends, ask them what tunes they want to do, then string them together in a coherent way. But NOOOOOO. They are doing "Bus Stop" as their dramatic presentation those weeks and decided I needed to build the show around the "Bus Stop" set. Isn't that insane? So I had to tweak the songs the actors asked to do (plus some interpolations I forced on them, like my arrrangement of Another Hundred People/West End Avenue), and come up with a plot that plops all of these folk down in the "Bus Stop Cafe." Oy.

Edisaurus · « **Reply #84 on:** June 24, 2008, 08:09:51 AM »

Various people tried to help her over the years. (I used to fantasize about going to Boulder to find her and try to help her anonymously, but it was something I never had the resources to do.) I don't think there was ever any real stability in her life out there, and she apparently wasn't capable of functioning completely on her own. I think various people out there looked out for her over the years, but I'm not sure it was altruistic or because they knew she had a big trust fund. I imagine that some of my familiy members are probably feeling guilty, too, that they didn't do more, but they probably would have had to abandon their lives entirely to be able to care for her properly.

It's hard to understand how someone who seemed to have everything going for her could end up like she did. I have to just believe that she is at peace, now.

Edisaurus · « **Reply #85 on:** June 24, 2008, 08:15:10 AM »

Quote from: JMK on June 24, 2008, 07:58:53 AM

I have played many a strange wedding request in my life

The man who married us (my editor Friend John's father) had the song "Comfortably Numb" played at his wedding.

So he didn't mind that we had a steel drum band at ours!

Edisaurus · « **Reply #86 on:** June 24, 2008, 08:16:23 AM »

Quote from: JMK on June 24, 2008, 08:07:51 AM

come up with a plot that plops all of these folk down in the "Bus Stop Cafe." Oy.

That's a brilliant solution, JMK!

Ginny · « **Reply #87 on:** June 24, 2008, 08:18:10 AM »

DR Edi - we have a woman who frequents the library where I work whom we suspect is much like your cousin. A couple of years ago, some of her family members asked us to become part of their intervention and we spent a lot of time debating the ethics of library staff becoming involved.

There's only so much we can do for members of our extended families, as I'm learning with my aunt who lives nearby.

I hope you have some fond memories that will comfort you today.

Ginny · « **Reply #88 on:** June 24, 2008, 08:24:23 AM »

Gonna move back to my Cleopatra couch for a while and await my Nubians. I'll stay logged in, but might be quiet for while.

Matt H. · « **Reply #89 on:** June 24, 2008, 08:25:44 AM »

Quote from: JMK on June 24, 2008, 08:00:17 AM

I'm a day or two behind MattH (blame the site I review for, which either gets things ridiculously early--like months--or a day or two before street date), so I just started MAD MEN last night. Nice reveal at the end of Episode 1. I assume Draper and Ms. JAP (that's a technical term) are going to get involved.

It's an interesting relationship, one I wish had been dealt with even more than they do.

Yes, it's maddening having to wait for review copies to be shipped after already going to someone else first. My Criterions are like that. They go through a middle man. Thankfully, the Disney and Paramount stuff comes direct saving me much needed time.

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