Topic: DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE (Read 8442 times)

John G. · « **Reply #30 on:** February 11, 2022, 05:44:01 AM »

I had very vivid dreams inspired by The French Dispatch. I was trapped in a weird Anglo-French game involving a company called Schwa Airlines. “They never fly where you want to go” was their motto. I couldn’t figure out how to get out. They were not stressful dreams, though.

John G. · « **Reply #31 on:** February 11, 2022, 05:44:11 AM »

elmore3003 · « **Reply #32 on:** February 11, 2022, 05:44:30 AM »

Green's review is actually better than I expected, and I agree with his points of politically cleaning up a period show. It's something I hate.

John G. · « **Reply #33 on:** February 11, 2022, 05:46:02 AM »

I also don’t think Sutton Foster is ideally cast. She’d almost make a better Harold than Marian.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #34 on:** February 11, 2022, 06:03:22 AM »

TOD

Not much this week so far, but...

A couple of nights ago I took a movie off the shelf, Last Exit to Brooklyn, which I saw the week it opened in summer of 1990, and then only once a few years later when I got it on laserdisc. I'm not even sure I watched it all the way through that second time. But suddenly, out of the blue, I was ready for it this week, don't know what triggered that, but I ate up every frame. It's something of a miracle how this German director Uli Edel took it under his wing and shot it in what was then still a very dangerous part of the city. The translation of Hubert Selby's prose to the screen is incredible, and makes On the Waterfront look like the Disney version of a dockworkers' strike. And there's so much more. The cinematography and atmosphere are overwhelming. There's a vintage and worthwhile 45-minute "making of" doc on the Blu-ray, much of which is devoted to author Selby who appears in a bit part and talks about his life and the book and the locale, and after I've taken a few days away from it I shall listen to the director's commentary.

So where does one go from there? Requiem for a Dream? Same author, same incredible dark world...

ChasSmith · « **Reply #35 on:** February 11, 2022, 06:10:37 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on February 11, 2022, 05:44:30 AM

Green's review is actually better than I expected, and I agree with his points of politically cleaning up a period show. It's something I hate.

Absolutely. What he's pointed out, and what I've heard elsewhere, is an embarrassment.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #36 on:** February 11, 2022, 06:16:05 AM »

Good morning, one and all.

It's another beautiful day in Johnston SC.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #37 on:** February 11, 2022, 06:19:57 AM »

I simply do not understand the whitewashing, so to speak, of plays written about periods in history when ugly attitudes were the norm and are reflected in the stories being told. For the most part, the plays are poking fun, or condemning, those antiquated mores.

Today, it seems that folks are offended by truth at all turns.

Pretending that something didn't exist by eliminating it from plays or books -- and by banning movies, for pity's sake -- seems more a way to pave the path toward returning to those habits/beliefs/traits that are things that should be continuously referenced to prevent such returns.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #38 on:** February 11, 2022, 06:24:10 AM »

I watched, on Disney+, "Pollyanna" last night. The original with Hayley Mills.

It has been decades since I last saw it.

It remains a delight.

One of the things that stuck with me when I first saw it and which impressed me last night is the ending. There is no resolution about her future in terms of walking again, but her spirit was returned to her by the people she had touched.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #39 on:** February 11, 2022, 06:28:24 AM »

So many things to do...

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #40 on:** February 11, 2022, 06:29:24 AM »

Hopefully, my two brain hemispheres will collaborate today so that something positive gets done.

Michael · « **Reply #41 on:** February 11, 2022, 06:30:10 AM »

Good morning to all

Michael · « **Reply #42 on:** February 11, 2022, 06:30:24 AM »

I plan to watch the movie of tick tick boom again this weekend I really enjoyed it

singdaw · « **Reply #43 on:** February 11, 2022, 06:38:53 AM »

John G. · « **Reply #44 on:** February 11, 2022, 06:50:26 AM »

It’s shaping up to be a Monday kind of Friday.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #45 on:** February 11, 2022, 07:36:37 AM »

I would swear that Sarah Palin every day looks more and more like Mother Bates at the end of Psycho!

singdaw · « **Reply #46 on:** February 11, 2022, 08:33:22 AM »

Val Kilmer IS Moses.

and

Sarah Palin IS psycho.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #47 on:** February 11, 2022, 08:41:16 AM »

Continued rabbit hole vibes for MR BK.

It is most exciting to hear that something's coming......

Jrand74 · « **Reply #48 on:** February 11, 2022, 08:41:25 AM »

Vibes for DR ELMORE today.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #49 on:** February 11, 2022, 08:44:36 AM »

Well.....I have been in a few productions of The Music Man - as I am sure many of us have.....

As a director I would never hire a Barbershop Quartet - I was choreographing a production wherein the director did that. They were insufferable.....everything was about them....they wanted to do all their numbers down center....they fought with the musical director about tempi....and they couldn't say a line for ****!

Build your quartet from folks who audition for the show.

Unless you want to go around in your drawers all day!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #50 on:** February 11, 2022, 08:46:36 AM »

I don't get me started on that group of bitches that locally go by the name:

The C*vered Br*dg* Cho*us. I did that so they can't find their stupid name here doing a search, which I am sure many of them do all day everyday.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #51 on:** February 11, 2022, 08:48:16 AM »

Well went and bought two nice sports jackets at the Goodwill today - somebody my size must have kicked the bucket.

Went to Pet Supplies Plus and got bird seed for Barnum. I buy two different kinds in bulk and mix them with sunflower seed kernels.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #52 on:** February 11, 2022, 08:49:59 AM »

And I am still eating the meatloaf and potatoes I made on Wednesday. Still good.....sometimes in a bowl and sometimes on a sandwich.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #53 on:** February 11, 2022, 08:56:31 AM »

There's nothing like a good leftover meatloaf sandwich.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #54 on:** February 11, 2022, 08:57:20 AM »

And I couldn't make myself any plainer if I was a Quaker on his day off.

singdaw · « **Reply #55 on:** February 11, 2022, 09:58:27 AM »

I've got the box. And you don't.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #56 on:** February 11, 2022, 10:10:07 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on February 11, 2022, 09:58:27 AM

I've got the box. And you don't.

Doesn't look like a happy camper, the kitty out of the box.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #57 on:** February 11, 2022, 10:10:38 AM »

It's a weird Friday.

That's all I can say about it.

Everything feels "off".

Jrand74 · « **Reply #58 on:** February 11, 2022, 10:10:52 AM »

I couldn't be any clearer if was a button hook in the well water!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #59 on:** February 11, 2022, 10:11:23 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on February 11, 2022, 07:36:37 AM

I would swear that Sarah Palin every day looks more and more like Mother Bates at the end of Psycho!

Tundra trash.

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