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| bart |
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| When I bitch and get pissed about something, I find a cat and toss it into a snowdrift. Instant relief. |
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| Nancy |
| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 1:44 pm |
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bart wrote: When I bitch and get pissed about something, I find a cat and toss it into a snowdrift. Instant relief.
For you or the cat? |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 2:20 pm |
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Quote: One of the best things I found was "Will you remember this problem in a year?" I thought that that was one of the best gauges I've ever found.
I often say, will you remember it in 5 years.
If not, it's not an important event. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 2:44 pm |
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Nancy wrote: bart wrote: When I bitch and get pissed about something, I find a cat and toss it into a snowdrift. Instant relief.
For you or the cat?
You two make a great team!  |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 2:56 pm |
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gromit wrote: Quote: One of the best things I found was "Will you remember this problem in a year?" I thought that that was one of the best gauges I've ever found.
I often say, will you remember it in 5 years.
If not, it's not an important event.
1 year? 5 years? Chances are I'd remember little of my frustrations in 5 yrs. or only as humorous anecdotes.
For me, 1 yr. is a better gauge.
I've pursued problems for up to at least 2 years...and WON. Has it been stressful? YES. Was the victory worth it? Usually YES in financial terms. I pick my battles very carefully. I only fight those I can win.
There's no question that I came out ahead financially, but wonder about the cost to my own mental health. Perhaps I cut my life short by months or even years by being so stubborn.
Happily no cats (dogs, or even goldfish) ended up in snowdrifts I'm glad to report. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 4:58 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Once has a wonderful score and lovely performers. It's extremely slight, which is okay, but one questions the over-the-top praise the film received. I did enjoy it immensely while still considering it vaguely unsatisfying compared with expectations.
Still, I would never dream of steering anyone away from it. The songs alone make it worthwhile. They are memorable.
That' about right. It's a small, pleasant film. It's nice to spend 83 minutes in the company of "Guy" and "Girl." (Their names are never stated. For some reason the baby is credited as "Baby" when the character is called Ivonka.)
I notice this is Glen Hansard's second film (the first was "The Commitments" back in 1991, where he had a supporting role) and Markéta Irglová's first. Most of the songs are Glen's, but my favorite song was "The Hill," which is Markéta's solo piano number toward the end. Pretty song and pretty voice. Lovely girl too. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 5:04 pm |
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| I may be mistaken but I think I read that the boy and girl are an item in actuality. That's re: Once. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 5:44 pm |
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Sorry for my big red hatred. I just miss my Gran most this time of the year and can't stand what that disease did to her.
inla -- I haven't seen The Savages, yet. But you really must find time for Away From Her.
lady -- thanks! that's one of the Almodovar pics in the box set I haven't watched.
Pour maintenant, it's Justy Just on HBOHD. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 6:03 pm |
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ehle64 wrote: [b][color=indigo]Sorry for my big red hatred. I just miss my Gran most this time of the year and can't stand what that disease did to her.
You have company in your holiday doldrums. I lost my mother during the Christmas holidays 13 years ago. There is not a day that goes by that I don't think of her.
Three deep relationships imploded during Christmas because I took off to visit family, and the other people succumbed to temptation. Foolishly, I was deeply in love and never quite recovered.
And now, I just found out that my best friend is seriously ill and will probably not survive more than a few months.
I'm _not_ seeking sympathy. I'm just trying to make the point that so many of us have problems - especially around this time of year.
It can be a joyous time filled with happy memories for children and families, but also a time of loneliness, sorrow, and darkness for others. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 6:08 pm |
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So sorry about your Gran, Wade. I have never had the misfortune of having to go through seeing that horrible disease ravage a loved one, but the knowledge of what it does makes me so glad to have been spared that ordeal up to now.
If there is any justice the new year will bring better times. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 6:12 pm |
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| Wade, I think you will find Volver a great treat. It's up there with Pedro's best. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 6:39 pm |
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marantzo wrote: Wade, I think you will find Volver a great treat. It's up there with Pedro's best.
Oh, he's seen Volver (and loved it); it's The Flower of My Secret he hasn't seen. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 7:08 pm |
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| Thanks much -- ladyw -- it's going on next, after i get my school-grrl crush overwith. Justy Jus and Timba -- woah-oh |
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| Rod |
| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 8:55 pm |
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I have finally seen the greatest movie ever made. A work that dwarfs the combined oeuvres of Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Mizoguchi, Renoir, Scorsese, Ford, and Bunuel. A work that responds with preternatural sensitivity to all possible desires one can hope for a motion picture to answer.
That film is The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift.
Want endless shot of mini-skirted geisha girls getting in and out of cars? Casual lesbian make-out scenes? Fast and, might it be said, furious car chases augmented with undercranking, digital effects, and Japanese surfabilly? A hero who speaks with an indecipherable southern accent? Evil samurai-car-driving villains? Sonny Chiba as a benevolent yakuza crime lord? The most superfluous dialogue this side of a Mitt Romeny speech? Lil Bow Wow in an acting role?
This one has it all, motherfucker. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 9:49 pm |
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Rod wrote: I have finally seen the greatest movie ever made. A work that dwarfs the combined oeuvres of Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Mizoguchi, Renoir, Scorsese, Ford, and Bunuel. A work that responds with preternatural sensitivity to all possible desires one can hope for a motion picture to answer.
That film is The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift.
Want endless shot of mini-skirted geisha girls getting in and out of cars? Casual lesbian make-out scenes? Fast and, might it be said, furious car chases augmented with undercranking, digital effects, and Japanese surfabilly? A hero who speaks with an indicipherable southern accent? Evil samurai-car-driving villains? Sonny Chiba as a benevolent yakuza crime lord? The most superfluous dialogue this side of a Mitt Romeny speech? Lil Bow Wow in an acting roll?
This one has it all, motherfucker.
Thanks, Rod. This is a movie I've been curious about for a long time. |
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