Topic: ATTACK OF THE JUNEBUGS (Read 15314 times)

bk · « **on:** June 05, 2010, 11:55:20 PM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes attacked the attack of the Junebugs, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're currently being attacked by the Junebugs.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** June 05, 2010, 11:55:58 PM »

And the word of the day is: PENUMBRA!

George · « **Reply #2 on:** June 06, 2010, 12:04:56 AM »

Mary's just about to close up the library!

George · « **Reply #3 on:** June 06, 2010, 12:06:04 AM »

Crap...I couldn't select a different input while recording (even paused), so I switched the wires from the VCR to the DVR. While the video taped version has gray bars on the sides because of my widescreen TV, the rest of the picture fills the screen:

George · « **Reply #4 on:** June 06, 2010, 12:07:48 AM »

The black-and-white version that I recorded on TV is in hi-def and the picture is window-boxed:

This has black bars all around the picture. The two different versions don't match.

bk · « **Reply #5 on:** June 06, 2010, 12:09:24 AM »

Something is amiss with the hi-def image. I have the Blu-Ray - there should only be bars on the sides.

George · « **Reply #6 on:** June 06, 2010, 12:14:03 AM »

Quote from: bk on June 06, 2010, 12:09:24 AM

Something is amiss with the hi-def image. I have the Blu-Ray - there should only be bars on the sides.

When I play it directly to my TV, everything is fine, but I'm recording it to my standard-def DVD burner. That takes the entire widescreen image and fits it into a 4:3 size.

George · « **Reply #7 on:** June 06, 2010, 12:17:57 AM »

I didn't think about that when I recorded the show from TV. If I'd recorded the standard-def TV broadcast or if I had a black-and-white videotape, it would fill the screen when I recorded the show to my DVD burner.

George · « **Reply #8 on:** June 06, 2010, 12:45:10 AM »

Quote from: TCB on June 05, 2010, 01:25:17 PM

Quote from: bk on June 05, 2010, 12:53:04 PM
Back from various and sundried errands and whatnot - with more to come, and lunch, too. I delivered all the Promises materials to the designer, added a few things to the liner notes, cut a few things, and those are now done and sent.

I am really looking forward to that release!

DITTO!!

George · « **Reply #9 on:** June 06, 2010, 12:52:05 AM »

Quote from: vixmom on June 05, 2010, 07:47:49 PM

go to our HHW phottobucket account and you will see the lovely gardens

Very nice garden pictures, Vixmom!

vixmom · « **Reply #10 on:** June 06, 2010, 03:32:50 AM »

Quote from: George on June 06, 2010, 12:52:05 AM

Quote from: vixmom on June 05, 2010, 07:47:49 PM
go to our HHW phottobucket account and you will see the lovely gardens

Very nice garden pictures, Vixmom!

thanks i don't know why I can't get them to post

Cillaliz · « **Reply #11 on:** June 06, 2010, 05:04:42 AM »

Good morning! Not sure why I'm awake so early today, but I am.

Ben · « **Reply #12 on:** June 06, 2010, 05:18:13 AM »

Morning all.

Michael · « **Reply #13 on:** June 06, 2010, 05:32:31 AM »

and a good morning to everyone.

It's a working day for me, but that will change very soon

Druxy · « **Reply #14 on:** June 06, 2010, 05:47:57 AM »

I really enjoyed BURN AFTER READING. No classic, but a lot of quirky fun.

Druxy · « **Reply #15 on:** June 06, 2010, 05:50:16 AM »

Except for the music, which was terrific, I thought that MAMMY was a bore.

Almost every important event takes place off-screen

Even Michael Curtiz couldn't save that script.

Druxy · « **Reply #16 on:** June 06, 2010, 05:53:19 AM »

My wife and I watched CAMELOT last night, the movie with Richard Harris and Vanessa Redgrave.

Wonderful Lerner/Lowe score, but the movie is a mess.

Joshua Logan may have been a magnificent stage director, but God did not intend for him be a movie director.

Kerry · « **Reply #17 on:** June 06, 2010, 06:16:00 AM »

One of my favorite scenes in the movie, "CAMELOT" is "How to Handle A Woman." Richard Harris sings the entire song with a big old Band-Aid on the side of his neck. I know they didn't have Band-Aids then, so I figured it must have been of some of Merlin's doing.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #18 on:** June 06, 2010, 06:29:49 AM »

I enjoy CAMELOT - except when everyone mentions how "beautiful" Guenevere is - and Vanessa is really sort of plain....like all of the Walton girls....and I can't understand everything Franco Nero says....kind of like Genevieve Page iin YOUNGBLOOD HAWKE....but it is nice to look at, and the score is wonderful!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #19 on:** June 06, 2010, 06:31:45 AM »

Attack of the June Bugs sounds like a BIG movie.....with music by Albert Glasser, of course.

