lemanriley.bsky.social
Literature, cinema, classical music, art, Slavonic stuff, Shostakovich, Canadiana
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Just checked. 21 Feb just off Squamish. 5.1.
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Did you get the one a week or so ago? Fairly strong on Vancouver Island (but not enough that anything fell).
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Are the italics in a footnote?
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Let that be a lesson to you.
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There’s also the infamous “Threads”
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One of the classics (though as much drama-doc as doc) is “It Happened Here” in which the Nazis occupy London.
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I suspect it might have been an influence on Iutkevich and Karanovich’s “Mayakovsky Laughs” (“Маяковский смеётся”, aka “Клоп 75”, 1975) though that majors on “The Bedbug”.
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I watched this a while back in preparation for editing this article. www.apparatusjournal.net/index.php/ap...
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Johnny Mnemonic’s head was going to explode when they put 350Gb in it.
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The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act would like a word…
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My brother taught English in Paris, and at the end of the term would go to a restaurant with the class. On one occasion, after the starter, a student who was prone to taking a guess when he didn’t know, leaned back in his seat, affected a suave expression and said, “Now we have intercourse?”
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There’s a second volume going up to the 1950s, plus from another company a 7-disc set going from the 1890s on. Some of the classic films e.g. Ray, Duchamp, Leger, Bute, are duplicated in each.
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Do you need the tag at all?
I mean, you don’t have to come over all Ivy Compton Burnett, but losing it would remove the issue.
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Film handling 101.
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I'm sure you've seen this, @tippingmyfedora.bsky.social
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It was like Raging Bull’s “You fucked my wife!?” scene turned up to max and run on loop for four hours. I’m not surprised Scorsese exec’d it, but I am slightly disappointed.
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I just skimmed through and there’s a painting of Spender in there somewhere.
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I remember seeing it at the LFF and really liking it. Haven’t watched the DVD for a good few years and am slightly afraid of how it’ll look on a big TV.
They later showed War, which I hated in part because the Russian person I was with saw it as a justification for killing all Chechens.
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Still time for Sweet Movie…
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Yes. That film offers a great deal of scope in that direction. Looking forward to your discussions of Makaveyev…
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“One of…”?
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These people have a strange idea of the Venn diagram of autism and Nazism.
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Like the 14th Amendment, eh?
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Op.43 on repeat….
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I don’t use FB much these days and am about to download my pics from IG (which I haven’t even looked at for months) and depart. But I have a zombie FB account. I was kicked off years ago so I started a new one. But the old account still exists, though I can’t get into it to finally kill it.
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It kept its popularity so that in 1967 a heavily illustrated novelisation was published.
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It replaced the Kerenskian chaise-lounge
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Are you saying I’ll only be able to choose from 18 Citizen Kanes, rather than 19?!
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In other news, the new 7.1 surround-sound “Complete Robert Johnson” will be hitting stores any time now.
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youtu.be/vI8c3eSIkQY?...
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Ditto
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Lincoln: Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
Jayne Mansfield’s Car: Safety Not Guaranteed
The Game Elvis Meets Nixon
No End: Stop Making Sense
Airplane Virus
Her Bridal Night Nightmare
Les Enfants Terribles On the Town
I Wake Up Screaming: Canadian Landscape
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He has a fiery backhand
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We watched “Les Demoiselles …” again the other night. The only thing is I wish they hadn’t dubbed Gene Kelly.
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Watched it a couple of weeks ago. One of the defining noirs.
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A misconception about good writing
About which everyone is fighting
Is you should find some clever way
To avoid employing a cliche.
In fact the authors you want to keep
Are the ones that send you straight to sleep.
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Was in the Melodiya 110th birthday box of symphonies. Prepare to sell an organ to get it along with second copies of some stuff you already have. I don’t think it’s been released separately. dschjournal.com/cd-reviews-4...
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Her fall from fashion means you very rarely see her stuff in a bookshop - new or 2nd-hand.
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I'm still sad that my hand-blender conked out after about forty years.
Doubtless the replacement will last about five and sing "Daisy, Daisy" to me on the way out.
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Carry on like that and I may bail…
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Always here for rye commentary.