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[AndyinPA]

[Sam the Centipede]

Speaking of King Lear...

A couple of weeks ago, Jim (the SO) and I watched the Soviet produced film of King Lear (1971). Subtitled of course, I don't speak Russian. It was quite well done and nicely shot. I had forgotten how depressing King Lear was though.

I always completely lose the plot when watching any Shakespeare play, to the extent that I probably don't try to keep up even when I could. Reading a synopsis obviously helps, but I am usually still baffled well before the half-time oranges, especially when I can't remember which character is which, nor their relationships.

So I just enjoy watching the acting, and the depressingness wafts right by and away.

Yeah, I'm a slob.

[MsDaisy]

Just home from a LONG ass drive from Virginia to Vermont and finally back again. We went to visit friends who use to live here. I have to say, Vermont is spectacular! We hiked the hills and explored the towns and visited friends as well as local cousins we haven't seen in forever and had a wonderful time. They already have lots of fall colors busting out! I had to collect some leaves to show my grand brats when I pick them up from school on Friday. But very glad to be home and looking forward to sleeping in my own bed tonight

[AndyinPA]

In general, I think fall color is going to be later this year. It's downright warm here, which isn't conducive to trees developing great color, I think.

[northland10]

I always completely lose the plot when watching any Shakespeare play, to the extent that I probably don't try to keep up even when I could. Reading a synopsis obviously helps, but I am usually still baffled well before the half-time oranges, especially when I can't remember which character is which, nor their relationships.

So I just enjoy watching the acting, and the depressingness wafts right by and away.

Yeah, I'm a slob.

Watching Macbeth 7 times in 5 days can help. Things you learn while being an usher. Would it help if mentioned there are some rather "dirty" parts in them. If you are watching closely for that, you might catch more of the rest.

Emphasis by my inner 12-year-old

MACDUFF
What three things does drink especially provoke?

Porter
Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and
urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes;
it provokes the desire, but it takes
away the performance: therefore, much drink
may be said to be an equivocator with lechery:
it makes him, and it mars him; it sets
him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him,
and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and
not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him
in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him.

[northland10]

Halloween music!

But to be cliche, my yearly Halloween music review practice comes up in the next week or so. Yes, time to make sure the Toccata from Bach's Toccata and Fugue in d minor is still up to snuff. October 31st is a Sunday so time to use it as a postlude.

[AndyinPA]

[Sam the Centipede]

Watching Macbeth 7 times in 5 days can help.

I'm sure it does! Which reminds me of an annoyance in some screen dramas: directors will sometimes only show something for the briefest of moments even though it is relevant to a plot point, such as the character having keys/gun/notebook/McGuffin, the character noticing a person/object who/which is partially hidden, etc. Editing the pictures with intimate knowledge of the story before and after each scene in detail is not like encountering it for the first time.

Or am I just particularly bad at following plots?

[northland10]

With films, there are always things people don't catch until later viewings (I was finding new stuff in The Godfather for a long time). There is just so much that can happen and I figure they also know that folks will come back. Just recently I was watching some moving I had seen a bunch of times and noticed a character's reaction and I never noticed before, because it was subtle and not in the primary action going on. It brought a new dimension to that character.

I do enjoys these moments because it means I get something new with each viewing and am not just watching the same thing (though, I still enjoy that).

This happens on stage as well, though they sometimes lack the subtlety due to the distance between the actors and the audience (no closeups). Shakespeare can be even harder to get everything early on because our brain has to do some translations of the language on the fly.

[Uninformed]

“Joe Biden expands sacred Bears Ears”:
https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/joe ... -monuments

“SALT LAKE CITY — President Joe Biden will expand two sprawling national monuments in Utah that have been at the center of a public lands tug-of-war that has played out over three presidential administrations, the state's governor said Thursday.
Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, released a statement expressing disappointment in a decision by the administration to expand Bears Ears National Monuments and Grand Staircase-Escalante, which were downsized significantly under President Donald Trump.”

[raison de arizona]

I hope he restores the whole thing on them.

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[MsDaisy]

Nostalgia, ☺ My first car, I was 19. My dad bought me a brand new Mustang, 1976, black with red leather interior. It was a 4 speed and I had no idea how to drive a clutch at the time, but it didn’t take long for me to learn. I was a completely spoiled brat at the time. And pretty much stayed that way until my dad died in 1986. That was very sad.

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[tek]

1966, probably

[Foggy]

Yeah, I took my VW bus in the TARDIS back to 1,000,000 B.C.

No roads. No gas stations. Cig lighter, but no cigarettes. Radio, but no stations.



On the bright side, it kept me out of the rain for a while ...

[roadscholar]

I had that same model, in blue, a 1965.

I like that black better.

[sugar magnolia]

I had a red '68 and a light green '75 with a sun roof. Those Mustangs, and my bright turquoise blue and white '70s Toyota Celica were my favorite cars ever to drive.

[jez]

I am jealous.

My first car was a 1977 Ford Pinto Station Wagon. Brown. Boring. It had no radio when I got it. I had to install one.

[tek]

My first car (in 1974) was a white 1964 Valiant V200 4-door.. 170ci slant-six, pushbutton automatic transmission, and *air conditioning*

lotta good times in that car.

[keith]

Nostalgia, ☺ My first car, I was 19. My dad bought me a brand new Mustang, 1976, black with red leather interior. It was a 4 speed and I had no idea how to drive a clutch at the time, but it didn’t take long for me to learn. I was a completely spoiled brat at the time. And pretty much stayed that way until my dad died in 1986. That was very sad.

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So, Sally... where'dya get the 'Daisy' nom-de-plumb?

[keith]

My first car was a 1959 Austin-Healy MkI "Bug Eye" Sprite in 1969. Fun car, lotta good times. Absolute piece of crap. It had seemingly been built out of left over WWII tank armor plating but it was falling apart faster than I could fix it. Dad and I stripped the engine and rebuilt it.

We replaced every gasket in the damn thing but could never get it to stop leaking oil. I used nothing but recycled oil in it because I had to refill every other month.

I got stopped by the police on the freeway one time because I was going too slow, even though I was going as fast as it would go. Previous owner had put a full race cam in it, and it just couldn't cope with going up slight inclines. I traded the roll bar the previous owner had installed for a Sprite MKII cam and it went much better.

[raison de arizona]

I had that same model, in blue, a 1965.

I like that black better.

My first car was a pale yellow '65, all original. This was the late 80's, it was a show winner. Literally anything I did to it (like add AC for those hot AZ summers) would have lowered its value quite a bit. Fortunately (ha!) it never came to that. My dad bought it for me before I turned sixteen, and before I got a chance to REALLY drive it (besides on the farm and farm roads in IL, where we brought it home from), I got kicked out of high school and my dad sold it to pay for private high school. Which I also got kicked out of of. Doh! My "real" first car was a 1969 VW Squareback, as a result, with a three figure price tag.

[MsDaisy]

Nostalgia, ☺ My first car, I was 19. My dad bought me a brand new Mustang, 1976, black with red leather interior. It was a 4 speed and I had no idea how to drive a clutch at the time, but it didn’t take long for me to learn. I was a completely spoiled brat at the time. And pretty much stayed that way until my dad died in 1986. That was very sad.

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So, Sally... where'dya get the 'Daisy' nom-de-plumb?

Gawd knows, I've had lots of nicknames, my dad always called me Lil Doc because I loved Bugs Bunny and always ran around with a carrot saying "What's up Doc". All of my cousins (all 10+ years older than me) called me Sput, short for Sputnik because I was born in 57. Daisy came from Daisy Dukes way back in the day.

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