Mindymoo
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Halcyon Days,
I really should. While my Great Grandma and Aunt Lulu are gone, as are my Aunt Lulu's children, my Busia is still alive and so are a lot of her niece and nephews, so I would love to get some of that written down. Grown men were afraid of those two. They were also dancers, and during a dance competition, some asshole tried to steal my Aunt Lulu's trophy. She ran him down an alley, beat the shit out of him, and took the trophy back. They don't make ladies like my Aunt Lulu anymore.
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One of my five favorite shows of all time is "Trailer Park Boys", and I have integrated Mr. Lahey's shitisms into my vocabulary. I lovingly call my cats shit rats, I particularly love "ride the shitnado back to Oz", and will refer to recidivists as "shitivists." I also started pronouncing jalapeño the way that Ricky does, and I love his "make like a tree and fuck off."
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Stacey, I would love some Canadian history. Canadian prohibition was a pretty interesting time, particularly because they were allowed to continue to manufacture booze for export. They could even tie that to American history and prohibition, due to all of the traffic going in and out of Windsor, Ontario to the Hiram Walker facility. (Which is a place I highly recommend anyone and everyone who has the chance to take a tour of- the building is beautiful, the history is fascinating, and there is a whisky tasting at the end!) My great grandmother and her sister used to run liquor from there down to Toledo, as despite their Polishness, they were gun molls for the Lebanese mob. Too bad Rob Ford wasn't mayor of Toronto 30 years ago, because that would be fun to drunkenly recreate.
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I really enjoyed this one. Nora and Matthew are infinitely more interesting than everyone else on this show, and their episodes have been stellar compared to all of the others. Nora was really heartbreaking in this, and I was glad to see her be able to let go a bit, both in the hospitality suite and then after Wayne's magical hug.
Question: does anyone know who played Nora's boss? I can't find it on IMDB, but he looks so familiar that it is driving me insane.
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I love Ted Sr. I love that he is so good to Daniel, looking after him like he's his own, and doing total damage control over Daniel's gift while Teddy shat all over it and Janet was just surprised and speechless. He is such a good man. And I felt so bad for Tawney, wanting to keep the baby a secret for whatever reason (possible divorce? Fear of miscarriage? Hoping for a miscarriage?) and Teddy just had to run roughshod all over her feelings by upstaging Daniel and being a dick yet again to his wife and her feelings. You could see her face fall as he made that announcement.
I hate the sheriff and I hate the DA. Of course he was going to spill the beans about what Teddy told him, despite his promises. Teddy should have told someone, but not the guy that is gunning for Daniel. And once the DA finds out that Daniel slept with his mistress, it will be game on.
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Has there been an episode about Nikola Tesla, his perpetual fucking over by Edison and others, and all of the other details of this whacky genius's life? He was the greatest inventor of the first half of the 20th century and he died penniless. (And he was celibate his whole life and loved pigeons at the end.)
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I would love to see them cover Arnold Rothstein fixing the 1919 World Series.
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Midnight Cowboy makes me cry at the end every time I see it. I love the movie, I love the character of Ratso Rizzo so much, and when Joe Buck puts his arm around his dead friend as the bus continues to drive, I just lose it.
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I saw that story on VICE's "Cry-baby of the Week" feature that they post on Fridays. People are morons and should have to have a license to own pets. (I think they should with children too, but I digress.) The story is the first of the two cry-babies at the following link. http://www.vice.com/read/cry-baby-of-the-week-kanye-west-rape-cat-attack-911
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From what I've read, he was more than an asshole, but flat out impossible. Showing up drunk, not knowing lines, ruining takes, wasting money by making them stay over for hours, etc. So yeah, I'd have fired his ass too. And personally, I didn't like Jimmy, I don't like Michael Pitt as an actor, and I didn't shed a tear as he died. I was only worried about how Richard would be affected when he was killed off the show.
