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    >*I killed two people. One was... yesterday? He was just a boy and I led him into quicksand. The other was... well, before Aqaba. I had to execute him with my pistol, and there was something about it that I didn't like*.....

     

    >*I enjoyed it*...

    Lawrence of Arabia Peter O'Toole (T.E. Lawrence) 1962

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    >*Rome is the mob. Conjure magic for them and they'll be distracted. Take away their freedom and still they'll roar. The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the senate, it's the sand of the coliseum.*

    Gladiator Derek Jacobi (Gracchus) 2000

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    >Jake, if you get MGMHD, they are showing Red River at 5:30pm Eastern time, tomorrow. All but one film I've seen on MGMHD have actually been in HD.

     

    Thank you for your kind concern but I already own the DVD and watch it when it suits my fancy...

     

    BTW, my quotes were from the start of the movie to the ending and Red River is more than meets the common eye...

     

    It is a complex western...

    Jake's off topic music thread...

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    The Beach Boys...

     

    By Lindsey Buckingham

     

    Posted Apr 15, 2004 12:00 AM

     

    The Beach Boys showed the way, and not just to California. Sure, they may have sold the California Dream to a lot of people, but for me, it was Brian Wilson showing how far you might have to go in order to make your own musical dream come true.

    In the beginning, I was someone who grew up in California and was a lover of the early music that he and the Beach Boys made. Later, I would relate to Brian's struggle as an artist against a machine that tended toward serving the bottom line. Brian fought hard against the industry attitude that if it works, run it into the ground. Music meant much more to him than that. He was trying to do something so much bigger than that with his teenage symphonies to God. In the process, he really rocked the boat and changed the world.

     

    When the Beach Boys started, Brian was taking European sensibilities and infusing them into a Chuck Berry format. Those harmonies were based on the Four Freshmen, with a little church element added to it. He put all that on top of Chuck Berry rock & roll, and the result sounded so fresh. I remember hearing "Surfin' Safari" first when I was in sixth grade and the way that record jumped out of the radio. It had the beat, the sense of joy, that explosion rock & roll gave to a lot of us. But it also had this incredible lift, this amazing kind of chemical reaction that seemed to happen inside you when you heard the whole thing.

     

    Pet Sounds is the acknowledged masterpiece, and it's everything it's said to be, with Brian taking some of the influences he got from Phil Spector and making something all his own. But even before that there's Side Two of The Beach Boys Today!, which is really just one ballad after another and is for me one of the great sides on a rock album. Those are beautiful numbers -- "Please Let Me Wonder," "Kiss Me Baby," "She Knows Me Too Well," "In the Back of My Mind" -- that foreshadow Brian's angst and show where he's starting to expose his vulnerability. A lot of what you find later on Pet Sounds or Smile, you could find in a different form early on.

     

    Today it's nice to see that Brian's in a place where he can do what he wants without the pressure of selling or of having to be the support system for so many others. That's great, because he gave the rest of us more than his fair share of good vibrations.

     

    Rollingstone

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    Sly and The Family Stone...

     

    By Don Was

     

    Posted Apr 15, 2004 12:00 AM

     

    Sly and the Family Stone didn't have to say, "Why can't we all just get along?" Looking at the band members and listening to their shared sound made the statement. On the early Sly and the Family Stone records, there was just no acknowledgment of race; they're truly utopian. A real idealism comes across loud and clear on songs like "Everyday People" and "Hot Fun in the Summertime," and people need messages like that. Those albums have tremendous optimism and real conviction. The band itself was like Noah's ark: They had blacks and whites, men and women. Seeing this group that was blind to ethnicity and that embraced so many elements of society sort of drew you in as an extended family member. This was a joyous noise and a joyful vision.

    On musical terms, the Family Stone was an amazing band, but there was no doubt Sly Stone was the leader. He is a singular funk orchestrator; Duke Ellington is probably the best reference point. No one had taken elements of funk and combined them the way Sly did. Sly orchestrated those early records in very advanced ways -- a little guitar thing here that would trigger the next part that would trigger the next part. Then, as time went on, Sly started using some more dissonant colors; he became like the C?zanne of funk. It's like he took these traditional James Brown groove elements and started putting orange into the picture.

     

    Somewhere along the way, around the time of There's a Riot Goin' On, Sly got disillusioned. I think he discovered that the utopian worldview worked in his band, but when he got out in everybody else's world, he still couldn't walk into a bar in Mobile, Alabama, without getting into a fight. That will change you. Fresh is from a guy who realizes that nobody -- not Sly Stone, not the Rothschilds -- nobody can mess with the forces of history. Que ser? sera.

     

    Fresh is a very deep piece of work. It's the sound of a guy who has hit the pinnacle and is free-falling in the realization that he's not really in charge. Why is Sly singing "Que Sera Sera" on the album? Because he's got no **** control. The understanding that when the magic hits, it's a gift that can go away just as quickly as it came is a hard thing to carry around. This is a guy who is facing some hard truths and finding his solace by chemically drowning out reality.

     

    Without Sly, the world would be very different. Without him, there's no George Clinton, there's no Prince. Every R&B thing that came after him was influenced by this guy.

     

    The so-called revolution that was coming at the end of the Sixties: We might have lost that one, but Sly won his own personal revolution, musically and in the minds of the audience. I just hope he knows that, and maybe he's OK with it. I hope he's not sitting around with any kind of remorse. Because by any real criteria that you measure success, this guy is a titan.

     

    Rollingstone

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