craigb

mike_mccue

Jonbouy


Sounds like you're already on the same couch as Mosh...

The difficult bit is likely to be getting anyone else to join you...

;-)

Yeah I think bapu has me on ignore or sumthin.




:-)

Maybe it's payback for giving him that brussel sprout flavored popcorn last time?

Ohhh heck ... if it had cheese sauce over it ... you only had to use a fork ... not your fingers! Ohhh wait ... maybe you can't play the bass with cheese sauce in your hands ... would be kinda slippery and messy I bet. Wonder if it affects the notes!

Jonbouy

bapu


Can someone summarize post #13 for me?

Best post by Mosh evah!

Thanks a whole bunch ... in some ways, being a film reviewer with over 500 "foreign and art films" to my credit and a good portion of those at the Internet Movie Database, has been my salvation for a long time, along with the music from many places. 


It is insane, and hard to believe that I have seen so many films, and today's things just are not measuring up as far ... other than just some money making that keeps the funds away from lesser artists and folks that deserve it. It's the same thing in music ... for every million the Rolling Stones take home, there are at least 100 bands that suffered, and did not have a chance ... and when you consider that if you had a band and did that today ... without anyone "knowing" the Rolling Stones, every one would trash you and no one would show up!


It's the same thing in film to a point, but Europe still ahs a good eye for experiments and individual film makers ... I am not exactly a Gaspar Noe fan, but his films would never get done in America ... specially "Je Suis Seul" (I stand alone), as they are quite vicious in attacking the social mold and government. But you come out of his film ... wondering about film ... and sometimes seeing a top ten film right after, makes it look really empty and fake, and boring!


At the Portland International Film Festival, I have had a big hand in helping folks catch the foreign films with reviews and such, and I am one of the few that always tells people ... catch the films from nowhere land, since they will never be on DVD, or seen ever again ... it's their one and only chance.  You already know that all English and American films will end up in the stores for you!


Music, now, is easier ... because you can catch it from the Internet ... but film still has serious distribution issues to get resolved, which I think will be the future for them ... since reaching the public via a theater, will likely come to an end ... sometime in the future.


A lot of my ideas, are a mesh of literature work, film work, theater work and music ... the combination of which ... shows so many parallels, even if some are rather unusual.


Happy New Year everyone ... and thanks again ... I'm still blushing and almost in tears for the compliment.

craigb

bapu


Can someone summarize post #13 for me?

Something about Godzilla versus Mothra I think...

Worst movies ever made ... but fun to watch ... and Akira Kurosawa's biggest enemies ... and when he won the Oscar ... yeah ... it was the day that the majority of those films died!
 
Let's see now ... no city has ever been destroyed so many times before like Tokyo!

craigb

Jonbouy

bapu


Can someone summarize post #13 for me?

Best post by Mosh evah!

Ya, it kind of surprised me.
 
(I had expected it to be long and detailed.)

While not trying to be mean, some folks do more than just one note ... ohhh excuse me ... one chord! And their work is more than a mere song!

jamesg1213


I'd love to see a stage play of Flann O' Brien's 'The Third Policeman' using Expressionist set design. That would be quite something.

Pulling out the play to read it ... I'll see if I can visualize this ... but I was good taking Tennessee Williams off the living room, a la Joe Papp ... even he was conventional compared to me!