two films I saw...
In America-- I got a good vibe from the preview, so saw it plot-unknown... usually, this works out for me. It sure did today.
This is a lovely film about a young Irish family in New York. Despite the title, it's less about the immigrant experience than the story of these people and a neighbor, a very touching story of...
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In America-- I got a good vibe from the preview, so saw it plot-unknown... usually, this works out for me. It sure did today.
This is a lovely film about a young Irish family in New York. Despite the title, it's less about the immigrant experience than the story of these people and a neighbor, a very touching story of...
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jake_lex:
I'm looking forward to seeing "In America" too, because it seems like one of those rare movies that's emotionally open and warm without being manipulative. Too often, you can almost hear the director screaming at you "YOU WILL CRY NOW!"
ebin:
I wanna see Station Agent! I'm getting ready to see Assasination Tango right now....
(an excerpt of a New York Times Book Review piece by W. Jeffrey Bolster about a book on Magellan, Over the Edge of the World, by Laurence Bergreen)
Magellan himself did not live to complete the circumnavigation. He was a victim of his own arrogance and authoritarianism, and his penchant for confrontational risk-taking ended in knee-deep water off the Philippine island of Mactan. Neither...
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Magellan himself did not live to complete the circumnavigation. He was a victim of his own arrogance and authoritarianism, and his penchant for confrontational risk-taking ended in knee-deep water off the Philippine island of Mactan. Neither...
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joscelyne:
How are you?
rockinricky:
You're good my man, sorry about the hastle.
there's a HOLIDAY QUIZ question below, if you hate my minutiae (sp?)
As I said, not much goin on right nowIll try to get whatever news I can out of my last few days.
Friday- weather turned crummy. Rain to sleet to snow. Jimmy never called about lunch; instead, met Eric. We bought snow/ice equipment from the local hardware store, Village Hardware, with the...
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As I said, not much goin on right nowIll try to get whatever news I can out of my last few days.
Friday- weather turned crummy. Rain to sleet to snow. Jimmy never called about lunch; instead, met Eric. We bought snow/ice equipment from the local hardware store, Village Hardware, with the...
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wated:
Exactly! He was a bit slow of thinking anyway so I think 'it' may have actually slowed him down in real time...
anonymouse:
I haven't commented in anybody's journal! I'm crazy busy with finals and end-of-the-semester burn out.
I'll be out of town tomorrow.
Also, I'm really boring right now. Sorry. At least this entry is short enough for people to read...
Also, I'm really boring right now. Sorry. At least this entry is short enough for people to read...
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ebin:
I'm all boring and worn out too..........
I just bought the new Nelly Furtado CD. I love it. It's got banjos!!!!!!
Chau.
I just bought the new Nelly Furtado CD. I love it. It's got banjos!!!!!!
Chau.
whiskeyfightpit:
"Step Into My Paincave and you'll be bludgeoned"
Gotta love Wayne & Garth!!!
Gotta love Wayne & Garth!!!
(Vonnegut interviews, part 3; from interviews compiled in 1977...)
Interviewer- Do you mind describing your capture by the Germans?
Vonnegut- Gladly. We were in this gully about as deep as a World War I trench. There was snow all around. Somebody said we were probably in Luxembourg. We were out of food.
Interviewer- Who was we?
Vonnegut- Out battalion scouting unit. All six of us...
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Interviewer- Do you mind describing your capture by the Germans?
Vonnegut- Gladly. We were in this gully about as deep as a World War I trench. There was snow all around. Somebody said we were probably in Luxembourg. We were out of food.
Interviewer- Who was we?
Vonnegut- Out battalion scouting unit. All six of us...
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crazydasaint:
The "rinda" was indeed a typo... though an impressive one, seeing as the "k" is nowhere near the "r" in any sense... possibly it was like cheerleader saying "grood," in that I was thinking "really kinda" and it got compressed into a Carrollian portmanteau.
Ouch indeed, though I'm all but entirely healed... physically and psychically.
Ouch indeed, though I'm all but entirely healed... physically and psychically.
estrada:
Yep, De-Luxe was given a good deal of airplay for early Lush, meaning every once in a great while.
It was the first song of theirs I heard and it is what made me a huge Lush fan. The video was so cool, at least it was to me.
It was the first song of theirs I heard and it is what made me a huge Lush fan. The video was so cool, at least it was to me.
(Vonnegut interviews part 2; stuff from a 1974 interview by Joe Bellamy and John Casey)
Casey: What about your novel Slaughterhouse-Five?
Vonnegut: It was written to treat a disaster. I was present in the greatest massacre in European history, which was the destruction of Dresden by fire-bombing. So I said, Okay, you were there.
The American and British air forces together killed 135,000 people...
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Casey: What about your novel Slaughterhouse-Five?
Vonnegut: It was written to treat a disaster. I was present in the greatest massacre in European history, which was the destruction of Dresden by fire-bombing. So I said, Okay, you were there.
The American and British air forces together killed 135,000 people...
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joscelyne:
Hello...thank you for the bubble wrap rap. I miss reading your entries...when I get back into the swing of things I will have to scan back and read all the ones I've missed out on.
I don't know the *exact* differences between mice and rats except that I know rats are bigger than mice, and if you put them both together the rat will kill the mouse or hamster or whatever rodent you put in with it that isn't a rat.
I don't know the *exact* differences between mice and rats except that I know rats are bigger than mice, and if you put them both together the rat will kill the mouse or hamster or whatever rodent you put in with it that isn't a rat.
estrada:
So have you listened to those CDs?
