Alaska. Remote, expensive, so cold your car’s tires freeze with the flat spot they had while you were parked so you thump thump thump down the graveled roads until they stretch out, and to paraphrase @poccalyps, ‘ice storms, earthquakes,… and some of the dumbest, most entitled Jesus-humping maga fucks in the country.’
Very common saying with lots of links (merriam-webster, dictionary, wiktionary, grammarist)
Is your wife from somewhere very isolated or exotic? Or does she simply want you to add more variety to your discourse? Toh-may-toh/Toh-mah-toh
“Silliness leads to tears” typically said after energetic goofiness has led to an ‘owie’.
Bonus: Grandparents were fond of “Children should be seen and not heard.”
They’d be welcome on !creative@beehaw.org
I have to disagree on this one. I loved the movie then immediately read the book, whereupon I discovered that as good as I’d found the movie, the book was even better. While I’ve ended up seeing the movie several times (when it happens to air), I’ve only reread the book once, but the book was, is, and will always be superior.
I think my view of the English came from a cross between Monty Python and the Alec Guiness in both Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Bridge Over the River Kwai – maybe with an unrelated bit of The Man Who Would Be King thrown in for good measure. Anyway, I only have the best things to say about the TV version, and I’m only now realizing that nere in the U.S., we missed 25 minutes of it to editing.
I’ve only seen four Tarkovsky films, but yes, he’s a fabulous director. I’ve not read the book and don’t know if an English translation would do it justice, so I’ll take your word for it that the extremely good movie was better than its source.
Note that I didn’t make that list of 6. I just thought the movie community might like to read the article. Y’all don’t have to call me out with all things they skipped because I’d have put stuff like the Wizard of Oz and Ran on there (and then quickly ducked because no one gets away with saying a movie is better than Shakespear’s original work).
I wasn’t gonna split that hair because it was based on some of Clarke’s shorter works that were optioned for the basis of the film. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(novel)
Well, if you’re going to go there, then A Clockwork Orange and 2001: A Space Odyssey. One can easily complain that Anthony Burgess wrote a better book filled with imagery and politics (and a glossary!) which Kubrick failed to capture, so that one might be arguable. On the other hand, while Arthur C. Clarke wrote a good book that Kubrick largely ignored, the result was one of the most innovative films in history. The film brought space to life in a way that printed words could not. Sure, Kubrick’s work can now be easily CGI-ed up, but he thought to do all of it and he did it the hard way before we had computers.
As far as Eyes Wide Shut goes… I kinda hated it because it felt like the default daydream of old men fantasizing about what they wish they’d done back when they couild still get it up. I read an article years ago about how for years Kubrick had script readers who would read hundreds of books and scripts to give him recommendations for what to make into his his next movie and they were all terrified of recommending something beneath The Master, and then he didn’t like the things he did see, and this went on and on, and I feel like he was stuck with material that a concensus would find acceptable/interesting rather than anything that was more avant garde.
Have you rewatched it recently? I ask because I rewatched it a few years ago and (while I still love it) I thought that modern audiences would complain about the pacing and such.
Mostly old B&W movies, as I’m want to do. The stand out was:
The rest are mostly skippable, but I recommend the first couple to film lovers for reference if for nothing else:
I saw your earlier plug for Penny Dreadful, but I kinda want to boycott Paramount/Showtime after the 60 minutes & Colbert fiascos (After you asked about Legion, I commented about it in this post’s threads).
I make everyone I can watch The Shop Around the Corner <3
Kinda liking Revival. Started Sandman S2, but only watching 1 per week with friend.
Finished Dying for Sex. It was ok, but I kept getting distracted by thoughts like, “I bet this was uglier in real life.” Of course, we probably want our media to be more fun and exciting than real life, but it is rare that I’m disrtacted by the … ‘cleanliness?’ of a show.
side note: I did NOT like Interior Chinatown. I enjoyed the first couple episodes, but then it dragged, and I found the ending completely unsatisfying, with big holes left unfilled.
Debating if I should rewatch S1 of Peasemaker before starting S2.
Heads up: It is a Paramount/Showtime product (for anyone boycotting after the 60 minutes & Colbert incidents).
Hulu has it (they hold FX/Fox and ABC catalogs). If you have the Disney bundle, you probably already have it (I hate ads so I have the ad-free version but no live TV with it).
Per that definition:
Vacuum tubes (thermionic valves) were the first active electronic components… and by the 1920s, commercial radio broadcasting and telecommunications were becoming widespread and electronic amplifiers were being used in such diverse applications as long-distance telephony and the music recording industry.
So tubes are in! Old lamps are OUT!
Are thermionic diodes allowed or just semiconductor diodes? What about the early crystal diodes (subset of semiconductor). Did the Colossus computer count? Eniac? I guess particular items don’t matter because no individual owns either and I doubt individual built replicas.
What counts as electronics? Guitar speaker with vacuum tubes? Old rotary phone? Lamps so old the electric cords are covered in a hard fabric? If you require solid state / chips and boards rather than things that did the same function without them, you’re excluding the stuff predating that tech.
@diegantobass@lemmy.world has the best answer. Write a letter. Tell him stuff you remember doing together. Maybe include a physical printed photo of the two of you and/or the family together.