Baez could have moved an audience to tears singing the phone book.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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Typo Boy - Aug 25, 2010 7:40:46 pm PDT #10987 of 30000
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.
Sean K - Aug 25, 2010 8:31:33 pm PDT #10988 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I have seen 23. I haven't seen Primer or Eternal Sunshine.
DavidS - Aug 25, 2010 9:06:08 pm PDT #10989 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Actually, her singing anything acapella is incredible.
Clearly you've never watched The T.A.M.I. Show where her version of "You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling" is unbelievably stiff and lacking in any R&B feel. She needs to stick to "Joe Hill."
Tom Scola - Aug 26, 2010 3:33:17 am PDT #10990 of 30000
hwæt
beekaytee - Aug 26, 2010 6:16:36 am PDT #10991 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Shouldn't it be "Lothlorien"?
Why, yes it should.
le nubian - Aug 26, 2010 5:10:53 pm PDT #10992 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
So you may have heard about the Chilean miners who are stuck .5 mile underground perhaps for 4 months. NYT has an article about how psychologists are concerned for their welfare and the kind of media they may watch:
“Movies are possible,” said Ximena Matas, a local city councilwoman. “But the psychologists will decide what movies they will see. It’s up to them if something like ‘Avatar’ would be too upsetting.”
I am above ground and I haven't seen Avatar, judging it too upsetting (but perhaps for different reasons that Matas might fear).
erikaj - Aug 26, 2010 6:47:59 pm PDT #10993 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
It is so stupid that I would only watch it again stuck in a trench.
billytea - Aug 26, 2010 7:01:08 pm PDT #10994 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
It is so stupid that I would only watch it again stuck in a trench.
This would be what we call a trenchant criticism.
erikaj - Aug 26, 2010 7:05:28 pm PDT #10995 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
thank you...it might be just what the miners are...no, probably not. Big, scary technology tearing up a planet doesn't seem like a good choice.
Polter-Cow - Aug 26, 2010 9:26:08 pm PDT #10996 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I had my Barcelona film-fest tonight, and I liked both movies more than my Budapest movies.
Barcelona was really good! Very funny, Woody Allen-esque. Now I want to watch Metropolitan and The Last Days of Disco. What's up with this Whit Stillman guy? He made three movies in the nineties and then quit?
Vicky Cristina Barcelona was also really good! I was a little iffy on the narration at first (because the narration in Barcelona felt unnecessary), but I liked the way it made the movie feel like a short story or novella, where so much more could be written about the inner lives of the characters. I found the main characters fascinating. I feel kind of bad for Rebecca Hall, though. She's a titular protagonist, and she was great, but all the attention went to the actresses with bigger names. I was surprised that Penélope Cruz didn't show up till halfway through the damn movie; there was so much hoopla about her. And then she gets on the cover instead. It's not her story!