Topic: TWAS THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS (Read 34839 times)

bk · « **Reply #90 on:** December 26, 2008, 11:46:48 AM »

Someone's got to take us to page four -

bk · « **Reply #91 on:** December 26, 2008, 11:47:20 AM »

And it may as well be me. It's quite chilly out and quite windy, so either I'll wait to do the jog or I'll take the day off, jog-wise.

George · « **Reply #92 on:** December 26, 2008, 12:13:22 PM »

Quote from: singdaw on December 26, 2008, 01:54:04 AM

Hello, Dear Readers!

Spending a lovely three days at the Jersey shore. Lots of family, great and plentious food, good conversations and laughs, and the best of all: long walks on the beach while Zach frolics in the waves, chasing the seagulls. Today, as DR Tomovoz noted, is the Feast of Stephen. It is also my DH Jayson's birthday, so we will be celebrating that, as well.

Life is good!

A Very Happy Birthday to DR Singdaw's DH Jayson!!

George · « **Reply #93 on:** December 26, 2008, 12:20:21 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on December 26, 2008, 08:21:51 AM

Quote from: MBarnum on December 26, 2008, 08:14:42 AM
No cutting into Vixmom today! Hurray!

Ditto!

TRIPLE Ditto!

DakotaCelt · « **Reply #94 on:** December 26, 2008, 12:25:06 PM »

Hurray... No surgery for Vixmom!!!

George · « **Reply #95 on:** December 26, 2008, 12:27:44 PM »

Well, I decided not to go to work today. I actually had scheduled the day off, but with the problems on Tuesday (cat issues and being stuck in the snow), I was going to come into work today to make up a little time. However, my dad called this morning and asked if I could drive him on a couple of errands (his truck is totally stuck in the snow at home) so I'm taking the vacation day.

George · « **Reply #96 on:** December 26, 2008, 12:29:35 PM »

I still can make up a little time tomorrow...if I want.

DakotaCelt · « **Reply #97 on:** December 26, 2008, 12:31:56 PM »

I hear Seattle only has a small number of snow plows...

DakotaCelt · « **Reply #98 on:** December 26, 2008, 12:32:56 PM »

Just heard a dandy for an overdue book...

My lung had a tendon failure and can you wave the fine.

If I remember right there are no tendons in the lung

Laura · « **Reply #99 on:** December 26, 2008, 12:36:58 PM »

All time best excuse for an overdue book!

ArnoldMBrockman · « **Reply #100 on:** December 26, 2008, 12:56:16 PM »

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO SING SONG'S JAYSON

Matt H. · « **Reply #101 on:** December 26, 2008, 01:12:04 PM »

It was cold when I went out on my errands, and I had to wear a heavy jacket. A little windy, too, at noon, though the wind seems to have died down some.

Matt H. · « **Reply #102 on:** December 26, 2008, 01:17:25 PM »

I got a bunch of review discs today, too, including the new (unnecessary) DVDs of FUNNY FACE and BREAKFAST AT TIFFANYS. I haven't looked at them yet, but I'll just bet Paramount ported over the last remastered transfers of these two. (They did use new transfers for the first Centennial releases, but those transfers were much older.) They're two disc sets, so I'm sure the bitrates on the movies are much higher than the last issues, and they may end up looking a TINY bit sharper, but probably not that noticeable on my set-up. If I had a 100" projection screen, it might be more noticeable.

Also got the sequel to NATURE'S CALLING that came with its own pool floatie. This PR swag is SO ridiculous most of the time (I have gotten a few nice PR things since I took over the Paramount account a year ago, but most of it is really lame.)

Matt H. · « **Reply #103 on:** December 26, 2008, 01:19:23 PM »

Still, I'm taking the day off. I'll do FUNNY FACE tomorrow. All of these discs come out on January 16th.

Matt H. · « **Reply #104 on:** December 26, 2008, 01:21:03 PM »

I watched an NCIS episode while I ate lunch. It featured a simply marvelous child actor (his character's father had been kidnapped, a nice twist on the usual story), but I had this one figured out early.

Matt H. · « **Reply #105 on:** December 26, 2008, 01:22:41 PM »

I went ahead and watched another NCIS episode so I could finish up with disc 2 in the box. This one had Ziva and Tony working undercover as married assassins. I'm guessing this is where the whole sexual byplay between Ziva and Tony got started, and it was an entertaining show even if there really wasn't much mystery to it.

singdaw · « **Reply #106 on:** December 26, 2008, 01:22:54 PM »

Hi, everyone!

Jayson says a huge THANK YOU to all the kind Hainsie-Kimlets for the birthday wishes!

The presents, eating, walking, and laughing are continuing apace.

DR elmore3003 is right; I should try to take some pics.

singdaw · « **Reply #107 on:** December 26, 2008, 01:23:50 PM »

SOOOOO great to hear the news about DR vixmom!!!!! Hoo and Ray!!!!!!

