Topic: FROZEN GRAVITY (Read 8037 times)

Dan M · « **Reply #150 on:** March 06, 2014, 06:07:43 PM »

My favorite space travel movies:

A Trip to the Moon (that's what it is, but it's much more than that)
The Honeymooners (okay, just kidding, but Ralph did offer many times to send Alice to the moon)
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (the Moon episode)(both the original and the Gilliam version)
Plan 9 From Outer Space (Bunny Breckinridge sends Dudley Manlove to Earth to reanimate Vampira and Lugosi)
Marooned (also rhymes with moon, and is the past tense of Bugs Bunny's favorite epithet)
Duck Dodgers in the 25^th and a Half Century (Daffiness ensues)
Stowaway to the Moon (TV movie I liked as a kid of the Apollo program era, not Showtime at the)
First Men in the Moon (Harryhausen!)
Moon Zero Two (Hammer goes to the moon!)
2001: A Space Odyssey (a masterpiece that reveals itself slowly over repeated viewings)
Planet of the Apes (1968, very different from the novel, and worlds better than Marky-Mark's version)
Invaders From Mars (the original score from this movie needs to be released very badly)
The Martian Chronicles (TV miniseries, not great, but not too bad in parts)
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (Supermarionation without marionettes!)

ChasSmith · « **Reply #151 on:** March 06, 2014, 06:09:31 PM »

Quote from: Ginny on March 06, 2014, 06:06:23 PM

I usually don't like to be at the sale on opening night because of the dealers, but as president I thought I should be there this year. My real satisfaction is selling books to families and cute kids.

Exactly. And mine is seeing stuff I've contributed get selected by regular folks.

Jane · « **Reply #152 on:** March 06, 2014, 06:10:54 PM »

Quote from: Ginny on March 06, 2014, 06:06:23 PM

I usually don't like to be at the sale on opening night because of the dealers, but as president I thought I should be there this year. My real satisfaction is selling books to families and cute kids.

Families and cute kids are more fun to sell to, especially those cute kids. I always enjoyed working the book fairs when the boys were in elementary school.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #153 on:** March 06, 2014, 06:14:15 PM »

Quote from: Jane on March 06, 2014, 06:10:54 PM

Quote from: Ginny on March 06, 2014, 06:06:23 PM
I usually don't like to be at the sale on opening night because of the dealers, but as president I thought I should be there this year. My real satisfaction is selling books to families and cute kids.

Families and cute kids are more fun to sell to, especially those cute kids. I always enjoyed working the book fairs when the boys were in elementary school.

I enjoy watching the families go absolutely nuts in the (usually very large) VHS (yes, VHS) family/kids/Disney movie/animated sections. It's a scene I'm "so" not a part of, but I love the enthusiasm and fun I'm witnessing. They are truly like kids in candy stores.

John G. · « **Reply #154 on:** March 06, 2014, 06:16:28 PM »

Quote from: Jennifer on March 06, 2014, 03:46:35 PM

Quote from: John G. on March 06, 2014, 03:15:22 PM
Just got my invite to Rachael Ray's house party during SXSW. A band named Diarrhea Planet is playing. I think I'll pass on that one. I do like the band name No.

What is a Rachael Ray house party? Will she be there?

Ray throws two parties each year during South by Southwest, Austin's annual movie, tech and music fest. Her husband is a musician, so the parties showcase plenty of music and free food. Yes, she's at the parties each year. She's really nice, poses with everyone for photos, and stands in front while her husband plays and cheers him on.

John G. · « **Reply #155 on:** March 06, 2014, 06:18:29 PM »

Quote from: KevinH on March 06, 2014, 03:47:57 PM

Quote from: bk on March 06, 2014, 03:47:29 PM
Had a really good work session with Sandy and Lanny and it's full speed ahead on our next album. Then we had food - I had a chili cheese and onion hot dog and fries. Really good.

Sounds great!

Both the album and the chili cheese dog sound great.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #156 on:** March 06, 2014, 06:19:12 PM »

I should also have included Planet of the Apes, Invaders from Mars, and The Martian Chronicles. Oy!

