December 28, 20231 yr comment_2937626 No posts for over a month ? Death Tribble to the rescue ! Over the past few years I have tried to follow certain things such as watching the Santa Tracker on google and watching Scrooge with Alistair Sim in the title role. Well I forgot the former and missed the latter despite it being on two separate channels. However just last night Scrooge was repeated with audio description enabled so I did get to see it.
April 1, 20241 yr comment_2946039 Three different approaches to fix capitalism: 1) Abolish private property ownership. This one is current and ongoing, but is anti-human rights. 2) Adopt a national economics plan (cf. Alexander Hamilton or Friedrich List). 3) Adopt the Distributism model of G. K. Chesterton and his friends (or the Solidarist Economics of Heinrich Pesch). The more I read of #2 & #3 the more they are complementary than against each other. #2 is centred around & promoting freedom as its goal, whilst #3 is centred around & promotes societal justice as its goal.
May 31, 20241 yr comment_2950498 You were warned. You didn’t listen. What happens next is on you. Not me. The gloves are off. The Rubicron crossed. Let’s do this. Let’s finish it.
August 17, 2024Aug 17 comment_2957314 Maybe this will inspire some response. Watchmojo just did this video on Top 100 Greatest Movies You Have Never Seen. Of the list I had seen 43 of them and was aware of others. So first off I was probably not the target audience for the video but I wondered if this was also true of the forum posters here. The ones I had seen were (in alphabetical order) A Most Violent Year The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms Beyond the Valley of the Dolls Bone Tomahawk Brazil Brick Brotherhood of the Wolf Carnival of Souls Come and See Dark City The Devil's Backbone Fail Safe Forbidden Planet Free Fire La Grande Illusion La Haine The Harder They Come Hell or High Water Hero In the Mouth of Madness Key Largo The Killing M Naked Lunch Notorious The Omega Man The Orphanage Paris, Texas Peeping Tom Phantom of the Paradise Predestination Ronin She's Gotta Have It Silent Running The Skin I Live In The Straight Story Strange Days THX1138 Troll Hunter 24 Hour Party People 2010 Westworld Wind River Other ones on the list that I knew of but had not seen are Amores Perros, Attack the Block, Audition, Backbeat, Bamboozled, A Boy and his Dog, Eddie the Eagle, Eyes Without a Face, The Florida Project, Fly Away Home, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Hidalgo, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Frailty, In A Lonely Place, In the Bedroom, Indescreet, Marvin's Room, Matewan, Metropolis, Millions, A Monster Calls, Pig, The Pope of Greenwich Village, The Score, Sleepers, Tokyo Story, The Toxic Avenger, Waiting for Guffman, The Women The Ones I knew nothing of are American Honey, The Bigamist, Blood and Black Lace, Bottoms, Coherence, Dogtooth, First Reformed, George Washington, The Handmaiden, Imagine Me and You, Make Way for Tomorrow, Mr Nobody, Moonlight Mile, Nightmare Alley, The Northman, Pariah, Possession, Primer, Queen and Slim, The Rider, The Scarlet Empress, Session 9, Stalker, Timecrimes, The Wailing, Waves I also have Amores Perros so I can make it 44. Others might crop up. So how many have you seen and are there other films you would put on this list ?
August 18, 2024Aug 18 comment_2957412 Haven't seen any of them, but I'm not a movie person. I think my most recent taking in of any movie was Rogue One.
August 19, 2024Aug 19 comment_2957513 Most of the films of the last 12 years are ones I am not familiar with. Some of them I sought out at the cinema like Brazil, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Dark City, The Devil's Backbone, Hero, In the Mouth of Madness, Naked Lunch, The Orphanage, Ronin, Strange Days, Troll Hunter and 2010 Others were recently shown on TV like A Most Violent Year, Bone Tomahawk, Carnival of Souls, Free Fire, Hell or High Water, Paris Texas, Predestination, The Ski I Live In and Wind River Some are classics like Forbidden Planet and The Killing from the 1950s, Westworld from the 70s, Metropolis from the 20s and M and The Women from the 30s Then there are ones which you have to hunt out like Brick, Come and See, La Grande Illusion, La Haine, The Harder They Come and Peeping Tom
September 27, 2024Sep 27 comment_2960224 On 8/18/2024 at 12:29 PM, Cancer said: Haven't seen any of them, but I'm not a movie person. I think my most recent taking in of any movie was Rogue One. I have to retract that. There are a couple I have seen: Phantom of the Paradise, and The Omega Man (the latter I think in first run; the former about a year and a half after it came out). I wasn't much of a movie guy, ever, not even when we were in Europe and had no TV.
