Topic: IN THE MOOD (Read 13204 times)

Jrand73 · « **Reply #60 on:** April 10, 2006, 11:17:09 AM »

Congratulations on your good fortune, DRMBARNUM.

And I will be haunting the mailbox.

I received BLACK REBELS today and that is one mixed up wild movie....

Jrand73 · « **Reply #61 on:** April 10, 2006, 11:17:26 AM »

Page Three dance....but no picture....

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #62 on:** April 10, 2006, 12:05:04 PM »

Glad to hear the positive news about your dad, Elmore. We'll keep him in our prayers for another good five years!

The young man at our church has a broken pelvis. I will go to see him this afternoon.

MBarnum · « **Reply #63 on:** April 10, 2006, 12:06:53 PM »

Quote from: JRand55 on April 10, 2006, 11:15:46 AM

I almost bought two B/W Japanese movies,...

Which two did you almost buy?

bk · « **Reply #64 on:** April 10, 2006, 12:18:08 PM »

High and Low is my favorite Kurosawa film, and probably one of my top ten of all time. It is perfection - it's long, but feels like it's an hour instead of two-and-a-half. The Criterion is decent, but the Japanese disc, which is anamorphic, is the best (unfortunately, no subs), and the BFI from the UK is excellent (anamorphic and subs) - those are for multi-region players only, of course.

Let us know what you think.

I've been packaging orders all morning, and I'll venture over to the post office around three, I think. Footlight has now reordered the STAGE CD six times in two-and-a-half weeks, and they've sold well over 100 copies online.

bk · « **Reply #65 on:** April 10, 2006, 12:20:06 PM »

Depending on how you choose to read their home page, we appear to be the top selling show CD of the week.

vixmom · « **Reply #66 on:** April 10, 2006, 12:28:37 PM »

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Are We Safe?

In a two-day period in March, alarming reports revealed that "dirty (radiation) bombs" easily entered the country in car trunks in tests, that one-third of U.S. civilian nuclear research reactors were insufficiently secure, and that concerns were heightened about the 2,000 shoulder-fired missiles said to be unaccounted for in the world's arsenals.

On the other hand, the Los Angeles Times reported that the fishing village of Dillingham, Alaska, at least, is secure, now that a $200,000 Homeland Security anti-terrorism grant has paid for 60 "downtown" surveillance cameras (with 20 more to come).

Dillingham (pop. 2,400) is about 300 miles from Anchorage, with no roads linking it to anywhere.

[USA Today, 3-27-06] [USA Today, 3-26-06] [ABC News, 3-27-06] [Los Angeles Times, 3-28-06]

vixmom · « **Reply #67 on:** April 10, 2006, 12:29:36 PM »

Quote from: bk on April 10, 2006, 12:20:06 PM

Depending on how you choose to read their home page, we appear to be the top selling show CD of the week.

Excellent news!

vixmom · « **Reply #68 on:** April 10, 2006, 12:31:07 PM »

Quote from: DearReaderLaura on April 10, 2006, 12:05:04 PM

The young man at our church has a broken pelvis. I will go to see him this afternoon.

[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]~~~Rapid Healing Vibes~~~ for DearReaderLaura's tree climbing parishoner[/move]

vixmom · « **Reply #69 on:** April 10, 2006, 12:34:13 PM »

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The Christian Diocese of Mizoram in northeast India, which was established by Welsh Presbyterian missionaries who worked the area from 1840 to around 1960, announced in March that it would send a missionary back to Wales because it was clear that the Welsh are in serious spiritual decline. "The Mizos," said Rev. Zosang Colney, "have a burden to do something for their Mother Church in Wales," since fewer than 1 in 10 Welsh regularly attend services. [Daily Telegraph (London), 3-6-06]

vixmom · « **Reply #70 on:** April 10, 2006, 12:37:55 PM »

Outstanding Police Work:

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(1) A 40-year-old man in Cedarburg, Wis., was arrested on suspicion of DUI when police noticed the severed hose of a gas station pump sticking out of his car's fuel door. (It belonged to a Kwik Trip station.)
[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2-26-06]

(2) Daniel Nordell, 52, with a history of DUI, was arrested in March when police saw him driving through downtown Waupaca, Wis., in reverse (because he said the other gears wouldn't work).
[Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wis.), 3-3-06]

(3) A 44-year-old man was arrested for DUI in Australia's Northern Territory in March after he asked a police officer how to get to the hard-to-miss Uluru (Ayers Rock, the huge, 1,000-foot-high rock formation that appears red in sunlight), which was about 300 feet in front of him, illuminated in his headlights. [Reuters, 3-29-06]

vixmom · « **Reply #71 on:** April 10, 2006, 12:43:41 PM »

Driving While Nude

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Recent drivers who decided, for reasons known only to them, to get naked before taking the wheel:

(1) A woman, her toddler and her mother (all naked), Norwood, N.Y., sitting in a parked car (February). [New York Daily News, 2-13-06]

(2) John Persico, Providence, R.I., smashed into several cars naked (February). [WKMG-TV (Orlando)-AP, 2-23-06]

(3) Natalie Peterson, 23, Roy, Utah, shucked her clothes after an argument with her aunt (March).
[KTVX-TV (Salt Lake City), 3-26-06]

(4) Eric Wayne, 57, Pocono Township, Pa. (An officer who knew him said Wayne "tends to get a little weird" when he's been without sex) (arraigned in March).
[Pocono Record (Stroudsburg), 3-16-06]

(5) A man and woman, ages 59 and 70, Cologno al Serio, Italy (joyriding nude) (March). [Reuters, 3-16-06]

vixmom · « **Reply #72 on:** April 10, 2006, 12:46:36 PM »

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Brian Blair is now a Republican county commissioner in Tampa, Fla., but before that was a professional wrestler for 20 years.

