Topic: BK AND THE HOLY GRAIL (Read 20625 times)

DAW · « **Reply #30 on:** October 03, 2009, 07:09:20 AM »

Some of the 160,000 charred acres near Los Angeles:

Matt H. · « **Reply #31 on:** October 03, 2009, 07:18:26 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on October 03, 2009, 07:00:40 AM

Time to head out! See you all tonight.

Have a great time, DR Elmore!

Matt H. · « **Reply #32 on:** October 03, 2009, 07:18:56 AM »

I'm heading down now to get a jump start on my MEDIUM watching for today.

WBBL.

Jennifer · « **Reply #33 on:** October 03, 2009, 07:34:00 AM »

It has been very cold this past week. But today it is scheduled to warm up a bit (high of around 65F). Although it is raining.

Matthew · « **Reply #34 on:** October 03, 2009, 07:46:15 AM »

Good morning. Vacation time is almost among us. Just another day or two then we're off. Work has been changing day by day. We have a new Pastor with some new ideas that are affecting the music program - all in a good way, of course. Just a lot of new work.

As for film scores, if it wasn't for Krtizerland, I would be clueless.

Kerry · « **Reply #35 on:** October 03, 2009, 07:48:46 AM »

Quote from: DAW on October 03, 2009, 06:38:35 AM

Subversive children's book: Roy and Silo have a baby

A lovely book-- and one I've given to a few friends!

Kerry · « **Reply #36 on:** October 03, 2009, 07:54:32 AM »

TOD--

I liked Johnny Williams's scores for "How to Steal A Million" and "Penelope" although they are very similar. Penelope was released on LP but that was it.

I don't know that either is exactly a Holy Grail, but I enjoyed them.

The soundtrack to the A&E series, "My Family and Other Animals" terrifically charming series) wold be heaven. The main theme always gives me chills.

I'm sure there are many more...................

bk · « **Reply #37 on:** October 03, 2009, 08:12:34 AM »

Penelope was indeed released on CD by Chapter Three (now defunct and CD oop), and How To Steal A Million has been released recently.

bk · « **Reply #38 on:** October 03, 2009, 08:13:25 AM »

Open house tomorrow - today they've been working since seven-thirty - there must be twenty people over there, oafs all, making so much noise you'd think they were just starting.

bk · « **Reply #39 on:** October 03, 2009, 08:14:07 AM »

Oh, and I guess I'm up.

Laura · « **Reply #40 on:** October 03, 2009, 08:24:37 AM »

Good morning.

Laura · « **Reply #41 on:** October 03, 2009, 08:26:31 AM »

Hopefully the house will sell quickly, BK.

Laura · « **Reply #42 on:** October 03, 2009, 08:26:48 AM »

Hey! Guess what time it is!

Druxy · « **Reply #43 on:** October 03, 2009, 08:34:56 AM »

Quote from: Matt H. on October 03, 2009, 06:36:08 AM

I'll be working on MEDIUM today, and with luck I should finish by this afternoon or early evening leaving the rest of the evening free. If THE WIZARD OF OZ arrives today, I'll watch that tonight. If not, I'll watch some of this barrage of TV shows cluttering my DVR.

I watched the first 4 episodes of MEDIUM last night. In its 5th year, it's still a very good show.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #44 on:** October 03, 2009, 08:40:38 AM »

Food for thought:

LATIMES - OPINION

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Obama's pink slips for garment workers
The administration's immigration policies callously cost 1,800 Angelenos their jobs.
Tim Rutten
October 3, 2009

This week, unemployment among American workers climbed to its highest level in a quarter of a century. In parts of Los Angeles, joblessness has reached levels unmatched since the Depression. In many predominantly African American and Latino neighborhoods, nearly one in four people is out of work.

Yet the Obama administration has chosen this moment to deprive more than 1,800 Angelenos, nearly all Latino immigrants, of jobs that not only pay a living wage but provide health insurance and other benefits. The workers are employed by American Apparel, the largest employer in downtown L.A.'s garment district. The company and its workers are victims of a shift in federal law enforcement that began under George W. Bush and now has taken a particularly callous turn under President Obama.

The firings are taking place because the American Apparel workers were found to be using identity documents that federal immigration authorities have deemed illegitimate. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has called the firings "devastating."
…
In the case of American Apparel, officials went after a firm that pays its workers $10 to $12 an hour -- well above the federal minimum wage -- and provides health benefits (including an on-site clinic), subsidized lunches and transportation, a stock-purchase plan and guaranteed year-round employment, a rarity in the garment industry.
…
In fact, the most appalling aspect of the Obama administration's wretched conduct of this affair is its studied indifference to the fate of the men and women it has thrown out of work. Cunnane's church serves as a vital social service agency in a neighborhood that is bursting at the seams with working people from southern Mexico and Central America. The mass firing at American Apparel, he said, "is going to put all these families under terrific pressure, and who's going to pick up the pieces?" Cunnane, himself an immigrant from Ireland's County Sligo, points out that it is "crazy to think that people are going to go back to their homelands when they've married and have American-born children in school here."
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As one fired American Apparel worker told a reporter this week, "I'm going to have to go to one of those sweatshop companies where I'm going to get paid under the table."

