Topic: NICE/ANNOYING (Read 34429 times)

bk · « **on:** February 23, 2007, 12:17:32 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes were both nice and annoying, and now it is time for you to post until the nice and annoying cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** February 23, 2007, 12:18:28 AM »

And the word of the day is: HESTERNAL!

bk · « **Reply #2 on:** February 23, 2007, 12:19:52 AM »

Welcome three GUESTS. Who are you people?

bk · « **Reply #3 on:** February 23, 2007, 12:20:03 AM »

Will we never get to page two?

Tomovoz · « **Reply #4 on:** February 23, 2007, 12:29:34 AM »

TOTD:

Bobby McFerrin "Paper music"
French Cast - "CABARET Le Musical De Broadway" (2006)
"Songs of New York" (Book of the Month Club) - with some orchestrations by Dr Elmore.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #5 on:** February 23, 2007, 12:37:58 AM »

DVDs of this week:
Connie & Carla
Dances With Wolves
Bon Voyage (French Film 2003)

bk · « **Reply #6 on:** February 23, 2007, 12:41:15 AM »

Where in tarnation IS everyone? You'd think it was 12:31 or something.

bk · « **Reply #7 on:** February 23, 2007, 01:00:22 AM »

Welcome six GUESTS. Get off your ample BUTT CHEEKS and post something.

George · « **Reply #8 on:** February 23, 2007, 01:35:25 AM »

In my DVD player: "Shock to the System" with Chad Allen, Sebastian Spence and Morgan Fairchild. After that will be "The Handmaid's Tale" with Natasha Richardson, Aidan Quinn, Faye Dunaway and Robert Duvall. I got this second movie from the library at the beginning of last month(!) and haven't watched it yet.

I also have "Doctor Who - Season 2."

George · « **Reply #9 on:** February 23, 2007, 01:37:38 AM »

As for CDs, I have several at work and will find out what they are when I go back there in the morning.

George · « **Reply #10 on:** February 23, 2007, 01:39:27 AM »

And now that I've posted, I'm going to bed. Good night, BK...and all you guests out there in the dark.

Cason · « **Reply #11 on:** February 23, 2007, 02:18:03 AM »

How nice, and yet annoying, that I am yet again the only one on this here board.

Cason · « **Reply #12 on:** February 23, 2007, 02:21:08 AM »

Back from work -- tonight was a fairly nice yet annoying night -- there was this pyramid scheme presentation. Some ridiculous music download site, a la Napster or iTunes, called "BurnLounge." Basically, one pays $400 and you can download music onto your page, and people can come to your page and download off of your page the music you've downloaded previously and you see a percentage of that money. So...ultimately you never make any money and the guys in charge rake in the dough of stupid, stupid, stupid Earthlings-I mean, PEOPLE.

Then we opened up the club to people to dance and there was a woman in her late 30's/early 40's who proceeded to hit on each of us security guards as well as one of the bartenders. It was sad really.

Cason · « **Reply #13 on:** February 23, 2007, 02:21:20 AM »

But hey, it's a job -- and I got quite a few laughs out of it!

Cason · « **Reply #14 on:** February 23, 2007, 02:21:32 AM »

Tracks are up on the Brain's myspace!

Cason · « **Reply #15 on:** February 23, 2007, 02:26:10 AM »

The partay is in about 16 hours and 30 minutes...

Cason · « **Reply #16 on:** February 23, 2007, 02:27:38 AM »

TOD:
In the CD player -- (car) 24: Seasons 4 & 5 soundtrack
(home) Avenue Q

In the DVD player -- nothing...

Cason · « **Reply #17 on:** February 23, 2007, 02:33:05 AM »

La di da -- uploading pictures for the Brain's page now...

Cason · « **Reply #18 on:** February 23, 2007, 02:33:30 AM »

Dead as a doornail around here...

Cason · « **Reply #19 on:** February 23, 2007, 02:46:40 AM »

Okay -- I am off to bed...