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I feel like the only Amantha fan here, but I especially liked her in this episode. We really got the motivation behind her character in that interview. We knew her whole life has revolved around Daniel, but for her to lay out for her prospective employer why she needs the job and needs to stay in Paulie makes me get her and empathize with her even more. She can be very short and blunt, but in her shoes, I can't say I wouldn't be as well. She was so sad in that car destroying that burger with ketchup on her face.
As much as I cannot stand Ted Jr., I did appreciate that he realized that Daniel was trying to teach him a lesson, rather than just outright assault him as a power trip. When you tell someone that they can stop a rape if they want to, well, as a victim myself, that's bound to set a person off. I wouldn't do what Daniel did, but it would take everything in me to not beat the piss out of the person, and I am a petite pacifist.
The stuff with Kerwin's family killed me. Best episode yet.
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Requiem of a Dream is one of the worst movies ever. It is one huge, heavy handed, seemingly DARE-inspired anti-drug PSA that is insanely ludicrous. The refridgerator scene was like something out of a third rate Monty Python sketch. There's a heroin shortage in NYC? Really? And you can only get it either in Florida or by doing ass-to-ass scenes? They arrest you in the hospital on SUSPICION of being a drug user, arrest your friend, and refuse to treat your arm? Even when it is gangrenous in the prison? Then they chop it off without any form of anaesthetic whatsoever? I'm sorry, this is Reefer Madness of the 21st century, one of the worst and unintentionally hilarious things I have ever seen, and the praise it gets absolutely BAFFLES me.
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David Lynch is my favorite director of all time. (You can probably tell from my icon.) However, his movies often have scenes that disturb the hell out of me.
Eraserhead disturbs me and I can't pinpoint exactly why. The entire thing is just so unsettling. The worst part is when the mutant baby starts vomiting up that cottage cheese-like substance. I think that Eraserhead should be shown to teenagers as a form of birth control, to frighten them that if they have sex without protection, their child might turn out like that.
Blue Velvet has the rape scene between Dennis Hopper and Isabella Rosselini with the robe, after he's inhaled the amyl nitrate. I adore that movie, but that part has me cringing every time I see it. The degredation of Dorothy in that scene and throughout the whole film is so awful.
Inland Empire has the scene with Laura Dern where she shoots the guy and his face, well... I can't even describe it. If you've seen it, you know exactly what I am talking about. Plus there's the whole bizarre thing going on with the rabbit sitcom full of non-sequitor dialogue that is bizarre and disturbing in its own right.
Mulholland Drive has the most dark and horrifying masturbation scene ever that it could make you sick to even watch it.
Why do I torture myself with his movies? I love them, but they are so dark and fucked up. And since this is the movies thread, I can't even touch the weirdness that was Twin Peaks!
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I guess this sort of has to do with @Midnight, because it is an interview with everyone's favorite panelist, Ron Funches, on VICE. What a lovely man he is. http://www.vice.com/read/what-happens-when-you-die
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Cocaine too. Don't forget the cocaine she was using with the drug dealer boyfriend.
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I do too, and sadly, those are most often the ones that are abandoned and euthanized. Like I said, I would have kept little Schwayne Jr. if I could have, but someone will give that beautiful little darling a happy home. The owner of the no-kill shelter fell in love and fostered him over the weekend. When we stopped the car and put on the hazards (we were in the entrance to a parking lot at that point) he crawled up into our wheel well, and we had to climb in there to get him down. He sprayed booty juice on us, he was so terrified! He was a doll though- never bit or scratched us once, he was just scared. And once he felt safe and got some food in him, he perked right up. I like to think he is the reincarnation of the disabled swan I named Swan Swami who died over the winter. I lost a swan I loved and gained a kitten for someone else to love.
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It's short for Fiona.
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Yes, yes I do. I've been up for three days straight finishing papers for bullshit classes and doing finals. Not in the best frame of mind for commenting on TV shows!
