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| jedgar. |
beats me, i just thought it looked neato. |
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| rollerfink |
you sjould get an i-zone.
oh no i think i said that joke once before. i probably didn't use a j in sjould that time though so this is way fungier. |
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| jedgar. |
so i went to the store to see what was up with tuna, why she didn't call me back. the guy never got back to her, all that. but we got high out back, and i came home and immediately put in last days. no first i had to write down an idea i got in the car. so then i put in last days. the fucking... on the disc i got from netflix, the fucking widescreen bullshit version in on the main disc and the proper full screen version is on the fucking bonus disc. trust me, i'm not mistaken. so now i don't get to watch it for like four more days!! and that's provided there's not a long q for it and i have to wait like a month!!! fucking bullshit or what? but i'm watching palindromes, and it's totally great. really really good. i'd watch it all the way through, but my tv sucks and it goes to black and white all of a sudden when it's been on for a while. i love when new things break for no apparent reason. |
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| nacho cheesier |
i watched a bit of the cropped version just to see what was up with it and it looked ridiculous, much worse than when they crop down a wide movie to fit your tv screen. i've never heard of anybody doing that to a 1.33 movie before besides with elephant. i wonder if its a gvs thing? |
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| jedgar. |
well i understand its purpose. it's really only for people with widescreen tvs. like jeff (not you) has that huge widescreen tv. so basically, the full frame image on that tv would have black bars on the side of the image because the tv is wider than the image. i know, i put in his shining dvd once to see what it was like. so the "widescreen" version, even though it's just a matted version of the full frame original, is preferred on the widescreen tvs because it fills the whole screen. honestly, if you had a widescreen tv you might prefer the matted version just because it neatly fills the whole screen. but us regular tv people should only watch the full frame. i watched like three seconds of the opening shot, and could go no further with it.
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| nacho cheesier |
my computer screen is widescreen. i put last days on both ways and i still like the 'full screen' better because you're just losing visibility the other way.
hey rolo, what do you use for downloading music? itunes has such a fuckhole selection. i couldn't even find the most basic stuff. |
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| jedgar. |
rollerfink drowned in lemonade earlier this evening. |
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| nacho cheesier |
one really good thing i found on itunes that i thought you might want to lend an ear towards, jed, was ARGENT. i don't know if you know of em. it was the band rod argent formed after the zombies broke up. the album argent anthology is really good. RECOGNIZE! |
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| nacho cheesier |
and while i'm dropping out reccos, i'll toss the 1980 version of jazz singer in the mix. i really loved it. you should netflick it, jed. i can see you turning it off half way through though.
THROUGH THOUGH!!!!!!!! |
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| jedgar. |
i'll look into ARGENT.
***spoilers, kinda, but not too bad, but maybe the less you know about it the better
palindromes, palindromes, palindromes. what a great movie. he hit the right tone all the way through, which i guess is just natural for him, the way his really twisted bits are handled so matter-of-factly that they never seem exploitive or juvenile. he just nails it all the way through, and you feel all weird inside like it's all kinda half sweet and half creepy but all at the same time. but you don't laugh at all the botards and you don't want to puke when aviva's getting porked. it's just like oh man. is it wrong of me to wish it was filmed better? his style has always seemed to be no real style at all, but is that a style in itself? but did you notice how it was all washed out? like that claritin commercial (i think) where they show a nice meadow but the color's all washed out then they peel away a layer and it's all bright and shiny. the whole film was like before they peel away the layer. i think my biggest complaint was the name title cards. i honestly think he should've removed them, they were distracting. just let the film play out. but boy oh boy it's a really good movie. rollerfink, you should definitely watch it. it kinda reminds me of something jefferson might write. not just because of the botards either. but would i have liked this just as a script? i'm not so sure. but little things like... like in the diner when bob (earl) and aviva (henrietta) were going through the list of excuses, things they could be if anyone asked, like father/daughter, teacher/student etc. and then at the end of the long list she goes "can't we just be friends?". the way she said it in that little girl voice, it just makes it so great. hey jefferson, did he keep the order of the girls properly all the way through? i'd have to watch it again, but it seems that, to go along with the palindrome theory, it should start out with the little black girl, work through the different avivas, then when it reaches the last new aviva it should go back in the opposite direction, girl after girl, in order, until it ends with the same girl it started with. so that the last new girl (was JJL the last new girl?) would only appear once, like the i in aviva, then it would work backwards through all the girls we've seen before. haw haw. if he did that, fucking brilliant. if not, he should've. i'll have to watch it again. very, very good movie.
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| rollerfink |
i have a widescreen tv. i'd still prefer a 1.33 version if that is what it was originally made in -- i'd just prefer that they made it wide from the beginning. also you can stretch the 4x3 image to fit your screen if you want. the people will be a bit fat but you don't lose anything.
i just use i-tunes these days. if there is something that i want that isn't on there (like ACDC) i just end up not getting it -- or sometimes i will buy a real CD and upload it. but pretty much anything new that comes out is on there -- it's mainly some of the older cooler stuff that isn't there.
what else? |
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| jedgar. |
oh, remember how huckleberry aviva floats down a stream in that raft? remember that it looked like a tugboat? remember how the inflatable thing i got for charlie to sit in in the stream was in the shape of a tugboat? even said TOOTIN' SQUIRTIN' TUGBOAT on the front?? that sucks?? also, i kept hoping and praying nobody would call bo "mister sunshine"!!!! because of joy?? mister sunshine?? luckily they didn't. |
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| jedgar. |
after looking up argent at cdnow...