If the Obama administration wants to force employers to more scrupulously examine the documents of new applicants for employment, that's all well and good. But legally coercing companies to fire workers who've been on the job and paying taxes for, in some cases, more than a decade is far worse than folly.

It may be strictly lawful, but the justice involved is the sort that sent Pilate to wash his hands

I wish the article had also addresed the availability of willing and able legal workers.

der Brucer

Jane · « **Reply #45 on:** October 03, 2009, 08:40:42 AM »

DR Laura, thank you for the beautiful monarch & darling kitten photos.

Jane · « **Reply #46 on:** October 03, 2009, 08:43:07 AM »

DR DAW, I'm sad the land has been charred, however the photo is beautiful.

Jane · « **Reply #47 on:** October 03, 2009, 08:50:09 AM »

Quote from: DERBRUCER on October 03, 2009, 08:40:38 AM

Food for thought:

LATIMES - OPINION

Quote
Obama's pink slips for garment workers

I wish the article had also addresed the availability of willing and able legal workers.

der Brucer

I agree, good article but incomplete. A follow up story would be nice.

bk · « **Reply #48 on:** October 03, 2009, 08:51:13 AM »

My wish is for the house to sit there unsold for a year. That's my wish. And my other wish is for the contractor on this job to have one of these built next door to HIM.

Laura · « **Reply #49 on:** October 03, 2009, 08:56:01 AM »

The house next to us was flipped several years ago, before housing prices went way up and before I even heard of "flipping." We were so glad to have that neighbor gone that we didn't care how much noise they made.

Laura · « **Reply #50 on:** October 03, 2009, 08:56:47 AM »

That wasn't very nice, was it?

Jane · « **Reply #51 on:** October 03, 2009, 09:01:42 AM »

If the neighbor was that bad, you don't need to be nice

Jane · « **Reply #52 on:** October 03, 2009, 09:06:39 AM »

STARGATE UNIVERSE was a big disappointment.

Jane · « **Reply #53 on:** October 03, 2009, 09:10:58 AM »

Has anyone watched the new show on CW, ONE TREE HILL? DR Jennifer? I'm curious about the song HEART which was used in the season premiere.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #54 on:** October 03, 2009, 09:12:34 AM »

Belated (or early) ask BK question:

Were you involved with the Soundtrack CD for Kull the Conquerer (a movie with a screenplay by that Kid from Kentucky)?

Last night's new series Stargate Universe has a score by Joel (one of Jerry's kids - Goldsmith not Lewis).

der Brucer

MBarnum · « **Reply #55 on:** October 03, 2009, 09:18:02 AM »

TOD:

Lots of great soundtracks yet to be released but some that come to mind that I would love to have on CD

ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE (actually, I do have it, but not an official release)

EARTH VS THE SPIDER

DAY OF THE OUTLAW

HOT CAR GIRL ( great Cal Tjader music)

any number of 1950s B films from Republic, Allied Artists and United Artists have some great music, and I would love to get them on CD.

MBarnum · « **Reply #56 on:** October 03, 2009, 09:19:11 AM »

I think the new sitcom MODERN FAMILY is now one of my favorite shows...so funny...it was even funnier then THE OFFICE...or course this weeks THE OFFICE wasn't a very good episode, IMO.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #57 on:** October 03, 2009, 09:20:19 AM »

Quote from: Jane on October 03, 2009, 09:01:42 AM

If the neighbor was that bad, you don't need to be nice

Well, if she wants to date Donny Osmond she does

der Brucer

MBarnum · « **Reply #58 on:** October 03, 2009, 09:21:06 AM »

Well, time to get some cleaning done around the house. My friend Lori, who I worked with at Bi-Mart oh so many years ago, is coming by and we are heading over to Star of India for lunch with my friends Ron and Patrick, and I don't want her to see all the dust in my home environment.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #59 on:** October 03, 2009, 09:24:42 AM »

Quote from: Jane on October 03, 2009, 09:06:39 AM

STARGATE UNIVERSE was a big disappointment.

Yes - when you are still unfamiliar with the individual characters the constant time/space shifts between similar sets is confusing. We needed a more linear story line until we all got acquainted.

I thought David Blue (Eli) - Emmy nominee from Ugly Betty - stole the show.

der Brucer

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