Post Praetorian said:
I would consider it proper for Ceremony to be played at my funeral...
I'm having the Jam at mine...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE1ct5yEuVY
...it's in my will ;-) because funerals should be funnier and well, it totally rocks!
Re-watched 'Wolf of Wall Street' on Blu-Ray.
I thought this was probably the best film of last year when I saw it at the cinema, despite the mixed-to-postive reviews and not getting a single BAFTA, or Oscar. I wondered if it would hold up as well on a second viewing and it does.
Scorsese and Schoonmaker were on fire with this movie despite a combined age of 145. There is this bit where they rapidly jumpcut forward in time across several years in time with the music, then just cut back in time for a quick gag, cut forward again and then continue the story seemlessly. They are just playing with film with carefree abandon. Younger filmmakers need to get some guts.
Plus it's a laugh riot from start to finish. A frequent criticism was that it doesn't offer any morality, which was a big factor in why I loved it. It never does that 'Wall Street' cop out.
For no special reason... a couple of my favourite ever music photographs...
(Iggy and the Stooges: 1970 - Cincinnati Pop Festival, June 23, 1970) What you'd give to be the guy who snapped that, shame the video quality of that same performance is rubbish.
(Gram Parsons, Altamont Speedway 6 December 1969) He just looks totally lost in the music.
Nanner Split said:
Devo are my favorite band of all time, and have been for some time... Their first album was unleashed on the world in August 1978.
And it FUCKING. RULED.
Indeed. Loved the Rolling Stones cover off that record. Although I prefer Talking Heads, if I had to chose just one Post-Punk-Funk group.
Really like that demo you linked to. Sounds like Devo playing The Undertones, or vice versa.
EyeShotFirst said:
I'm not against playing other people's songs, but most cover bands just play what was top 40, years ago. I'm a b-sides man, with a love of folk songs, jazz standards, blues standards, country standards, and anything else that excites me musically. I don't feel that I am a good songwriter, which seems to be all an artist is judged on these days, but I come up with some interesting melodies and different ideas. I think it is sad that musicians have to be songwriters anymore. Sinatra, Elvis, Crosby, and many others didn't write their own music, but they were highly respected.
It seems like after Bob Dylan, everybody had to be a songwriter.
That's one reason I loved The White Stripes, a third of their sets were usually covers (And different covers every night). It was a great way to go off exploring their influences. Jack White's cover of Arthur Lee's 'Five String Serenade' at the Brixton Academy, 12th April 2003 was one the greatest moments of my life... I'm still hoping a fan recording will surface one day but perhaps it's best as a perfect memory.
That same night they also played songs by Dolly Parton, Blind Willie McTell (Two songs), Brendan Benson, Screaming Lord Sutch, Son House, Blind Willie Johnson, Cab Calloway, Burt Bacharach, Public Nuisance and Lead Belly. I would love it if more bands did this.
imperialscum said:
My favourite music is hard bop and cool jazz
Also two of my favourite porno magazines!
This past week I've getting in deep to Teenage Fanclub's 1991 LP 'Bandwagonesque'. I could never get into it before somehow??? despite it sitting on my shelf for a good decade but this week I hit that magic point where it all clicks and you can't stop listening to a record. I could listen to the bass guitar line on track 3 forever...
Like glorious Beach Boys meets Grunge. Blissed out melodies and squealing guitars.
DrCrowTStarwars said:
Some how this makes it even more sad.
I was watching the news waiting for stuff like this. The best I heard was them saying Nimoy's last role was Star Trek 2009. Didn't hear one "Doctor Spock".
Naturally I'm currently halfway through rewatching Wrath of Khan.
Tobar said:
You can, just rent/buy this from whatever's your preferred digital marketplace!
That's why it looks awesome. Like all the best bits of Short Circuit 1/2 and Robocop rolled into one. With the bonus of Bloomkamp's gritty real-world aethetic.
Being a rip-off of Short Circuit didn't stop Wall-E being a great movie.
My gods this film looks awesome...
...I want to see it yesterday!
Possessed said:
I've recently discovered the joys of smoking tobacco with a pipe... it smells good and doesn't leave you smelling bad
Tell that to the teenage me who had to sit to the immediate right of my pipe-smoking Physics teacher every tuesday :-(
Possessed said:
there's the added social benefit of being able to say "Indeed."
Exactly the reason why I've always planned on taking this up in my declining years.
I noticed this product and thought how pertinent it was to this thread...
