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Luce NDs said:
Imagine divided children ... with the imposition of fear and anger for unknown reasons ... to the paradigm ... dark forces hide things .. and to bare them one must do some undercover work ... word can obscure a great deal of good, bad and ugly, etc.

The potential is expansive ... a test ... to occupy some minds and keep them from committing avarice ... sort of akin to St. Eve ... a purple shadow in the northern skye ...


Consider the purple stain ... the other side of the blue ... but perhaps just a word with subtle understanding ... a bit psychic schism? Complexities abound contrary to those desiring simple ...
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Steve. :ROFLMAO: “What is it? ...I dunno. What should we call it? ...Hmm. Aurora’s taken. ...‘Steve’ ?”

Life is funny sometimes.
 
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Kimmio said:
Though, it’s as good as Aurora. @revsdd did you see this? Maybe you should change your avatar. :)
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I am nothing if not mysterious.

"The aurora you see in the sky, at least from our data, is moving at a certain speed, and then you have this guy moving crazy fast at lower latitudes, passing from east to west, super narrow, almost like a comet," said Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, a space physicist at the University of Calgary and lead author of the study. "I like to describe it to my friends as the aurora moves like Wile E. Coyote, while Steve moves like the Road Runner," she said.

And remember - the Road Runner always wins.
 
revsdd said:
I am nothing if not mysterious.

"The aurora you see in the sky, at least from our data, is moving at a certain speed, and then you have this guy moving crazy fast at lower latitudes, passing from east to west, super narrow, almost like a comet," said Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, a space physicist at the University of Calgary and lead author of the study. "I like to describe it to my friends as the aurora moves like Wile E. Coyote, while Steve moves like the Road Runner," she said.

And remember - the Road Runner always wins.
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Only in augmented chaos ... a transliteration from logos ... to confuse the real people for sake of business and capital ... even if it involves the purple MAID ... an sign of things to come out of the blue? The Central Banker is suffering Uncertainty Principles over it ... and curiosity and interest may expand ... the life of business in conflict with people!

The Road Runner is ... for the birds! Then there are those that reach for master minding health ... in light of the dark things going on ... some would sooner follow the emotions alone ... the search for the anonymous ultimate continues ... regardless of its being or not being reasonable ... thus nothing rests ... a fear whips them into frothy space ... to extend transliteration as opposing mystery ... being we don't know what handle to put on the great void ... alternate mystery to support conflict, or encouraging of the unguent as a emotional Reuben ... in the patriarchal sense perhaps Reuben was a bearded haggadah ... one hairy Maid that could create a little death ... but you can't say that with rigid folks ... stoners ... they have no flux even if supple attribute! An essence?

This could get extensive ... just to support mythos ... adarl etude into why occult is so frightening. Not so if we knew better ... as second step IOs-us that which is Beta ... in Hebrew only a bet ... based on chances of reining in an arid mind ... as wild Camino ... or Mustang if you will ... thus lone rangers ... and William Telos ... intimate stories ... rare misses ...

Nothings like it ... mindlessness is hard to define ...
 
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revsdd said:
I am nothing if not mysterious.

"The aurora you see in the sky, at least from our data, is moving at a certain speed, and then you have this guy moving crazy fast at lower latitudes, passing from east to west, super narrow, almost like a comet," said Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, a space physicist at the University of Calgary and lead author of the study. "I like to describe it to my friends as the aurora moves like Wile E. Coyote, while Steve moves like the Road Runner," she said.

And remember - the Road Runner always wins.
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Another reason I love Canada
We're totally ordinary
Without airs
(tho we do have our airy faries and artsy fartsies)
 
Carolla said:
Tonight we watched "The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society" - really enjoyed it. Well cast. interesting story telling (I think somewhat based on factual occupation of Guernsey during the war) beautiful settings & locations in the UK. I had read the book some years ago and enjoyed that, so thought I would also like the movie - and I did. My mate had not read the books and definitely enjoyed the movie too. So two thumbs up from us for this one :)
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I keep hearing about this. I might try to watch it tonight.
 
Watched "Molly's Game" tonight - pretty amazing tale, even though I don't have a clue about most of the poker details. Well acted, good story, some suspense with twists & turns, questions of ethics ... I enjoyed it.
 
A friend and I saw Boots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You”. I thought it was hilarious. She had fun and it’s not necessarily her thing either. It was really weird - “Being John Malkovich” meets “Foxy Brown” on acid...with a bit of underdog monster superhero, and retro 70s - though it’s set a bizarre present day - vibe in the mix, and heavy with symbolism. It was also really well done...we were laughing out loud through a good portion of it...the sound track song gets you moving in your seat...and the points it made were not lost in the weirdness at all. At least I didn’t think so.
 
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If you cannot achieve utopia ... dystopia may substitute some darkness ... it just a word! What could it mean?