I am looking forward to the arrival of BOY & THE PIRATES with the Puppet Suite!

Thanks for the DDD code, DR JMK. As DR JMK posted yesterday 25MORE as a code will get you 25% off MANY things at the DDD site.

http://www.deepdiscount.com/

Jrand73 · « **Reply #20 on:** June 06, 2010, 06:34:01 AM »

Yes indeed, I shall see Ibsen's GHOSTS today......well Ibsen's play GHOSTS..... Many of those involved in this production at Buck Creek Players (where we saw BRAINEX Indiana style with MR BK and DR CP and EVIL KURT) - were also involved with the first production of the play what I wrote MY HAND IS NOT MY HEART at the Phoenix Theatre.....25 years ago this very summer!

I haven't seen many of them in a long time, so it will be lovely to see them again.....I think.

Ben · « **Reply #21 on:** June 06, 2010, 06:56:53 AM »

Heard about some bad tornadoes in Ohio. Hope Dear Ginny and Richard (and affiliated family) are OK.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #22 on:** June 06, 2010, 07:00:03 AM »

We had LOUD thunder around here and of course rain.....but the tornadoes, I think we a bit north of all Midwest HHW'ers....we shall see.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #23 on:** June 06, 2010, 07:04:05 AM »

Quote from: JRand59 on June 06, 2010, 06:34:01 AM

Yes indeed, I shall see Ibsen's GHOSTS today......well Ibsen's play GHOSTS..... Many of those involved in this production at Buck Creek Players (where we saw BRAINEX Indiana style with MR BK and DR CP and EVIL KURT) - were also involved with the first production of the play what I wrote MY HAND IS NOT MY HEART at the Phoenix Theatre.....25 years ago this very summer!

I haven't seen many of them in a long time, so it will be lovely to see them again.....I think.

It's about syphilis, ya know!

I only mention this because I saw the play several years ago with Amy Irving as the older lady (Mrs Alving? Is that her name?), and the mention of syphilis is so oblique that if I hadn't known it going in, I wouldn't know it to this day. I have to say, I've always thought Ibsen, unlike Chekhov, needed a play doctor.

Good morning, all! Today I am finishing the last number from THE ROSE OF ALGERIA, and I have some work to do on the Main Editorial Report for BABES IN TOYLAND. Just when you think it's safe to go back into the ocean . . .

I have no other plans today beyond accomplishing these two things. I will sit here in the AC and listen to some wonderful things. Exactly what has yet to be determined. Maybe even a Wagner opera, like LOHENGRIN or TANNHAUSER. I can listen with enjoyment to a 4-hour opera, I just can't stand to sit through a performance. I still haven't figured it out, but, to me, 4 hours of Wagner or Richard Strauss in the opera house is like 4000 hours of hell, but 3 to 4 hours of Mozart or Bizet is like 4 minutes of true pleasure.

Maybe it's the fact that nothng happens onstage in Wagner and Strauss: they bellow for fifteen minutes and someone moves, then another bellows for twenty minutes and someone slugs him, then the slugger bellows for ten minutes and nothing still happens.
Tristan gave his heart to Isolde in song
I blush
Oh, dear, but the song was six hours long
I blush
What they did was wrong without a doubt
If it took so long to sing about
But the thought can make my lily cheek to flush
I blush
Oh, dear, how they yodeled of love and death
I blush
They died, not from love but from lack of breath!

ArnoldMBrockman · « **Reply #24 on:** June 06, 2010, 07:07:58 AM »

Quote from: bk on June 05, 2010, 11:55:58 PM

And the word of the day is: PENUMBRA!

And The Song Of The Day Is: TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART

Jrand73 · « **Reply #25 on:** June 06, 2010, 07:10:02 AM »

I sort of knew that, DR ELMORE.....but thanks for reminding me.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #26 on:** June 06, 2010, 07:14:01 AM »

I too enjoyed Burn After Reading; minor Cohen, but amusing.

I also think Camelot is a mess and much of it (maybe all of it) simply miscast.

JMK · « **Reply #27 on:** June 06, 2010, 07:28:18 AM »

I have a soft spot for CAMELOT, but I do laugh at that tracking shot in the "forest" when Arthur and Guinevere meet and the camera suddenly jerks as if it's run over a cable. Whoops!

KevinH · « **Reply #28 on:** June 06, 2010, 07:30:53 AM »

Good morning!

Did anyone see the report on CBS Sunday Morning about Snowball, the dancing cockatoo? Amazing!

JMK · « **Reply #29 on:** June 06, 2010, 07:46:39 AM »

I mentioned this years ago on RATM (does anyone still RATM?--well, probably one person does, LOL) when someone said how much the Intel musical "logo" sounded like "I had a dream" from GYPSY. The musical "logo" of Windows is the opening three notes of GUINEVERE from CAMELOT.

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