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    Netflix Recos

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    Love this film. Varda peppers her homeland with vital questions, traversing the French countryside to learn why trash-pickers exist in wasteful consumer cultures. Although salvageable fruits and furniture occupy her digital viewfinder, her themes quickly swell beyond mere social protest. Recognizing how filmmaking is a form of scavenging, Varda converts into a "gleaner" herself, one in search of supple and profound images. By gathering footage that most directors would skip over--including digressions about her own aging--she creates a movie about perceiving what others willfully ignore. Did you see the followup, Two Years Later? (I think that's included on the DVD as a bonus feature.)

    I fell in love with her watching this. She puts just enough of herself into it. I found an old print of The Gleaners painting at a thrift shop and had to buy it & I always get the warm fuzzies when I see heart-shaped potatoes now. I did see the follow-up as a bonus feature and I recall some kind of rap video(?).

    And Ikiru is my favorite Kurosawa.

    It is incredibly good! I've not done all the Kurosawa studying that I feel I need to do in order to determine a personal favorite yet.

    Netflix Recos

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    Some of my fave netflixes of last year...

    Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip= bestest comedy ever

    Seven Samurai= classic samurai

    Ikiru= classic non-samurai by akira kurosawa

    The Gleaners and I= all around excellent film by the "grandmother" of the french new wave

    Word Wars= very good doc on group of scrabble tournament players...really enjoyable if you dig scrabble

    Guitars

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    The cheapest guitars money can buy (almost). We got the little one for our two-year old this Christmas. We don't actually play (yet...we're working on it) but when my fella and I booze it up late at night, we jam like folk-rock stars! Tons 'o' fun!

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    Best. Song. Ever.

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I might have to submit "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted" by Jimmy Ruffin as well... along with "Be Thankful for What You Got" by William DeVaughn.

    Swoooon...such excellence in those songs. Ditto the votes for Marvin and Rev. Al.

    My Al votes go to Love & Happiness for pure grooviness and Simply Beautiful (his old version, not the newer duet thing)(also, played into the headphones) for arouseability.

    I'll have to think long and hard before I post something to claim as my top pick! :unsure

    Random Poetry Thread III

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    A little nature thing I've been rolling around in my head...

     

    Hwy 65 N. October 2006

    Lofty skeleton bodies,

    once spring green,

    have stripped on

    rolling hills whose

    backs rise together

    like miles of conjoined twins

    into short ranges.

    Great silent mounds,

    awash in a sea

    of whiskey and wine leaves.

    one song

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Strontium-90

    Removed from milk

    As curious an entity

    As bullshit writ on silk

     

    Cancer's airborne now

    Do you hear the sound?

    I was hanging out the washing, man

    As the rain come falling down

     

    Now the grass lies snakes

    Has crowds of iodine and fire

    On Jezebel's luminescence

    I swear you are my heart's desire

     

    Bomb proof the embassy

    Give infanticide a cemetary

    You looked so good on the late night news

    With your curtain and your deed

     

    Yeah, I love you like a violin

    I'll hunt you like an amputee

    But I ain't gonna lose my skin

    I would love to see you again, again

     

    I... I would love to see you again

    I... I would love to see you again

     

    You wrote me a letter

    And this is how it went:

    It said, "We're backing up the supply lines

    The first division's crossin' the Nile

    Through the rushes and up the side

    And into the machine gun fire

    Tell me that this is not a dream

    I've become a steel spring

    Uranium tips night vision cruise missles

    Gonna cut the belly out of the sky

     

    I rode an Abrams

    We stopped in Bethlehem

    They made the answers here

    But there weren't so many questions then

    And there I shot a woman

    In a headscarf with my gun

    She said 'Does my bomb look big in this?

    Am I the only one?'

     

    I was in the blitz you know

    My heart was young and true

    I had a Caesarean, but it was not any use

     

    Oh calamity! Oh the vanity!

    You can't ride a thunderbolt

    You can't claim an enemy

     

    See, there ain't nothing here

    Except a darkness

    I ain't gonna fail no test

    I gave my dowry to a finger on a switch

    Turn me to a fine pink mist

     

    But I ain't nothing but a stranger still

    If I'm even anyone at all

    But I ain't gonna lose my skin

    I would love to see you again

     

    I... I would love to see you again

    I... I would love to see you again

     

    But that ain't gonna happen now

    It's no use to pretend

     

    How many people gonna lie?

    How many people gonna die?

    What's best for the Western and the greed?

    Kill 'em all? Let 'em breed?

    Another bomb for every atom you injure

    Meet the Devil with extended ring finger

    Saying 'thou shalt not kill'

    But I'm damned if I don't

    So I'm thinking I will

     

    Yeah, Dan Pearl

    They cut your head off on TV

    But I am not a camera

    A man is not an effigy

    But still all this horror

    Has made a trench out of my soul

    I'm gonna have to fall in love with a blind girl

    So she will not see the shame that I know

     

    Oh, new scar

    You have raised the bar

    Goliath rides an oil drum raft

    Through a cyclone in my ear drums

     

    You don't want a tyrant, we're sure

    You'd prefer civil war

    And I am gonna lose my skin

    And I ain't gonna see you again

     

    Again

     

    I... I would love to see you again

    I... I would love to see you again

     

    ------The Drones' Jezebel

    How is that popular?

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I heard a song by Fergie recently.

    Ditto. I have to make great efforts to not throw up when I'm exposed to the black eyed peas or fergie.. It's just repulsive how hard this woman is pushed as some kind of talented artist when she's just some ex-girl group broad in a micro-mini skirt. I loathe, loathe, loather that music...especially when I see very young girls emulating her "my humps..my humps" crap.

    :realmad :yucky :barf

    someone updated jeff's wikipedia page

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    How much of the Greg Kot book is accurate? As in, under what circumstances did it come about that the fella would write about Wilco? I did enjoy reading it but I also felt a little silly during some of it (the whole "I've only got a problem with one person in this room..." Jay points to Jeff.) It kind of took me back to my girlhood and reading things like "Jonathon Brandis: The Unauthorized Autobiography" :blush . I'm not dogging the book. Like I said, I did enjoy it. It gave me a good perspective on the chronology of the band and the development of Jeff's songwriting etc. I guess what I'm looking for is what are everyone else's thoughts on the book?

     

    Edited: To add that upon searching, I see there is an entire thread devoted to this topic (hmmm...imagine that) and I will now commence reading it. Any thoughts are still welcome anyhoo...

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