Matt H. · « **Reply #108 on:** December 26, 2008, 01:27:15 PM »

I spent a large chunk of the afternoon watching the Carmen Miranda-Vivian Blaine musical GREENWICH VILLAGE. This is the movie famous for the screen debut of The Revuers, the cabaret act that featured Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and Judy Holliday. The Revuers gets screen credit, but if they did a number in the movie, it got cut since the three of them are basically extras in the movie. Comden and Green are pretty easy to spot; each gets a scene with the stars, but if you blink, you'll miss Judy Holliday as one of the gang in a couple of places.

The Technicolor is wonderful in this film, very lush and vibrant. Vivian Blaine is talented, but she just doesn't have much of a spark on screen. She's kind of a second tier Alice Faye (only with red hair). No wonder she never became a really big star.

Matt H. · « **Reply #109 on:** December 26, 2008, 01:29:09 PM »

I skimmed through today's AS THE WORLD TURNS. No Luke-Brian-Noah, but they were certainly featured in the previews.

Matt H. · « **Reply #110 on:** December 26, 2008, 01:30:48 PM »

I finished the afternoon watching a favorite LAW & ORDER episode from 1996. This was the Benjamin Bratt years, and he and Jerry Orbach worked so well together. Carey Lowell was the ADA, not my favorite of the brunette ADAs, but OK.

DakotaCelt · « **Reply #111 on:** December 26, 2008, 01:52:34 PM »

Happy birthday to DR Singdaw's dear Jayson!

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #112 on:** December 26, 2008, 01:55:27 PM »

Good Afternoon!

I believe I am officially movie'd out. -Although, I may go ahead and catch "Waltz with Bashir" tomorrow morning.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #113 on:** December 26, 2008, 01:56:45 PM »

Quote from: FJL on December 26, 2008, 06:08:16 AM

Got it! Thanks, Jose - enjoy the movie!

You're very welcome, Fred.

*Oh, I know I have the score too somewhere in my boxes, so if you do need the verse... But it may take me a day or two to locate it.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #114 on:** December 26, 2008, 01:58:01 PM »

DR vixmom -

A hundred million miracles
Are happening every day!

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #115 on:** December 26, 2008, 02:00:01 PM »

Quote from: bk on December 26, 2008, 11:41:31 AM

Twisted Nerve is sold out.

Miracle #98,623,091

The Vixter · « **Reply #116 on:** December 26, 2008, 02:00:06 PM »

Quote from: singdaw on December 26, 2008, 01:57:36 AM

DR vixmom, thanks for your wonderful Christmas posts. We did away with the adult gift exchange a few years ago. Christmas is just as nice now, only less expensive and less stressful.

***SURGERY & RECOVERY VIBES***
for you, DR vixmom

***PATIENCE VIBES***
for the whole vixfamily!!!!

She didn't need the surgury after all...)

Mean doctor's are messing with my Mama. *Gets big stick* Where's that hospital.

Matt H. · « **Reply #117 on:** December 26, 2008, 02:07:53 PM »

Afternoon internet surf is now concluded so I'm heading down now to load the dishwasher and get it going and then head back to the home theater for more fun.

WBBL.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #118 on:** December 26, 2008, 02:13:53 PM »

As for "Revolutionary Road"...

Quote from: Charles Pogue on December 26, 2008, 07:40:13 AM

Jose, I watched Revolutionary Road last night. Intense going. I started out disliking the discomfort of the whole thing a lot; then came around to where I really admired it. I'm still not sure I liked it or not.

Agreed, and I'm not sure I really like it or not either. I admired it greatly, but it's a hard film to "like" - which is also how I felt after seeing "The Wrestler" yesterday.

After seeing the movie, I finally read a few more of the reviews, and I can see where and why some critics have had problems with the movie. Pulling off a movie where the two lead characters are essentially unlikeable is a very hard thing to pull of, and Sam Mendes almost does it. I really did like Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslett, but it was the casting of the smaller parts that really impressed me: Kathy Bates, Richard Easton, Mike Shannon, David Harbour, Kathryn Hahn, Zoe Kazan - even Max Casella in what is essentially a bit part. (I even recognized a couple of "New York Faces" in the background - Christopher Fitzgerald, Heidi Armbruster, etc.)

I felt that the movie had a couple of false endings - and a too many brooding close-ups, but once we got to the final sequence, well... The final montage did "incur" a couple of laughs and giggles, but as it all started to settle in, you realized that that was what the whole movie was essentially about. -And the laughter in the movie started to die down.

I guess the biggest sign that I didn't really love it is that I was "distracted" by the production and costume design. The recreation of mid-1950s suburban Connecticut and New York City was spot on. The outfits for Kate Winslett were always well done, and just when you thought you she already looked beautiful, she would appear in a "beautiful dress", and WOW! But even her simple house dresses were scrupulously well-tailored. *I guess it helps to be married to the director.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #119 on:** December 26, 2008, 02:18:21 PM »

-And I really do like the 10:00am matinees. Not only is it only a $6.00 ticket, but they've never been sold out or crowded, and since it's generally an older crowd, it's also a bit quieter and less technologically "enabled". -Only two cell phones going off over the past three weekends! *I may even go back to see "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" just to have a more pleasant movie-going experience.

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