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Homeowner Forum / Lawn and Garden / July 2009Says He's Watched it 64 Times!
For "Billy" and the gang (of rec.gardens) and all lovers of life on the frontier . . . http://www.amazon.com/Where-Rivers-Flow-North-Torn/dp/B0000A2ZR5 One "Customer Review" . . . 64 times, and counting, August 2, 2003 By A Customer I have seen this movie 64 times, and I plan on seeing it at least 1,000 times more. -- Another says . . . A GREAT ADAPTATION OF A WONDERFUL STORY, August 8, 2001 By Larry . . . This review is from: Where the Rivers Flow North (DVD) Director Jay Craven's adaptation of Howard Frank Mosher's 'Where the rivers flow north' is one of the finest transitions from literature to the screen I've ever witnessed . . . The cast is absolutely superb -- especially Rip Torn and Tantoo Cardinal. Torn throws himself into what could be the finest role of his career with such totality that he BECOMES Noel Lord, the fiercely independent former lumberjack . . . I'm both amazed and disappointed that neither of them were nominated for Oscars when this film was released. -- But what are you going to get when some crass and clueless critic (Caryn James) from the NY Times just couldn't get it? It gets lost. It killed this film's chances for the recognition that many are enraged to insist it so rightly deserves. The story is set in Northern Vermont, and it's . . . well, let one of Amazon's Down Easterners describe it . . . A great book, a great movie.. By Joe Hall While this is one of my favorite movies . . . I might be a tad biased. I grew up in the kingdom and my heart will always be from there . . . Filmed where i grew up . . . the story which rang true for many people when the power companies and or government needed right of way, destroyed their land . . .This is real life, sadly not fiction (.) I watched this movie at the Catamont theater in St.Johnsbury VT when it came out. You should own this and watch this . . . -- Hard to find trailer (not even at imdb) for what not a few say (with me) is the BEST MOVIE EVER MADE . . . http://www.videodetective.com/TitleDetails.aspx?publishedid=5023 I most particularly second the motion of this . . . Pure stubbornness, February 18, 2005 By july flowers "joe harvey" (arkansas) - See all my reviews It's one of the most underated films I can think of. Rip Torn, and Tanto Cardinal were perfect in their depictions of the characters they played. In fact if I'd had anything to do with it Tantoo Cardinal would have gotten an oscar for her performance. She was phenomenal!! -- You'll know her as "Black Shawl" (squaw of "Kicking Bird"? Or "Burns Red in the Sun"?) from Dances With Wolves. She is beyond perfect as the very image of every outdoor man's ideal for a woman or wife. At IMDb, this one best captures it . . . A magnificently textured and sublimely performed portrait of rural life in 1920's Vermont., 18 November 1998 Author: Brendan O'Donnell from New York, USA Jay Craven's criminally ignored film is a sober breath of fresh air in the generally narcissistic and derivative world of independent film. But then of course, you do get . . . 3 out of 8 people found the following comment useful :- Uneven, 16 July 2001 Author: monkeyface_si (monkeyface_si@yahoo.com) Rip Torn's characterization is monumental. The great actor has never been better. Tantoo Cardinal is a perfect fit for him and when they are on camera together, this looks like a sure-fire classic. Then, Michael J. Fox shows up as evil personified, and throws every cliche in the book into a confused performance. The score is fine. But not good enough to save this turkey. -- Good he should mention it, because Michael is entirely the reason I'm thinking of this film ust now. Saw him on Letterman tonight (a re- run?) and couldn't be more impressed to see the grace with which he is coping with his tragic malady. It was Michael J. Fox who produced this film, it was his baby. So, he took a bit part in it, a role that he was not so believable in. But, a cautionery note in any event might be wanted: For those who can accept nothing short of perfection from their fellow man, whether from his character or his art, I would recommend an evening spent staring at a painting of Reubens or Rafael, or a crucifix of Christ, instead. -- JM http://bobbisoxsnatchers.blogspot.com >For "Billy" and the gang (of rec.gardens) and all lovers of life on >the frontier . . . How about you stop being a dope and post only to the appropriate newsgroup? Who