From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V5 #51 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Sunday, February 20 2005 Volume 05 : Number 051 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] dogs named after supermarkets [zoom@muppetlabs.com] Re: [loud-fans] name that town, CD programming, etc. [zoom@muppetlabs.com] Re: [loud-fans] name that town, CD programming, etc. ["Michael W. Zwirn" ] Re: [loud-fans] name that town, CD programming, etc. ["Joseph M. Mallon" ] Re: [loud-fans] dogs named after supermarkets [LkDylaninthmvies@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 12:09:21 -0800 (PST) From: zoom@muppetlabs.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] dogs named after supermarkets > I remember one time about five years ago suggesting on the list a great > recently published children's book called BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE, which is > now a > movie playing in the theaters. It is an excellent work of realistic > fiction > that would appeal to people much older than ten, and, if anyone has seen > the > movie, please let me know what you think (off the list, if you prefer). > I'd > like to see it. Jeff Daniels plays the dad. How odd. Jeff Daniels also plays the dad in IMAGINARY HEROES, directorial debut of Dan Harris, and that's got to be the sickest movie so far this year. Of course, the year's young. And I eagerly await Kim Ki-duk's BAD GUY, Andy "When the Father laughs at the Son and the Son laughs back at the Father, that laughter gives pleasure, that pleasure gives joy, that joy gives love, and that love is the Holy Spirit." - --Meister Eckhart ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 12:20:18 -0800 (PST) From: zoom@muppetlabs.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] name that town, CD programming, etc. > Both bands had tenuous connections to Michael Stipe -- Stipe's C40 video > company produced videos for both bands, and somewhere in the depths of my > cassette collection I have a tape of Michael Stipe and Jenny Homer singing > a duet on "Harpers" by Hugo Largo. According to Ectophiles, Stipe produced several tracks on Hugo Largo's first record, DRUM. I *thought* he also sang on one cut, but I can discover no evidence of this during an admittedly not-very-deep web search, and my vinyl copy, if I still have it, lies buried beneath several tons of crap in my room. Mimi went solo, it would seem... Andy "Early on, R.E.M decided it didn't want to go the standard music video mute." - --Katherin Dieckmann, from a "Musician" interview with Michael Stipe athttp://snow.prohosting.com/crasio/rem/9009rem.html ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 12:25:56 -0800 From: "Michael W. Zwirn" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] name that town, CD programming, etc. On Feb 19, 2005, at 12:20 PM, zoom@muppetlabs.com wrote: >> Both bands had tenuous connections to Michael Stipe -- Stipe's C40 >> video >> company produced videos for both bands, and somewhere in the depths >> of my >> cassette collection I have a tape of Michael Stipe and Jenny Homer >> singing >> a duet on "Harpers" by Hugo Largo. > > According to Ectophiles, Stipe produced several tracks on Hugo Largo's > first record, DRUM. I *thought* he also sang on one cut, but I can > discover no evidence of this during an admittedly not-very-deep web > search, and my vinyl copy, if I still have it, lies buried beneath > several > tons of crap in my room. > > Mimi went solo, it would seem... And sung on a lot of tracks on Moby's EVERYTHING IS WRONG, to splendid effect. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 15:02:22 -0800 (PST) From: "Joseph M. Mallon" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] name that town, CD programming, etc. On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 zoom@muppetlabs.com wrote: > According to Ectophiles, Stipe produced several tracks on Hugo Largo's > first record, DRUM. I *thought* he also sang on one cut, but I can > discover no evidence of this during an admittedly not-very-deep web > search, and my vinyl copy, if I still have it, lies buried beneath several > tons of crap in my room. "Harpers", which he also sang a cappella as an REM encore now & then. Joe Mallon jmmallon@joescafe.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 23:43:53 EST From: LkDylaninthmvies@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] dogs named after supermarkets Well, against my better judgment I paid 6 bucks for a matinee ticket and $4.50 for a Coke. I've been in the house all week recovering from a nasty bout with pneumonia so I went to see this movie, glad to get out of the house, and thought it was a pretty good adaptation of the book. I can't say it's worth 6 dollars, but it definitely is worth the price of a rental, IMO. Predictably, the place was packed with elementary age kids, parents and grandparents. I don't see Cardinal 007 rushing to see this one, but it isn't so syrupy sweet that you want to yack. I'd say it's on the sweetness level of your typical Waltons episode (but not "The Homecoming"). To give it more charm, they must've found the oldest Winn-Dixie in the chain that still hasn't been redecorated since 1974, or they found a closed store in one of those abandoned shopping centers you see every now and then and had it made open and stocked for the movie. There is that trend in movies since the '90s to shun anything architectural built after the Nixon administration, like it's somehow more genuine that way. The setting, though now, finds modern cars and appliances, but absolutely no modern buildings. I thought this was a tad unrealistic. They were going for a dreamlike charm, but I thought it took away from the book's realism, and it was a modern cinematic trapping. The big surprise for me is how one character in the film, Otis, is played very well by Dave Matthews. I think he's a MUCH better actor than singer (though he does sing a little, but fortunately not much...he mostly plays his guitar if he's not being brooding and intense). The casting was good in this role as it called for someone just like Matthews to play the musical ex-convict, pet store keeping Otis. The film also has big names from another time, Cicely Tyson and Eva Marie Saint, in major roles. They were excellent. The big disappointment to me was Annasophia Robb, who plays the lonely ten-year-old main character Opal. She's a new child actor, and I thought she was rather generic, with that modern homogenized dialect middle and upper middle class kids have all over the country now. I think they could've done better. She just came across too much to me like a kid who grew up with Nickelodeon and The Disney Channel and expensive mall clothes and minivans trying to play a poor little girl, the daughter of a preacher living in a trailer? Nah. If they had the Opal in the book, it probably would alienate part of the audience. Middle class kids would be like, "Who's this redneck girl?" Where's the young Jodie Foster of now? The JF of the '70s would be perfect for the part of Opal. Now, I saw the poster for "Sideways." It looked interesting. What's this one about? - --Mark ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V5 #51 ******************************