Hey... I mentioned a movie. I call it vaguely on topic.
Mal: Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us? Zoe: Big damn heroes, sir.
'Safe'
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erikaj - Sep 07, 2006 6:49:38 pm PDT #4063 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Theodosia - Sep 08, 2006 2:51:35 am PDT #4064 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I'd call it not so much nannying as politely reminding at this phase.
Let me put it this way: over there lies a virgin topic, spreading its metaphorical legs with a saucy smile on its virtual lips and a gleam in its photonic eyes, while we're over here plowing the same tired old farrow.
Theodosia - Sep 08, 2006 3:00:25 am PDT #4065 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Hmmm, farrow is really not the same thing as furrow, which is what I was trying for. However, I think I'll let it stand for now....
§ ita § - Sep 08, 2006 3:52:03 am PDT #4066 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've not been into the premium channel thread, but I figured they both knew it was there, therefore reminding isn't exactly the word.
Topic drift. Happens. All the time here. If it's going to start being a problem, the landscape is definitely shifting.
Volans - Sep 08, 2006 4:01:32 am PDT #4067 of 10001
move out and draw fire
plowing the same tired old farrow
Mia Farrow. On topic! (ding ding ding)
Scrappy - Sep 08, 2006 7:21:44 am PDT #4068 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Go Raq!
Anyone else looking forward to Hollywoodland? I am a sucker for Old Hollywood stuff. I hope it is good, I have been avoiding reviews, since I knew I was seeing it no matter what.
Kathy A - Sep 08, 2006 7:27:25 am PDT #4069 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
What I'd like is to see a movie dealing with the William Desmond Taylor murder in 1922. Early Hollywood, successful director murdered, studio coverup--it just screams Good Cinema!
Sean K - Sep 08, 2006 7:29:41 am PDT #4070 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I'm looking forward to it, Raq. I want to see Black Dahlia too, but it's not something to get me running to the theater at the moment.
Scrappy - Sep 08, 2006 7:30:12 am PDT #4071 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Yeah, that's a great story. Also Paul Bern's suicide would make a terrific film.
juliana - Sep 08, 2006 7:33:39 am PDT #4072 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Anyone else looking forward to Hollywoodland?
I am, in the sense that I think it'll be very interesting and I hope I make it out to the theater to see it but I'll probably have to Netflix it. I suck.
I put The Matrix on the other night while I was tidying up (does anyone else do that? Put movies on instead of music?), and I was struck by how outmoded the technology looks in the first shot of Neo. Beige CRT monitor (instead of a black flatscreen), stacks of CDs (instead of a mp3 player or earbuds going into the computer), minidiscs, the search engine on his machine.... I know not everyone has a flatscreen or mp3, but I remember how very now everything was when it was released. Which was the point - 1999 as Golden Age. But I couldn't help mentally substituting things in. Not much of a point, except to note cyberpunk's limitation in trying to portray cutting-edge and futuretech - it always gets outstripped.