Jrand74 · « **Reply #20 on:** February 23, 2007, 05:04:54 AM »

Congrats to MR BK on 25.000 entertaining posts.

Wasn't Hesternal the girl that Demi Moore played in her movie THE SCARLET LETTER?

Jrand74 · « **Reply #21 on:** February 23, 2007, 05:05:56 AM »

David Shire - okay I am convinced. I didn't know ALL of his scores. I am from Indiana, after all.

However, I do remember the TV movie and music from one of my favorite Tv movies EVER - Something for Joey.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #22 on:** February 23, 2007, 05:07:04 AM »

Work today. Bleh.

TOD:

DVD - Move Over Darling

"What bumbling nicompoop declared this perfectly healthy young woman dead?"

"You did, Your Honor."

"I did? Strike my last remark from the record."

Jrand74 · « **Reply #23 on:** February 23, 2007, 05:07:46 AM »

VCR: Curse of the Undead with Mr Michael Pate and Mr Eric Fleming

CD: Fifties Rock - some early songs I hadn't heard for Many Years!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #24 on:** February 23, 2007, 05:28:34 AM »

Off to work.

Michael · « **Reply #25 on:** February 23, 2007, 05:47:29 AM »

Not sure what m7y media watch will be today, or the weekend.

Michael · « **Reply #26 on:** February 23, 2007, 05:50:25 AM »

Went to my first hockey game in at least 15 years or longer last night.

It is such a fun game to watch as you never know what will happen next.

I just think there are too many teams out there and talent is spread thin.

Gone are the days of the super teams with many star players. Now a team is lucky to have one or two.

Michael · « **Reply #27 on:** February 23, 2007, 05:56:24 AM »

BK:

IS THE David Shire CD as the same as the Bay Cities release?

There is a lot to recommend on it especially as you said The Maureen McGovern tracks and the Return to Oz Suite.

Are you going to include the article you wrote about the Oz?
I include it below

Return To Oz was one of the most critically lambasted movies in recent memory. In addition, audiences stayed away in droves. If one queried people at the time, the answer was usually that they thought the movie too dark and scary for children. Of course, these same people were plunking down their tykes to watch faces implode and bloodily melt away in Raiders Of The Lost Ark and its sequel.

Even now when you ask people about Return To Oz they invariably say "Oh, that awful movie!" or some such phrase, but the fact is they usually say that without actually having seen the movie. This is all very unfortunate as Return To Oz is a mostly wonderful picture - well directed (Walter Murch, with an uncredited assist from Coppola and Lucas)-beautifully photographed (David Watkins) and unforgettably scored (David Shire). The one thing it is not, however, is The Wizard of Oz.

Given the unbelievable popularity of The Wizard it was probably a no-win situation for Disney...They were damned no matter what approach they took. No matter that Return to Oz is a lot closer in spirit to the books of L. Frank Baum...People expected to see a movie that would transport them back to the halcyon days of MGM, 3-strip Technicolor, little Judy and the Munchkins and instead they got something a little darker and more subdued. And certainly the film does lack humor.

But it is very entertaining, filled with vivid performances of Fairuza Balk as Dorothy, Jean Marsh as Mombi (and various heads) Nicol Williamson as Doctor Worley and the Nome King and Piper Laurie as Aunt Em. There is a haunting quality to much of the film, and some of the images, especially the opening shot of Dorothy lying in bed unable to sleep, stay with you long after the end credits.

Hopefully someday people will discover the movie, and enjoy it for the fine film it is.

Ben · « **Reply #28 on:** February 23, 2007, 06:07:18 AM »

Good Morning Michael.

I'm listening to Maltby & Shire's Closer Than Ever - Song by Song

Not sure what else is in the hopper for this weekend.

I needs must return to those pesky printouts.

Later, gaters.

Edisaurus · « **Reply #29 on:** February 23, 2007, 06:17:59 AM »

I hope, and I pray, for a HESTERNAL win just one more "A".

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