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Note - tried posting this yesterday - firewall probs. Here goes again… Present! I should be a grandfather by next week… Jessica’s as big as a house. Work’s a bitch - mandatory overtime now through September. Found out today that we’re rehiring a friend of mine (who left for greener pastures, then got laid off), and she’ll be working for me. So that’s cool. I don’t wanna know my score. It’s one of the few things ALL the voices in my head agree on. <g> Two concerts in the last two weeks - Stevie Nicks with Sheryl Crow (opening act Jeffrey Gaines), and Wynonna and her band. Stevie was Stevie - no surprises, really - good band, fun crowd, she and Sheryl work real well together. Wynonna was excellent! Covered a lot of different styles - blues, R&B, rock, gospel, pop-jazz, contemporary Cbristian- not really much country, though there’s this “country feel” that’s different from other styles (more emphasis on 1 & 3, backbeat a little stiffer - if you care about that stuff) - and that was prevalent throughout. She sang covers of Fab Thunderbirds, Avalon, Joni Mitchell. Had a gospel trio behind her that was excellent, plus a real good band. Either show’s worth checking out. Sheryl Crow’s coming back to Michigan without Stevie in a couple of weeks - I love her stuff, but her voice isn’t all there live (not just the show we saw - I heard a live CD later, had the same impression). So we’ll probably skip it. Anyone else see any good concerts?
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I’m playing with one of the new templates on tumblr.. If it’s buggin’ — it could be one of three things.. Portland sucks, I messed up somehow or Porland sucks.
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I haven’t been to any good concerts lately.. I love both Sheryl Crow and Stevie Nicks.. That must have been an amazing show ! I’ve never seen either of them perform live. I can imagine what it must’ve been like, though.. Noone special has been through Wichita recently. Vanilla Ice (yck ! ) performed at Rita’s just a couple of days ago. I’m not that desperate to go to a concert. So I passed. The last concert Brian and I went to was a while back.. Godsmack, Stained, Cold and Systematic. How does everyone like the new layout? I forget who designed it, but it was one of the winning entries in Blogger’s Template Design Contest. By the way, you all need to give me blurbs about you that we can put on the members column to the right.. It’s kind of bare right now.
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Who’s in Memento? Our recent rentals were: Sugar & Spice , Double Take and Saving Silverman .. Don’t look at me, Brian picked them out !
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Our rentals lately: Fantasia 2000 Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and then we bought a bunch of used rentals: After Hours A Boy and His Dog Peggy Sue Got Married After the Fox …and one more I can’t remember right now. For a while, we were buying up movies all over the place - but they really need to be re watchable. We’ve got a bunch of stuff we’ll probably never watch again: Bird on the Wire Vacation His Girl Friday Liebestraume The Fisher King etc. All the stuff we bought this time hits the rewatch mark. And Fantasia 2000 , though not as good as the 1940 one, is certainly one worth seeing a few times. Crouching , though? Probably not. Daf
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Whatever you do, do not watch the English dubbed version on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon . It’s hard to take the film seriously with the semi-acceptable English dubbing. The translations are so raw, it ends up sounding silly. After watching it dubbed, I appreciated that they showed the subtitled version of the film in the theaters.
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I finally saw Final Fantasy yesterday. WOW! The animation was great! Talk about detail—every strand of hair, every wrinkle. The captain looked like Ben Affleck (sp?) though. Guy Pearce stars in Memento. I don’t know who he is so I don’t know if that if information would be of any help. Still, go see it! My sister Gladys bought many DVDS which I had the opportunity to view at least a few. Let’s see… Mall Rats Power Puff Girls Cinema Paradiso (excellent! Don’t watch the dub in English. The Italian priest sounded like he was a Jewish rabbi from NYC.) Camille Claudel (also, excellent) Charlie’s Angels (entertaining. I also liked the special segment in which they described their training for the martial arts stunts.) Say Anything ( i love this movie! I just like John Cussack sp?—I cannot spell anyone’s names lately) I missed Dido when she played in the Shoreline Amphitheatre in the South Bay Area. I decided not to go, but sometimes I feel like kicking myself for not going. I did go to Ani DiFranco in Berkeley, which is only 30 minutes drive from my home city. This was the fifth Ani concert I’ve seen. She opts for smaller venues than the collesiums and giant stadiums. She is very funny and personable when she talks to the crowd. She is very experimental with her music. For example, a spokenword piece in her CD can be incredibly rocked out in one concert or have a funky bassline in the next concert. Her older songs don’t have a brass section, but in a concert she would have trumpet players and other horns playing. Her roots are in folk music—the grassroots political music. If it weren’t for her blend of rock, R&B, funk, and jazz combined with lyrics that either captured the complexities of love relationships, fought against big music industry, and constantly questioned the governement; well, I’d just say “another dyke with a guitar—yech, phooey!” Now, I see a mighty mite on stage who challenged the big guns on her own terms and won.
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Mall Rats is good. It flopped on the box office when it came out and the critics hated it, but Brian and I are big Kevin Smith fans.. We’ve seen each and every one in that series: Clerks , Mall Rats , Chasing Amy and Dogma . It all kind of ties in with various references in the movie. I even got Brian the comic book, Chasing Dogma , that tells how Silent Bob and Jay got from where they were in Chasing Amy to the spot where they just happened to be in Dogma . Charlie’s Angels was really goofy. One shouldn’t take it seriously.. A lot of people who do, end up thinking it’s retarded.. It was meant to be a funny movie (to me, anyhow). I thought it was funny ! One of my favorite parts is the dream dance sequence. I’m really into dancing movies: Save the Last Dance , Dance With Me , etc. I loved that dress ! I actually got myself some underoos(I can’t wear them now because they shrank), just because they looked cute on Cameron Diaz ! You all know how impressionable I am ! I want the URL to get to your section of opendiary !!! Come on, Glee !
