Topic: TRY NOT TO FAINT! (Read 1953 times)

bk · « **on:** October 26, 2025, 12:36:55 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes tried but failed not to faint, and now it is time for you to post until the fainting cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** October 26, 2025, 12:37:44 AM »

And the word of the day is: FLAIR!

George · « **Reply #2 on:** October 26, 2025, 12:58:31 AM »

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George · « **Reply #3 on:** October 26, 2025, 12:58:57 AM »

A Very Happy Birthday to (former) DR Jed!

singdaw · « **Reply #4 on:** October 26, 2025, 03:55:02 AM »

Good morning, friends.

singdaw · « **Reply #5 on:** October 26, 2025, 03:55:13 AM »

And others.

singdaw · « **Reply #6 on:** October 26, 2025, 03:55:20 AM »

Sunday.

singdaw · « **Reply #7 on:** October 26, 2025, 03:55:29 AM »

Not Sundae.

Freddie · « **Reply #8 on:** October 26, 2025, 04:10:22 AM »

singdaw, it's looking like a bright shiny Millstone Day ahead.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #9 on:** October 26, 2025, 04:11:45 AM »

Good morning, all!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #10 on:** October 26, 2025, 04:13:56 AM »

I am listening to Rubbra's Mass, performed by the Fleet Street Choir. Next up: Vaughn Williams' Mass performed by the same group.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #11 on:** October 26, 2025, 04:15:26 AM »

I slept poorly. The cats behaved, but I kept waiting for a repeat of the ringing doorbell, which never happened.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #12 on:** October 26, 2025, 04:15:56 AM »

I have no plans for today.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #13 on:** October 26, 2025, 04:23:11 AM »

I don't know how I missed The Curase of Drankenstein in 1957; my brother Macbeth and I saw every horror film that played in Middletown. I didn't see it until much later, after I had seen its sequel The Revenge of Frankenstein. I guess my first Hammer horror film was Horror of Dracula., which really terrified the eleven-year-old me.

John G. · « **Reply #14 on:** October 26, 2025, 04:41:21 AM »

Good morning, all.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #15 on:** October 26, 2025, 05:20:13 AM »

Good answer!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #16 on:** October 26, 2025, 05:52:50 AM »

Good morning, all.

John G. · « **Reply #17 on:** October 26, 2025, 05:53:59 AM »

I made it to rehearsal in time.

John G. · « **Reply #18 on:** October 26, 2025, 05:54:13 AM »

But I am still tired.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #19 on:** October 26, 2025, 05:54:44 AM »

Sadly, the toilet tank fix has been declared a fail. The gaskets or whatever simply wouldn't work on this old toilet. We couldn't make them watertight - which is kind of their only job, right? We'll replace the whole thing.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #20 on:** October 26, 2025, 06:03:07 AM »

In other news, Almost Famous was quite wonderful. The staging is stupendous, but even more important, I found most of the music to be good. Especially the second act songs, for whatever reason. And I'm grateful that the venue mercifully did not blow out our eardrums as could have happened in a typical Broadway production of this sort today. I have no idea how similar this incarnation is to what was on Broadway, but the creatives retooled it, and they announced that this will be the version that's eventually licensed. Not that I can imagine an amateur group pulling it off to any decent degree. But this was a treat.

Jrand75 · « **Reply #21 on:** October 26, 2025, 07:47:09 AM »

Mindset vibes for MR BK.

Laura · « **Reply #22 on:** October 26, 2025, 07:47:13 AM »

Good morning.

Jrand75 · « **Reply #23 on:** October 26, 2025, 07:48:08 AM »

There are several 50's/60's Hammer films onDEMAND at TCM this month,

I may watch a couple of them today.

John G. · « **Reply #24 on:** October 26, 2025, 07:53:36 AM »

Does anyone know a British film called The Cool Mikado?

Jrand75 · « **Reply #25 on:** October 26, 2025, 07:59:44 AM »

Jon Provost posted pictures of June Lockhart and wrote about her on his Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/jon.provost.31

ChasSmith · « **Reply #26 on:** October 26, 2025, 08:04:17 AM »

I watched (and probably fell asleep to) The Curse of Frankenstein on TCM several nights ago. I love the Hammer films, but I don't think any of their classic horror ever truly scared me. They're more like horror comfort food, or something to be admired, than something actually scary.

So what did scare me in those impressionable years? The Roger Corman films based on Poe stories hit me in just the right place for that. The first three or four of them truly did it, and I loved them for that and many other reasons. Those are favorites to this day.

Also back then: Mario Bava's Black Sunday and Black Sabbath, William Castle's Sardonicus, Strait-Jacket and The Night Walker, and my first time seeing Psycho which was in a re-release. Returning to Hammer, I was appropriately unnerved by their "psychological horror" films whose titles escape me at the moment. Likewise, the American ones such as Robert Aldrich's Baby Jane and Charlotte. Those were truly scary to me then, and I still love all of them now.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #27 on:** October 26, 2025, 08:10:02 AM »

Quote from: John G. on October 26, 2025, 07:53:36 AM

Does anyone know a British film called The Cool Mikado?

I sure don't! Reading a Wiki page about it now.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #28 on:** October 26, 2025, 08:20:45 AM »

Notes dabbed. Cleansed.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #29 on:** October 26, 2025, 08:22:30 AM »

Sorry the toilet tank innards replacement did not succeed.

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