Dan M · « **Reply #157 on:** March 06, 2014, 06:21:25 PM »

Star Wars movies in order of preference:

1a. Empire Strikes Back
1b. Star Wars
2. Return of the Jedi
3. (last half of) Revenge of the Sith
49. (maybe one half hour's worth of) Attack of the Clones
132. (too much talking, too many midichlorians, and too much of Jake Lloyd) The Phantom Menace

Ginny · « **Reply #158 on:** March 06, 2014, 06:24:08 PM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on March 06, 2014, 06:09:31 PM

Quote from: Ginny on March 06, 2014, 06:06:23 PM
I usually don't like to be at the sale on opening night because of the dealers, but as president I thought I should be there this year. My real satisfaction is selling books to families and cute kids.

Exactly. And mine is seeing stuff I've contributed get selected by regular folks.

I had a hard time at the 2008 sale when a lot of my late mother-in-law's books were in stock.

Jane · « **Reply #159 on:** March 06, 2014, 06:28:07 PM »

That would be hard Ginny.

John G. · « **Reply #160 on:** March 06, 2014, 06:34:33 PM »

Los Angeles has been named the city with the worst congestion, while Austin ranks as No. 4. Haven't driven in LA in years, but I know Austin is a horror.

bk · « **Reply #161 on:** March 06, 2014, 06:37:48 PM »

I'm not sure about that app - I have no interest in speed reading like that - I take my time and bask in the prose I'm reading. Maybe for a bio or something, but even then, I see no benefit in it. Maybe for students? Not for me.

Dan M · « **Reply #162 on:** March 06, 2014, 06:41:32 PM »

I forgot to add the original Star Trek series and Lost in Space. And, as a fan of Jonathan Harris (Dr. Smith), Space Academy.

Of the Star Trek movies, in order of preference:

1. The Wrath of Khaaaaaaaaaaan (Ricardo Montalban, need I say more?)
2. The Voyage Home (about whales, not just Shatner's girth at the time.)
3. The Search for Spock (Nimoy was quite good in this one.)
4. The Final Frontier (actually quite awful, but Shatner did put his mark on this one, boy did he ever and how!) ("Sha Ka Ree" was a way of referencing Sean Connery, who turned down the role of Spock's brother, I recall, but was it a mockery of Connery?, I don't know. Maybe the budget on toupees was too prohibitive.)
32. The Motion Picture (like watching paint dry, or the spirit glue dry on the many toupees in the cast, what the heck happened to Robert Wise?)
100+ All of the Next Generation movies (despite liking Patrick Stewart, found all of them to be blown up episodes of the TV show, nothing that great, too chatty, admittedly I am a dyed in the wool original series fan.)
250+ All of the Star Trek reboots (aside from the actor who plays the young Bones McCoy, the magic is just not there for me.)

bk · « **Reply #163 on:** March 06, 2014, 06:41:34 PM »

Met with my stage manager and our cast posting goes up at LACC tomorrow. I'm not assigning many of the roles, save for about five (of the ones students are playing) because I want to assign the others, and there will be some doubling, once I know them a bit better, but before we actually begin. Because we're only sharing five people between two shows, I'll actually come in a week or two prior to our rehearsals starting, just to sit with our cast, let Kay Cole meet them, and just talk about the show and stuff.

Also, I'm meeting with the set and costume folks in about fourteen days - I think the costumes will probably be very true to the B'way and movie designs of Alvin Colt, which were in turn true to Mr. Capp, but I had an idea for the set that I'm hoping will happen - of course, it will be Al Capp-esque as was the B'way set and the film set, BUT I want our set completely in black-and-white like the Al Capp drawings were. That way, all the color comes from the costumes.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #164 on:** March 06, 2014, 06:42:56 PM »

Whoa. Nice.

Jane · « **Reply #165 on:** March 06, 2014, 06:50:13 PM »

Quote from: Dan M on March 06, 2014, 06:41:32 PM

I forgot to add the original Star Trek series and Lost in Space. And, as a fan of Jonathan Harris (Dr. Smith), Space Academy.

