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Quote from: Yorkshire pud on July 25, 2015, 11:22:54 AMHmmm, but it seems it isn't blue, more a marbled tan/grey/white colour. Quite pretty though, even if/because it is a slut...

I much prefer Walt Disney's Pluto: that dog knew who it was. None of this, "Am I a planet or am I a cold slut dwarf in space?" shilly-shallying.

Um, this Pacific Northwest killer quake - I presume it would, like, destroy, say, the the county that Bill Gates rules along with the island enclave where so many zillionaire software stockholders have isolated themselves, yes?

Wow, that's so.....uh, so terrible.

Quote from: Camazotz Automat on July 13, 2015, 11:42:47 PM....Wait, are we talking about Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, or Rami Malek? The description is so interchangeable that I am developing brain fog as I process the data.

Uh, I wouldn't put any money on me.

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on June 25, 2015, 06:24:14 PM
   Ben Affleck is an abysmal actor and director. But he should be lauded for killing that vanity series that PBS gave Skip Gates. Good work, kid!

Heh. Damn, I've missed agreeing with virtually your every opinion.

Quote from: 21st Century Man on July 10, 2015, 03:50:21 AM
I live just outside the city limits of Kennesaw, GA (My actual mailing address is Kennesaw)  where there is in place a law where every residence MUST have a gun.  Criminal activity is very minimal and has been in the years since 1982 when the law was adopted to counter increasing criminal activity in the years prior.

"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."
Robert A. Heinlein
 

Quote from: analog kid on July 10, 2015, 11:00:00 AM
It's not the quality of the show he's objecting to - he's interpreting the show's plot as liberal propaganda.

I'm not watching it because the pilot was just one long Occupy Whatever indoctrination. Plus Rami Malek has weird, spooky, dead eyes which tell me he's the soulless spawn of Satan. 

Careful, you don't want to jam up MV. A similar remark in an online discussion of the insanely long prison sentence the Silk Road guy got resulted in Reason magazine and its website being hit with police aids, search warrants and grand jury subpoenas to identify users who "threatened" a federal judge by saying she "should be put in a wood-chipper". Plus Reason mag was somehow gagged into silence so that they never said anything it for over a month. Now that is not only patently illegal, but classic Star Chamber behavior. But it is most appropriate that you should be speaking about the public face and spokesman of the fascist regime which is responsible for that bit of jack-booted thuggery.

Ah. Find a spark, and throw gasoline on it. My job here is done.

Quote from: Camazotz Automat on June 30, 2015, 05:32:52 PM...It's times like this wherein pen-pal/virtual/forum exchanges fall so painfully short of the mark - when one can't physically buy a good crystal tumbler of preferred spirits for the familiar gentleman being waved in from the storm, all his associates so glad to see him emerge through the Stygian doorway that brackets a view of an outer chaos, from which he seems to have been magically reborn.

Salute!...

Now how can anyone read that and not feel all warm and toasty inside?

And MABUSE? Oh yes, I recall as one of The Ancient Ones.

Quote from: 21st Century Man on June 30, 2015, 11:45:40 PMCarol Reed's The Third Man (1949).  Its about a western novelist named Holly who flies to post-war Vienna to meet up with his best friend, Harry Lime.  Death, a girl and intrigue await him.  Fantastic film and this is the first time I've watched it.  Great black and white noir cinematography, great direction and great performances by all especially Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles and Trevor Howard.   Best film Alida Valli was ever in, I think.  She was gorgeous in this and gave a great performance as well. I particularly loved the bit about Holly's biggest influence being Zane Grey as I think Grey is the best novelist ever to write westerns.  I read most of his books when I was a teenager in the early 80's. Really I don't want to say too much about the film as there are nice twists in the storyline.  Also a wonderful and unforgettable music soundtrack using only a zither. Really a perfect film.  5 out of 5 stars.

Oh my. Yes indeed. Your post reminds me that generation must come to know these great films for themselves, because knowledge of them isn't automatically transferred like DNA. So I'm glad you saw it. A perfect noir thriller, it's an absolute masterpiece of ambiance and image, and the use of a still-battered-to-its-knees Vienna was brilliant. All those shadows and broken rays of light among the rubble, the classic introductory shot of Harry Lime, dark-light-dark-light, the breathtaking porcelain perfection of Alida Valli all make for a film I must watch every time it is on - such as recently on TCM. And the chase through the sewers, with Lime becoming ever more trapped, feeling like hunted prey, is just as tense and suspenseful as the first time saw it. For all his vile selfishness, you can't help but kind of pull for Lime to get away. The casting of Joseph Cotten, never one of my favorite guys for some reason, kind of rankles, but that's just personal preference. All in all, a true masterpiece.