want to bet this probably goes over his head? -- Ray > For "Billy" and the gang (of rec.gardens) and all lovers of life on > the frontier . . . [quoted text clipped - 101 lines] > -- > JMhttp://bobbisoxsnatchers.blogspot.com But what does any of this have to do with Michael Jackson? In article <af1f37f5-ce7d-4a68-a099-e94bf6d7eeaa@z14g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>, > > For "Billy" and the gang (of rec.gardens) and all lovers of life on > > the frontier . . . [quoted text clipped - 104 lines] > But what does any of this have to do > with Michael Jackson? or gardening? If I wanted the other newsgroups, I would have sought them out. Cross posting just insures a lot of material that you did not choose to see, and is normally the work of trolls.  Signature- Billy There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves. Will Rogers http://www.map-uk.org/regions/opt/news/view/-/id/348/ http://www.tomdispatch.com/p/zinn > In article > <af1f37f5-ce7d-4a68-a099-e94bf6d7e...@z14g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>, [quoted text clipped - 123 lines] > > - Show quoted text - I'll assure you "Just Me" isn't a troll. He just likes to diversify. I'm growing tomatos. The raccoons dug up the cucumbers. The rest are gallons and gallons of blackberrys, with persimmons scheduled in the fall. When persimmons get wrinkley and ripe they taste like sweet potato pie with just a touch too much brown sugar. The muscadines are so prolific, I have to hack them like kudzu vines just to get out of my driveway. They're purpleicious. > I'll assure you "Just Me" isn't a troll. He just likes to > diversify. Whew. You got here just in the nick of time, as usual, Kimosabe. Now, if you could just cut your ol' sidekick here loose from these stakes, we'll ride into town and leave 'em wondering, "Who WAS that Masked Man?" > I'm growing tomatos. The raccoons dug up the cucumbers. Ah, hell. Well, it just goes to show that not everybody in a mask is the Lone Ranger. I wonder if those five cats we've got out there dancing on the lawn all night are making the difference for us? DIG IT: The main garden, 30 foot square, is fenced to a height of 5-6 feet, and yet one morning early this spring we found deer tracks in there. Damnedest thing is there was only the one set of four prints, where the critter landed, and that's--what? It leaped once more and was gone? But we've got cucumber and squash patches outside the garden with no fencing. We got . . . 1. Mr. Pussy (black and white) 2. Mr. Kitty (black and white) 3. Boston Blackie (all black) 4. Mama Katz (black) 5. Wild Thing (a tabby kitten Mama Katz brought out of the woods one day after a six month absence. But for a normal tail you'd almost swear that little scrapper was half bobcat.) > The rest are gallons and gallons of blackberrys, with > persimmons scheduled in the fall. When persimmons > get wrinkley and ripe they taste like sweet potato pie > with just a touch too much brown sugar. We got one of those trees. Hear tell they're best after a frost? > The muscadines are so prolific, I have to hack them like > kudzu vines just to get out of my driveway. They're > purpleicious. Man, oh man. I'd be a DRUNK all the time. I'd learn to make it dry and ambrosial as the finest Grand Cru of Bordeaux. All we get are these wee little almost less than pea-sized Fox grapes, and by harvest time for lack of rain, they've pretty much turned to raisins even before they had a chance to ripen. Searching for an understanding of what in the world some such thing as this dread Usenet creature known as a "troll" might be--all I'm able to turn up is that they are entirely from Norway (not Israel or Miami, or Maxwell Street in Chicago) and are the natural enemy to a goat . . . The Three Billy Goats Gruff -- Norway Once upon a time there were three billy goats, who were to go up to the hillside to make themselves fat, and the name of all three was "Gruff." On the way up was a bridge over a cascading stream they had to cross; and under the bridge lived a great ugly troll , with eyes as big as saucers, and a nose as long as a poker. [Long but not "hooked" like the villain of the famous Brothers Grimm tale, "The Jew in the Thornbush". So let it be known that a "troll" is a troll and a Jew is a Jew--he is NOT a Norwegian, let alone a Lutheran! And need there be any mention of a goat?] So first of all came the youngest Billy Goat Gruff to cross the bridge. "Trip, trap, trip, trap! " went the bridge. "Who's that tripping over my bridge?" roared the troll . http://tinyurl.com/lhhsqy -- "Who's that tripping?" Why! It must be me. We should not stray too far from topic! Oh, no! "We got to get ourselves back to the Gar--ar-ar-ar-den . . ." