Well, a gathering is brie, mellow song stylings; shindig, dip, less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage, and hootenanny, well, it's chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny.

Oz ,'Beneath You'


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Polter-Cow - Jan 17, 2005 6:05:25 pm PST #7969 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Timothy Olyphant.

I love Go.


Glamcookie - Jan 17, 2005 6:50:34 pm PST #7970 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

Yes, Timothy O. Cutie. Also love Go!


Calli - Jan 18, 2005 5:01:01 am PST #7971 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I saw Life Aquatic last night. I really liked it, but I can't figure out why.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 18, 2005 6:18:27 am PST #7972 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Hey -- what's with Kane and baseball? Does he have a background? Or are the Jolie film and the FPJr movies just coincidence?

Well, he has sung the Star Spangled banner at baseball games and such. But in Broken Hearts Club he had no connection to baseball/softball, he seemed to be hired strictly on the basis of how good he would look all sweaty in workout gear.


Beverly - Jan 18, 2005 8:18:28 am PST #7973 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

I haven't seen the movie (yet), but I'm guessing pretty good.

I clicked on Vonnie's link. Is it just me? Caviezel squicks me bigtime. And it's not just that Mel bloodfest, either, he has, ever since Monte Cristo, which is what I first remember him in.


§ ita § - Jan 18, 2005 9:31:54 am PST #7974 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I didn't much like the book, but I might like the movie, depending on how they break it for screen:

Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh pony up some of their precious Lord of the Rings coin to buy the rights to Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones, which will keep the studio development monkeys from flinging their feces on the project at least until the script is finished


Strix - Jan 18, 2005 12:52:52 pm PST #7975 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

ita, I didn't love it much, either. The older I get, it seems the more that people cream over some "innovative new telling" in some bestseller, the more likely it is that some excellent fantasy/sci fi writer has done it 15 years before, and done it better.


Jim - Jan 18, 2005 10:41:50 pm PST #7976 of 10001
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!

The Lovely Bones is a lousy novel, but a great movie treatment. It needs to right director, though, and I'm not convinced Jackson's stylised FX movie instincts are right; I'd always thought of it as a Peter Weir project.


Fiona - Jan 18, 2005 11:02:14 pm PST #7977 of 10001

It needs to right director, though, and I'm not convinced Jackson's stylised FX movie instincts are right

I dunno, if he goes the Heavenly Creatures route it could be OK. (I haven't read TLB, though).


Sean K - Jan 18, 2005 11:02:43 pm PST #7978 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

I'm not convinced Jackson's stylised FX movie instincts are right

After watching Heavenly Creatures, I'm absolutely certain PJ can do a movie about a dead girl and weird family dynamics, but I haven't read the novel myself, so I don't know if there's other things about the novel that would make it less of a good match for his style.