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« Reply #210 on: July 20, 2008, 02:14:56 PM »
I'm watching the Animal Planet dog championships.
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« Reply #211 on: July 20, 2008, 02:15:07 PM »
The cats are napping so they don't know
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« Reply #212 on: July 20, 2008, 02:24:10 PM »
Zach actually watches the television with us when the programs contain AOI.  [Animals Of Interest]     :)
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« Reply #213 on: July 20, 2008, 02:26:50 PM »
DR Ben did not share any details of the clan gathering yesterday in NJ.

I wonder if it was a much fun as DR JoseSPiano with the cowboys?
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« Reply #214 on: July 20, 2008, 02:37:45 PM »
Quote from: George on July 20, 2008, 01:08:48 PM
I just watched the first episode of "Mad Men," in AMC's season one marathon.  So far...it's just not grabbing me. :-\ I'll watch the second episode and see how I feel about it after that.

We watched the first three episodes and returned the second disc to NetFlix without watching it.  
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« Reply #215 on: July 20, 2008, 02:46:56 PM »
Quote from: Jane on July 20, 2008, 02:37:45 PM
We watched the first three episodes and returned the second disc to NetFlix without watching it.  

I have decided to stop watching "Mad Men."  For those of you who love it, that's great!  I'm happy for you!  But I'm just not interested in it, any more.
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Voldemort is basically a middle school girl: he has a locket, a diary, a tiara, a ring, and is completely obsessed with a teenage boy.

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« Reply #216 on: July 20, 2008, 02:46:57 PM »
DR Jane - out British cousins eat more sweets (candy) that Australians do.  American candy is however VERY sweet!

The British are more used to  "Cadbury" (The less sweet Australian version!) and the smoothness of Belgian chocolate).

BUT it is still an interesting experience!
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"I'm sixty-three and I guess that puts me with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-three".
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« Reply #217 on: July 20, 2008, 02:47:20 PM »
Quote from: Jane on July 20, 2008, 02:37:45 PM
We watched the first three episodes and returned the second disc to NetFlix without watching it.  








A shame that you never got to the truly interesting revelations about the real identity of Don Draper and who the person calling himself Don Draper really was/is. I think it was episode five where his real-life brother made an appearance. I was in tears by the end of the episode, my favorite one during the entire first season.
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« Reply #218 on: July 20, 2008, 02:48:31 PM »
I'm finished writing now and will head back down, first to clean my bathroom and then head back into the den to see what disc two of HIGH AND LOW has to offer.

WBBL.
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« Reply #219 on: July 20, 2008, 02:49:02 PM »
"The Fly" is indeed an OPERA.

Of course the HELP lines would have been quite appropriate in TV's "Hercules" too.  Twenty minutes was more than enough!
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"I'm sixty-three and I guess that puts me with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-three".
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« Reply #220 on: July 20, 2008, 02:50:46 PM »
Quote from: Matt H. on July 20, 2008, 02:47:20 PM
A shame that you never got to the truly interesting revelations about the real identity of Don Draper and who the person calling himself Don Draper really was/is. I think it was episode five where his real-life brother made an appearance. I was in tears by the end of the episode, my favorite one during the entire first season.

Well, I'll watch this episode and just skip episodes 3 and 4.  Maybe I'll like it after that. :)
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« Reply #221 on: July 20, 2008, 02:51:10 PM »
How very pleasing to see a post from DR TCB (Not that I bothered to read it but it gave me something to ignore).
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« Reply #222 on: July 20, 2008, 02:52:00 PM »
But first, I need to take a shower, get dressed, get something to eat and then...who knows what'll happen.

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« Reply #223 on: July 20, 2008, 02:52:37 PM »
So...until later!
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« Reply #224 on: July 20, 2008, 03:04:08 PM »
DR Jane - Pumpkin Pie!

(the English rarely eat pumpkin!)
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« Reply #225 on: July 20, 2008, 03:04:51 PM »
Habits to make you cry.  We have just been having breakfast.  Colin cut the crust off his toast - MAGNUS!
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« Reply #226 on: July 20, 2008, 03:18:51 PM »
Quote from: vixmom on July 20, 2008, 01:32:17 PM
I just realized something.. this year on my birthday I will be attending my neices's wedding in Saskatoon


It just hit me how very much I look forward to receieing those birthday greetings and felt a real pang knowing I will be unable to be here on my birthday!

What day shall we celebrate on?

Isn't this the wedding that motivated you to get in shape?  
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« Reply #227 on: July 20, 2008, 03:21:30 PM »
Quote from: Tomovoz on July 20, 2008, 02:46:57 PM


BUT it is still an interesting experience!

 ;D  The difference is, you read about See's Candy on a semi-regular bases.  They have probably never heard of it.  I might get some anyway.
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« Reply #228 on: July 20, 2008, 03:23:25 PM »
Quote from: Tomovoz on July 20, 2008, 03:04:51 PM
Habits to make you cry.  We have just been having breakfast.  Colin cut the crust off his toast - MAGNUS!