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZVxZn8tSwQ&feature=related JM -- http://whosenose.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_archive.html http://whosenose.blogspot.com/2008/06/by-force-of-historical-necessity.html http://whosenose.blogspot.com/2006_02_01_archive.html > But what does any of this have to do > with Michael Jackson? Well, this may be just the Friday night merriness of the Merlot talking but, you know me, I'm the kind of guy who goes around feeling sorry for Bernie Madoff and yes, even Joe Jackson and the likes of Ike Turner and Sarah Palin so be sure to consider the source. As for Michael, I thought he was ten times the singer and dancer when he was 11 years old, than anytime ever after. So, is it any wonder he wanted to live and stay in Neverland, forever? He had to lose everything in order to become a man. Not that this should take anything away from his "Moonwalk", or his glittery white glove--but it DID take away from the way he could sing that fabulous Gloria Gaynor hit, Never Can Say Goodbye, which by the way, happens to be the soundtrack that was playing all the way through the grandest Love Affair of my own whole, otherwise comic opera of a personal life . . .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT0KOALEUBM My ever so sweet and adorable Gloria . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQA49NZAyls -- JM http://vignettes-mackie.blogspot.com On Jul 1, 8:54 am, Mark <blueriver...@yahoo.com> wrote: > But what does any of this have to do > with Michael Jackson? Well, this may be just the Friday night merriness of the Merlot talking but, you know me, I'm the kind of guy who goes around feeling sorry for Bernie Madoff and yes, even Joe Jackson and the likes of Ike Turner and Sarah Palin so be sure to consider the source. As for Michael, I thought he was ten times the singer and dancer when he was 11 years old, than anytime ever after. So, is it any wonder he wanted to live and stay in Neverland, forever? He had to lose everything in order to become a man. Not that this should take anything away from his "Moonwalk", or his glittery white glove--but it DID take away from the way he could sing that fabulous Gloria Gaynor hit, Never Can Say Goodbye, which by the way, happens to be the soundtrack that was playing all the way through the grandest Love Affair of my own whole, otherwise comic opera of a personal life . . .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT0KOALEUBM My ever so sweet and adorable Gloria . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQA49NZAyls -- My salad days in dark night discos is recalled by the GG song which is great indeed. Sweat, drugs, and booze along with some fine dancing. But I believe the Jackson 5 recorded this one before Gaynor. The young love affairs are great. If they pan out they are wonderful, if not they are wonderful memories. Take care SignatureStanley L. Moore "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." Joseph Conrad > On Jul 1, 8:54 am, Mark <blueriver...@yahoo.com> wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > indeed. Sweat, drugs, and booze along with some fine dancing. But I believe > the Jackson 5 recorded this one before Gaynor. No damn sh.t! Really? > The young love affairs are > great. If they pan out they are wonderful, if not they are wonderful > memories. Take care. Stanley L. Moore, what can I say? > -- > Stanley L. Moore [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > of every wickedness." > Joseph Conrad On Jul 3, 8:35 pm, "Stanley Moore" <smoor...@comcast.net> wrote: > "Just Me" <jpd...@gmail.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > believe > the Jackson 5 recorded this one before Gaynor. No damn sh.t! Really? --------------------------------------- Well you referred to the fabulous Gloria Gaynor hit and MJs singing of it. That is putting the cart before the horse. Gloria Gaynor is covering the great Jackson 5 song. I think she did a great job of it and it brings back many memories of my misspent youth <G>. I also like Michael's version as well. Take care SignatureStanley L. Moore "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." Joseph Conrad > My salad days in dark night discos is recalled by the GG song which is great > indeed. Sweat, drugs, and booze along with some fine dancing. But I believe > the Jackson 5 recorded this one before Gaynor. Stanley, you are so RIGHT! And I am amazed. My respect for the Jackson Five is increased a thousand-fold. Here's all the dope on it . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Can_Say_Goodbye To think that it was little 11 year old Michael that . . . excuse me, talk amongst yourselves, I'm getting a little verklempt. I'll give you a topic: Isaac Hayes . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzLDE9qv5-E&feature=related > The young love affairs are > great. If they pan out they are wonderful, if not they are wonderful > memories. Oh, they are, they ARE. And it was so mad, so from out of nowhere, when from out of the buzzing electronic mist of a mercury lamp lit Rodeo Drive night she came, in red hotpants and (it is beyond belief) in a hooded black cape, in spiked heels and sheer black tights distributing leaflets for a dime-a-dance ballroom uptown on Melrose boulevard . . . Memories? Wonderful? You got it, Mr. Stanley L. Moore. > Take care You bet, buddy. > -- > Stanley L. Moore [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > of every wickedness." > Joseph Conrad Ain't it just exactly the case? On Jul 3, 8:35 pm, "Stanley Moore" <smoor...@comcast.net> wrote: > My salad days in dark night discos is recalled by the GG song which is > great > indeed. Sweat, drugs, and booze along with some fine dancing. But I > believe > the Jackson 5 recorded this one before Gaynor. Stanley, you are so RIGHT! And I am amazed. My respect for the Jackson Five is increased a thousand-fold. Here's all the dope on it . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Can_Say_Goodbye To think that it was little 11 year old Michael that . . . excuse me, talk amongst yourselves, I'm getting a little verklempt. I'll give you a topic: Isaac Hayes . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzLDE9qv5-E&feature=related The Isaac Hayes version is much more mellow than the others but it still is a great classic song. Haven't heard the Communards version. Take care SignatureStanley L. Moore "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." Joseph Conrad > The Isaac Hayes version is much more mellow than the others but it still is > a great classic song. Haven't heard the Communards version. Take care I called KGIL once, ca. 1975, to ask them to play the Gloria Gaynor version. Keri Tombazian answered the phone herself and explained in her Valley Girl accent that Gaynor was too hot for Sherman Oaks. Lordy. You could hear Gaynor coming out of every window, and I couldn't even mollify Ms. Val with a promise to tune away from KFAC for 30 minutes if they'd only play my song. > Oh, they are, they ARE. And it was so mad, so from out of nowhere, > when from out of the buzzing electronic mist of a mercury lamp lit > Rodeo Drive night she came, in red hotpants and (it is beyond belief) > in a hooded black cape, in spiked heels and sheer black tights > distributing leaflets for a dime-a-dance ballroom uptown on Melrose > boulevard . . . What kind of purple Prozac *is* this sh.t? It's Los Angeles, dude, and it's Melrose Avenue, not boulevard, and it's crosstown, not uptown. The dime-a-dance places of Nathaniel West were on Western Ave. I'll cede to your intimate knowledge with the place on the issue of mercury lamps on Rodeo. I know side streets have variations of the old incandescent lantern style that're emblematic of L.A. about 1930. In article <88cabcb8-75e6-45b2-a811-9f2ee64d6739@t21g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>, > For "Billy" and the gang (of rec.gardens) and all lovers of life on > the frontier . . . > > http://www.amazon.com/Where-Rivers-Flow-North-Torn/dp/B0000A2ZR5 Heartland looks good too. http://www.amazon.com/Heartland-Rip-Torn/dp/B00004XMSU/ref=pd_bxgy_d_img_ b Today's to do list is headed by fish emulsioning and mulching. It's good to have the drip irrigation working again. When the harvest comes (give or take 6 weeks), I won't have 2 hours every other day to water. Which reminds me that I'd better move some of my plants into larger pots. Signature- Billy There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves. Will Rogers http://www.map-uk.org/regions/opt/news/view/-/id/348/ http://www.tomdispatch.com/p/zinn Beetlejuice saw the Exorcist about a hundred and sixty seven times, and it kept on getting funnier every single time. |
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