Quote from: The General on June 30, 2015, 12:16:11 PMIt's just an old joke we've been rehashing.
Gee you've been gone a long time!
Welcome back, don't be a stranger!

Quote from: onan on June 30, 2015, 12:16:11 PMBe careful buddy. Next step is double secret reported.

*sigh* It's awkward (for me - although sweet for connoisseurs of schadenfreude) when a guy who, let's admit it, kinda thought he was the shit and could turn a thread to his evil will, goes away for awhile and comes back to find he's not as fast as he used to be. I admit I was nonplussed, because even though O and I regularly crossed keyboards, we were generally adults who knew that because you disagreed with someone didn't make them evil - much. It was just so un-onan, more like that crazy cat-lady Lilly, the one with the hair-trigger who used all those aliases when she got sequentially banned for splattering her brain on folks when her head exploded. But onan was quick with the PM to dis-ignorant me. Man, I just don't know if I've got the chops anymore. I sure don't have the heart for it.

Quote from: C A M on June 30, 2015, 12:22:40 PMIn your absence, onan has become The Enforcer.

Watch your billfold, too. PayPal is trying to take it.

Things have really changed around here.



(Btw, great to see you of course. heh. No one else appreciates my Mata Hari pinball machine references, for the others here are but savages without souls,  propping up instead their base pagan urges.)

Is you Camazotz Automat? The Enigma who in my imaginatorium is a displaced KGB guy? This is a very recent name-change, yes? I've noticed other name-changes I think. Damn, that's all I need: being the old geezer at the picnic who doesn't recognize his grandchildren.

Quote from: Sardondi on June 29, 2015, 12:08:00 PM
I was interested as well, but halfway into the first one I got tired of the Occupy Whatever bias and ditched it. My life has enough indoctrination.

Quote from: onan on June 29, 2015, 03:31:44 PM
Reported.

Seriously? Wow.

Quote from: analog kid on June 27, 2015, 06:20:16 PM
Holy crap that was good. Can't believe that's on a network.

I was interested as well, but halfway into the first one I got tired of the Occupy Whatever bias and ditched it. My life has enough indoctrination.

Quote from: Yorkshire pud on June 29, 2015, 11:03:15 AMAhh what you mean is anyone who disagrees with YOUR version of what the world should be like eh? No women would be even better for you. Something you share with Muslim religious primitives; you're both misogynists. You're both anti gay. You both have no time for anyone who you consider liberal thinking.

Let's assume arguendo all your ridiculous (and as far as I can tell essentially indistinguishable from ad hom) accusations about QK are true: how does that even respond to, much less disprove, his statement that "Liberals in America are the Taliban of America in their zealotry to impose their choices and philosophies upon everyone, and crush all opposition"? Tsk, tsk, tsk. Up to your auld tricks, Pud?

Aha! Nobody expects the Sardondi!

Quote from: onan on June 28, 2015, 05:29:59 AM...Along that same line I have always thought Colin Farrel was an above average yet underrated actor. As always ice cream would not sell nearly as well if there were only one flavor.

Sounds like we're in the same place on these folks. Colin Farrell, whom I had pretty much dismissed for most of his career as a lazy, drunken lout getting by on his looks as the most handsome unibrow in captivity. (Does the man put furry caterpillars on his brow?!) But as his face and body have started showing the mileage he's put on them, he seems to be gaining some depth as an actor. Hope it continues.

Meh, Lear is such a dickhead. But I might tune in for the first time in years just to hear George Knapp, who is an excellent interviewer. He's in Art's league as a host...and probably not as impulsive and self-destructive.

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on June 28, 2015, 08:29:39 PMArabic and etchings of butt plugs are eerily similar.

   Shep Smith wouldn't make that error.

Shep Smith: that guy whose friends, entire family, and every girl he's ever dated, know is gay, and don't understand why he doesn't just get it over with.

Quote from: jazmunda on June 28, 2015, 06:12:50 PM
I'm not sure how I feel about these painting depicting Shia LeBouf as all 13 Doctors.

"Dr. Asshole, I presume?"

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on June 21, 2015, 03:13:14 PMThose morons would fail an English class where Tupac and Eazy E were the authors at hand never mind old Bill Shakespeare. I honestly believe that trade school should become optional in third grade.

Is...is it really you? Is it the Eddie Coyle?

Quote from: Unscreened Caller on June 21, 2015, 11:15:16 AM
I don't know what you missed, but we sure as hell missed you! Where's Winston?

How's this? Everybody cozy now?

