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    Now Watching

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    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.

     

    Flipper was one of the most beloved television characters of all time. But ironically, the fascination with dolphins that he caused created a tragic epidemic that has threatened their existence and become a multibillion dollar industry. The largest supplier of dolphins in the world is located in the picturesque town of Taijii, Japan. But the town has a dark, horrifying secret that it doesn't want the rest of the world to know. There are guards patrolling the cove, where the dolphin capturing takes place, who prevent any photography. The only way to stop the evil acts of this company and the town that protects it is to expose them....and that's exactly what the brave group of activists in The Cove intend to do.Armed with state-of-the-art surveillance equipment, the members of the small group, led by the most famous dolphin trainer in the world, devise a covert plan to infiltrate the cove to document the horrifying events that happen there. Along the way, they uncover what may be the largest health crisis facing our planet

    Wedding Dance with Parents

    in Someone Else's Song

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    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 seems a bit too upbeat for a parental dance and maybe a bit cliche at this point)

    Comes A Time - Neil Young

    The Wind - Cat Stevens

     

    Anyone have any thoughts on these and/or other suggestions?

    This year's Oscars

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    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 and we must remember to "earn it" too. Again other than the manipulative fade and the hit you over the head with the message ending (which apparently a lot of people STILL didn't get), I liked it a lot.

    The Phish Thread

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Nah, not at Alpine...that place is plenty loud!

    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.

    The Phish Thread

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    my ticket request was denied. heres to scoring tickets on saturday for the 6/21 alpine show...

    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!

    Best movies of 2008

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    Negative, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

     

    Yes, my head did 'esplode'.

     

    I told you guys I hate that movie with a passion....sorry if I offended anyone.

    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.

    New Andrew Bird LP

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    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):

     

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    This year's Oscars

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    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).

    Lost

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    So, do we think the Hawkins lady is Daniel's mom?

     

    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.

     

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    Radio Cure on new Bad Plus album

    in Just A Fan

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    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 and Bill Frisell doing ... everything... and John Scofield playing avant garde jazz, funk and Ray Charles and I think: this is a golden age of jazz where, just like "rock," there are few barriers. So I guess I just think you guys -- and the guy from the Bad Plus -- are just finding bad teachers. Meanwhile, the standards are alive and well. I thought that, while an "all star" Supernatural type of album, McCoy Tyner put out an excellent album of standards just this past year. They sounded fresh and alive on that album to my ears.

     

    I could write pages of rants on the issue of scales and scale boxes, but I'll save that for another time. Suffice it to say, all scales are chords and all chords are scales.

    Lost

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    So here is a question. Why didn't Richards people become "unstuck in time" like Locke and the other Losties?

    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.

    Lost

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    The question I asked myself during the episode: "If Locke goes into the hatch, under Mr. Eko's brother's plane and then time-travels into the past (pre-construction) or if Daniel Farraday is invited into Des's hatch and then time-travels forward (post-explosion), is he immediately buried and killed?"

     

    Anyone?

    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.

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