September 27, 2024Sep 27 comment_2960228 Forbidden Planet. I saw it when I was in my early teens. HBO was brand new and didn’t have access to a lot of new films, so they ran a bunch of old classics. I still remember the feelings as I watched it. It was overwhelming. I had to turn away just to give my mind time to process what I was seeing. It changed the way I saw film and the way I saw the world. About ten years ago, I got the chance to see it again. It was so disappointing. I don’t know if the disappointment was because of the film itself or the complete lack of newness. Had it changed my perceptions so much that it was now as common place as a good pair of socks? i.e. I only notice it when it’s missing.
October 8, 2024Oct 8 comment_2960921 Late last week I had a Fullers ESB for the first time in more than a decade. I'd almost forgotten how much I like the stuff.
October 23, 2024Oct 23 comment_2961877 Night one was in Caldwell, Idaho. The most interesting thing on the drive that first day was passing a power windmill blade being towed by a really really really long truck in the initial ascent into the Blue Mountains on I-84. Happily, Oregon has put three lanes on their ascent stretches of that interstate, so the literal crawl that truck made along that set of broad hairpins was something that most traffic was able to avoid. Like an idiot, however, I forgot about the transition from Pacific Time to Mountain Time in my calculations, so I got to the Boise complex pretty much at the apex of evening rush hour. There, the Weather Channel made dire noises about the storm system coming in and making snow in Utah, and reading the more laconic National Weather Service alerts about it made me uncertain about the next day, but I bet on the hype being a media channel trying to scare people into watching more. That bet was pretty much spot-on. Traffic down the Salt Lake complex was rather impressive, even in comparison to the zip I made through the same route in May 2018 (albeit in the opposite direction). Nevertheless I made it down to Green River and nighted over there. (Green River is a strange place, with an appalling fraction of the town being abandoned buildings. It was in a random stop I made at the city park -- which was next to the only coffee house in the town -- and looked at a display there that I got an explanation for what had happened there.) Thence to Albuquerque, where I spent two nights with friends (and yes, I turned left there, a number of times, just make sure that got checked off). I heartily recommend the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History -- entry is pricey but I'm unaware of another place where you can literally walk up to a B-29, a MiG-21, an atomic cannon, an F-16, a B-52, several different nuclear-capable SRBMs, etc., and even put your hand on them if you want to commit a minor transgression while there. Oh, and amidst these artifacts, there's a conventional set of playground equipment so your wee ones can entertain themselves as you walk from one piece of obsolete atomic-capable arsenal to the next. The museum is only a few blocks from one of the Costcos there. Following night was only four hours away at Las Cruces, where my best friend from high school now lives. After that was a set of maneuvers to dodge road construction around El Paso, and then onto I-10 until it hit the morass of central Texas. Strangely Austin has changed noticeably since I was last there in the mid-1990s, but I only made one wrong turn and was able to recover from that.
October 27, 2024Oct 27 comment_2962197 Seen on a postcard today: "The sluttier the daughter, the sooner you'll have grandkids."
October 28, 2024Oct 28 comment_2962350 I am da st00pid. Taking a trip to Texas and I forgot to pack a pair of shorts?
October 28, 2024Oct 28 comment_2962357 And a level of disorganization. I think I put the shorts in a pile that was supposed to get packed but wasn't.
October 28, 2024Oct 28 comment_2962384 3 hours ago, L. Marcus said: ... Did you wear sandals with socks? No, but only because I did not bring sandals.
October 30, 2024Oct 30 comment_2962483 I did, however, bring my raincoat, and the forecast for later this week projects thundershowers. As long as it isn't another Memorial Day Flood here, I'm good.
October 31, 2024Oct 31 comment_2962640 The thundershowers seem to have dumped on Waco, but missed Austin. Not sure what I think of that.
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