Is Eddie Coyle long dead? About the time I went into auto-coma seems like he was banned for showing his ass ten too many times. He was just begging for the banhammer, which I took as a measure of his messed-up-edness at the time. It would be such a loss were he still gone, if only for that man's spookily encyclopedic knowledge of golden age pop-rock music. It's better than mine, and I'm about the best I know, at least for, say, Brit Invasion to mid-70's. And I guess Yorkshire Pud is still here then? Because you can't destroy Satan. The man would simply not let you have the last word. I'm already tired thinking about it. *sigh* I'll go over to Politics and find out for myself.

Okay, what is this "signing up for Art's show" of which you speak. I'm still getting SiriusXM spam because of him.

Okay, I've been gone - what? - 18 months? I dropped in a time or two for auld lang, but pretty much I just gave late night radio up, and with it hatin' on Noory. I was so incredibly pissed at Art for acting like a diva, and an incompetent diva at that, that I just washed my hands and walked away. On top of that, Art's tasteless auto-incineration left Dave Noory looking like the old pro who wouldn't lower himself, yadda. Even when whispers that Art was coming back - A-gain - made it through to my mainstream world, I didn't really care. He really ripped it with me in how he flounced off in a huff after pissing the carpet.

But last night I ran across an old archive of Ghost to Ghosts and listened to some. And YouTube threw up a recent Noory copycat show called "Unexplained Mysteries" or some such from May of this year, with the guy who does the "paranormal campfire" podcasts. I thought, "Maybe I was too hard on Noory. After all, he's the guy who has shown up day in, day out for over 12 years." So I actually listened to it. I was even prepared to admit I had been too hard on him.

But I hadn't. Jeez Louise, the guy has learned nothing. Nothing. He interrupted the guest continuously; asked stupid questions, badly timed questions; left-field questions, where-the-hell-did-that-come-from questions. Noory even clumsily stepped in  and blew the punchline way too early, completely ruining the story. It had to have been frustrating as hell for the guest as Dave ruined what was clearly a well-prepared and even scripted performance, all because Noory wanted to effin' talk.

God, what a dildo.

So, what have I missed?

Quote from: jazmunda on August 27, 2014, 05:12:46 PM
I got this a lot at the height of his C2CAM tenure in the late 90s so I would image we'd get a lot of "Who the @#$% is Art Bell?" today.

I'm thinking he'd really have to bring it if there's a next time. I don't think the un-guests and unter-energy persona of the Sirius Days will make it.

Quote from: HorrorRetro on August 26, 2014, 05:12:20 PM...I believe Art has lost most of his name recognition......

This is very perceptive. Art's last real broadcasting was done before the this year's batch of high school grads had even started school. He's in real danger of being perceived as an old fart desperate to snatch a little of the Golden Days. Or worse, as "Who's Art Bell?".

I'm your huckleberry.

Are you shitting me?! Howdy, pards. A voice from the recent past. I haven't thought about AB for, literally, months. Moments ago he sprang to mind for some unknown reason, and I thought, "I wonder whether that old fraud is still going through the motions with a webpage." Lo and behold I read the "plan to return in in 2015" blurb. I'm baffled. I'm flabbergasted. I'm so shaken I've been startled out of a (how long has it been anyway?) several months' retirement. I'm so startled, I had to see what was the haps with BellGab. 

I truly can't believe it. Is there anyone left to listen to Art? I'm certainly not inclined to, since (even if if Art hadn't gone off in a fit of pique and essentially told all his allegedly beloved fans to kiss his ass) his last show pretty much sucked great big Doctor Pol-style Black Angus bull balls. The guests were lame, Art's interviewing was poor, and the production values were pitifully lame. Not to mention that the Sirius deal which a whooooole lot of people tried to warn Art not to do turned out to be little more than suicide by incremental strangulation. Did I say, "Told ya so"?

I was so pissed off at the way Art showed his ass and ran away that I even reassessed my view of Dave Noory. It seemed to me that the real pro in the whole hooha was George. He was the guy, sucky, wooden and bone-marrow-deep dumb as he was, who acted professionally, showing up night after night, impervious to his own incompetence. That's worth something.

So. What have I missed? And who is Lily now?

Quote from: Camazotz Automat on February 17, 2014, 04:57:45 PM
Sardondi -  equipped with the appropriately sized martini to suffer anyone's blathering about when Art Bell will return.

More like Brian Blessed and you have it...

"Fresh Horses!!!"

Quote from: b_dubb on February 07, 2014, 02:46:03 PM
Sochi Olympics - Disaster in the Making.  They shot all those stray dogs for nothing.  I'm sure the locals are really happy about this catastrophe.  Fuck Putin.  He's a penis with lungs.

