When I go visit Alabama, I come back sounding pretty country, but generally I have a mild drawl at best. Since many of the newscasters where I grew up didn't have the Newscaster Accent, it still sounds like an accent rather than normalized English to me.
Oh, yeah. There was this time I was pinned down by this guy that played left tackle for varsity... Well, at least he used to before he was a vampire... Anyway, he had this really, really thick neck, and all I had was a little, little Exact-O knife ... You're not loving this story.
Buffy ,'Beneath You'
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Hayden - Jan 24, 2007 3:31:51 pm PST #7187 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Frankenbuddha - Jan 25, 2007 4:07:03 am PST #7188 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Flushed Away (which Emmett and I enjoyed) was a CG movie done by Aardman to look like a Wallace and Gromit-ish movie.
I heard (a link here, I think) the main reason they went CG with that was because there was so much water in the story, and emulating water is one of the things that stop motion has a serious problem with.
Beverly - Jan 25, 2007 5:18:09 am PST #7189 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I really don't like stop-motion. From Gumby to Grommit. Sorry.
DavidS - Jan 25, 2007 5:29:48 am PST #7190 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I really don't like stop-motion. From Gumby to Grommit. Sorry.
Does the medium itself bug you, Bev?
Theodosia - Jan 25, 2007 5:38:07 am PST #7191 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"
Me, I'm voting that a traumatic Davey & Goliath experience warped her for life.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 25, 2007 5:46:53 am PST #7192 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Me, I'm voting that a traumatic Davey & Goliath experience warped her for life.
I was gonna go with the original KING KONG myself.
Kathy A - Jan 25, 2007 7:02:53 am PST #7193 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Sundance has shown a movie that the two Chicago Tribune movie reviewers actually liked, an Irish musical called Once. From their description, I hope it gets picked up for U.S. distribution, because I'd definitely go see it.
(Now, I'm off to IMDB to see who Glen Hansard played in The Commitments...)
ETA: OK, looked it up--which one of the guitar players was Outspan Foster? Was he the cute one with the reddish curly hair, or the rather dorky dark-haired one?
juliana - Jan 25, 2007 7:19:16 am PST #7194 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Foster was the guitar player, therefore the one with the red hair. The dark-haired one, Derek, played bass.
I've watched that movie way too many times. I didn't even have to IMDB for that.
Beverly - Jan 25, 2007 7:23:52 am PST #7195 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Yes, it's the medium itself. And it probably was early monster movies that contributed, but I remember being freaked by Gumby and Pokey and Davey and Goliath.
I enjoyed Chicken Run, but I mostly "watched" with my eyes shut. I'm a freak, I know.
Kathy A - Jan 25, 2007 7:27:10 am PST #7196 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
After poking around the IMDB entry for The Commitments, I'm now tempted to pull out my DVD of it and watch tonight.
"Is this the band? I betcha U2 is shittin' themselves."