Well, I've worried some time about, you know, why write books...why are we teaching people to write books when presidents and senators do not read them, and generals do not read them ...and it's been the university experience that taught me that there is a very good reason, that you catch people before they become generals and presidents and so forth and you poison their...
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kurtz:
total cheechapalooza....... total.......
olsen:
Yeah I thought the same things. I like to think that I keep conversations going well enough on this site that it wouldn't be an issue, but this week I'm too slammed to respond to everyone's comments, so......yielding to the man.
(The following essay is the afterword to the new edition of Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991) by Luc Sante.)
The idea of writing a book about New York City first entered my head around 1980, when I was a writer more wishfully than in actual fact, spending my nights in clubs and bars and my days...
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The idea of writing a book about New York City first entered my head around 1980, when I was a writer more wishfully than in actual fact, spending my nights in clubs and bars and my days...
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mistersatan:
I would, but they're kind of busy these days, I hear.
Do you really expect us to read all that? My ADD is going CRAZY at the moment.
Do you really expect us to read all that? My ADD is going CRAZY at the moment.
ebin:
Have a Happy Thanksgiving bro!
I'll write a proper entry later... it seems (I dunno if it's some new settings thing or what???) all my entries are returning to the next line after just five words.
twenty seconds later-- okay, that didn't do it. Hmmm. Still not sure what's going on with my comments in other peoples' Journals.
45 minutes later-- this is my Favorite Spam Letter Subject Line Ever:...
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twenty seconds later-- okay, that didn't do it. Hmmm. Still not sure what's going on with my comments in other peoples' Journals.
45 minutes later-- this is my Favorite Spam Letter Subject Line Ever:...
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whiskeyfightpit:
fast n' bulbous
alisa:
oh man how could you NOT open that??!!! 
i'm so glad that the internet service that i get i don't have to worry about ever seeing any of those whacky subject titles. even when i have to delete them i don't ever have to look at them. i just click the delete button on that folder and they're all gone. *poof* just like that.
hope you can get things worked out with your posts.
i'm so glad that the internet service that i get i don't have to worry about ever seeing any of those whacky subject titles. even when i have to delete them i don't ever have to look at them. i just click the delete button on that folder and they're all gone. *poof* just like that.
hope you can get things worked out with your posts.
Safeway Select Great Escapes: Dublin Creme Delight ice cream is the strangest tasting thing I ever ate.
Nov. 22 ps -- I'm still not gonna be around much this weekend... I'm housesitting (i.e. catsitting) for my parents. I tried going online there, and apparently my brother has changed things on the PC to the point that I cannot.
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Nov. 22 ps -- I'm still not gonna be around much this weekend... I'm housesitting (i.e. catsitting) for my parents. I tried going online there, and apparently my brother has changed things on the PC to the point that I cannot.
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whiskeyfightpit:
Sorry I haven't been around. It wasn't anything personal against anyone on this site it was more or less a time thing. Also, I don't really have anything important to talk about. Most of what goes on in my life has been exhausted in the first six months of journal enteries.
When I'm not angry things aren't as much fun on here. At least any non-naked girls activity, I'd rather be boring and cherub-like than be full of piss n' vinegar and shootin' the ole mouth off.
take care, Cheech
When I'm not angry things aren't as much fun on here. At least any non-naked girls activity, I'd rather be boring and cherub-like than be full of piss n' vinegar and shootin' the ole mouth off.
take care, Cheech
zarina:
wait.... how am I a hoser?
Forgive me for simply throwing out, for you to read (and I hope you do) another large section of newspaper material but I think this is pretty important stuff. Its from a Washington Post Book World review by John Ferling of Henry Wienceks An Imperfect God. The full review is at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38737-2003Nov13.html
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nickysonic:
Quentin Crisp. Nice
Grease is one of those films that i remember from my early childhood and has never gone away. I'm just sick to death of it. And people doing 'Greased Lightning' at karaoke makes me wanna injure myself.
Grease is one of those films that i remember from my early childhood and has never gone away. I'm just sick to death of it. And people doing 'Greased Lightning' at karaoke makes me wanna injure myself.
nic:
Morrigan is the shiznit. She is so, so hot. I'm scared of her though...
Weekend Vote Time
Okay, which is cuter?:
1) The Cheat and Homestar jam on synth (Shorts,Puppet Thing)
2) The Softies and/ or The All-Girl Summer Fun Band
3) Morgan in the shower, talking in a French accent to herself
4) Cheech in the shower, rapping/ singing Run DMC's "It's Tricky" while doing a wild ass-shaking dance
5) Dame Darcy's Paper Dolls (nothing to do with...
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Okay, which is cuter?:
1) The Cheat and Homestar jam on synth (Shorts,Puppet Thing)
2) The Softies and/ or The All-Girl Summer Fun Band
3) Morgan in the shower, talking in a French accent to herself
4) Cheech in the shower, rapping/ singing Run DMC's "It's Tricky" while doing a wild ass-shaking dance
5) Dame Darcy's Paper Dolls (nothing to do with...
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coldenginelogic1:
Hey....it is ColdEngineLogic....please refer to my new profile ala the tape swap.......much to go into to....but need to make it it up......hope all has been well.......
adjunct:
Cheech, this is apropos of nothing (a small lie, I was reading your comments to Cherry's journal)- are you on the poplist? I may have given you a lecture about proper use of articles and/or the 3rd person in re: Half Man Half Biscuit once.
Anyway, I choose the AGSFB- the combined history of cuteness in that band can be second to no other.
Anyway, I choose the AGSFB- the combined history of cuteness in that band can be second to no other.