Okay Bond! You win.

[_ludwigm]

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Where are you staying? or are you staying in town?

Ferienwohnung in Kleinwaltersdorf, a small village near Freiberg (3 km from the temple) practically in the forest. ( http://www.fewo-zein.de )

[_gramps]

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Where are you staying? or are you staying in town?

Ferienwohnung in Kleinwaltersdorf, a small village near Freiberg (3 km from the temple) practically in the forest. ( http://www.fewo-zein.de )

It is a beautiful area around there. I'll be in town until Sunday evening. When is their session, or is it a weekend marathon type? or at least give a call?

Hey, I was just thinking: what a good business---pensions around the temple---LDS pancakes and Porter Rockwell Hashbrowns. A Book of Mormon at the bed.

Wow! Maybe Marriott would eventually buy you out. I guess you should add good satellite and internet capability for porn access. Just remember: you always have an excuse----"it was an economic decision!"

[_silentkid]

Hey, what about movies? Seen any good ones?

I really liked the 'Before The Devil Knows You're Dead.' Serenity was good.

If you haven't seen In Bruges, I'd recommend it. I thought it was pretty great. I still need to watch Firefly. I enjoyed Serenity. I liked Before the Devil Knows You're Dead too, especially the parts that showed Marisa Tomei's boobs. :)

[_silentkid]

Litres are gay.

Unless it's a "liter of cola". Name that movie, Bond.

Super Troopers.

http://zackc.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/s ... -beerfest/

Bond...you rule. But you already knew that.

[_gramps]

Hey, what about movies? Seen any good ones?

I really liked the 'Before The Devil Knows You're Dead.' Serenity was good.

If you haven't seen In Bruges, I'd recommend it. I thought it was pretty great. I still need to watch Firefly. I enjoyed Serenity. I liked Before the Devil Knows You're Dead too, especially the parts that showed Marisa Tomei's boobs. :)

Yeah, she is a hotty.

I am going to check your recommendation out today. (Just started downloading it).

The Firefly series is really good and I recommend it before the movie.

[_Blixa]

In Bruges is very, very good. I've been watching it over and over. The directorial debut of the best contemporary Irish playwright. Its got brilliant dialog, great use of film genre (crime/hitman movie) and a significant moral dilemma examined from all possible angles (should one live up to one's principles no matter what? is killing a child ever not evil?). Its very funny but ultimately very tragic and moving. Even the presence of Raplh Fiennes can't hurt it and it renews my faith in Colin Farrell (a very great actor who I've been praying for a role worthy of his skills).

It puts pretenders like Tarantino to shame (why oh why didn't he get better after Resevoir Dogs?) and also that sad Brit married to that old woman who can't act and can't act her age (which is probably 120 in minus-talent years). Well ok, Guy Ritchie did direct a good Nike commercial once, but every damned time they show it they've edited out more violence.

So well written, great visualization, amazing use of place/architecture, and finally so tragic and sad. Two scenes in particular made me cry bucketfulls.

The use of music is great as well...Ken's sacrifice done to "Raglan Road"---killer. Also the soundtrack was written by one of my favorites, Carter Burwell. Its excellent.

its funny I went back and was reading reviews of it (I just saw it first last week) and one of the best was at Christianity Today (I think?)...anyway a very odd place I thought, but they did a great job with the film's meditation on purgatory.

There are so many film references as well--that's a treat. But no one yet has talked about the ending being a tip of the hat to Drugstore Cowboy... (loved the bit of Touch of Evil on the tv and the film being made which is a pastiche/nod to Roeg's Don't Look Now).

I see a lot of films, but rarely do any stand out, frankly. I can't stop looking at In Bruges.

[_gramps]

In Bruges is very, very good. I've been watching it over and over. The directorial debut of the best contemporary Irish playwright. Its got brilliant dialog, great use of film genre (crime/hitman movie) and a significant moral dilemma examined from all possible angles (should one live up to one's principles no matter what? is killing a child ever not evil?). Its very funny but ultimately very tragic and moving. Even the presence of Raplh Fiennes can't hurt it and it renews my faith in Colin Farrell (a very great actor who I've been praying for a role worthy of his skills).

It puts pretenders like Tarantino to shame (why oh why didn't he get better after Resevoir Dogs?) and also that sad Brit married to that old woman who can't act and can't act her age (which is probably 120 in minus-talent years). Well ok, Guy Ritchie did direct a good Nike commercial once, but every f*****g time they show it they've edited out more violence.

So well written, great visualization, amazing use of place/architecture, and finally so tragic and sad. Two scenes in particular made me cry bucketfulls.

