Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit
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Aronofsky sounds like a complete tool. And producers and actors fell for this tosh as well. But I saw this: Can we accept that politicians, CEO’s, celebrities, and perhaps people in almost any walk of life can achieve many things and still be twits with really poor judgment and fundamentally flawed understanding of the world around them (AKA Stupid).
And it made sense.I can see how that would resonate with you...
That Tool Aronofsky has a lot to offer and has made some fine movies, including Pi (can't find the symbol on my keyboard), the Wrestler and Black Swan.
I hope your year picks up.
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Sacha, in reply to
Does anything else think that PAS threads are cross-pollinating?
Oh they always do
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recordari, in reply to
Does anything else think
Are you claiming other non-sentient beings have achieved higher consciousness? Houston, we have lift off.
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Sacha, in reply to
As one of the only Aucklanders not at the Big Day Out of It, I welcome our new robot overlords
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Jacqui Dunn, in reply to
Does anything else think
Are you claiming other non-sentient beings have achieved higher consciousness? Houston, we have lift off.
O for heavens' sake! As someone who is totally anal about checking stuff before posting, I can't believe I did that....although it was just before bed-time, and after a strange movie....
And I'm not at the BDO either - I'd double the average age by just turning up!
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Does anything else think that PAS threads are cross-pollinating?
Oh they always do
...just as long as the bees-in-our-bonnets
don't get colony collapse disorder
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recordari, in reply to
O for heavens' sake! As someone who is totally anal about checking stuff before posting, I can't believe I did that
As the person that usually provides fuel for the resident 'Onan the grammarians', it's a bit rich of me to comment.
And I'm not at the BDO either - I'd double the average age by just turning up!
Wasn't going to, but will go for the later shows, and demonstrate to the young'uns what a primal scream really sounds like with a bit of mileage behind it.
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Wasn't going to, but will go for the later shows, and demonstrate to the young'uns what a primal scream really sounds like with a bit of mileage behind it.
Looks like there's a few of us heading along later, then.
See you down the front, as they said in my young day.
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andin, in reply to
I can see how that would resonate with you…
Whatever do you mean?
That Tool Aronofsky has a lot to offer and has made some fine movies, including Pi (can’t find the symbol on my keyboard), the Wrestler and Black Swan.
Thank you, is all I can say for pointing out my hasty judgement. A career is long as are our years on this planet, unless cut short, and we are adaptable creatures and these times demand that of us.
Yes, Emma's post got me remembering my brush's with death.I hope your year picks up.
Lets find out......
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I am not at the BDO either, and decided ruefully this afternoon that marrying someone with hugely similar interests to me, but with no mirror ability to breastfeed our offspring, was actually a totally stupid fucking idea. I wish I'd thought of this in Las Vegas in 2001. Mutter grumble rhubarb.
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Jacqui Dunn, in reply to
So does this mean your other half is there while you languish, lactating, at home?
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Danielle, in reply to
Yes. Actually, I should stop whining, because I volunteered to be the one to stay at home. It's just that on the actual day it suddenly became a bit harder than I thought it would be.
(The Languishing Lactator is also my stage name, strange to say. ;) )
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Jacqui Dunn, in reply to
The Languishing Lactator is also my stage name, strange to say. ;)
Really? Where do you perform - or is this an inappropriate question?
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Danielle, in reply to
I'm just being silly. Sorry, tone is difficult...
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Megan Wegan, in reply to
Really? Where do you perform – or is this an inappropriate question?
I don't know, but I am fairly certain we could find an audience for that show.
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Sacha, in reply to
Languishing Lactator
the Germans probably have a word for that
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I don’t know, but I am fairly certain we could find an audience for that show.
A multiplicity of secretions! The mind biggles!
ETA: And now who's being silly?
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BDO Live Poetry Tream.
I am old I am old
I can't reach the bottom of my trousers*
To roll, cause my sciatica is killing me,
And the grounds really muddy,
What with all this rain and so on.*This is poetic licence, cause I rolled them before leaving home.
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Steve Parks, in reply to
…Aronofsky has a lot to offer and has made some fine movies, including Pi (can’t find the symbol on my keyboard), the Wrestler and Black Swan.
I really liked Pi. The only other Aronofsky film I’ve seen is his second, Requiem for a Dream, which was overwrought, and not in a good way. I only liked it for Matthew Libatique’s cinematography and the score by Clint Mansell.
For some trivia, that score featured the signature piece Lux Aeterna. I recall thinking at the time that such a composition was wasted on this movie, being more suited to something more epic. Sure enough, it turned up, with a new arrangement, in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
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Sacha, in reply to
BDO Live Poetry
That's commitment
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Craig Ranapia, in reply to
I really liked Pi. The only other Aronofsky film I’ve seen is his second, Requiem for a Dream, which was overwrought, and not in a good way. I only liked it for Matthew Libatique’s cinematography and the score by Clint Mansell.
I'm not his biggest fan, but at least I walked out of The Fountain and The Wrestler and could be arsed trying to figure out exactly what pissed me off about them. (I think the major problem with The Fountain is that it was a project Aronofsky was passionately invested in through a rather turbulent production history, but never figured out a way to make it work on a much smaller scale than originally intended.) Most films nowadays, I've forgotten before I get back to the car afterwards.
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recordari, in reply to
That’s commitment
That's generous. In the cold light of day, seems wholly other.
Well, that was probably my worst BDO ever.
Apart from the rain, which eventually beat me, sending me home after Phoenix Foundation, who were my highlight of the night, things just didn't seem to go according to plan.
I won't go on. And, unless a must see act comes, I won't go back. Shame really.
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Actually Sacha, it was Kyle’s squishing together of a WHOLE GENERATION that made me really despise his argument
Despite your objection it's not exactly a new social construct, and I'm not sure if the obvious issues with lumping together people born across 20 years into one bucket make it completely useless. Sacha and Jacqui have raised some of its obvious implications of the generation. And I wasn't the person who raised it. Ben Wiilson did, here, in relation to comments of Bernard Hickey.
And thanks to Kyle for offering an apology.
What is it with people reading into my posts recently things I haven't said?
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recordari, in reply to
What is it with people reading into my posts recently things I haven’t said?
Did seem a bit that way. Apparently there are some topics that make people look for inflammatory interpretations where none necessarily exist. Sure, I've learnt the hard way that sweeping generalisations and labeling are prone to raise the ire of regulars here, but as far as I could tell, none of the ideas you expressed were new, or attributable to you alone, and it did begin to look a bit personal.
Is it time to move on? Or is it time for the Death Star defence?
Lord Vade Darth Vadar? I am Darth Vadar. S Sir Lord Vadar, Sir Lord Darth Vadar. Lord Darth Sir Lord Vadar of cheem? Sir Lord baren von vaderham? The death star? I run the death star?
Sorry, but that just never gets old.
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Is it time to move on?
Yeah fair point.
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