It is kind of funny. Just when you think Obama is a total fuckup who couldn't look more impotent if he tried, he comes up with a brilliant backdoor way of taking revenge for Putin's public mockery over how easily the ex-KGB officer has outmaneuvered O recently. It turns out Putin forgot about the Olympics, and how much he needed US tourists and US dollars. All the US needed to do was scare the pee out of everyone about new air travel threats and Russian crime and terrorism. As a result NO ONE shows up at Sochi except journalists, who are whining like hell over having to live in a third-world country where you take your light bulbs and door handle with you when you leave your room, and where there's only one working toilet for every 50 people.

Pretty sly actually. This has been humiliating for Putin. I predict he's so embarrassed he'll release some new beefcake pics of himself in the next couple of weeks.

Quote from: ziznak on February 06, 2014, 07:35:52 PMI'd like to see the pins for this cause

Yeah, but would we even recognize what we were looking at?

Quote from: Bart Ell on February 06, 2014, 11:27:55 AM
Americans trying to take their guns into other countries without the proper license or permit and then getting their titties in a knot when they face charges according to the laws of that country.

Other than where residents routinely drive across each others' borders, such as in the Dominion of Methexico or the People's Republic of Canuckistan, I can't imagine where that has been much of a problem, what with the inability to bring firearms into US airports outside of a handful of highly restricted circumstances involving a shitload of paperwork and officcial sanctions. Maybe you know of a string of such incidents which you could share with us. 

Quote from: jazmunda on February 06, 2014, 09:43:16 PM
That's the Sardondi that I remember.

Also my post was tongue in cheek and just my attempt at humor based on our fearless forum leaders' usual greeting to new posters. I'm sorry I failed.....

DOH! Ah, the intertubes: where anything more subtle than a pie in the face gets lost in the noise. I should have known.

Quote from: jazmunda on February 06, 2014, 01:27:48 AM
Welcome to the forum. Post often....

Seriously. After almost 3 years here, I'm gone for maybe 2-3 months, and when I drop back in it's "Welcome to the forum"? *sigh* But I forget: internet time is like dog years...

Quote from: jazmunda on February 06, 2014, 01:27:48 AM
Team Art or Team George?

For statistical purposes only. Results will not be shared.

Surely you remember that, having come here years before when searching for an outlet to express my deep revulsion at the fact George Noory is employed in the field of broadcasting, I became just as disgusted at Art for his adolescent behavior and his lack of candor and seriousness. Since October I haven't even listened to any of Art's old Ghost-to-Ghost shows I'm so disgusted with him. George may be a narcissist and a sociopath, or he just a badly educated simpleton, but at least he hangs in there.

They can both go fuck themselves.

Hello again. Just dropping in. I miss Eddie Coyle beyond words. EDDDDDDDDDIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

Quote from: Camazotz Automat on December 27, 2013, 03:24:46 AM...We are Mata Hari pinball brothers, so I feel his discomfort.

Those of us who have had the privilege of experiencing that altered state of being, that sense of universal synchronicity near unto that of godhead which we attained by worship at the altar of Mata Hari Pinball by Ballyâ,,¢, she who was appeased only by repeated votive offerings of high-silver-content pre-1964 quarters, can possibly know the sense of brotherhood shared by we her acolytes. 37 years, and yet I still remember that feeling of invincibility in those fleeting moments - or were they endless centuries? - of unerring perfection, of absolute certainty of hand, finger and pelvis, when I knew what it was to possess the crystalline knowledge of impossibility of failure, and the inevitability of unlimited extra balls, and "Bonus Game" remaining lit as if on a loop. And so does Camazotz.

*yaaaawn* *smack smack smack*  What have I missed?

I just got the urge to drop in for a look for the first time in weeks and noticed this thread, and I suddenly realized it interested me. Huh. Go figure.

Quote from: yumyumtree on January 20, 2014, 12:45:52 AM
Amarcord 1973

Heh. Funny movie. Let me ask if you may have noticed something in another movie that I made a connection to Amarcord about. There was a sort of semi-arthouse, slightly cynical comedy in the early 80's called Local Hero starring Peter Riegert ("Boone" from Animal House -1978) with support from Burt Lancaster, plus a lot of Scottish actors I don't know. It was about a tiny Scottish town chosen by an oil conglomerate as the potential site for a big new refinery operation, and how this cynical, selfish American yuppie oilman who is sent there to check it out on the downlow winds up being changed by it. Anyway, there's this running gag where every time the Yank steps outside he's almost run over by some unknown motorcyclist wildly gunning his bike through the small town. And it reminded me of a similar scene or two in Amarcord.

I always assumed it was an homage, but although I've seen it a couple of times many years ago, I don't recall the Fellini movie well enough to know if the motorcycle in it was a single scene or a recurring image. Anyway, have you seen Local Hero, and if so, do you have an opinion about whether the bike is intentional?