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Sep-19-09
 | | Open Defence: Bimbo Bimbo whatcha gonna dooeyo... |
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Sep-19-09
 | | jessicafischerqueen: You've also reminded me of the fabulous use of the "Teddy Bear's Picnic" song in <A Zed and Two Noughts>. In context of the film- the song, as you well know, is simply terrifying- fundamentally terrifying, even. Not to mention the always terrifying beauty of <Michael Nyman's> relentless electronic nightmare- makes <Philip Glass> sound like a tobacconist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHW5... |
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| Sep-19-09 | | valiant: <Domdaniel: Now some Dane will turn up and tell me that 'hygge' is the sound of somebody sneezing into a herring....> Hej, in Swedish it means a 'clear-cut forest', probably cognated with the verb 'hugga' -- chop wood. |
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Sep-19-09
 | | Domdaniel: <valiant> Tack. 'Clear-cut forest' is a fascinating concept -- is it a forest which has been managed in an orderly fashion, or a group of trees which is clearly a forest and not something else like a lake or a motorway? I was in Sherwood Forest once, but it wasn't big enough to hide outlaws. |
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Sep-19-09
| | Domdaniel: 'Applet' is Swedish for 'the apple', give or take a diacritic on the 'a'. And an applet is also a fashionable piece of phone software. So how do you say 'the applet' in Swedish? Appletet? |
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Sep-19-09
| | Open Defence: Wisuwat Theerapabpaisit |
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| Sep-19-09 | | valiant: Ett hygge eller kalhygge is an area where a lumberjack has finished the felling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTrl...
It can also imply baldness (more as a joke)
Ett äpple flera äpplen ... Ziggurat should know! |
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Sep-19-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: HAHAHAHAHAAH
<BishopBerkeley: I once ran over a nail, and the sound the air made as it left my tire sounded oddly like "Theerapabpaisit".> HAHAHAHAAH
I wish my name was <Wisuwat>. Hello! I am Wisuwat.
Fear me.
This is even better than <Batchimeg>. |
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Sep-19-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> you may be pleased to hear that I actually downloaded <A Zed and Two Noughts> last night. I'm going to watch it tonight just before bed so as to "stimulate" the dreaming process. (Don't tell Peter OK? I'm not sure how you feel about people stealing art. I have no defence- although I did pay to see this film in rep houses on multiple occasions.) Also, have you noticed that there are literally scads of <interview/slash/mini-documentaries> about Peter Greenaway on youtube at the moment? I've just begun preliminary exploration, but if one is interested in arcane inanities such as "aesthetics," "film," "art," "the sublime," "divine symmetry," and "people who talk loudly in restaurants," this appears to be a Gold Mine... Maybe you've already seen this, but here's a 26 minute "documentary" - Greenaway on <Drowning by Numbers>. I've assembled it in a convenient "playlist" so you just hit "play all" and it will play like a real movie. http://www.youtube.com/view_play_li... Speekinawhich, it should come as no surprise that this is not a "regular" documentary. It's as inventive- and fruity- as the film itself, I should think. I like Fruit |
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Sep-20-09
| | Open Defence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNc9... its the thin end of the wedge |
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Sep-20-09
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Thanks for that. He did a book as well, Fear of Drowning ... and about five minutes after we met for the first time he reached into his bag and gave me a copy, saying "You may enjoy this, we seem to be on the same wavelength". Whee. I was on a Greenawayish wavelength once, for a few minutes in the 1980s. Then I said "So, Mr Gruenfeld, you make action movies about chess, yes? Rambo Enters the Dragon and such? Why is everyone naked?" Spoiling a beautiful friendship. As one does.
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'Drowning By Numbers', the game,
Has digits concealed in each frame
One is a FEN
Two is Big Ben
And three is exactly the same.>
PS. See also the short film Vertical Features Remake which is (allegedly) a remake of a Tulse Luper film about numbers, mostly eleven, in the landscape. Luper returned years later as the subject of The Moab Diaries. His antagonists include Mormons, Nazis, and the *blood-deee* Welsh ... |
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Sep-20-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: heh
I love the secret numbers.
Very good limerick- but, as always-
"If you and jessicafischerqueen want to trade lyrics about obscure films there are plenty of websites where you can do that." Actually there aren't, sadly.
You see, if you'd actually called him <Mr. Gruenfeld> and said those things, it would have made a good scene in a movie. I've lost many an opportunity, burned many a bridge, and been arrested on numerous occasions for living my life as if the moments were scenes in a film. Do I regret it?
