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Feb-03-11
 | | Domdaniel: My apologies, btw, to those who might normally have dropped by but wisely stay away when the gory bits come on screen. Normal service will resume, one way or another.
In the country of the banned, the one-eyed it is king. |
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Feb-03-11
| | Domdaniel: It occurs to me, en passant, that people who use the line "the truth hurts" tend to have more experience of hurt than of truth. |
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Feb-03-11
 | | OhioChessFan: <Try to have second thoughts occasionally> What fun is that? |
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Feb-03-11
| | OhioChessFan: <Yep, I'm cryptic. > I admire someone who has the courage of their contradictions. |
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Feb-04-11
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <Niels> I have seen Aronofsky's <Fountain> and I've also seen his other films. He took some huge risks pursuing an artistic vision in <Fountain>, and it's a very strange film. I watched it to the end, but I could understand if others wouldn't want to see the whole thing. It's so unique- hard to say if it falls flat or not.
I enjoyed it- visually, especially- but it has not stayed in my mind like <Pi> or <Requiem for a Dream>. I think <Requiem> is burned on my brain. Every so often I think I'll give it a second view, and then realize I can remember virtually every single scene, see it in my head. TERRIFYING FILM.
But brilliant. I watched <Pi> three times though, I love the story- those kinds of mysteries to do with numbers and coincidences and obsession, and human psychology. <Pi> would be enough to put him in to film history all by itself. I didn't care for his latest- a Wrestling movie with <Mickey Roarke>. But Aronofsky is an artist, and he'll do what he feels like, take chances, go where his imagination takes him. I'm certain he will have several more great films in his future. |
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| Feb-04-11 | | achieve: <Jess> Couldn't agree more, especially on <The Wrestler>, and I have Requiem and Pi lined up for this weekend.... Aronofsky really got to me though with <Fountain>, and in the end it's not only a cinematic superior experience, and shows off Hugh Jackman's enormous power as well as Rachel Weisz' vulnerability- but the theme "Death is just an illness, and I will, I WILL, FIND A CURE!!" - is fascinating, and if it falls flat or not, I dunno, how can't it? But the ride was worth my 96 minutes, and I need to watch it again. |
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Feb-04-11
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> You are the Tiger Kibitzer. Where do you find the *time* to watch movies three times while brainwashing Koreans and creating historical chess epics? Such energy, Tiger. Must make sure to see Requiem and Fountain.
Nothing to do with Mutt's Fountain, I suppose. Maybe I should do a screenplay for a Duchamp movie. Call it 'Nudes Descending' and get Depardieu to play the bottle-rack. |
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Feb-04-11
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Niels> I'm really glad you liked <Fountain>- that's not the kind of movie I'd go around "recommending" but I certainly wouldn't try to dissuade someone either. I will give it a second watch based on your recommendation. The imagery of the "Tree" was stunning. <Dom> funny thing is, when you get a boyfriend you end up watching more- not fewer- movies. Also it took me six months to get the last chess movie out. I've had worse experiences though. Bloody Michelangelo Antonioni rushed out *his* version of "L'Aventura" whilst mine was still at the chemist's. Why not a Duchamp movie? I can't wait to get his book on chess, me Mom's put it in the post now and it should be here in a week or two. <Depardieu> as a bottle rack- reminds one of Leonard Rossiter's star turn as a wastepaper basket in the notorious off-BBC production of "Roger gets Rogered" |
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Feb-04-11
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> - < when you get a boyfriend you end up watching more- not fewer- movies> Is that a hint? Should I, y'know, ask somebody out? Maybe that nice young man who likes the Beatles. |
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Feb-04-11
| | Domdaniel: Quiet romantic evenings round the chessboard. "Right, get your kit off, it's my turn to be Jen Shahahahahade". As in her cute promo video: http://www.chessvibes.com/reviews/r... Check, mate? Tat to you. |
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| Feb-04-11 | | dakgootje: < jessicafischerqueen: <Niels> I have seen Aronofsky's <Fountain> and I've also seen his other films.> Seen his latest, Black Swan, already? If memory serves, I think he wanted to make a film with both wrestling and ballet but it was too much for a single one so he made two seperate movies. In his opinion, the two are very much alike despite their seemingly completely different natures. I suspect he used for Black Swan that great writer's skill of seeing/reading something, forgetting the source and then thinking it was your own idea. That said, it was directed quite well with a great performance of Natalie Portman. |
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| Feb-04-11 | | dakgootje: <Is that a hint? Should I, y'know, ask somebody out? Maybe that nice young man who likes the Beatles.> Would make a great couple. |
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Feb-04-11
| | Domdaniel: I shoulda listened more attentively to my old mate John Cooper Clarke. "Ou est la maison de fromage?" he said, and he was right. But he predicted everything, rilly.