...although a TV advert for it, would of course have been better, for which I apologise.
Warbler said:
One thing I never understood about the Cartoon Trek, where was Chekov?
Same place he was when they shot Season 1 of TOS.
darth_ender said:
So I again did a super rough draft of the Battle of Yavin with two runs. Again, it mostly uses OCP's version with subtitles remaining in a few spots, but I made a few more changes. Nothing that special or different, but to me it shows that the idea is plausible and worthwhile, considering the aims of this edit and the original source material.
Password: Yavin
Apologies ender. I haven't checked this thread in a month, so didn't see your post.
Just watched the clip and there was some interesting stuff in there, although it also shows that there probably isn't enough material to make this truly work (Which is why you used all the inventive alt-footage, which was cool to see).
Watching that makes me think that I need to prepare a music free audio track for SW before finishing the visual cuts (The reverse of what I planned) as it's probably stopping me being even bolder with the re-editing of shots, scenes and dialogue.
Plus it would be so awesome to have an alternate music-free track for this edit.
Warbler said:
Nanner Split said:
Warbler said:
the Marx Brothers
the marx brothers were definitely dirty whenever they could get away with itcompared to today's comedians, they were squeaky clean.
They pushed the offensiveness boundaries as far as they could, same as today, only the boundaries where less broad. Groucho lines like...
When talking about a woman of 'lose-morals', in Horsefeathers he says "A 'College Widow' stood for something in my day... in fact, she stood for plenty!" (Raises eyebrows and grins).
When secretly seducing a woman in his hotel room afterhours in 'A Day at the Races', the woman says "I've never been so insulted in my life." and Groucho replies "Well... it's early yet."
and on Groucho's TV show he was interviewing a woman who had 19 kids. When asked why, she replied, "I love my husband" and Groucho responded, "I love my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in awhile."
He was as offensive as he could get away with.
Another example of a similar thing would be this scene from 1946's 'The Big Sleep'...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF_chuSy9G4
...they don't use the actual word but they are obviously talking about f*cking, the studio knew it, the actors knew it and the audience knew it.
Puchased/Downloaded LucasArts' Indiana Jones game from GOG. Somehow I never got round to playing it back in the day, so hopefully I'm in for a treat.
Just to mention that when firefox shortens this thread's title in the tabs along the top of my broswer window, it reads "thread to continue the sex".
to the punchline of the
Warbler said:
If it is not what Spielberg intended
Yes that's what I said.
Warbler said:
how can you say that it was the point of the Character?
It's my opinion from watching the film a few times.
Warbler said:
I think you are overstating it.
Yes that's also what I said.
Warbler said:
I see very little resemblance beween the sniper and Samuel Jackson in Pulp Fiction.
I'd agree but I never said one resembled the other. Only that they both quote from the bible while killing in a stylized way. Tarantino meant his character to sound cool while doing it, Spielberg did the same, only by accident. Again just my opinion.
Warbler said:
Also in a less spoiler-ish fashion, the heroic sniper sent from God was a bit daft.
Sent from God? I know the sniper believed in God, but sent by God? I don't think the movie depicted him that way.
Yeah I'm probably over stating it. He was a bit gimicky, is perhaps what I mean. The point of the character was to show that being an awesome sniper who quotes from the bible like Sam Jackson in Pulp Fiction was that killing was waaay cool. At least that's what I took from it, probably not what Spielberg intended ;-)
and knew the town well
I can't really go into the problems with SPR 2nd half without dropping huge spoilers for Ric.
I'll try hinting. They involve Hanks and another character's reappearance which results in a reversal of attitudes for a third character? Also in a less spoiler-ish fashion, the heroic sniper sent from God was a bit daft.
I'm not saying it's a bad film overall, just that if Ric has seen the first act then it's all down hill. Only seeing the first half is probably the way to see that movie ;-)
True, in fact I'd put 'Like A Prayer' up there with Shakespeare and Beethoven. That reminds me, I haven't listened to that track the usual 50 times this week.
^ LOL sorry. Can't help you with ITV stuff.
CiNEPHiL said:
It's David Cronenberg movie - VIDEODROME (1983) with two TV air date.
Maybe for you but for the OP not.
'Round The Bend'
It was a late 80s satirical English children's show about a Crocodile and a rat who lived in a sh*t smelling sewer and broadcast wee and bum based spoof cartoons. Quite surprising it was ever broadcast really.
