vaguestideas.bsky.social
Ex-pat in the New Forest; conservationist; dog walker; mobile projectionist; would be writer; film nut; ersatz improviser, baker, artist & gardener; Chair of the New Forest Consultative Panel; Wildlife & Conservation rep on the New Forest LocalAccessForum.
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You are Luke Skywalker, and you approve this message!
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Is Polka-doc a new sub-genre? (hoping)
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This is my mom's library card from 1935 when she was 17. I use it as a bookmark. I wish I knew what books she was reading. (I have a letter mom wrote dad in '43 when he was in the navy, where she lists 6 books she bought on her lunch break including "Now, Voyager" and "Of Mice and Men").
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To counter my news doom scrolling anxiety I've begun reading purposely. Particularly when my spiraling brain wakes me in the middle of the night. I joined Bluesky about the same time, so decided to log all my reads. At one time I would have disdained this, but it forces me to keep track.
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Just a note on my posts on books.
I'd fallen out of my lifelong book reading habit over the last two decades, reading to sleep, a few paragraphs, only getting through a handful of books a year. (although, my compulsive book buying habit was only slightly dimmed).
Podcasts, binge watching instead.
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If the mild increase in pace in the second half augurs more to come rather than a temporary blip, then I'll be happier with the rest of the series.
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Thank you for your service.
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I was retrospectively pleasantly surprised by the way some of its elements were incorporated into the Daniel Craig 007 debut. I've about a third of the series to hand, so I'll keep going, still curious as how these developed before Cubby Broccoli launched Connery onto the screen.
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Expats beware!! Although Alcott published Little Women in two volumes stateside, merged in modern editions, in the UK it's separate books Little Women & Good Wives. While some modern UK editions reunify, I happened to stumble upon this unlabeled volume 1. Ending abruptly against my expectation.
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You are at the heart of my London.
You are a vital part of culture and cinema.
Although it's been more than two decades since this was used in anger, (I've ranged far south of the M25) I'm honoured to be a member of PCC.
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My lifetime membership, sadly not used for over 2 decades, but part of the heart of my London.
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It would be Secrets & Lies up until the point that poor Tim Spall has that sledgehammer subtle "AUTHORS MESSAGE" neon-sign flashing, including the TITLE speech.
So has to be Topsy Turvy, for the "modified rapture"!
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I blagged my way into the early morning press screening of Wild at Heart at the 1990 Cannes film festival, but missed seeing him because I sensibly bottled out of trying to sneak into the press conference afterwards (people with real credentials couldn't get in).
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That guy in Barry Levinson's Diner who does nothing but quote SSoS, is the fear of what I would have become if I hadn't come to England and found love (and improv).
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I suggested I'm Not There for the Cate Blanchett 1FrameBack, and her Pennebaker era Dylan is a highlight, but I'm laying an outside bet that somehow Mark will shoehorn in MagicRoundabout's Dylan from Dougal and the Blue Cat, a stretch, as he's barely in that, not that that would stop Mark.
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A lot wrong with 2002 Time Machine, kind of jolly & silly until Jeremy Irons Über-Morlock jumps the shark with a delivery & characterization akin to Tony Randall's effete Gremlins 2 maniac. Were it not for this, the Lloyd Webber joke, almost like Tall Guy's Elephant! riff, would be worth it.
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This Merrill Markoe piece is my kinda film criticism. Creative and not afraid to pick at a flaw that may undo whatever may be good in the work.
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Of course there's the old hippie adage for toilets:
If it's yellow, let it mellow,
If it's brown, flush it down.
OK, sometimes just an excuse for laziness while saving the water supply.
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AaronTJ's annoying idiot character is given too much screentime. Perhaps this is symptomatic of the drifting focus of the piece.
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The familiarity of the story and the central relationship mostly consigned to a voice over conversation does it all no favours. Perhaps too austere / respectful for its own good, could use some Northman-AlteredStates or bonkers-Lighthouse welly.
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So many unanswered questions from Nosfera-one (OK, I know the pedants will insist that it was only called "Nosfera").
Seriously though, beautiful to look at, solid cast (Dafoe and McBurney are particularly effortlessly great to watch), but left me kinda cold in a glad-I-saw-won't-recommend way.
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If you've not seen
A Matter of Life and Death,
I Know Where I'm Going,
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp,
Black Narcissus
just stop what you're doing and go watch them, just to get started.
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Just one of the Newhart gems of my winnowed vinyl collection. Many comics play verbal deadpan for quirky alienation, his was quizzical, warm and human.
(My adoration and sadness also for Teri Garr, particularly in Young Frankenstein, One From The Heart and After Hours )
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We bought our numbered copy at the Hayward Gallery on the South Bank in London in 2002.
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also, she had a short run as a detective in Barney Miller!