He now says it wasn't the dropkicks, pile drivers or neck breakers that ended his career, but rather tripping over a tray of dirty dishes at a Carrabba's Italian Grill in Tampa in 2001, which he said injured his head, shoulder and knee, and his lawsuit is still pending.
(His previous lawyers resigned in March.)

Blair wrestled for four months after that injury, but said the matches were the less-strenuous "tag-team" contests.

Also, hospital records show a blood-alcohol reading of 0.089 90 minutes after the incident, though Blair told the Tampa Tribune he only had a sip. [Tampa Tribune, 3-9-06]

Jrand73 · « **Reply #73 on:** April 10, 2006, 12:49:20 PM »

I bought ONE DR MBARNUM....the discussed HIGH AND LOW...and I almost bought another Samarai movie with Mr Mifune - but decided to opt for the HOFFMAN which I think some DR's here have praised.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #74 on:** April 10, 2006, 12:53:46 PM »

Congratulations on the Number One where it counts: The buying public!!

Jennifer · « **Reply #75 on:** April 10, 2006, 12:54:54 PM »

Good vibes to DR Laura's friend. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Jrand73 · « **Reply #76 on:** April 10, 2006, 01:07:05 PM »

Pelvic healing vibes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Jrand73 · « **Reply #77 on:** April 10, 2006, 01:07:47 PM »

Don't want the grass to grow in Blue Moon's nice pen....what is good to put on the ground for her to lay on and help keep grass and weeds from growing?

Matt H. · « **Reply #78 on:** April 10, 2006, 01:09:19 PM »

I came close to buying THE TALES OF HOFFMAN, but I let it slide again. I bought more than I probably needed to as is. Besides, it's great to have some things to anticipate later.

Matt H. · « **Reply #79 on:** April 10, 2006, 01:11:21 PM »

Had a fine lunch at Bell de Taco today. Then, came back to enjoy some fine DVDs.

Matt H. · « **Reply #80 on:** April 10, 2006, 01:12:19 PM »

I finished CAPOTE again today. It is very hard to watch the reenactment of the Clutter murders as Perry recounts them.

Matt H. · « **Reply #81 on:** April 10, 2006, 01:14:53 PM »

Next up was BLONDE VENUS. Hard for me to decide which of Dietrich's 30s movies I like the most, but this and SCARLET EMPRESS are probably neck and neck for me. Just love her songs in BLONDE VENUS, especially "I Couldn't Be Annoyed."

The transfer looks fine, and it's sharp enough that for the first time, I was able to see the runs in her stockings once things start to go bad for Helen Faraday.

Matt H. · « **Reply #82 on:** April 10, 2006, 01:17:20 PM »

The biggest disappointment of the afternoon was THE YELLOW ROLLS-ROYCE. I thought I'd watch about twenty minutes of it to see how the transfer looked.

Well, it looked just fine, nice and sharp and colorful until the crerdits were over, and then it reverted to a pan and scan monstrosity! I was very surprised as Turner doesn't usually show films pan and scan that are originally shot in Panavision, and I have every intention of going to the website and complaining about it.

So, I'll have to do without the film on DVD a while longer.

Matt H. · « **Reply #83 on:** April 10, 2006, 01:18:08 PM »

BTW, DR George, I put the DVD I dubbed for you in the mail today. Expect it later in the week.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #84 on:** April 10, 2006, 01:41:29 PM »

Mostly what I remember about THE YELLOW ROLLS ROYCE was a huge four page fold out ad in Life Magazine.....

It certainly made the movie look better than it was when I went to see it...but then I went to see it, so the ad served its purpose.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #85 on:** April 10, 2006, 01:43:38 PM »

Quote from: JRand55 on April 10, 2006, 11:15:46 AM

I almost bought two B/W Japanese movies, but decided to go with one HIGH AND LOW and a color spectacular TALES OF HOFFMAN. I am sure I don't own either of those.

DRJRand55, the Offenbach TALES OF HOFFMANN looks spectaculat, and it's such a bizarre but wonderful film. As a staging on the Offenbach opera, I prefer John Schlesinger's production from covent Garden with Domingo, but the visuals of the Powell film are really gorgeous. I see that THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY, which I have on a Criterion disc, is now released on another label; if this means it's going out of print from Criterion, there might be some inexpensive remaindered DVDs available, and it's a wonderful film, a bit like a Cockney SOPRANOS.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #86 on:** April 10, 2006, 01:48:17 PM »

Thanks for the info...and of course selections from Tales from Hoffman were played on that fateful Sunday evening in the first class dining room of the Titanic....

THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY

That is the name of my new musical!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #87 on:** April 10, 2006, 01:50:33 PM »

Off to THE SOUND OF MUSIC - round two.

You know what to do.............

elmore3003 · « **Reply #88 on:** April 10, 2006, 02:03:43 PM »

Quote from: JRand55 on April 10, 2006, 01:50:33 PM

Off to THE SOUND OF MUSIC - round two.

You know what to do.............

PRAY!!!

George · « **Reply #89 on:** April 10, 2006, 02:08:14 PM »

Quote from: MBarnum on April 10, 2006, 10:53:56 AM

Don't you hate that when you buy a DVD that you already have!

Which reminds me...JRand, you will be having a few things coming to you in the mail very soon! LOL!

How about buying a vinyl album for something that you forgot that you had on CD?? Talk about dumb!

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