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Feb-24-07
 | | Domdaniel: - Is that your new face, said Sweeney.
It is.
- Is it a face that would frighten crows?
It is not, indeed.
- Is it a face that crows would find appealing and comforting to their inner senses? It is true that it is.
- Then what use is it at all, at all? In the trees where I have my lonely abode, a face either frightens the crows, or it does not. One that does not is a queer conundrum to which I shall devote some days' cogitation. Tell me, do you play chess at all? It is true that I do. |
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Feb-24-07
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Ha! Another brilliant <Two Birds> passage. Eyal posted some gems from the novel in his forum a few pages back as well. Do you think <twinlark> has read <Two Birds>? There's an email for you in your box.
I still have another email to send you, a response to your previous message-- It made me think of all manner of "thing"... Will you be watching <Magnus Dei> play today? Messica |
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| Feb-24-07 | | mckmac: Greetings <domdaniel>and all fellow conspiritors.
<mack><Rosemary>Isn't that the tune where Mr.Dylan plays his harmonica part on a harp set in another key? (having forgotten the right one)
I really like that song,but you're right,it doesn't fit with the other tracks and yet somehow rounds everything off perfectly. |
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Feb-24-07
| | Domdaniel: <mckmac> Have to confess, I'm too tone deaf to know what key a harmonica is in... but <Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts> was my favorite Dylan song for ages... and <mack> seems to agree... right now, I'm in more of a Highway 61 mood, having just <revisited> it the past few days... I'm sure there were plans to turn Jack of Hearts into a movie at some point, but I don't know if there was ever an actual screenplay... <There was no actor anywhere
Better than the Jack of Hearts>
Oh, and welcome, make yourself at home, everyone else does... |
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Feb-24-07
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Thanks, you're a star. I'd pop over chez Magnus right now but RL is *thcreaming* for my presence... if I gotta go, I'd better go now, or else I'll havta stay all night... |
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| Feb-24-07 | | mack: <I'm sure there were plans to turn Jack of Hearts into a movie at some point, but I don't know if there was ever an actual screenplay...> Two screenplays were completed I believe, one commissioned by Dylan himself and the other by some big film company lads. Obviously, neither was ever filmed. |
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| Feb-24-07 | | mack: Oh, and just a thought: Dylan has used 'Jack Frost' as a pseudonym before, hasn't he. Maybe it is a far more personal song than is often assumed. |
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| Feb-24-07 | | mckmac: Or maybe the Jack of Hearts character comes from an interest in/reference to,cartomancy(a system of fortune-telling or divination using playing cards.Wiki.) |
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Feb-25-07
| | Domdaniel: I prefer Alphatabulomancy (the black art of telling the future by drawing random scrabble tiles from a bag). Not yet recognized by Wiki, or other authorities. Today, for instance, will be... E-V-T-R-U-I-<blank> Hmm. Blank it is, then, clearly.
In an actual game, I might risk the 7-letter word UNRIVET. Or not. "To let loose from being riveted", eh? Fine, that's me sorted. You could also try Taghairm: according to Chambers dictionary, a Scottish form of divination performed using a bullock's hide and a waterfall. "Och dear, whaur's ma Bullock's hide? If anyone calls tell them I'm off up to the waterfall for a wee blast of taghairm, so I'll have tomorrow's winners from Greenore and Morelia when ah gits back doon..." |
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Feb-25-07
| | Domdaniel: <Dylan> Factor in the Tarot imagery on the sleeve of Desire, plus that first song off his next album, Street Legal. The Changing of the Guard? Then again. It was Street Legal that put me right off Dylan. The truly horrendous lines <Can you cook and sew/ Make flowers grow/ Will you understand my pain?> Cringe. |
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Feb-25-07
 | | Open Defence: these days the posts in this forum give me a head ache... english anyone ? |
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Feb-25-07
| | Domdaniel: <Deffi> Try aspirin. Much better for headaches than 1.c4 ... So, what brand of Inglese would you prefer, chief? Zappomancy? We could do that. But there are already too many 14-year-old boys lurking, hoping to catch a glimpse of the ladies... |
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Feb-25-07
| | Open Defence: ♕♕♕ IMPORTANT MESSAGE ♕♕♕
*Open Defence was last seen running through the hallways of chessgames.com screaming Zappomancy over and over again, a replacement Open Defence is scheduled to arrive in 3 working days, sorry for the inconvenience* |
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Feb-25-07
 | | WannaBe: I sure hope <Open Defence> 2.0 will be better than the Ol' 1.0 version. |
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Feb-25-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: G'day, g'day, (blinks) |
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Feb-25-07
| | Domdaniel: <Deffi> I'd like the 1.0 model Open Defence back, please. Upgrades are too damn complicated. But feel free to run screaming through these hallways anytime, it brightens the place up no end. <the neighbors on the right/ sit and watch them every night/ I'd bet you'd do the same if they was you...> |
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Feb-25-07
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> G'day. Busy, busy, eh? My retyping program got, ah, interrupted by an evening out. Which has left me in no state to continue. So I'll stop now. |
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Feb-25-07
| | Domdaniel: <Certain Ontological Distinctions>
The <intertext> is a convenient metaphor for the feeling writers have that it's been writ before.