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« Reply #229 on: July 20, 2008, 03:43:07 PM »
Quote from: Matt H. on July 20, 2008, 01:28:21 PM
Then, I watched Akira Kurosawa's HIGH AND LOW. I'd never seen it before.

In a word, masterpiece. A 143-minute crime drama-procedural that's so riveting I lost all track of time, and it was over before I knew it.

And the transfer is just superb. With lots of tight knit lines that on lesser encodes would be aliasing all over the place, there wasn't a second of line twitter.

Why can't all movies be this good?

Glad to see someone finally catching up with the movie I've probably written about more than any other on this here site, simply because I watch it at least three times a year.  I've proclaimed this Kurosawa's best film and a masterpiece since the day I first saw it, sometime back in the mid-70s.  

The various DVD incarnations are fascinating - Criterion's original DVD was misframed at about 2:1.  Then I got the official Japanese DVD (without subtitles) which was obviously a much better transfer, but at a 2:55 ratio, which, for 1962 isn't really correct.  Then I got an Australian DVD which is almost as thin as Ben-Hur - now there is more information on the sides of those transfers, but it's miniscule - and I think this new Criterion is probably correct at 2:35, which is what theaters showed scope in in the 60s.  The Australian DVD was the only one to have the Perspecta stereo track, but I'm happy to say the Criterion does as well.  I'll be getting it first thing Tuesday.
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« Reply #230 on: July 20, 2008, 03:46:11 PM »
Tomovoz, Thank you for the suggestion.  I'm not sure I can find fresh pumpkin in August.  I also prefer meringue pumpkin pie to the traditional heavy style.  

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« Reply #231 on: July 20, 2008, 04:06:14 PM »
Make it from canned pumpkin, Jane, so they see how Americans eat pumpkin pie.
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« Reply #232 on: July 20, 2008, 04:06:55 PM »
Quote from: bk on July 20, 2008, 12:35:44 AM
And the word of the day is: ASPERSE!
I do not suffer from any form of PARESES, and demand that you not ASPERSE my reputation in such a manner!

(Sure works better than a sentence using the anagram SERAPE.)
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There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea's asleep, and the rivers dream; people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace. We've got work to do.

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« Reply #233 on: July 20, 2008, 04:11:36 PM »
Quote from: George on July 20, 2008, 01:42:43 AM
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Past my bedtime it is.  Tonight,  I watched Merian C. Cooper's "The Last Days of Pompeii", an interesting film from 1935 filled with great scenery, some incredible spectacle for its time, and a volcanic eruption finale that destroys Pompeii.  Oops!  I hope I didn't give away too much about what happens.


Not a problem for me...I watched the episode of "Doctor Who" where they went back in time to Pompeii when the volcano blew.

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Those of us who are Whovians know the truth of what happened!




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« Reply #234 on: July 20, 2008, 04:17:21 PM »
I have spent fourteen hours over the last couple of days wrangling carts.  That's fourteen hours more out in the sun than I usually spend in an entire month.  And it has been very very very humid and very very very hot.  (That's a total of six verys.  Or is that supposed to be veries?  I'm having trouble with my plurals.)

I am red.

I am tired.

I am achey.

And, to top everything off, when I took my shoes yesterday, I discovered that I'd somehow developed a blister on the top of my left foot.  About a square inch of skin just kind of peeled off and I looked down at it and said to myself "how the heck did that happ....YEOUCHHHHH!!!!!"

 :P

I am looking forward to staying indoors and scorekeeping tomorrow.
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« Reply #235 on: July 20, 2008, 04:21:17 PM »
Quote from: FJL on July 20, 2008, 04:13:03 AM
Congrats to der B on his lofty plateau
And he comes off in person as so quiet and shy.




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« Reply #236 on: July 20, 2008, 04:28:45 PM »
Quote from: JRand57 on July 20, 2008, 08:36:01 AM
DR TOMovOZ said yesterday that the opera version of THE FLY opened in France....wonder how things went....do you think THE FLY has legs?
Or did the critics pluck them off?
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There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea's asleep, and the rivers dream; people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace. We've got work to do.

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« Reply #237 on: July 20, 2008, 04:32:28 PM »
I will also be getting the HIGH AND LOW DVD this time around. I saw the movie several years ago and loved it....and it is about time I see it again.
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« Reply #238 on: July 20, 2008, 04:33:19 PM »
I really do wish that Criterion would redo CHUSHINGURA. It is a wonderful movie but their DVD release of it is terrible.
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« Reply #239 on: July 20, 2008, 04:35:34 PM »
I got quite a lot done this morning and early afternoon. Then I ate some lunch. And then I lay down on my bed. Then 2 hours later I woke up. Then I realized that I missed JMK's Bosa Nova band at the Salem Art Fair.


Sorry JMK....I had meant to go and see that show  :-\
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