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Ironically I sent suggestions similar to 2 and 3 to the Administrators a few days ago. I also added that each post should have a character limit. A limit on number of posts per day would also restrict circumvention of the the character limit. I also recommended a term limitation for all threads.
Also, could prevent thread creators from posting on their own threads until someone else had.
Hates this.
Lotta guys layin' down a lotta rules and regulations.
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My decision to stop seeing movies in theaters has nothing to do with the movies that play there. It has to do with preferring to watch in the comfort of my own home. This didn't use to be possible in ancient times.
Home entertainment has made theater-going unnecessary - unless one absolutely HAS to see movies right away. Generally speaking, it's mostly "kids" who think it's imperative to keep up with what's happening in movies - for social purposes as much as entertainment.
So, I'm fine with letting the kids have the theaters. It's not like no other movies get made with the home market in mind. There's plenty. And, on average, they're better movies.
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Lava Lamps are way cool. Love those things.
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This isn't the first time it's been suggested that you and I should maybe take our act out on the road, Dargs. Remember?
More sensitive men might begin to feel like maybe they're not wanted around here.
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What a great voice she has! And those harmonies were pretty danged good, too. I appreciate the all-acoustic aspect as well.
It's groups with talent and a feel for music like this that incline me to start keeping up with the current US music again
They really are an interesting bunch, aren't they.
Here's an "official" video of their song 'Kingfisher'. Pretty cool.
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Noticed that have ya, dark?!
(...didn't know you were so slow on the ol' uptake, ol' buddy!)
Gettin' slower by the day, my friend.
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I've run into that also, and DO understand about copyright issues
It wasn't a copyright issue. It was an issue of a site being forbidden to copy from because it's known to have a great deal of "unsuitable" content.
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Awwwwwwwwww, and here I thought we were all getting along.
Sorry, Little Buddy, I'm not playing.
Jeesh. We can't even joke around with you.
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It sounds like she has a deal where, every time someone presses the "ignore" button, she gets a commission.
At a penny a push she should soon have enough to buy an autographed Warren William photo!
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I was once unable to embed a photo in my post. Turns out photos from certain sites are not allowed. While there were lots of photos from that site that would be unsuitable for embedding here, the one I was trying to embed was not a "bad" one.
Other than that one instance, no problems.
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Not a film, not exactly what you're looking for, but kinda related:
MacBird! is a 1967 satire by Barbara Garson that superimposed the transferral of power following the Kennedy assassination onto the plot of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Thus John F. Kennedy becomes "Ken O'Dunc", Lyndon Johnson becomes "MacBird", Lady Bird Johnson becomes "Lady MacBird", and so forth. As Macbeth assassinates Duncan, so MacBird is responsible for the assassination of Ken O'Dunc; and as Macbeth is defeated by Macduff, so MacBird is defeated by Robert O'Dunc (i.e. Robert Kennedy).
All I can remember is Ted being all excited about seeing a moo-moo (cow) outside. Only read it once in 1971 and that's the one thing that stuck.
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Much to my disappointment, we didn't get 'To the Devil A Daughter' up here in Canada.
We got yet another showing of 'Demon Seed' with Julie Christie. It's not that I don't like 'Demon Seed', mind you - the voice of Robert Vaughn as Proteus MAKES that movie, it's just that I haven't ever seen the Devil Daughter one.
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Yeah, isn't it wonderful that in this great country of America AND up there in the Great Frozen North of Canada we have options available to us which can be used to close our minds off to opinions expressed by others who we know from past experience may differ from our own and IF we perhaps have "felt" them to be "hurtful" by reading or hearing them?!
I think in her case it's more about the kick she gets from reminding people that she has them (or others) on ignore. I think she may be under the illusion that someone - anyone - cares what she sees or doesn't see.
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You must be kidding. Why would I want to ignore them?
For some reason, primos has promoted the use of the "ignore" feature dozens, if not hundreds, of times. She's proclaimed its wonderfulness repeatedly.
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But I'd say the "oldies renaissance", or rather, "revival" began before the movie, but the movie sure gave the whole thing a kick in the a s s .
Yes. It began with Sha Na Na, who appeared at Woodstock.
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My top 6 rock, soul, or disco songs from movie scores:
Across 110th Street---Bobby Womack
Freddie's Dead-----Curtis Mayfield (from SUPERFLY)
Thank God It's Friday----Donna Summer
Pretty in Pink-----Psychedelic Furs
Theme from SHAFT----Isaac Hayes
Dead Man's Party---Oingo Boingo (from BACK TO SCHOOL)
Paxton Quigley's Had the Course - Chad & Jeremy (from 3 in the Attic)
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Even as a kid, I was on the side of the witch.
My daughter always liked the witch. However, she hated her Kansas counterpart, the mean Miss Gulch, passionately.
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Really? I would think the general consensus is that "Jack and Diane" is his signature piece, and one of his best.
A reasonable assumption - it was his first, and biggest, hit.
I liked when he did it on SCTV and started turning into Ed Grimley as he was singing it. Funny!
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Wasn't it Stella Adler who was most associated with "Method"? Was Strasberg also "method"?
Strasberg was the con man who coined the term 'The Method' and a simple-minded media ran with it.
Stella was an adherent of the Stanislavskian Method and was the person who had instructed Brando in its exercises and principles.
Brando said 'The Method' that the media was constantly chattering about was just some bush!t term that Strasberg was using to sell himself as some visionary teacher. He went on to say that he never learned a thing from Strasberg and that Strasberg "would take credit for the moon and stars if he could". Or something like that.
Strasberg owned the school (the Actors Studio in New York) and I guess he felt because the studio was his, he deserved the credit for Brando's dynamic, yet naturalistic, style which electrified audiences and influenced other actors forever after.
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the superiority a lot of Method performers had about "their art" over their predecessors.
That's something I'd not been aware of - until I just now read it here.
Are you speaking about some who "studied" at Lee Strasberg's? Can you name anyone in particular who espoused that sentiment?
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Never got that much into the whole Punk scene, dark. Maybe a few of the Ramones more "sedate" hits like "I Wanna Be Sedated", but other than that, I really couldn't identify that much with all that "I'm an angry young man" thing, 'cause probably, I never WAS that much of an "angry young man".
I had zero use for punk rock back then. I think, though, that it's interesting that in today's America, it seems to have become more pertinent and appropriate a reaction. 1977 almost seems like paradise now.
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Lyrics from 'Right Before Your Eyes' by America:
so I pretend away
that I'm Rudolph Valentino
pull up in my limousineoh won't you come in out of the rain
things'll never be the same
and then just like Greta Garbo
you stare like there's no tomorrow -
Wow! Gotta say that kid with the funny haircut might have some "anger management" issues
Yep. Not even-tempered like Marion.
70's punk is more entertaining now than it was back then, dont'cha think?
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Oh, cheer up dark ol' buddy, and take comfort in the message to be found in this little ditty here.....
Okay. But I'll cheer up to MDC.
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That's me too. It's just so hard to work up the energy.