"The Day my Pad Went Mad".
No comment.
And Kung-fu, of course.
"Outside the takeaway on Saturday night
A bald adolescent asked me for a fight..."
And even 'I married a Monster'...
"We walked out, tentacle in hand
You could tell that the earthlings did not understand." |
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| Feb-04-11 | | achieve: <Dom> From your description of the Levitin book, I can't but keep nodding in agreement... I've always been of the opinion that people who think of themselves as a-musical, or worse "tone deaf", are woefully wrong, mistaken, and conditioned. My pet theory, since I was a kid, really, is that through the simple observation of children learning a language, and pronounce it in a specific dialect, to perfection, shows an immense sensitivity for both perception and reproduction of sound! Of course this is a process beyond our conscious thinking and even memory, but really, one could argue that in order to achieve such results an innate musical ability of a high level must be there to begin with. <Standards> Agreed also, and in my opinion the Great American Songbook can be put right up there, and then some, on the shelf with Bach Mozart and especially Schubert and Mendelssohn, musical lines and harmonies "just waiting" to be written, as if already there, and waiting to be improvised on, which these days few can. And I am glad you are able to learn and appreciate musical forms and idioms through a written medium, as in this case by Levitin's book, but then again, Music, and especially good JAZZ (the standards in their raw form are classical pieces) must be FELT and heard, which is what I liked most about your story, that you become curious to explore. [End of Sermon]
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Feb-04-11
| | Domdaniel: <Niels> Totally. As I keep saying, Levitin's book is great ... but, rilly, reading about music is like, well [insert inappropriate activity here]. ;) |
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| Feb-04-11 | | technical draw: Flash from the past!:
<Oct-26-06
Odd Lie
technical draw: Domdaniel has almost as many posts in two months as I have in 3 YEARS. Which means that DD is not a person but 12 people taking turns. Hah! Figured that one out.> Six of them wrote the above long post! |
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Feb-04-11
| | Domdaniel: <tech> We've been quietly recruiting. There are 135 of us now. If we ever open a Humor Dept you might even be approached yourself. |
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| Feb-04-11 | | hms123: <Dom>
<You're a better man than I am> Best,
RK |
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Feb-04-11
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Spooky, that. You mention Antonioni. I just learned that Maria Schneider had died at 58. Sigh. *proper* sigh.
Think I'll watch The Passenger now.
Other nonsense? Wotevva. |
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Feb-04-11
| | Domdaniel: <Gunga Din> I dint. |
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| Feb-04-11 | | Lennonfan: <domdaniel>i see you still cant shut up about that "nice young beatles fan"? However im in a rush right now(friday night..time to relax!)but il address you later on my bad spelllin,your presumptions<*sigh* you probably think im bragging?>and <*sigh* its never gonna work is it?>your intellectuwally friends(you,jfq,and "deffi"),your huge lecture of a novel in your above post(yawn),and also your right...iv never spiralled into drugs etc.....and "meat puppet on steroids"!! Come on you can do better than that,your a writer who insults ppl for a living,are you not?? Your a funny man,truly you are,your cliches are genuinely funny,as i guess your life is....we'll talk soon i guess?? (Start practicing how your going to "verbally nuke" me...."chow" for now lol |
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Feb-04-11
| | Domdaniel: It woz the lol wot dunnit. And I have no wish to debate anything with a cabbage *after* it's necked 97 lagers. Back on ignore. No more references to.
We won't mention it again.
Apologies to everyone who knows how to deal with trolls. I *did* pick up some innaresting psychological insights into the mentally unwashed, though, so it was almost worth it. As an experiment. |
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Feb-04-11
| | Domdaniel: "Communication is only possible between equals", as Robert Anton Wilson used to say. He had a point, did old Bob. Shall we proceed, o my droogs? |
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| Feb-04-11 | | hms123: <Dom> It is good to know that old <doms> can learn new tricks. They do come in handy. |
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Feb-04-11
 | | Annie K.: <Dom> you have mail. |
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