Shakespeare said everything ... dependant on the application ...
 
Finally saw Rogue One : A Star Wars Story. Loved it. One of the best movies in that universe. Definitely not a traditional Star Wars movie even if hits some of the classic beats and has some nods to other Star Wars properties (some characters; cute cameos; the Imperial archive that is the setting in the final third has a design esthetic similar to the Death Star in A New Hope). It's really a resistance/spy thriller about a desperate group of rebels on a dangerous mission rather than a rousing adventure and director Gareth Edwards did a good job of hitting that mood. Rogue One is also one of those movies where you know the outcome (it basically sets up the beginning of the original Star Wars, aka A New Hope) but you care enough about the characters to want to know how it goes for them.

Short version: It goes badly for most of them, so the ending is kind of bittersweet as they accomplish their mission but at the cost of their own lives.

The major characters are all unique to this movie rather than carry-overs, though familiar faces turn up in supporting roles, including Darth Vader who is very much in fine form showing why he is one of the greatest antagonists in movie history. It is a bit of an ensemble piece, but the clear star is Felicity Jones as Jyn Erso, a self-assured young woman with a bit of a sketchy history (she's in prison for various crimes before joining the Rebellion) but also an intimate connection to the Empire's new super-weapon, the Death Star. Jones had been previously nominated for a raft of awards for her performance as Jane Hawking in Theory of Everything and that talent is definitely on show here.

On the down side, the computer recreation of the late Peter Cushing as Grand Moff Tarkin falls a bit flat, which is too bad because I generally liked how Tarkin was used otherwise. They got the character right, but the look was off. The computer generated young Leia was similarly "off" but only appears in a very brief cameo whereas Tarkin has several scenes, similar to his role in A New Hope. Recasting would have been preferable though I understand the desire to have the governor look as much like he did in A New Hope as possible given that this movie segues directly into the beginning of that movie.
 
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Wow! Watched a wonderful documentary last night called "The Gardener" - has won many film festival awards etc. About Frank Cabot (now deceased) who created an extraordinary garden - 20 acres if I remember correctly!) on his private family property in Le Malbaie. Fantastic to hear his commentary about how he created it over time. And of course the visuals are stunning. It's now open for tours only 4 times each summer - we are going to see if we can snag tickets & go on a road trip next summer to see it in person - it made such an impression on us. I think you may be able to watch it on the CBC site - CBC TV
 
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I was taken out to see A Star is Born. It was a tear-jerker. I almost blubber-cried. I really had to take deep breaths. I expected Lady Gaga to be talented, because she’s a musician and stage performer, but Bradley Cooper was equally talented (and Gaga is good at movie acting, too). And he directed it. It was worth watching. Best love story about musician(s) since Walk the Line. Or maybe Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart.

I was just reading about it and didn’t realize this is the 4th version of A Star is a Born (each one, the story is a little bit different and set in its own time). I only knew of the Kris Kristofferson and Barbra Streisand version from the 70’s, and now this one.
 
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Kimmio said:
I was taken out to see A Star is Born. It was a tear-jerker. I almost blubber-cried. I really had to take deep breaths. I expected Lady Gaga to be talented, because she’s a musician and stage performer, but Bradley Cooper was equally talented (and Gaga is good at movie acting, too). And he directed it. It was worth watching. Best love story about musician(s) since Walk the Line. Or maybe Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart.

I was just reading about it and didn’t realize this is the 4th version of A Star is a Born (each one, the story is a little bit different and set in its own time). I only knew of the Kris Kristofferson and Barbra Streisand version from the 70’s, and now this one.
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While I am also most familiar with the Kristofferson-Streisand version, I was aware of the history and :rolleyes: when I heard the Hollywood had gone back into that well again. Glad to hear it turned out well, though. I guess it's one of those stories that's easy to update and retell for each new generation.
 
Not quite finished it yet, but Lovecraft : Fear of the Unknown is a pretty good profile/biography of the American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. @Inannawhimsey and I sometimes jest about him and his Cthulhu mythos on here so if you want to know what that's all about, this doc pretty much does it. And they chose their talking heads very well. There's S. T. Joshi and Robert M. Price, who've done scholarly writing about Lovecraft as literature and, in Joshi's case, edited editions of his work. There's authors Neil Gaiman, Peter Straub, Ramsey Campbell, and Caitlin Kiernan who have been influenced by Lovecraft to varying degrees. There's film makers Guillermo Del Toro, Stuart Gordon, Andrew Migliore, and John Carpenter, who have all made movies of, or influenced by, Lovecraft. So everyone involved knows and understands what they are talking about.

Best of all, it's been posted officially on Youtube so is free to all.


And, yes, it goes into his dark side. Even by the standards of his time (early 20th century), Lovecraft was horribly racist and classist, though he seemed to mellow out as he aged and the film does point this out.
 
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