The use of music is great as well...Ken's sacrifice done to "Raglan Road"---killer. Also the soundtrack was written by one of my favorites, Carter Burwell. Its excellent.

its funny I went back and was reading reviews of it (I just saw it first last week) and one of the best was at Christianity Today (I think?)...anyway a very odd place I thought, but they did a great job with the film's meditation on purgatory.

There are so many film references as well--that's a treat. But no one yet has talked about the ending being a tip of the hat to Drugstore Cowboy... (loved the bit of Touch of Evil on the tv and the film being made which is a pastiche/nod to Roeg's Don't Look Now).

I see a lot of films, but rarely do any stand out, frankly. I can't stop looking at In Bruges.

Well, now I have to see it! Actually, I was just notified that it has finished downloading and is in my download box, ready to watch.

I can't wait.

Thanks for dropping in. When one has nearly nothing to say, this is a good way to push to godhood.

Ummmh, about Tarantino: I usually say the same thing, but I give him up through Pulp Fiction. I really liked True Romance. Just before Reservoir Dogs, but he didn't direct it. I think he wrote it, however.

I'm just starting to go through Mamet's movies. Sometimes, he is brilliant. Just watched Glengarry Glen Ross. Having been in the sales business, that was a bit chilling to remember how it really was. Highly recommended.

[_Blixa]

Yes it was Christianity Today that had the thoughtful review of In Bruges. Looking for it I stumbled upon Christian Spotlight on Entertainment or something which also had a decent review...I guess I'm going in expecting Meridian Magazine and that's why I'm surprised that issues of "language" aside these sites were able to discuss the film like adults. Anyway, the best part was this reader's comment:

"Positive - I'm not sure how this film stacks up in the 'Biblical' stakes - there's a lot of violence and profanity; it's not for those of a delicate disposition. But - this film is more Christian in its own way than any other I've seen for a long time. It's all about the power and meaning of forgiveness, and about not being trapped in your sin. There's a moment in the first half of the film where Colin Farrell's character weeps, asking how anything can ever be made right again in his life after the sins he's committed. The film is essentially an answer to that question, and that answer (though not mentioning Christ specifically) is that there is always space for redemption in a life, and that redemption comes through sacrifice, and the sacrifice is of a blameless victim. Brendan Gleeson's final scene with Ralph Fiennes is almost precisely a working out of Penal Substitutionary Atonement, retold in the terms of gangland retribution. I highly recommend this film to anyone who is not likely to be disturbed by the violence."

Well done, my son.


I'm not a Mamet fan, but I'll take Alec Baldwin anyway I can get him. He just gets better as he gets older and, well, bigger. I love 30 Rock just for him---I was doubtful at first, not a great Tina Fey fan, but she's been making up for past sins with this series.

I can't imagine why I've never run into Alec Baldwin. Everyone else I know has. Seen Tina Fey possibly directing in our neighborhood, last Spring during a heavy flurry of local filming. There for a bit I couldn't walk down to the train station without tripping over more than one set. I even disrupted a music video and was asked to do crowd work in an other (couldn't had to make the commute). I try to grab anything I can off the craft tables...

The muggy godawful NYC summer has gotten to me like it always does and I've been spending days, weeks, indoors in the one room we can afford to air condition. Sucks. Not getting near the work done you'd suppose a forced confinement might produce, either. Just lots of downloading. I got into the Ricky Gervais/Stephen Merchant/Karl Pilkington podcasts in a big way (Gervais was just here but at Mad Garden for too mucn $$ damn him) so I moved on to dowload ALL their old Xfm radio shows from 1998-2005. That's a lot of listening. I put it on the iPod and fall asleep and wake up being able to do five hours of his material. Though they cut a lot of the original music out, I have picked up a few things from him (well look at the tunes he picked for theme music for The Office and Extras...the man has good taste). One thing was something I thought I'd dreamt until I located it again in the hours of radio shows: a Jimmy Webb version of "Galveston" backed by guitar. Jimmy Webb, if you don't know, wrote a crap load of 60's hits of many genres, and I've always meant to check out his own versions of the songs he wrote for others. Usually he recorded spartan: just him singing to his own piano accompaniment ---very different treatments of songs styled much more theatrically in the popular versions. So I was not believing there was a guitar backing him and a really interesting guitar treatment at that. I finally damned found it....Amazon.com had it for download. Its so good. It was always one of the more iconic Vietnam songs to me...far more so than the "classic rock" protest songs...

anyway I can't sleep and I hope your soul is being seared by In Bruge. On Raglan Road, such a genius choice to score the sacrifice scene to....

