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gromit
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 4:24 am Reply with quote
Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 9016 Location: Shanghai
The Saddest Music In the World has something for everyone:
- a prophetic tapeworm for Bart
- musical numbers and some fun versions of The Song Is You for Joe and Billy
- Winnipeg for Gary
- silent movie editing and blue tint and expressionistic montages for Lady W
- Maria de Madeiras as a quirky sexpot for ... probably me.
("Are you American?" "No, I'm a nymphomaniac.")
- Yam will have to make do with Scottish musicians
- Isabella Rossellini and beer for Jeremy
- Indian musicians who double as sexy Eskimos in one US number for Ghulam
(I like that the American huckster/promoter isn't American, and how he recruits any other nationality to join the American numbers. America as one big mongrel self-promoting entity).
- Syd will have to make due with the beer slide and plunge.

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marantzo
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 7:26 am Reply with quote
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("Are you American?" "No, I'm a nymphomaniac.")

I was going to include that line in my post but I thought it might be a spoiler. Smile
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jeremy
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 1:57 am Reply with quote
Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 6794 Location: Derby, England and Hamilton, New Zealand (yes they are about 12,000 miles apart)
Isabella Rossellini and beer for Jeremy - yes, please. Or failing that, Winona Ryder and a bottle of good Sauvignon Blanc. Or if Winona's not available, Salma Hayek and a steady supply of margheritas. Emily Blunt and a cup of tea?

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bartist
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 10:21 am Reply with quote
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Kate W. and a pint of bitters.

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knox
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 7:27 pm Reply with quote
Joined: 18 Mar 2010 Posts: 1246 Location: St. Louis
Abbie Cornish and a bottle of Foster's.
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yambu
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 8:08 pm Reply with quote
Joined: 23 May 2004 Posts: 6441 Location: SF Bay Area
Peewee Herman and Jack Daniel's Lynchberg Lemonade
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marantzo
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 10:21 pm Reply with quote
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Yam, your avatar is much more effective than the earlier version. Looks terrific and classical.
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yambu
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 12:05 am Reply with quote
Joined: 23 May 2004 Posts: 6441 Location: SF Bay Area
marantzo wrote:
Yam, your avatar is much more effective than the earlier version. Looks terrific and classical.
Thank you. It's about three years old now. It was a numinous moment, out there on Ireland's Dingle Peninsula, the part called Sleahead. You can't see the surf climbing the cliffs, or the ruins of the famine huts, or horses running wild. My son and I were the only people there. It brought us closer together. We each think of it every day.
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billyweeds
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 8:41 am Reply with quote
Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 20618 Location: New York City
yam--You have done a rare thing--forced me to look up the meaning of a word. I won't be using "numinous" a lot, but at least I know what it means.

The avatar is marvelous.
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marantzo
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 8:50 am Reply with quote
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Yam, am I mistaken or did you make the avatar brighter and larger?

Why doesn't this site let me make my avatar larger? I always have trouble putting them up. I keep getting the message that they are to big and I end up with a small one.
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gromit
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 8:52 am Reply with quote
Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 9016 Location: Shanghai
I believe it has something to do with the awe and supernatural mystery of coin collecting.

But indeed Yam looks like an autochthonous mzee of Eire.


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whiskeypriest
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 9:38 am Reply with quote
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gromit wrote:
The Saddest Music In the World has something for everyone:
- a prophetic tapeworm for Bart
- musical numbers and some fun versions of The Song Is You for Joe and Billy
- Winnipeg for Gary
- silent movie editing and blue tint and expressionistic montages for Lady W
- Maria de Madeiras as a quirky sexpot for ... probably me.
("Are you American?" "No, I'm a nymphomaniac.")
- Yam will have to make do with Scottish musicians
- Isabella Rossellini and beer for Jeremy
- Indian musicians who double as sexy Eskimos in one US number for Ghulam
(I like that the American huckster/promoter isn't American, and how he recruits any other nationality to join the American numbers. America as one big mongrel self-promoting entity).
- Syd will have to make due with the beer slide and plunge.
Et moi?

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bartist
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 9:47 am Reply with quote
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The generally numinous quality of the film, pour toi. Or, failing that, I'm willing to share the tapeworm.

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gromit
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 11:03 am Reply with quote
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whiskeypriest wrote:
Et moi?


Nope, nothing for you.
A bad movie.
Don't watch it.


Okay, I think Poland defeats Germany in one round of the competition.

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yambu
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 3:55 pm Reply with quote
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billyweeds wrote:
yam--You have done a rare thing--forced me to look up the meaning of a word. I won't be using "numinous" a lot, but at least I know what it means.

The avatar is marvelous.
Thank you.

I suppose I was showing off a bit. I think the word was a little too loaded for what I wanted to say. Sleahead near Dingletown, Ireland is simply one of the most beautiful places on earth. It took our breath away. That's better.

In college they made me read Rudolf Otto's "The Idea of the Holy", which is all about the numinous. I never got it.
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