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Shakesthegrounds Rumblings
CellarDweller:
*waves to Truman*
Shakesthecoffecan:
--- Quote from: susiebk on March 24, 2008, 09:32:26 am ---I just spent $10 on iTunes for this album. Thanks a lot! ;D
--- End quote ---
*Waves @ Chuck*
I am glad you all like it, I think it is very haunting. Reading the lyrics it seems like she is taking the haunting parts of a lot of songs and country music history and bringing them together. The part about John kicking out the floodlights I think is a reference to Johnny Cash performing while all druged up.
Brokeback_Dev:
Hi Truman!
Shakesthecoffecan:
Hey Dev!
Last night I watched a cool old movie. "Victim" is a 1961 British film about a group of homosexual men in London being blackmailed. This was in a time when being a homosexual in Britain was illegal. One of the characters had been imprisoned 4 times and is finally taking the advice of the prison doctor and immigrating to Canada.
The hero of the story, Melvin Farr, played by Dirk Bogarde, is moved to stop this, even though it means the loss of everything to him, and he had a lot to loose. He hopes that by standing up to the blackmailers the powers that be will see that the antiquated law only enables blackmailers and should be done away with.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6z-4VcUjjM[/youtube]
My copy of the movie from netflix also contained an interview done with Bogarde done just before the films release and he is asked some of the same questions I heard asked of Heath and Jake. He was adament this would not be a death knell for his career, and in fact it wasn't, he went on to have a very long career.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Bogarde
southendmd:
'Mornin, Tru. Dirk says hi.
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