[_gramps]

Yes it was Christianity Today that had the thoughtful review of In Bruges. Looking for it I stumbled upon Christian Spotlight on Entertainment or something which also had a decent review...I guess I'm going in expecting Meridian Magazine and that's why I'm surprised that issues of "language" aside these sites were able to discuss the film like adults. Anyway, the best part was this reader's comment:

"Positive - I'm not sure how this film stacks up in the 'Biblical' stakes - there's a lot of violence and profanity; it's not for those of a delicate disposition. But - this film is more Christian in its own way than any other I've seen for a long time. It's all about the power and meaning of forgiveness, and about not being trapped in your sin. There's a moment in the first half of the film where Colin Farrell's character weeps, asking how anything can ever be made right again in his life after the sins he's committed. The film is essentially an answer to that question, and that answer (though not mentioning Christ specifically) is that there is always space for redemption in a life, and that redemption comes through sacrifice, and the sacrifice is of a blameless victim. Brendan Gleeson's final scene with Ralph Fiennes is almost precisely a working out of Penal Substitutionary Atonement, retold in the terms of gangland retribution. I highly recommend this film to anyone who is not likely to be disturbed by the violence."

Well done, my son.


I'm not a Mamet fan, but I'll take Alec Baldwin anyway I can get him. He just gets better as he gets older and, well, bigger. I love 30 Rock just for him---I was doubtful at first, not a great Tina Fey fan, but she's been making up for past sins with this series.

I can't imagine why I've never run into Alec Baldwin. Everyone else I know has. Seen Tina Fey possibly directing in our neighborhood, last Spring during a heavy flurry of local filming. There for a bit I couldn't walk down to the train station without tripping over more than one set. I even disrupted a music video and was asked to do crowd work in an other (couldn't had to make the commute). I try to grab anything I can off the craft tables...

The muggy godawful NYC summer has gotten to me like it always does and I've been spending days, weeks, indoors in the one room we can afford to air condition. Sucks. Not getting near the work done you'd suppose a forced confinement might produce, either. Just lots of downloading. I got into the Ricky Gervais/Stephen Merchant/Karl Pilkington podcasts in a big way (Gervais was just here but at Mad Garden for too mucn $$ damn him) so I moved on to dowload ALL their old Xfm radio shows from 1998-2005. That's a lot of listening. I put it on the iPod and fall asleep and wake up being able to do five hours of his material. Though they cut a lot of the original music out, I have picked up a few things from him (well look at the tunes he picked for theme music for The Office and Extras...the man has good taste). One thing was something I thought I'd dreamt until I located it again in the hours of radio shows: a Jimmy Webb version of "Galveston" backed by guitar. Jimmy Webb, if you don't know, wrote a s*** load of 60's hits of many genres, and I've always meant to check out his own versions of the songs he wrote for others. Usually he recorded spartan: just him singing to his own piano accompaniment ---very different treatments of songs styled much more theatrically in the popular versions. So I was not believing there was a guitar backing him and a really interesting guitar treatment at that. I finally f*****g found it....Amazon.com had it for download. Its so good. It was always one of the more iconic Vietnam songs to me...far more so than the "classic rock" protest songs...

anyway I can't sleep and I hope your soul is being seared by In Bruge. On Raglan Road, such a genius choice to score the sacrifice scene to....

I haven't slept in days. Hence, this thread.

I think Alec Baldwin in Glen Garry Glen Ross is excellent. Can't ever forget the "steel balls" scene.

Here is the evening plan:

Meet a good friend for a few rounds of pool, with a few beers, I'm sure.

Then, back to my place for the movie.

Then, at 12, off by zug to a 'love party' on the lake with a 28 year old hot and tattooed, blonde divorcee until the wee hours of the morning, whom I just really got to know in a serious way two nights ago. It's funny who you meet on the street walking their dogs. :)

My friend prides himself as quite the critic of films, so I am interested to hear what he has to say. I will return and report.

I know what you are saying about the heat. It is hot as hell here. Hard to go out in it at all. Tonia looks for the nearest shade and then just sits down. She doesn't want to run around in this heat. If we go to the river, she just stands in the water up to her neck and doesn't want to move. lol

New York must be terrible, what with all the humidity. If I am going to have humidity, then I want to be near the equator somewhere on a beach.

[_Bond...James Bond]

Bond...you rule. But you already knew that.

I never truly ruled till recently...when I scored The Who tickets for October. Now I can truly take up my throne.