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Me and the missus saved this little guy from the middle of the road! We named him Schwayne Jr. off of a character from "Angry Boys" who sang a song about a squashed Aboriginal boy. Since he was nearly squished, we thought it fit. He was splayed out on the highway, so we put our hazards on, got him to the shelter immediately, and he's doing fine! We even went to visit him a couple days later and he remembered us! He wasn't feral at all, he was a precious little guy, and loves to cuddle with people and his little beanie baby. He fit in the palm of my hand. That's my wifey holding him so I could take a pic. He is almost all black, with little whispy white hairs on his belly, and the prettiest blue eyes. I'd have kept him, but I don't think Fig and Floyd would think too much of having that much cuteness in that one house.
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I don't mind Piper as much as I find her annoying. There is such a dearth of strong, interesting female characters on this show, and Piper just falls into the background to me. Red has become my absolute favorite of them all. If I were in Litchfield, I think I'd be able to put my geopolitical differences aside and stick with Red's team.
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My cousin had Downs and was mainstreamed like Suzanne, and just graduated high school. Big mistake. He barely learned anything, is hyper-aggressive, can't stand to be around people laughing because he assumes they are laughing at him, and his parents just wanted him to have a "normal" school experience, despite how detrimental it has been to his well being. Not that Suzanne had Downs, but he reminds me of her in that way. His parents have the "NOT MY CHILD!" attitude that Suzanne's parents have going on, along with massive discipline problems, and it's really a sad thing to see. It's unfortunate that we have parents out there that are so ill-equipped to deal with mental illness and mental disabilities. I love my cousin dearly, but can't spend more than five minutes with him because he is so manipulative and hyper-aggressive, and bringing this to his parents' attention either results in them scolding me or them screaming at and spanking him. It's a sad situation all around.
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Are we sure that the whole series will take place in 1931, or just parts of it? I, for one, am devastated at a series without Harrow, and was really looking forward to seeing the 1929 Atlantic City Conference. Arnold Rothstein died in 1928, so he would be out too. Also, 1931 was the year that Al Capone was convicted and sent to Alcatraz for tax evasion, so we would be seeing very little of him as well. Since 1931 is in the heart of the Great Depression, I predict even darker days ahead for the leads of our series.
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As much as I love Pink Floyd's The Wall, that counts more as a rock opera than a musical, so I must go for Tommy. They even made that into a Broadway musical! Having seen it both on stage and the movie, I must go with the movie version. The completely fucked up the story with the stage version. Instead of Tommy walking in on Mrs. Walker and her boyfriend shooting his father, they had Mrs. Walker and Mr. Walker shoot the stepfather, and that's what turned Tommy blind, deaf, dumb and mute. That makes no sense to me. I'd think the death of your actual parent would be far more traumatic, especially after he just came home from war. As for the music, no actor/singer dead or alive can improve upon the performances of Roger Daltrey as Tommy, Tina Turner as the Acid Queen, and Elton John as the Pinball Wizard. (His pinball machine was a piano!) Hell, even Jack Nicholson did his damndest, despite the fact that they had to tune the song down a couple of steps to suit his range. I absolutely love that movie and all of the performances- even Keith Moon's disturbing, sing-songy, egg-in-the-beer Uncle Ernie. I think Tommy Walker had some of the worst parents in cinematic history, and I am completely comfortable in my homosexuality when I say that Roger Daltrey was one beautiful, sexy man.
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Terriers owns this thread. I am still bitter over that show's cancellation.
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If It Wasn't For That One Thing: How Movies Could've Been Better
in Everything Else Movies
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Gillian Rosh,
My take on the ending was that Daniel Plainview no longer had to pretend anymore. When Eli, who he knew was a phony from the get go, came asking for money, he forced him to admit (under duress, mind you) that he was a false prophet and that god was a superstition.
After having just lost his son, he felt he had nothing left to lose, and decided to wail on him with the bowling balls and bowling pins, beating him to death.
That's my take on it, and it's actually my favorite part of the movie, heh.