Moe_Syzlak

I'm not "Now Watching" but I wanted to give a plug for a film some friends of mine made and just premiered at Sundance. The movie is called "The Cove" and you can see a trailer here. It won the Audience Award at Sundance.

We had no trouble coming up with a first dance, but the dance with the parents is more challenging. We have talked about the fact that it should be appropriate (there are a lot of good songs out there, but not many that don't have some lyric that would be creepy to think of it between a father/daughter and mother/son) and short. we've come up with a few: Wind Beneath My Wings (ha! Just kidding) Pink Moon - Nick Drake (this was our first thought, but then were told it is not a nice love song, but rather a song about death and the apocalypse) Naive Melody - Talking Heads (nice song, but seem

Ha! You must be too cool to have any color at all. You are translucent!

I really liked Saving Private Ryan (well right up to the manipulative fade from the 40s to the present at the end). I know a lot of people (my brother RANTS about this) thinks there is not discernible story and the idea of going to look for Ryan is a weak arc. But I think it is just perfect as a way to mirror the larger war. That some men must risk their lives for others and that sometimes the idea of sacrifice a few for the good of the many is not so black and white. Soldiers like my grandfather fought for us (the people watching the film) in the same way that Hanks' troops fought for Ryan an

Well it's been a good 10 years since I've seen a show there so maybe they've improved it. But I've seen dozens of shows there (including many Phish shows) and there is no venue I'd rather NOT be on the lawn than Alpine. Well maybe Fiddler's Green in Denver, but you can have crappy sound in the pavilion there too.

You've just set a condition that precludes lawn seats.

Well I know you want pavilion seating at Alpine maybe more than any other venue, but that lawn is huge. I would be shocked if you can't get into the venue. Good luck, either way!

Sorry, I get the confusion now. You thought I was referring to the movie "The Reader" which would make the most sense, I suppose. Actually, I was wondering if you were the guy that wrote this.

Do you by chance write for The Reader?

Reviews like that say more about the reviewer than the reviewee. Am i supposed to not like things because they are favored by other "white people"!?! I like music that speaks to me emotionally and excites me by providing interesting melodic, rhythmic and harmonic sounds. Noble Beast provides that in spades for me. If the reviewer from The Reader disagrees, that is his prerogative, but that is not a review, it is a lynching based on a predisposition. ETA: I found this picture of the Reader reviewer online (he's on the left):

God I hated Shakespeare in Love and really felt it was the worst of the nominated movies. I didn't think it even deserved a nom. It pissed me off that it won and I don't generally care one way or the other about the Oscars (other than it sometimes highlighting some movies for me to check out).

Nothing wrong with that! For my tastes though, it is kind of a boring song musically (though interesting lyrically) without all the layers added during production.

A mix I recently made that i particularly like! 1 .Star

I hear ya, but I don't think that is nearly as bad as Shakespeare in Love or Forrest Gump beating Pulp Fiction.

Can someone explain why they might think this. Because she originally met Desmond in England? Faraday is an American at Oxford, right? The Hawkins lady is clearly British. That doesn't preculde it from being true, but I don't understand why everyone is jumping to that conclusion.

I studied jazz guitar at Manhattan School of Music and then studied privately with Rodney Jones. This was back in the late '80's and I would say there was a definite appreciation for broadening of one's horizons beyond just standards. Rodney also taught Vernon Reid at the same time he was teaching me. Rodney used to tell me that Vernon wanted sooo badly to be a jazz guitarist and he told him that he shouldn't limit himself to what he thought he should be, but rather be what he is. All very zen, I know, but it was true then and it's true now. I see people like Brad Mehldau covering Radiohead an

I'll probably take heat for this, but IATTBYH is, to me, the quintessential example of a boring song made into a masterpiece through production.

Geeky lostie was totally the random ensign from Star Trek role. I knew that dude was going to bite it as soon as he started having an expanded presence.

Well I think they sort of belong to the island. Whatever reason for them stay with the island is the same as why they don't age. That's my guess at least. Are they dead? Are they Tralfamadorians? I don't know, but they aren't the same as the Losties... or Ben for that matter.

Here is an interesting interview with Bill Walton and Tobias Funke that gives some context to the time travel. http://www.ew.com/ew/package/0,,1550612_20...s+talk+premiere

We thought the same thing. I have no answer. Time travel storylines seem to always get bogged down in their own logic. Already we see "there are rules" but apparently Desmond is an exception to the rules. Before they established Desmond as special, we were asking how Desmond was able to save Charlie all those times if the "rules" don't allow you to change the "stream." Clearly Desmond learned that time would self-correct eventually and realized that Charlie had to die, but he still changed the stream. Now they are saying he is special somehow. I get frustrated with that stuff.

Oh I know. I was certainly not trying to be smarmy, but it seems like most of that thread is a joke anyway.

First post of the thread. Same song, too! ETA: Ha! Should we add all three of these responses to the "smarmy" thread?