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Shakesthegrounds Rumblings
gattaca:
I forget where I got that tagline from, but I've used it for years (probably almost as long as I've been dabbling on the Internet).
I was raised Congregationalist (a sort of casual Lutheran; a New England variant - after all, I'm a Boston boy originally) sans the fire & brimstone of the Calvinists). but I have seen enough and lived enough to bring about a sea-change to my Christian upbringing. There a measure of serendipity to our existence (have I become an agnostic? Not quite yet) and I can easily imagine a troupe of small, chattery parakeets having the power of creation, and then forgetting exactly why they did that.
They're incapable of evil acts.
Thank you for the anecdote. :)
YaadPyar:
--- Quote from: shakestheground on June 07, 2006, 03:11:24 pm ---
This morning I go back and check to see what new has been posted on bettermost and I saw that gattaca had made a responce to an earlier post of mine, then I did plumb fall out. When I see something like this happen and it just connects and connects, I say to myself: "Yes, this is the right path".
Have a Nice Day.
--- End quote ---
Tru - this is beyond wonderful. Thank you.
Shakesthecoffecan:
;D
I have been watching Lonesome Dove the past few days. I remember when it came out (17 year ago!) and think now: "why was I so close minded in my youth? I would not watch this because it was all the rage" I have throughly enjoyed the first DVD, and am waiting on netflix to send me the next one. There is a good interview with Larry McMurtry at the end, it seems very amaturish, which I like. He is just like the plainest person you could ever encounter. If I an into him in a hardware store i would never have guessed he was one of the screenwriters of BBM.
The interview with the producer, a beautiful lady whose name I think is Suzanne DePriest, you can tell the whole time she is choking back emotion. I know where she is coming from. Daily my eyes water when my mind just thinks about most anything, certainly Jack and Ennis, but most everthing I feel deeper than I did last year.
I think Robert Duvall's Gus is probably his best performance. He makes me happy just to look at him. You can imagine my surprise when I saw basically the same character appear on TBS in an ad for a new western miniseries or movie. Robert Duvall is appearing in a production called <<get this>> BROKEN TRAIL. What an interesting name. I wonder where they came up with that. Is it "code" for something, are they trying to ride on Brokeback coat tails? I will probably be watching.
gattaca:
:D
Now I'm gonna have to put Lonesome Dove in my Netflix queue - that's another one I managed to miss...
Shakesthecoffecan:
An Open Letter to annieproulx.com:
Please bring back the forum. I know you have been saying you were gone switch servers and bring it back, and I imagine you might have been a bit overwelmed by the responce once Brokeback Mountian was released as a film. Who knew the tital wave of comment it would foster. Who knew they was gone be so many hateful people out there with computors.
"The Trolls" they were known by on the yahoo list. They are still there, always will be. Anonymous in their attach, vanishing like some vague southwestern apparition I have long forgot the name for. There is some serious hate going on out there still, but it probably worries me less than at any other time in my life.
And all people wanted to talk about was the movie. Forget the story, or the other stories, the books. People just wanted to talk about that movie and maybe compare it to "The Shipping News" movie, ocassionally the book. Those discussions were better played out in other forums.
You promote the author, her writing, and a discussion thereof. I hope this word will reach you: lets give it a go again, please. There was some good discussions going on, if you hunted for them.I learned about a great book: Native, by William Heywood Henderson. Some lush language there. The guy that recommended it "Tiawahillbilly" me thinks, never got to tell him thank you.
Since January of this year I have not only read Brokeback Mountain, but all of the Wyoming Stories. I am closing in on the last parts of Postcards and I'd like for there to be some place where I could ask others their opinions of Loyal Blood. I'd like to ask what language Jewel was speaking in when she told Mernelle how her grandfather counted to twenty. Do these people have an aboriginal connection to the land?
So please consider it, I think there are others here who could fund a discussion.
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