Of the Star Trek movies, in order of preference:

1. The Wrath of Khaaaaaaaaaaan (Ricardo Montalban, need I say more?)
2. The Voyage Home (about whales, not just Shatner's girth at the time.)
3. The Search for Spock (Nimoy was quite good in this one.)
4. The Final Frontier (actually quite awful, but Shatner did put his mark on this one, boy did he ever and how!) ("Sha Ka Ree" was a way of referencing Sean Connery, who turned down the role of Spock's brother, I recall, but was it a mockery of Connery?, I don't know. Maybe the budget on toupees was too prohibitive.)
32. The Motion Picture (like watching paint dry, or the spirit glue dry on the many toupees in the cast, what the heck happened to Robert Wise?)
100+ All of the Next Generation movies (despite liking Patrick Stewart, found all of them to be blown up episodes of the TV show, nothing that great, too chatty, admittedly I am a dyed in the wool original series fan.)
250+ All of the Star Trek reboots (aside from the actor who plays the young Bones McCoy, the magic is just not there for me.)

I didn't realize we were including tv shows. I was a Star Trek fan from day 1.

Interesting about the actor playing Bones because the original was the one actor on the show I never really warmed up to. I am very happy with the new Bones.

Dan M · « **Reply #166 on:** March 06, 2014, 06:50:45 PM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on March 06, 2014, 06:42:56 PM

Whoa. Nice.

Comic strip ditto

ChasSmith · « **Reply #167 on:** March 06, 2014, 06:54:11 PM »

Don't that take the rag off'n the bush!

Jane · « **Reply #168 on:** March 06, 2014, 06:56:58 PM »

Quote from: bk on March 06, 2014, 06:37:48 PM

I'm not sure about that app - I have no interest in speed reading like that - I take my time and bask in the prose I'm reading. Maybe for a bio or something, but even then, I see no benefit in it. Maybe for students? Not for me.

I can only imagine students, who have to read a book and don't want to, using this. Then I have to wonder using this app can they possibly pass a quiz on the book.

Dan M · « **Reply #169 on:** March 06, 2014, 07:05:49 PM »

Haven't gone, but there's a restaurant in Tucson (wonder if the Capp estate had contacted them):

John G. · « **Reply #170 on:** March 06, 2014, 07:12:20 PM »

Watched a fairly mediocre noir called "Angel Face" with Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons. D. Tiomkin score blaring throughout. Nice cast and some promise in the script, but Otto Preminger's direction is way too melodramatic and the limitations of what could be shown seem to strangle too much of it.

So, I'm off to read.

vixmom · « **Reply #171 on:** March 06, 2014, 08:13:54 PM »

thank you all for the kind words about the pictures

vixmom · « **Reply #172 on:** March 06, 2014, 08:15:48 PM »

Jeanne the Vixter's nametag read "Arwyn" one of the characters in the Lord of the Rings movies

vixmom · « **Reply #173 on:** March 06, 2014, 08:18:46 PM »

Bruce, the Vixter isn't going "Goth" she just happened to be wearing a black gown. She has wanted to dye her hair black since she was a little girl and I never would allow it , but now that's she's nearly 21 she decided to go for it - it came out better than I feared it would

vixmom · « **Reply #174 on:** March 06, 2014, 08:20:14 PM »

Sorry but i am a bit tired so good night all

singdaw · « **Reply #175 on:** March 06, 2014, 08:28:15 PM »

Great news about a new Sandy Bainum album!!!!

singdaw · « **Reply #176 on:** March 06, 2014, 08:35:05 PM »

Quote from: Dan M on March 06, 2014, 07:05:49 PM

I wonder if they serve corn pone?

singdaw · « **Reply #177 on:** March 06, 2014, 08:38:12 PM »

Jennifer · « **Reply #178 on:** March 06, 2014, 08:49:16 PM »

Quote from: Jane on March 06, 2014, 04:55:52 PM

DR Jennifer I returned to the link and concentrated on ignoring the flashing and was able to read 500 words per minute. It was fast but ok. I was very comfortable at the 350 word level. I wouldn't want this ap and would want to control my speed. Sometimes I like to re-read a section for clarity or pleasure.

I could read all the levels fairly easily. But I normally read way slower than the 250 word level.

bk · « **Reply #179 on:** March 06, 2014, 09:18:48 PM »

Finished with my viewing. One excellent motion picture, and one excellent first episode of a series.

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