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- cisbird : who farted some one else
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- Stretch99 : Who FARTED?!!!
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- CharethCutestory : *Snort*
- DavidinBerkeley : *Sniff*
- DavidinBerkeley : I'm starting to face the fact that AW is probably about as interested in doing a radio show again as the broadcasting industry is in giving her one. I'm going to have to start a support group.
- pal Jacky : there's a DVD rom of the complete 'national lampoon' on CD-rom. It is around $40 bucks so I may order it from amazon. They have one of Mad as well, but I'm not as interested.
- TalkinHorse : so the real moment of venting came when chevy chase punched that big moose figure in the nose...that was, in my opinion, the "money shot"
- TalkinHorse : ...but you've got to admit it would be difficult to film your hero shooting walt disney given the tone of the comedy...even in the original article, there was a struggle to keep it light
- TalkinHorse : yes, the ending to the "vacation" movie was certainly anticlimactic... and john candy was amiable enough, but i just never found him very funny...
- TalkinHorse : ah, yes, jacky's comments about graduating from Mad to NatLamp...yeah, that was the pathway to what passed for adulthood in the era...
- DavidinBerkeley : Anyone who wants to hear some of the commercials that won AW the big awards should find this book in the library: And now a few laughs from our sponsor [electronic resource] : the best of fifty years of radio commercials / Larry Oakner.
- pal Jacky : 11 fucking bucks for a film that an idiot can figure out before the opening credits are even over. Why aren't they showing the newlyweds in any of the wedding videos?
- pal Jacky : saw 'perfect getaway'. Here's a hint. If you've only got three sets of suspects, it is really easy to figure out the guilty ones early on.
- pal Jacky : i came to age in the '70's when national lampoon was there for when one outgrew Mad. So for John Hughes was a grest writer who sold out to movies. Also if you read the original story 'Vacation '58' the finale is Disneyland not Wallyworld and even the great John Candy couldn't pull off the image of a holding Walt disney at gunpoint.
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- DavidinBerkeley : To find out what Mac and Sully were doing on the 4th of July, listen to Auntie Vera's podcast: «link»
- pal Jacky : However,it took 'mo director visconti to truly seal the deal by using mahler's music in the film version. and mo composer Britten did an entire opera turning 'ashenbach' into a sympathetic character instead of a drooling micheal jackson-esque child molester.
- pal Jacky : of course, 'death ion venice' is my fave of Mann. Turning gustav mahler into a mo'perv is brilliant.
- pal Jacky : it is a silent shortect based on afave thomas mann 'the transposed heads'.
- pal Jacky : life gets better. Anchor bay's jordororsky box is 6 DVD's. I thought it was only going to be 3.two are soundtracks-bori ng, but the third is his first film lost for 50 years.
- pal Jacky : the biggest complaint with 'sante sangre' is that many people think it looks like a cheap horror film. I love cheap horror films.
- pal Jacky : cut off ' can life get any better?' was what I was going to say. Look criterion is putting polanski's 'repulsion' on blu-ray. maybe I won't get upset if I wake up tomorrow.
- pal Jacky : i know a few people who have hated it. Most of them are either 'el topo' fanatics or hated 'el topo' entirely. Last night I sat down with 'the tin drum'for the first time since Gunter grass finally 'fessed up to being a waffen SS(he was drafted when he was 17 near the end of the war). It was the most new German film in America ie fassbinder/herzo g lite. But still good. Tonight it is argento's 'mother of tears'. I just picked up 'memento'and the original 'dawn of the dead' on Blu-ray. Can life
- John Foley : Bleh. I hated "Santa Sangre."
- pal Jacky : 'el topo' is jodorovsky's most famous film and it looks a lot like a sergio leone film. Much of this film could easily pass for fellini. Nonetheless, there is one murder that is pure argento. the pastel colors and the 'operatic' overkill. one of the producers of 'sante sangre' is claudio argento who is best known for producing his big brothers films, so the death is less a ripoff than a tribute.
- TalkinHorse : hey, that sounds a lot like "fellini's satyricon". now fellini could make that sort of thing work, but most people who try it end up with something utterly repulsive.
- pal Jacky : its about a guy whose moms arms were cut and so he gets behind her and acts as her arms.
- pal Jacky : it's got it all, sideshow freaks, fat prostitutes, drag queens snorting coke with retards.wacky catholic cult and that doesn't even cover the plot.
- pal Jacky : art phony film alert. I just got a copy of Jodorosky's 'sante sangre'. I saw it really drunk at the nuart when it first came out 20 years ago.
- TalkinHorse : a theory favored in recent years is that prentice bush committed the ripper killings. but i'm partial to the notion that queen victoria (who was in fact a man) did the deed. either that, or colonel mustard, in the pantry, with a candlestick.
- pal Jacky : actually, it is anywhere from 4 to 9 victims depending on which ripper expert you have faith in. We all know Lewis carroll did it. Richard wallace's 'your lighthearted friend' proves that.
- pal Jacky : In fact, the ripper letter that seems to be the most obvious fraud is the one with 'pal Jacky' in it nonetheless, those ripper people can get really heated up. Considering the murders were 120 years ago, and five victims doesn't seem like a lot in this day and age.
- TalkinHorse : i guess brecht was a major player, but he's never been in my line of sight.
- TalkinHorse : hmmm...yeah, i remember they got some letters about jack the ripper...once upon a time i'd formed the impression that the only likely non-hoax was the "from Hell" letter, which incidentally did not identify the writer as "jack"
- pal Jacky : insometranslatio ns he is called 'jacky Pal' which is more direct, but bently, as always, uses a more subjective connotative translation which has got him into trouble
- pal Jacky : The other is the eric bently translation of the title character in brecht's 'the elephant calf'. A play within the play 'a man is a man'
- pal Jacky : actually pal Jacky comes from two places one is a 'jack the ripper' notes. "then watch out for your old pal, Jacky"
- TalkinHorse : pal jacky's brother: «link»
- pal Jacky : micheal was never any good even when he was alive.
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- Stretch99 : Michael is dead
- DavidinBerkeley : Listen to Auntie Vera's podcast to hear about AW's experience with a gift from Auntie: «link»
- SpicyD : anyone here?
- Stretch99 : palabra holmes!
- DavidinBerkeley : Brown word!
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- John Foley : S-word.