ah yes. i know "hold your head up", that's a classic rock radio station staple. that anthology seemed awful skimpy, i'll look into some of the regular albums. |
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| nacho cheesier |
yeah. the only argent i'd heard was that hold your head up and the kiss cover of god gave rock n roll to you. they're good. the anthology could be a bit meatier, but its a good primer for argent.
i didn't think palindromes looked bad. solondz has an understated, almost muted, kind of style. not everybody should be jean pierre jeneut or whatever. the colors were totally greyed out throughout the whole movie. it gave the whole thing a real mucousy feel that made me a little uncomfortable. |
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| nacho cheesier |
I like the main review for palindromes on imdb. It mentions how the movie is ambiguous about the political side of abortion, but it shows how sad abortion can be, which will have the pro choicers upset, and the subject matter is so shocking, it would upset the pro lifers. It definitely handled the subject matter in the best possible way. Abortion is pretty scary, even if it is hilarious.
i thought the title cards were effective. They separated the actresses playing aviva for one thing. But also, while the movie followed a point A to point B storyline, everything was very disjointed. The title cards let you know the story was about to make a jump in time to the next part of the story. I thought it was cool.
I absolutely loved that he brings back the characters from dollhouse. Also, I have to admit that I did laugh at the botards.
And MY NAME’S SKIPPY, LIKE THE PEANUT BUTTER is the best catch phrase ever. |
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| jedgar. |
yeah, i laughed at that too because that was funny. all the botards laughed too.
MY TV SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUX!!!!!!!!!!!
tuna called, i went and got my grass. went into hollywood video, they had last days so i rented it. smoked on the way home, got a big boner, put in last days. was so into it, i was totally mesmerized by it. then right after he reaches the house and we see asia argento and lukas haas in bed, my tv runs out of gas and goes to black and white. that was because i'd had it on earlier, watching lost, which i taped, which was apparently a rerun, and i think i'm over lost now anyway. anyway, FUUUUCK!!! it was like being snapped awake during hypnotherapy. then i shut it off, worked on the version of teenage spaceship i'll be doing if shawnettes friend isn't into it. so at least i got something done, right? put it back on, it lasted until halfway through the scene with the guy from the yellow pages. it's so fucking annoying, you're flowing along with the movie then you hit a rock or stick. so i got all pissed off and went back out, i think i just drove around oh yeah i got a burrito in brewster. smoked again on the way back, figured the tv would be good for a while, started it up again, it lasted until the boyz 2 men bit. SO I'VE GIVEN UP. if i can sit around without using my tv at all until like 9:00 tonight, i should be ok. otherwise i'll just have to watch it tomorrow after work since the tv will be well rested. i'll just start it from the beginning. but yeah, it's so nice. |
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| nacho cheesier |
just buy a new tv. you should get a big screen hd tv with a cup holder on the side. the great part about cup holders is you can put almost ANY cup sized obect in it. the name really only tells half the story.
i was mesmerized by the movie too though. its hypnotic. |
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| jedgar. |
it's such a pain in the ass. even if i could afford a new, comparable set, it's such a pain in the ass to get rid of this one and get a new one up here. i'd have to hire a couple of guats. there's like no reason for this piece of shit to be broken, it's less than two years old and it's a really nice flat screen tv. not unlike topo's. |
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| nacho cheesier |
squat on the guats.
you should have let us know your tv was on the fritz when you were here. i gave my old tv to slampig to use as a monitor for his work station. plus we have like three tvs in the garage. we set up a new living room outside with one of the tvs, but so far, only the dogs watch tv out there since its freezing cold here, like 75 degrees.
so whats up with your boss anyway? tell him to quit hasseling you. |
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| jedgar. |
what, i'm gonna bring a tv back home with me? uh yes ma'am, can i check this please? my boss is an ugly woman. she sucks so hard. |
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| nacho cheesier |
you can check a tv. you just have to smash the glass so they can look in and make sure you aren't trying to sneak a shoe horn or any other implements of terrorism on the plane.
quit your job and go work for rollerfink. you can crash in his dining room. |
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| rollerfink |
yeah plus you can buy tvs and have them delivered.
you should go HD though. it's good.
or move into an old abandoned movie theater. |
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| nacho cheesier |
or just piss and moan about it. |
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| jedgar. |
ok.
IT HAPPENED AGAAAAAAIIIIIIN OHAAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHHHH.
i'm jsut so fucking bored, i couldn't take it. i had to try again. i watched another 12 minutes or so. it's not fair. it's not fair IT'S NOT FAIR!!! |
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| nacho cheesier |
so just rent black and white movies from now on.
BOO YA!
i discovered the perfect solution. |
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| jedgar. |
in a sense, yeah. but really, no. |
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| nacho cheesier |
its either that or gouge your eyes out. i thought you'd rather be able to watch pretty sunsets and shit though. |
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| nacho cheesier |
since you don't want to watch the rest of last days, i'll let you know how it ends.
***SPOILER ALERT***
he meets harmonie korine |
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| jedgar. |
whatever, dick. i already knew korine was in it.
that whole opening sequence of him in the woods was like me to the extreme. but it's certainly something to aspire to. |
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| jedgar. |
GVS's next:
THE TIME TRAVELLER'S WIFE
A man with a time-traveling gene uses his innate abilities to visit his lover at different points in her life.
based on some novel. let's see... |