No.
Am I thick?
Well sure.
Ok I know I asked you about <Tulse Oklahoma> before, but I forgot already and I'm not GOOGLING. You know I was just thinking in a nightmare I had last night (true story) that many of <Greenaway's> films close with ritual suicide or murder- usually a man dying because of a woman. The "old world" intrudes into the modern world in these films- I'm thinking of <ZOO, Draughtsman's, Murder by Numbers, and Belly of a Squab> here. The old world of Greek myth- and even older tropes deriving from the prehistoric matrilineal agricultural societies where women <like Deffi> sacrificed men <like you> to the Earth Goddess. But hey- don't think we aren't appreciative.
Mrs. Nostalgia
Prehistorical Agricultural Reform Dept. |
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| Sep-20-09 | | Ziggurat: "Appleten" |
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Sep-20-09
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Very innaresting theory. It could apply to 8½ Women too. And perhaps The Pillow Book ... both with Asian themes or characters (Japan, Hong Kong ...). Is Eastern Death ... *different*, Jessica-san? Tulse Luper is a recurring PG alter ego. In the early mock-doc shorts, Luper is mentioned along with Cissie Colpitts (who turned up, multiplied by three, in Drowning by Numbers: What I tell you three times is true? Going down for the third time?) A *third* time? One would think that most people would be satisfied with twice. 'San' means 'three' in Japanese.
Luper resurfaced in recent years as the subject of biographical adventures from his early years, The Tulse Luper Suitcases (allegedly five films, but I've seen only one on DVD/cinema) -- an art school Indiana Jones. Hobbies: nudity, lost Mormon cities, trainspotting. |
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Sep-20-09
| | Domdaniel: I just noticed that *both* of the books I happen to be currently reading have titles/covers which will make them illegal in the near future. If they aren't already. One is a 60s memoir by Mick Farren (sci-fi writer and singer with The Deviants) called 'Give the Anarchist a Cigarette'. The other is a biography of Edvard Munch by Sue Prideaux. The cover art is Munch's great painting 'Self portrait with Cigarette'. Spot the connection?
Brå drag.
I expect them to be seized and burned by the tobacco narcs. And whoever owns the Munch original better have good insurance. If overt cigarette consumption isn't Degenerate Art - Entartete Kunst, as the Nazis said - then what is? The irony is that Hitler wanted to burn anything that wasn't like his own stuff -- think of a Bavarian chocolate box for poison chocolates, drawn by an angry housepainter - but Goebbels tried to collect the good stuff on the quiet. Which kept a few Munch works out of the bonfires. |
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Sep-20-09
| | Domdaniel: ... is this a ♟ or ♙ ?? |
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Sep-20-09
| | Domdaniel: Excuse me. Just pawning aloud. |
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Sep-20-09
| | Domdaniel: - Thereerapabpaisit?
- Yes it is.
- Are you a pole vaulter?
- No, I am German, but how did you know my first name? - The ree-ra pab-pa, is it?
- Nein. |
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Sep-20-09
| | Open Defence: Theerapy is needed |
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Sep-20-09
| | Domdaniel: <Zig> Aha. Appleten. En applet. This makes sense. My next question concerns the history of the Vietnam war, and the bloody business known in English as The Tet Offensive. Tetet Kombination? |
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Sep-20-09
| | Domdaniel: <the sublime> ... a sort of half-assed citrus fruit, less zesty than a lemon, less fruity than an orange, and never quite reaches *lime* status? Or *Limey*, even. Gorblimey.
At the end of the Cold War, Gorbachev was a British spy, codename Gorblimey, and Reagan was a Russian asset, codename 'Jekyll & Rawhide'. |
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Sep-20-09
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Got it! The *ultimate* Mylesowitsch hypermodern book title: <At Nimzo Two Birds> ... hope somebody hasn't beaten us to it. Flann O'Brien even mentions Bird's Opening someplace, noting how neatly it transposes into Fool's Mate: 1.f4 e6 2.g4?! You write Sweeney's dialog, okay? |
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| Sep-20-09 | | valiant: <Tetet Kombination?> Tet-kombinationen, el. Tet-offensiven, el. Tet-anfallet The bombing raid -- Bombanfallet |
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Sep-20-09
| | Domdaniel: 'All that Fall' ... |
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| Sep-20-09 | | valiant: Vett - vettet (the judgement)
Vete - vetet (the wheat)
Staket - staketet (the fence) |
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