Hit Or Miss II

[skordamou]

Hahahahahahahahaha I meant to write "miss", but I wrote "kiss", what's that about? Totally innocent and I have only been drinking ginger ale, so no excuses!

Tomorrow is my day to read, I will go through all of these books I have taken from the shelves brought down from the attic, and I will read.

[Sven2]

I discretely wandered behind their table, trying to catch their words, to perhaps detect slightly accented English, but alas, when I was close to them they said not a word. and so I never knew for sure...but it was, wasn't it?

As you wish..... Ah, but isn't it eavesdropping? Just imagine, what if they were spies with years and years of practice!

[skordamou]

Well I was TRYING to eavesdrop, but could not. Yes, spies, of course that explains it. I hear they are everywhere these days. Here it is after 2am and no storm has come our way. That is a good thing, it is so sad when trees tumble down in the wind.

[OceanFlower]

oh man skor and sven kissing? one of my most vivid fantasies come true!!   

hoo-hah!

Not Forgotten wasn't bad... it was actually a death cult not a satanic cult (?)...  a little bloody at times but i thought it was good B horror thriller flick..

just saw Solitary Man w/ Michael Douglas... excellent! but it does have a groaner of an ending... MD is really talented he can play any role... good guy bad guy slimeball womanizer you name it! just as an aside the girl from the Office is in this the one that just got married on the show... she was really good and played a very forceful character as MD's semi-estranged daughter...

also saw My Name Is Khan kinda ironic i watched this on 9/11... about an autistic Muslim from India in the USA and the prejudice he meets up with... its kinda like a Bollywood Forrest Gump... it got a little draggy for me... and here we are in 2010 and they still are putting up these little teeny tiny captions in white letters that are barely readable! oy! yellow subtitles is the only way to go! i missed half the dialog because of this!!

the library finally came thru with a copy of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo... I'm mesmerized!

[Sven2]

I am still with "The Good Son", (very busy now) learning a lot about customs of Pashtun,  their tribal loyalties. Fascinating. The main female character is a former circus girl, turned Jung psychologist who is a Muslim and a Catholic (love that pluralism, what a wonderful liberating religion could arise from the unlikely symbiosis!) who is captured by those tribesmen under Al-Q control. Tortured, of course, humiliated, but will prevail, I hope, being spiritual and intelligent.

Good luck with the "Girl", Flower, stay away from "death cult", that's sick!

[Sven2]

Finished "The Good Son", interesting book with the most artificially inflated ending, felt cheated, that happens, the end is usually the hardest part. Started "The German Woman".
New crop of books recommended by Amazon is coming on the market, where to find time to read! Flower, what about you? Anyone?
No good movies from Netflix, saw 2 not funny comedies, "City Island" and "Leap Year",  and regret that.

[OceanFlower]

part of the reason i get up at like 3am... i can spend at least an hour reading before i have to enter the real world... and on the days when i'm not walking or running etc i can spend an hour b4 dinner reading... so amazingly i'm able to knock down a few books a month... i also read maybe three books at a time... as archie said to edith, I'll be in the reading room!

[OceanFlower]

THE KILLER INSIDE ME this is one hell of an intense film... based on Jim Thompson's crime novel of the same name... since I read the book I knew what was gonna happen more or less... but I'm afraid if you haven't read the book you may not be able to follow what's going on in re: to some of the flashbacks... e.g.

the young Lou was the one who actually sexually abused the five year old girl and his older brother took the rap for it

the pics Lou finds in the Bible and the flashbacks he has with the woman with her bare bruised buttocks was the housekeeper when his Dad the doctor was alive...

everything else i guess is pretty straightforward...

Matthew Maher portrays a deputy sheriff...

i also read Thompson's auto-bio of sorts and he based the psycho killer Lou's character on an actual deputy he met once who had come to the lonely oil field where he was working at the time to either arrest him or serve papers... wore the leather gloves and subtlely threatened Thompson's life... it scared the hell out of him!

Thompson also wrote The Getaway which was produced twice by Hollywood--the McQueen version is vastly superior and one of my all time favorite films The Grifters...  with a young Annette Bening running nude as often as she can... 

[Cissy]

I have a different sort of doctor, I've known him, he's been my doc, for over half my life, anyway, last time I went in wife and daughter had brought in novels they were done with and left them on the end table, just take if you're interested. I found The White-Haired Girl~ Bittersweet Adventures of a Little Red Soldier, Jaia Sun-Childers (with a little help from the 'white ghost' hubby) The copy I have is an advance uncorrected proof, so I don't know if the photos made it into the final printing, but it's a good book, go inside the world and mind of some one most women can relate to during those years, the Mao years for her, for us, well, we're all different ages, but if we're old enough to know better, we get to look inside that cultures evolution. It certainly was different than ours, the hard and fast history, yet we are all so same inside that though this was a period of change big and huge for most of the planet, our hearts, our child minds experienced it all in much the same way.
I just love that you guys are discussing stuff I can see too cuz I have netflix too Friends reviewing films for me! Everything does go around.

I make a point of watching Modern Family because I like it, I love Ed getting the girl! My old fantasy of Bill marries Jerri sort of fleshed out. 

Thanks, I just found the Mentalist guy and I really like him, some one mentioned somewhere here a film he's made, looking forward to trying that out.

How come the cute guys on tv are so short?


My 30 something son really likes Men of a Certain Age, I do too, offering it up here, since I noticed they showed the pilot again last week.
If I'm posting on the wrong thread, I'm sure someone will tell me. Right?

[OceanFlower]

nope... right on target as far i can see! 