The <collective unconscious> is a somewhat less convenient metaphor for the feeling thinkers have that it's all been thunk before. I'm a deuced inconvenient metaphor myself, come to think of it. |
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Feb-25-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> Yes, I've been busy, neglecting my chesswatching obligations. After a few hours of getting pounded by <sneaky> and <shropshire> in 5/0 Blitz, I read all four of the articles you sent me. Bravo!!! I have emailed you a response.
I also sent you a second email under the "You're not going to believe this (part two)" file. Bravo on your night out, as well! Good on ya mate.
And Bravo on getting some sleep!!
Yer pal
Jessica of the Yard (Watch it!) |
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Feb-25-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Hmmmm <metaphors>, you say? OK then... However, Viz magazine a Vis, postcolonialist "discourse," I could not stop myself from guffawing out loud when a colleague earnestly queried our professor: "But what of the <unwritten text>? LMAO
"They haven't been written, Honey, so "they" are not "texts." I didn't say this, of course, but in a Filmed version I would have... sigh. If only life were as free as a film...
A. Crabbe
Reality Island (filmed)
HELP, WE'RE BEING FILMED!! |
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| Feb-25-07 | | Eyal: <I didn't say this, of course, but in a Filmed version I would have... sigh. If only life were as free as a film...> ALVY <Sighing and addressing the audience> What do you do when you get stuck in a movie line with a guy like this behind you? I mean, it's just maddening! MAN IN LINE: Wait a minute, why can't I give my opinion? It's a free country! ALVY: I mean, d- He can give you - Do you hafta give it so loud? I mean, aren't you ashamed to pontificate like that? And - and the funny part of it is, M-Marshall McLuhan, you don't know anything about Marshall McLuhan's work! MAN IN LINE: Wait a minute! Really? Really? I happen to teach a class at Columbia called "TV Media and Culture"! So I think that my insights
into Mr. McLuhan - well, have a great deal of validity. ALVY: Oh, do yuh?
MAN IN LINE: Yes.
ALVY: Well, that's funny, because I happen to have Mr. McLuhan right here. So ... so, here, just let me - I mean, all right. Come over here ... a second. <Alvy gestures to the camera which follows him and the man in line to the back of the crowded lobby. He moves over to a large stand-up movie poster and pulls Marshall McLuhan from behind the poster.> MAN IN LINE: Oh.
ALVY: <To McLuban> Tell him. MCLUHAN: <To the man in line> I hear - I heard what you were saying.
You know nothing of my work. What you said was all wrong. How you ever got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing. ALVY: <To the camera> Boy, if life were only like this! |
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Feb-25-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: LOL <Eyal> a truly great moment from <Annie Hall>... Is this Allen's best film? Maybe his best comedy?
I'm a big fan of <Interiors>. I like it better than I do Bergman. |
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| Feb-26-07 | | Eyal: <Is this Allen's best film?> I would say so, with the possible exception of <The Purple Rose of Cairo>. <Interiors> is probably Allen's best film in the "serious" mode, which he's usually not so good at (I couldn't stand <September>, for example, and <Another Woman> is basically a weak imitation of "Wild Strawberries"). From the beginning of the 90s, though, there seems to be a sharp decline in his films in general – they may be entertaining from time to time, but I don't find them really interesting anymore. Allen's best film title, btw, has to be <Oedipus Wrecks> (his segment from the "New York Stories"). |
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| Feb-26-07 | | Eyal: <But if NN doesn't read, why does NN sound like the worst kind of cheap romantic novel mixed with the wit and wisdom of the self-help manual?> Maybe that's how people sound "naturally" - the real realism... |
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Feb-26-07
| | Domdaniel: <Maybe that's how people sound "naturally" - the real realism...> Hmm. Innaresting theory. But where do they *get* it from? Is it what Dr FischerQueen calls <lorned behavior> or are we all genetically hardwired with a sort of internal Jeffrey Archer? btw, part of my "evening out" -- not <quite> a recluse yet, fans -- involved listening to a recording of Derek & Clive, on lobsters and Jayne Mansfield. Lovely girl, Jayne. I reckon the lobsters had the best part of the deal. And not even <Eyal> could sample and/or reproduce the sketch in question without getting us all thrown in the slammer forever. <Only the hand that erases can write the true thang...> |
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