From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #157 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, May 29 2009 Volume 17 : Number 157 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: movie talk (up and coming division) [michaeljbachman@comcast.net] Re: movie talk (up and coming division) [michaeljbachman@comcast.net] Re: movie talk (up and coming division) ["edwardofsim@tiscali.co.uk" ] Re: miss tori (100% tori) [Great Quail ] Re: Is this a great country, or what? [lep ] Re: Is this a great country, or what? [lep ] Re: Is this a great country, or what? [lep ] Re: miss tori (100% tori) ["craigie*" ] Re: movie talk (up and coming division) [Tom Clark ] Re: Is this a great country, or what? [2fs ] Re: movie talk (up and coming division) [kevin studyvin ] miss tori (100% tori) [David Witzany ] Re: miss tori (100% tori) [2fs ] Re: movie talk (up and coming division) [djini@voicenet.com] Re: movie talk (up and coming division) [Tom Clark ] Re: movie talk (up and coming division) [Miles Goosens ] Re: Is this a great country, or what? [Rex ] Re: miss tori (100% tori) ["craigie*" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 11:46:40 +0000 (UTC) From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Re: movie talk (up and coming division) I'll add the music and cinematography to the previosly mentioned reasons why Miller's Crossing is my favorite Coen brothers movie. The use of the green and brown tones is super sharp in the forrest, especially when Tom looks up at the trees or the camera pans to follow his hat. The use of the iconic song "Danny Boy" durring the failed attempt to bump off Leo is the best I've ever seen in a movie. I've been watyching a bunch of Jean-Pierrre Melville films lately. He used muted,B light blue tones in "Le Samourai" and "Army of Shadows" to great effect. Next up is Melville's "Le Cercle Rouge". Michael B. NP Buddy and Julie Miller - Written In Chalk - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc" To: "Carrie Galbraith" Cc: "Singing Policemen" Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 4:51:45 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: movie talk (up and coming division) Carrie Galbraith wrote: > I think 'Miller's Crossing' is the greatest of the Coen's work, hands B > down. A dark comedy, a serious film, and incredibly well acted. I'm with you 1000%, sister, and for the same reasons. B Serious, funny, fantastically acted and very, very dark. B Frankly, I don't think that Gabriel Byrne has ever been better, and when you have Albert Finney, Marcia Gay Harden and Coen-staple Jon Polito, you have a great cast. It actually beats out movies like Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia, Godfather I and II, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Dr. Strangelove at the top of my favorite films overall of all time list. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 12:04:05 +0000 (UTC) From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Re: movie talk (up and coming division) Ed, As much as I love "Little Big Man" (especially Chief Dan George's performance), I was somewhat dissapointed as the book wasB so muchB better (I'm on my second copy). Thomas Berger also wrote an interesting follow-up book that is very decent, "The Return of Little Big Man", which takes up the story from the Little Big Horn to the Wounded Knee massacre. Michael B. - ----- Original Message ----- From: edwardofsim@tiscali.co.uk To: "a sweet little cupcake...baked by the devil!" Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:49:22 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: movie talk (up and coming division) I've been meaning to weigh in with my picks as well, especially since my all-time fave has been mentioned on many people's lists. 1. Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 2. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Burton / Depp) 3. Network 4. Little Big Man 5. Jacob's Ladder 6. Twelve Monkeys 7. It's a Wonderful Life (unfairly maligned, historically, on the feglist) 8. The Incredibles 9. Night of the Living Dead (original) 10. Fight Club For what it's worth. peace, Edward >----Original Message---- >From: malberts1@earthlink.net >Date: 28/05/2009 1:01 >To: "lep" >Cc: "a sweet little cupcake...baked by the devil!" >Subj: Re: movie talk (up and coming division) > >lep wrote: >> and just where were you a few weeks ago when fegList was conducting >> this exact poll? > >Not paying attention. B When list volume picks up I often have no time to >even read the posts. > >So here's my stab at a top 10 of all time (ranked, so Eddie can do his >thing): > >1. B Miller's Crossing >2. B Lawrence of Arabia >3. B Casablanca >4. B Dr. Strangelove >5. B Godfather I & 2 >6. B To Kill a Mockingbird >7. B From Here to Eternity >8. B Rear Window >9. B Roman Holiday >10. Shawshank Redemption > >Off the top of my head--ymdb has been down forever so I can't look up my >last list from there, and I don't have a lot of time for introspection >on this. > >Marc > Get paid to recycle old mobile phones - www.tiscali.co.uk/recycle ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 13:28:29 +0100 (GMT+01:00) From: "edwardofsim@tiscali.co.uk" Subject: Re: movie talk (up and coming division) Wow, thanks Michael! Dumb as it seems, although I'm an avid reader, I'd never thought about seeking out the book upon which Little Big Man was based. I will have to check that out! However, I always do my best to separate books and their interpretations, and judge them on their own merits. (As an example, my very favourite novel, Gregory Maguire's "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West," was made into a Broadway/West End musical, entitled simply "Wicked." Now, near enough every single character from the novel was massacred in the translation -- that is to say, turned into almost completely different people. Fiyero fares the worst, no doubt, but they're all completely "wrong." However, the musical itself [as such things go, if you go for such things] is excellent in its own right -- amazing, clever, memorable music, and these other-characters-of-the-same-names are still interesting and their other-story-similar-to-but-different-from-the-book is enjoyable and engaging. Granted, by comparison the musical is ridiculously lightweight [again, to be expected], but succeeds on its own merits. So I don't hold against it the near-total rewriting of these favourite characters of mine, because, hey, I've still got the book!) The only drag, I suppose, is when the "inferior" interpretation becomes the widely known version, and the high quality original remains obscure. Wicked is probably a good example of this as well, although I'm thinking of true travesties like, say, "Howard the Duck." I have little doubt that I will find the novel Little Big Man wonderful, and bigger and deeper than the movie, and that will be an excellent discovery. But it can't take anything away from the awesomely awesome awesomeness of that film! peace, Edward - ----Original Message---- From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Date: 28/05/2009 13:04 To: Cc: "I smile in the heather" Subj: Re: movie talk (up and coming division) p { margin: 0; } Ed, As much as I love "Little Big Man" (especially Chief Dan George's performance), I was somewhat dissapointed as the book was so much better (I'm on my second copy). Thomas Berger also wrote an interesting follow-up book that is very decent, "The Return of Little Big Man", which takes up the story from the Little Big Horn to the Wounded Knee massacre. Michael B. - ----- Original Message ----- From: edwardofsim@tiscali.co.uk To: "a sweet little cupcake...baked by the devil!" Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:49:22 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: movie talk (up and coming division) I've been meaning to weigh in with my picks as well, especially since my all-time fave has been mentioned on many people's lists. 1. Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 2. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Burton / Depp) 3. Network 4. Little Big Man 5. Jacob's Ladder 6. Twelve Monkeys 7. It's a Wonderful Life (unfairly maligned, historically, on the feglist) 8. The Incredibles 9. Night of the Living Dead (original) 10. Fight Club For what it's worth. peace, Edward >----Original Message---- >From: malberts1@earthlink.net >Date: 28/05/2009 1:01 >To: "lep" >Cc: "a sweet little cupcake...baked by the devil!" >Subj: Re: movie talk (up and coming division) > >lep wrote: >> and just where were you a few weeks ago when fegList was conducting >> this exact poll? > >Not paying attention. When list volume picks up I often have no time to >even read the posts. > >So here's my stab at a top 10 of all time (ranked, so Eddie can do his >thing): > >1. Miller's Crossing >2. Lawrence of Arabia >3. Casablanca >4. Dr. Strangelove >5. Godfather I & 2 >6. To Kill a Mockingbird >7. From Here to Eternity >8. Rear Window >9. Roman Holiday >10. Shawshank Redemption > >Off the top of my head--ymdb has been down forever so I can't look up my >last list from there, and I don't have a lot of time for introspection >on this. > >Marc > Get paid to recycle old mobile phones - www.tiscali.co.uk/recycle Entertainment, news, celebrity gossip and more - http://www.tiscali.co.uk _____________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 09:09:58 -0400 From: Great Quail Subject: Hiaasen > Hiaasen never disappoints. I think Skin Tight is probably the best of his > so far, although Native Tongue has its points. Skin Tight is great; but my favorite is Stormy Weather. The best things about his novels are that everyone usually gets eaten by an alligator. - --Quail PS: I can't believe I forgot "Borat." