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Post by nondescript spice on Mar 25, 2013 15:33:29 GMT -5
you should be. he's down to his last smoke.
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Post by Crowfan on Mar 25, 2013 15:36:20 GMT -5
I hope the bunnies here don't teach Brett to smoke. He has enough bad habits as it is.
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Post by nondescript spice on Mar 27, 2013 12:45:37 GMT -5
watched ^that last night, on tcm. i have never seen it, but it was one of those movies i've always wanted to watch. mainly because i adore jack lemmon. the film devastated me. i read some reviews afterwards from people who claimed it was cliched to death, unrealistic, etc. well, nuts to them, i say. i thought for the time, '62, it was amazing. what i love about jack - he could do anything - any role, it didn't matter. and he could make you laugh and cry in the same film, and not a lot of actors can do that. he was as talented at comedy as he was drama, but i'm not telling anyone anything new. lee remick, the wife of lemmon's joe clay character, suited him well. the story starts off as a lighthearted comedy at first, in the whole boy-meets-girl - girl-hates-boy-at-first kind of way that was definitely more charming back then than it is today, i think. but then you get pulled into their escalating alcoholism and it gets pretty grim in places. i read on imdb that during the scene where joe is going through d.t.'s in a straight jacket (it was the early 60's after all), that he was so into the scene that after they stopped filming they had to shake him out of it. jack klugman played joe's eventual a.a. sponsor - and it was so strange to see those two in a scene that wasn't hilarious, but painful and sad. klugman was excellent, btw. in this trailer, jack lemmon does a little p.r. for the movie. even in that he is just so...i don't know - stylish. i don't even think that's the right word. he just knew what the hell he was doing. it's also amazing that lemmon had a drinking problem - i don't know the specifics of it. but he knew what he was doing in the tougher scenes. just watch that scene where he rips apart his father-in-law's greenhouse. painful. i read that the producers were worried people wouldn't go see this movie because it was so heavy and considered changing the ending, so lemmon flew to paris to be intentionally unavailable for re-shooting. the ending was definitely not a happy one - hopeful, if you're a silver linings kind of person. but i felt gutted when it was over. great film.
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Post by nondescript spice on Mar 28, 2013 9:37:57 GMT -5
in this trailer, jack lemmon does a little p.r. for the movie. even in that he is just so...i don't know - stylish. i don't even think that's the right word. he just knew what the hell he was doing. genuine. that was the word i was looking for.
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Post by nondescript spice on Mar 29, 2013 10:03:00 GMT -5
IFB! (it's friday, bitches)
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Post by Crowfan on Mar 29, 2013 15:38:28 GMT -5
In the celebration of Friday, I have discovered a new microbrew. It's called Dead Guy Ale and is brewed in Oregon. A local restaurant, John Barleycorn has it, and I discovered that the Jewel by where I work sells it, too. It is quite excellent.
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Post by nondescript spice on Apr 4, 2013 15:43:30 GMT -5
well, how could you go wrong with something called dead guy ale? how fitting that it comes from oregon.
i don't know where these came from, but some of them cracked me up. i don't think they're only southern sayings, but i've heard about all of these at one time or another. a little language, but only as someone from the south can say shhheeeeat!
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Post by nondescript spice on Apr 5, 2013 11:23:45 GMT -5
IFB!
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Post by afriendlychicken on Apr 6, 2013 0:33:13 GMT -5
IFB! Hey! How did you know what I do on Friday nights? I'm always in the bathrooms playing with that machine and messing up the floors. Or am I missing something here? ;D
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Post by nondescript spice on Apr 7, 2013 12:21:46 GMT -5
so you didn't realize the simpsons were filming you that one time? i took this picture today on my walk. why, you might ask? good question. i pass this house every day to and from work, and i first noticed the addition to their yard waaay back - it might have been before christmas. at the very least, the beginning of the year. i kept thinking - surely this week they will get rid of that - but i am wrong every week. i don't know - maybe they put it there on purpose, as a statement of social commentary or merely decoration. i'll take another picture if i see begonias growing out of it in a few weeks.
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Post by Crowfan on Apr 7, 2013 15:18:29 GMT -5
Apparently they are preparing for my drunken rampage to retake the South.
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Post by nondescript spice on Apr 12, 2013 10:03:59 GMT -5
it's friday, bitches!
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Post by nondescript spice on Apr 16, 2013 10:25:47 GMT -5
happy birthday, charlie! today would have been his 124th birthday, bless his heart. over the last couple of years i have taken to watching a woman of paris on chaplin's birthday, which is kind of odd, since aside from a small cameo where he is unrecognizable, chaplin is not in it. physically, anyway. however, i can sense his presence in every scene. "his was the face of his century. he was the life of his century. through his will and energy, and yes, genius, he encompassed as much as one man can; the joy and the anguish of his times; their romance, their horrors, and, of course, what laughter we could find in them. he was a flawed man, a haunted man, a tormented man. which is to say, he was only human. but with this uncanny ability to reflect and refract our humanity back at us." ^that was the last line in the richard shickel documentary film charlie: the life and art of charles chaplin that i constantly yap about in my chaplin thread.
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Post by nondescript spice on Apr 18, 2013 12:37:58 GMT -5
i'm sorry, but this just cracked me up. another marriage saved by mustard. it gives so much and asks for so little!
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Post by Crowfan on Apr 18, 2013 15:45:05 GMT -5
Mustard: The Ultimate Marriage Counselor.
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