Are you sure it was the spinning?
tough room!
Zoe: Jayne. This is something the Captain has to do for himself. Mal: No! No, it's not!
'War Stories'
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le nubian - Jul 05, 2008 12:28:01 pm PDT #6835 of 10000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Typo Boy - Jul 05, 2008 5:32:58 pm PDT #6836 of 10000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
OK now seen Wall E. Great animation, lovely music, wonderful characters but....
Until now I did not realize that I and all the other fat people in the world are the man. No: no direct fat bashing. Just underlying equation of fatness with passivity and destruction. Even Wal-mart is called "Buy N' Large".
Polter-Cow - Jul 05, 2008 7:24:54 pm PDT #6837 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Which I didn't realize was a pun until halfway through the movie.
Laga - Jul 05, 2008 7:54:05 pm PDT #6838 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I just finished Paradise Now. Wow. Yet another example of a film that if people watched it before they got all up in arms they might learn something instead of just being angry all the time. It certainly wasn't pro-Israel but it didn't paint militant Palestinians as pure and noble creatures either. I'm shaken but I'm glad I saw it.
DavidS - Jul 06, 2008 8:55:32 am PDT #6839 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The 1967 Bollywood film, Jewel Thief, has been described as a supermod cross between Hithcock and James Bond.
I think I need to own this.
When one watches the world presented in Dev & Vijay Anand's "Jewel Thief" (1967) one knows they have been transported to an incredible fantasy land that is both baroque and exotic. This is a world that is full of all the wonders, accessories, and excess' of the Modern Western landscape. American Cars and Western clothes, Modern Western architecture and furnishings of the hippest design, gadgets that automate the most mundane of tasks, it's the Western lap of luxury, all on full display. What is pictured here is an 'Exotic West' that becomes absolutely one of the main features of "Jewel Thief". In 1967 for the majority of Indians who had never traveled to the West, watching "Jewel Thief" must have been a thrill to watch. T.K. Desai's fantastic art direction for the sets created a make believe world that most could only dream of.
As a Westerner I am so used to seeing kitsch images of the 'Exotic East' in Hollywood films. It struck me watching "Jewel Thief" That the East also does the same thing when picturing the West. One of the finest examples of this exoticizing of the West is the set design for "Jewel Thief".
megan walker - Jul 06, 2008 8:59:05 am PDT #6840 of 10000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Hec, how much is monthly cable in SF?
DavidS - Jul 06, 2008 9:05:07 am PDT #6841 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Hec, how much is monthly cable in SF?
Ours is bundled with our DSL, so I'd have to look at the bill. It's not especially cheap, though you can often get a deal for six months when you first sign up.
megan walker - Jul 06, 2008 9:06:54 am PDT #6842 of 10000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Actually, I'll need both, so a benchmark total is fine. The website's giving me no love.
JZ - Jul 06, 2008 4:36:58 pm PDT #6843 of 10000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
The website is completely horrid and nearly content-free in terms of pricing for the packages. Internet and basic cable bundled together is probably something like 80 a month, basic plus is 110, and it goes up about $10/month from there for variously ridiculously inclusive packages. You can probably get something like $40/month for six months to a year for a new account.
Sprinkle a few more probablies and abouts in the above paragraph and then add or subtract $9.99 to or from each of the above numbers, and there's the local cable/Internet package lineup. Approximately.
Tom Scola - Jul 06, 2008 4:39:04 pm PDT #6844 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
What cable company is it?