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 09:42:35 -0400 From: Great Quail Subject: Re: miss tori (100% tori) > did anyone get the new tori amos album? and, if so, any thoughts to share? I've listened to it about five or six times, and I really like it. A lot of the songs have a very sultry vibe to them, and one song in particular almost seems to tweak the nose of Amy Winehouse. And the album art, inside? Oh dear. Occasionally I forget that Tori is also a sexy redhead who takes amazing photographs, with beautiful hair and wonderful lips that I'd love to nibble; and maybe one day I'll meet her, and we'll read to each other, sprawled out on her big bed, full of cozy little stuffed animals and dozens of books, and I'll just listen to the sound of her voice until my head explodes.... Oh -- um, sorry. Okaaaaay, back we go... I should say, though -- With Tori, however, things usually have to sink in for a year or two. For instance, I wasn't aware how much I loved "Scarlet's Walk" until I discovered I'd been listening to it every month for two or three years. So my first impression of this new album is good.... Oh! Rank them, you say? Well, of course! Boys for Pele (A+) Little Earthquakes (A+) Scarlet's Walk (A) Choirgirl Hotel (A-) Abnormally Attracted to Sin (B) Under the Pink (B) American Doll Posse (B-) Strange Little Girls (C+) The Beekeeper (D) Venus and Back (D-) Plays well with others? We'll see. - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 10:20:46 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: Is this a great country, or what? Steve says: > that's impressive. i love the variety of imaginative abuses of the unicorn (it kind of hurts, kind of like seeing a stuffed animal being tortured.) i never really thought of all the dark layers beneath the surface of the unicorn. but now i get it, and, indeed it's true: nothing say "white power!" like a rainbow and a unicorn. i also like the one that looks like it's full of huge boils, but really just got hit by like seven arrows at once. meanwhile, in the less bizarre world of tattoos: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/science-tattoo-emporium/ (if you dig around, you'll find at least one squid tattoo, and a, IMO, rather bizarre number of trilobite tattoos.) but why anyone would get a tattoo that is not this, i'll never figure: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/05/09/fitting-the-foundations-of-mathematics-on-one-arm/ that's just about the prettiest thing i've ever seen. although, sheesh, here's the other arm of the same guy: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/02/17/y-combinator/ xo p.s. i just had a bit of deja-vu, which just means i've already posted those links before (and, in a surprise twist, forgot i had.) - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 10:29:03 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: Is this a great country, or what? p.s. to steve - i like your signature (i.e. the one in this thread -- you're signatures rotate, i think?) xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 10:30:15 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: Is this a great country, or what? > you're signatures rotate, i think?) ouch. you know how i meant to spell that. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 15:50:55 +0100 From: "craigie*" Subject: Re: miss tori (100% tori) Tori and her family live near my Aunt in Devon, and occasionally have been seen shopping - and sometimes lunching - in the supermarket there. Needless to say,a great proportion of my time is spent in that supermarket when I visit, just in case... c* 2009/5/28 Great Quail > > did anyone get the new tori amos album? and, if so, any thoughts to > share? > > I've listened to it about five or six times, and I really like it. A lot of > the songs have a very sultry vibe to them, and one song in particular > almost > seems to tweak the nose of Amy Winehouse. > > And the album art, inside? Oh dear. Occasionally I forget that Tori is also > a sexy redhead who takes amazing photographs, with beautiful hair and > wonderful lips that I'd love to nibble; and maybe one day I'll meet her, > and > we'll read to each other, sprawled out on her big bed, full of cozy little > stuffed animals and dozens of books, and I'll just listen to the sound of > her voice until my head explodes.... > > Oh -- um, sorry. Okaaaaay, back we go... > > I should say, though -- With Tori, however, things usually have to sink in > for a year or two. For instance, I wasn't aware how much I loved "Scarlet's > Walk" until I discovered I'd been listening to it every month for two or > three years. So my first impression of this new album is good.... > > Oh! Rank them, you say? Well, of course! > > Boys for Pele (A+) > Little Earthquakes (A+) > Scarlet's Walk (A) > Choirgirl Hotel (A-) > Abnormally Attracted to Sin (B) > Under the Pink (B) > American Doll Posse (B-) > Strange Little Girls (C+) > The Beekeeper (D) > Venus and Back (D-) > > Plays well with others? We'll see. > > --Quail > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... I like my girls to be the same as my records - independent, attractively packaged and in black vinyl (if at all possible)... Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc (the motto of the Addams Family: "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us") ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 06:52:30 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: movie talk (up and coming division) On May 28, 2009, at 4:46 AM, michaeljbachman@comcast.net wrote: > I've been watyching a bunch of Jean-Pierrre Melville films lately. > He used > muted,B light blue tones in "Le Samourai" and "Army of Shadows" to > great > effect. Next up is Melville's "Le Cercle Rouge". I just recently saw "Le Cercle Rouge". Alain Delon is so cool it hurts. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 10:00:14 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Is this a great country, or what? On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:20 AM, lep wrote: > Steve says: > > > > that's impressive. i love the variety of imaginative abuses of the > unicorn (it kind of hurts, kind of like seeing a stuffed animal being > tortured.) I wonder how many of those are not clever Photoshoppings. At least, I hope several of those are clever Photoshoppings: I mean, with even yr everyday boring tattoo I cannot fathom why someone would want to have that image permanently on one's body - with many of these, I can't imagine anyone wanting to have the image on one's body at all - I mean, why not just do a cool sketch on paper and publish it on your blog like a human? But clearly, as a non-tattooed individual, I am at two with the whole psychology thereof. That said, I've seen some excellent tattoos. My friend Janet (some of you know her) has the alphabet tattooed on her back in a wonderful array. One of my former students had a beautiful bird, formed from Arabic script (alas, I couldn't quite look at it too closely*, as it was neatly tucked in her cleavage). And just last week, a woman at a pizza place I frequent had a tattoo that I swear for a couple minutes I thought was a printed shirt underneath the shirt she was wearing, the color and resolution was so fine (another bird-related tattoo). But most of the time, my reaction to tattoos is, geez, grow some aesthetics. * That's also alas because she was a very attractive woman. What you gonna do. > > > but why anyone would get a tattoo that is not this, i'll never figure: > > http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/05/09/fitting-the-foundations-of-mathematics-on-one-arm/ > > that's just about the prettiest thing i've ever seen. > > although, sheesh, here's the other arm of the same guy: > http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/02/17/y-combinator/ > This is like if the guy from _Memento_ had been a mathematician... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 08:25:49 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: movie talk (up and coming division) On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 4:46 AM, wrote: > I'll add the music and cinematography to the previosly mentioned reasons > why > Miller's Crossing is my favorite Coen brothers movie. The use of the green > and > brown tones is super sharp in the forrest, especially when Tom looks up at > the > trees or the camera pans to follow his hat. The use of the iconic song > "Danny > Boy" durring the failed attempt to bump off Leo is the best I've ever seen > in > a movie. > > Forgotten nearly everything about Miller's Crossing. I was so pissed about something (which I no longer recall) to do with the Bros' adaptation of Hammett's The Glass Key when the movie came out that I tried to erase it from memory. I should look again, I suppose - it's been around for a few years... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 08:46:55 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Is this a great country, or what? On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 7:20 AM, lep wrote: > Steve says: > > > > that's impressive. i love the variety of imaginative abuses of the > unicorn (it kind of hurts, kind of like seeing a stuffed animal being > tortured.) > > i never really thought of all the dark layers beneath the surface of > the unicorn. but now i get it, and, indeed it's true: nothing say > "white power!" like a rainbow and a unicorn. > > i also like the one that looks like it's full of huge boils, but > really just got hit by like seven arrows at once. > > meanwhile, in the less bizarre world of tattoos: > http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/science-tattoo-emporium/ > > (if you dig around, you'll find at least one squid tattoo, and a, IMO, > rather bizarre number of trilobite tattoos.) > > but why anyone would get a tattoo that is not this, i'll never figure: > > http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/05/09/fitting-the-foundations-of-mathematics-on-one-arm/ > > that's just about the prettiest thing i've ever seen. > > although, sheesh, here's the other arm of the same guy: > http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/02/17/y-combinator/ > > xo > > p.s. i just had a bit of deja-vu, which just means i've already posted > those links before (and, in a surprise twist, forgot i had.) > > -- > "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha > I was impressed, not necessarily positively, with the unicorn that appeared to be peeing a rainbow. And the one having some sort of congress with a dolphin. This sort of thing doesn't do anything to undercut my conviction that the average homo sap. is less clever than the average cedar. In re: the science tattoos, did you follow the link to like, a million of them? Some impressive stuff in there. I couldn't help but notice two different tats showing the structure of LSD (which reminded me of a "chemistry supply" shop that used to be out be the U of W that prominently featured that structure in the elaborately-painted design on their window, until they got closed down). I was possibly most impressed with the person whose shoulders bear Galileo's "Eppur si muove," possibly the most elegant F.U. in history. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 20:05:29 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Bad Duke Talking about Werner Herzog (well, you did - I still haven't seen *any* of his movies, although I just got Fitzcarraldo), how weird is this? I can't picture anybody but Harvey Keitel in that role ... - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 14:09:55 -0500 (CDT) From: David Witzany Subject: miss tori (100% tori) (or, "Boy did I pick a bad week to experiment with ADD") There's plenty of good material on the new disc, but as I listened to WEFT's copy I realized that there wasn't enough that I liked to warrant buying it. Tori Heads (which is what I presume they're called) will love it, because it's Classic Tori...for way over an hour. I liked it better on second listen, I think, because I broke it up into chunks. If I give it a third listen, I might start with the last half; to this point, I don't care for those songs, but that may just be fatigue setting in. There's plenty of interesting stuff here, but there are a couple of places where I pictured Tori as Stevie Nicks, fronting Bauhaus in one song and Pep in another. I dislike the Itunes concept of just buying the tracks you like best from an album and there are no must-haves on "Abnormally Attracted to Sin", so I'm passing on this one. I've got a couple of tracks picked out to play on my show this week, though. Meanwhile, I finally finished slogging through "Fellowship of the Ring", and I'm starting on "The Two Towers". Is it just me, or did J.R.(R.) need an editor? As well-thought-out as this story is, I bet there are dozens of pages you could lose from Book One--during the Council, f'rinstance--and still maintain the narrative, characterization, and mythology of Middle Earth. Suffice it to say that Miss Tori wasn't a good soundtrack. P.S.--softboygirls beware, one of the songs on the album is called 'Mary Jane'; one guess what it's about... - -------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 19:20:03 -0400 From: lep Subject: miss tori (100% tori) did anyone get the new tori amos album? and, if so, any thoughts to share? i would love to see her on this tour, even though i haven't been keeping up with her albums (last one i got to know completely was "scarlet's walk.") i adore that gal. xo - - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha - -------------------------------------------------- Dave. David Witzany ...one of nature's witzany@uiuc.edu bounds checkers ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 14:47:10 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: miss tori (100% tori) On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:09 PM, David Witzany wrote: > (or, "Boy did I pick a bad week to experiment with ADD") > > There's plenty of good material on the new disc, but as I listened to > WEFT's copy I realized that there wasn't enough that I liked to warrant > buying it. Tori Heads (which is what I presume they're called) I believe they are (or should be) called "Raspberry Swirlers"... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 09:23:46 -0400 (EDT) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: movie talk (up and coming division) I'm really enjoying the discussion of comedies. My love of Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein is well documented, and of course Barton Fink, and Blue Velvet (I saw Blue Velvet with some friends in one of those college film nights, and I think we were the only ones laughing in the theater. We got the giggles and couldn't stop.) But I find that comedies are more fun at home than in a theater. I think there's something about laughing together that is very intimate, and I think it's harder relax into it in a theater. Maybe it's just me. The exception to the rule is the South Park movie - I saw it in a packed house, and the entire place was simply roaring the whole way through. Oh, and The Fast and the Furious, which I saw with a friend in an otherwise empty theater. It was like our own little MST3K - we heckled non-stop. That was fun. Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 16:29:08 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: movie talk (up and coming division) On May 28, 2009, at 6:23 AM, djini@voicenet.com wrote: > But I find > that comedies are more fun at home than in a theater. I think > there's something about > laughing together that is very intimate, and I think it's harder > relax into it in a > theater. Maybe it's just me. The exception to the rule is the South > Park movie - I saw > it in a packed house, and the entire place was simply roaring the > whole way through. Oh, > and The Fast and the Furious, which I saw with a friend in an > otherwise empty theater. > It was like our own little MST3K - we heckled non-stop. That was fun. The atmosphere definitely contributes. I saw "Borat" on opening day and damn near fell on the floor laughing. Then when it came out on DVD I watched it at home and was only mildly amused. Perhaps that movie is a unique case tho... Related: http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/bruno/ - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 20:14:19 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: movie talk (up and coming division) On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 6:52 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > And in response to whoever's query - yes, Raising Arizon was a Coen Bros > film. Second or third, so you can blame that on the old learning curve. Blame? RAISING ARIZONA not only is my favorite Coen Brothers movie, but my favorite movie, period. later, Miles - -- now with blogspot retsin! http://readingpronunciation.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 22:00:46 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: movie talk (up and coming division) On May 28, 2009, at 6:14 PM, Miles Goosens wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 6:52 PM, kevin studyvin > wrote: >> And in response to whoever's query - yes, Raising Arizon was a Coen >> Bros >> film. Second or third, so you can blame that on the old learning >> curve. > > Blame? RAISING ARIZONA not only is my favorite Coen Brothers movie, > but my favorite movie, period. > I'm with Miles. "Mind you don't cut yourself, Mordecai." - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 23:21:46 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Is this a great country, or what? On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Steve Schiavo wrote: > > 30 Awesomely Bad Unicorn Tattoos ... as opposed, once again, to the other kind of unicorn tattoos? Man, goddamn everybody has tattoos. Which is fine and all. But the woman in front of me in the pharmacy line, with the butterfly tattoo at the top of her spine sprouting antennae that terminated in actual metal beads (which surely must be technically closer to "implants" than "piercings")? That's just... well, that's just no. More than anything else, the reason I wouldn't get a tattoo is that they don't... what's the phrase? Oh, yes, they don't look good. Opaque stuff painted on a human body can look great, but tattoos have kind of sickly blue lines where the black should be, and have an unnatural cast because human skin tones just aren't neutral enough to serve as a base color for most things. But if I had to get one at gunpoint, slap a trilobite on my right should and I'll be fine. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 07:46:16 +0100 From: "craigie*" Subject: Re: miss tori (100% tori) 2009/5/28 David Witzany > P.S.--softboygirls beware, one of the songs on the album is called 'Mary > Jane'; one guess what it's about... > Spiderman's girlfriend? ;-) c* - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... I like my girls to be the same as my records - independent, attractively packaged and in black vinyl (if at all possible)... Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc (the motto of the Addams Family: "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us") ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #157 ********************************