davem3393.bsky.social
On Gunditjmara land. Old very private grumpy leftie (handed and politically). Ex programmer. Cancer survivor so far. Gender is not genitalia, and neither of them has anything to do with sexuality.🌈 Please don't DM without asking
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All games you care to share. I use it for Wordle, WordSquare, Waffle, and WordLinx. Others use it for Squaredl, Quordle, and Foximax and others. It's the sharing that's the thing.
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Ok, I need to play this game. If only so I can complain about the soundtrack.
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A lovely lady as well. During a post Stilettos (Scarlett) gig, the follow spot blew a globe and she was in relative darkness while the rest of the band was in light for half a set. I apologised and expected to be yelled at, but she smiled and said "Shit happens friend".
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FYI, they were a bit of a one hit wonder. Musically good, but lyrically dull. If you want to listen to forgotten masterpieces, Listen to Jane Clifton leading Stiletto. Licenced to Rage ('70s thrash pop), Bluebirds (silly pop), or Woman in A mans world (a glorious ballad). And they were better live!
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How could it be otherwise?
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I don't have to imagine it. I saw it, multiple times. And. He. Rocked!
At the time I was the RMIT Union Technician, and yeah, I saw and helped early Matt Finish, Men at Work, Mondo Rock, Stilettoes (they deserved better, they ruled live!), and others. I ended up with a bad back, and memories.
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Be careful if you mention Icehouse, lest I recall when they were called Flowers and ended their set with an excellent version of the Sex Pistols "Pretty Vacant". I did lights for them on a few of their early gigs in Story Hall Melbourne.
"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."
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The Cars were not at all subtle with their Album covers, and I followed an unreleased and alas forgotten Melbourne band "Shy Boys" who did a wonderful cover of this as a late set piece (usually followed by a quite credible cover of Queen's "Don't stop me now"). Oh the memories.
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That Album (True Colours) was the point when Split Enz moved from anarchic (and at times atonal) rebellion to mainstream. And that shift would lead to Split Enz becoming Crowded House.
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Each fortnite will be overthrown by the next fortnite until the ulitimate fortnite arises. Nods. How could it be otherwise.
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Saw them open for Cold Chisel back in the day (Chisel was doing the 'Youth in Asia' tour for the album East). They only had one hit in Victoria at that time (Just Keep Walking), and my then lady friend didn't understand why I was paying them any attention. They were such a tight and clever band!
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Saw her in St Kilda so long ago it hurts to remember. She had a presence, a persona that could not be denied. In ancient days she would have been considered an aspect of a a goddess, or at least a minor goddess herself. I could not argue against that, Vale Chrissy.
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Mind you I also remember us playing Road Rash on the Genesis after perhaps one too many drinks, and being given to misquote
"I am the Nightrider,
I'm a fuel-injected suicide machine!
I am a rocker! I am a roller! I'm an out of controlla!
Do you see me, Toecutter?
Do you see me?"
Different times😂
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I remember us watching that movie with the Lucas Arts Guys (in park street? Yeah had to be park street), and learning that the American release had been dubbed . Not only dubbing American accents, but the SFX as well. Crazy!
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Cool. For the record I am well aware if I started treating you as a "delicate little flower", that being 550k distant would not be far enough to escape you "explaining" my error to me 🙂. Peace to you my friend.
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It's a nice day, I shan't consider this being exiled to the tipple van, more that I'm sipping al-fresco!
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Nice eagle!
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I never imagined otherwise Robyn. I typed a silly phrase that came out like something from a '40s hollywood swords and kings movie, and kept it because it amused me, and I didn't think it would cause offence. If I have erred on that I apologise.
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I lost all body hair (including head) in the post cancer days, and was kind of accepting that as the new normal, until it started regrowing. That's when everything on my head (sans eyebrows) went predominantly white, and everything non-head went "flecked with white". Could have been far worse.🙂
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I could point out that my eyebrows, and any other non-head body hair is still (mostly) dark, but that would be petulant, and unworthy of me. 🤣 Of us three, you win.🤗
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Happy Birthday!
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Well in the myths he was a redhead, until the comics made him canonically blond. That's got to be annoying (remembers who I'm talking to, looks in mirror at once brown with auburn flecks hair that is now quite white). "I withdraw this comment, and concede the point".🤣🤣🤣
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You beat me on the Wordle, and I snuck ahead on the SQW. Tis a draw Milady! (I have no idea why I wrote that like a line from a Hollywood medieval swashbuckler, maybe my subconscious is telling me it's been too long since I last watched "The Court Jester".)😆
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I snuck in ahead of you on the SQW (mainly because I took a chance on a few words that tend to show up from time to time), and you trounced me on the Wordle.
I suggest we call it a draw. Though considering how well you trounced me, I'm willing to give the victory to you on points!😆
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You know I'm not sure myself? I thought the WQ meant Word Quiz but the other letters never made sense. But as an Ex-Programmer I realised I didn't need to know how it worked, just that if a called it, it would respond.😁
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Young is chronologically provable, "cool" is
demonstratively false, but thank you anyway. 🤗
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Good lord you and Robyn are older than me? I'm the young'n? That can't be right, I haven't been the young one anywhere for decades. Does this mean I get a remit on various and endemic pains? Because that sounds really cool!😁
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I'm of an age that when you talk about a piece of heart, my mind goes here (in my old mind it predates Zelda).💚
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCng...
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Good for the night! I however, am old and tired. 😁
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Thanks Trish. As you can tell from this posting time, it doesn't look likely. 😁
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I admit defeat (as it should be), but still feel uncomfortable up here (I'll sneak back to the cheap seats when no one is looking).🙂
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Yeah, Splash has a place in my heart (for reasons), and I liked Amylie's effusive open caring while accepting it as a fantasy. Jacky Chan? Yeah, he's good, but pardon me if I prefer Michelle Yeoh. 🙂
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Oh heavens yes! If I was doing one post for every 6 times I've seen this one, I'd be banned for spamming! A paper thin plot, but that doesn't matter as the action, the comedy, and oh my, the soundtrack are more than enough. One of the few '80s musicals to last, and that's because of the soundtrack.
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This and Bladerunner changed SciFi movies forever (And both had Harrison Ford). The plot was basically "King Arthur in space", but with a decent cast and remarkably good effects for the time, they both said "Sci Fi should be taken seriously".
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A silly chaotic mess with a ridiculously overblown apocalyptic premise that works because all the actors follow the Adam West rule of taking the silliness seriously. It doesn't deserve to work, but it does, because every actor is there saying "We're taking this seriously, why won't you?" "Multipass"
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A classic, and some would argue quite relevant today. As a result of my childhood (too many movies where plot was broken by song), I have an aversion to musicals, but this one has perfect casting and acting, and manages a plot amongst the singing.
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A wonderful cast, a magnificent soundtrack and cinematography, and a script with almost more memorable and quotable lines than it has words, and you forget the plot is silly, because who cares. A classic!
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Only Mel Brooks could mock Star Wars and it's marketing so totally, in the same way as no one else could have dared to have "Springtime for Hitler" as a huge Busby Berkeley style extravaganza in "The Producers". He was unafraid to point and laugh at anything no matter how sacred or forbidden.
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Oh heavens yes! Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman know how to make every line and gesture they have count. Tim Allen is good, but better for their backing.
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Oh please join in, this whole thread is about people celebrating films they've watched many times. Heck, I've quoted Casablanca, and that came out before my Mum was born. It's not about age, it's about sharing. You are more than welcome. I'm more than curious what you'll show me that I've missed.
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Oh yes, Seven Samurai!