[Cissy]

Thanks Osh, for letting me know I got it right! It's good to be reading you again. And it's great to see everyone, Laurel and Skor, Save and just everyone!
Skor, I really want to do a retro! I need it, I really need it, and now, I could watch again, and it would come through... 2 weeks ago, I don't think I could
have, watched JFC again I mean, but I just gave it some time and some space, and I'm finding parts of me and they are coming back together more easily
each day. Yeah, let's watch our show again!

[Sven2]

Cissy, not seeing your face in the mirror - that's a terrible experience, but you've expressed it beautifully. Should I say again how I always enjoy reading your posts? If you have time, would you please, find the poem you mentioned, would be great if you'd share it here!

As to TV shows, here are my choices: Dexter, Weeds, Boardwalk Empire, The Event, Terriers (filmed in San Diego and there's a bulldog). "The Event" is groomed as a replica of "Lost", but I watch it for the aliens connection. "Boardwalk Empire"  delivers flair of Prohibition with all the "trimmings", although the mobsters are as interesting as a pool of sharks, just blood and more blood for money.

Flower, I bought (for $5.99) the last "Girl" of the trilogy, didn't open it yet. Got "Surf Guru" and more from the library, and, alas! - am reading pulp fiction, "Rain Gods", that's bad of me!   

[OceanFlower]

Surf Guru? what dat??   

[OceanFlower]

is anybody alive out there??? 

Watched The Perfect Getaway over the weekend... totally threw me for a loop... I actually watched it 3 times... the Hawaiian backdrop is breathtaking!

[Cissy]

Osh, you actually posted at 4:20 today.  . I like finding the clock at numbers that surprise me a little, like 12:34, 11:11, stuff like that. Small things amuse small minds? lol

I will go look for the little poem and come back to here, Hit or Miss. I'm rusty, it's short, I figure it is a hit or a miss!

[OceanFlower]

4:20!! LOL! 

[Sven2]

4:20 a.m. is when birds start their day, earlier in spring and summer though. Good time to wake up, listen to them and then go back to your dreams.

"Surf Guru" is nothing, forget it. I am reading "The More You Owe Me" - a story of Elisabeth Bishop trip to Brazil that was supposed to last two weeks and was a beginning of a great love that ended only with death, as that must be with love, I got to add.

Have another novel (a friendship gone wrong story,  somewhere around Santa Barbara, my dream destination) "Twentynine Palms" (sic!)

"The Perfect Getaway" thanks, Cissy, poor Olyphant is playing a psycho, right?  
Where is the poem, have you found it? Don't ask where the conversation is, it's where you are, so - speak up!

[OceanFlower]

when you go to Santa Barbara I can serve as your personal guide and attendant... i know that place like the back of my hand!

you have to see The Perfect Getaway!

[Sven2]

Oh, do you, really?

Flower, who's the murderer in "The Secret In Their Eyes"? There was a very ambiguous answer, even if one was to accept that both characters are traumatized and damaged for life. I liked the ironical treatment of the over-melodramatic scene at the train station, that was good. Thanks for the recommendation.

"I Am Love" is next on my Netflix, should be interesting Italian movie. No, I don't like slashers, Hawaii or not.

Anybody watching any good TV shows? Do tell!

 

[Cissy]

I watched Not Forgotten on Netflix, I really do have a little crush on Simon Baker. B film for sure, but when Mexico starts with it's music and it's unintentional colors, it's magic to me, I can't resist. Not the culture, not the music, nothing, I'm drawn in. He did keep that Brit accent really out of that picture too. I was so glad it was a death is part of life cult instead of a Satanic one, I have issues there.
Different director, a bit of a rewrite, that could be a good film, ya know?

(i must admit that i am completely drawn to My Name is Earl, nice of netflix to stream it for me. i like it so much, i'm looking at a trailer park! Well, not a normal one, one that's stuck in a redwood forest, right next to the Gualala River, and there's a redwood grove on the property too. Private as only that far away from everything living can provide. Plus, it's what I can afford, i don't like paying rent!)

[Sven2]

Cissy, we got no redwood forests here, just pines and more pines. I'd be excited to live in a grove with the view of a river, although I'd prefer the ocean view! Could you get an RV? Then you'd be free to travel with the seasons up and down the coast, making stops anywhere you wish.

As to "My name Is Earl", I didn't see any of it, but think that Show is filming something close, they announced a new show "Shameless" with William Macy.

Hope you will settle in that redwoods!

[skordamou]

Hi Everyone, It makes me happy to see you here, discussing things back and forth. I have nothing much to say, I was reading "Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson,  I liked it but misplaced it so I read a few Ruth Rendell mysteries, and now I must have read them all, even the Barbara Vines, I think, and now I will go hunt for my book again because I was liking it and besides it is overdue at the library.
I have been relatively immobile and feeling lethargic and not all that great. My head is filled with cotton, or maybe it is dryer lint.

[OceanFlower]

in a big rush i will answer movie ?? 2morrow or via email!

[Sven2]

Skor, "Out Stealing Horses" sounds like a diary of an outlaw! Have you found it? Luckily our library allows to renew books online. Property taxes here are outrageous though!

Got a collection of short stories "Orange County Noir", to feed my obsession with all things Californian.
Saw "The Runaways", confirming that Dakota Fanning has no talent. Nothing else is there to say about the movie, the band was much better than that hapless depiction.

[skordamou]

I want to hear about "I am Love."
I haven't found my book yet, but I haven't looked, either. I will do that on Friday. I can't face the disater that has become my room, not right now, soon I must.
"Out Stealing Horses" is a very well written rather bleak story of a Norwegian man who desires solitude. I am so draw to the Scandinavian.
We abandoned Oyster Monday and DeWolf Tavern and although I was the one who decided that the quality had slipped to the unacceptable and it was time to move on, I miss it. Nothing has come along to fill that bit of social life, so I am quite the boring one these days. Just trying to get healthy.