jreidy
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Post by jreidy on Sept 1, 2013 20:46:09 GMT 10
Re Chris o'Dowd and the Sapphires. The cover of the DVD in the US has him featured with the Sapphires in the background. This developed into (in my opinion) one of these misdirected protests about how things are presented rather than the issues. The clincher for me was the argument that "he is much more well known in the US so more people will see the movie and then learn about the issues"
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Post by jreidy on Sept 1, 2013 20:58:49 GMT 10
Oh yeah re LLk parsers, (sorry probably only MoC will get this). In Uni, my Tutor was writing one for his PhD, and wanted to know if there was an Australian animal that had as part of its name 2 consonants in a row, examples from other countries are yacc and llama (it couldn't be a vowel e.g. Kangaroo). Having lived for a while in Perth I was able to answer Quokka (a small scavenger wallaby found on Rottnest island). He was delighted and so his parser was called Quokka.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Sept 2, 2013 8:06:29 GMT 10
Just quickly - gotta dash
"Re Chris o'Dowd and the Sapphires."
I did read that there was some sort of upset over the cover art in the US, thanks for elucidating. Yeah, it wasn't really about him was it?
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Post by angra on Sept 2, 2013 8:10:32 GMT 10
Jessica Mauboy is pretty wonderful. And she was in both Bran Nue Dae and The Sapphires.
Favourite ironic line is when Chris looks at The Sapphires and says "Can't you be more black?"
Sounds familiar.
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Post by jreidy on Sept 6, 2013 20:26:20 GMT 10
Re Chris O'Dowd, I wasnt surprised , we saw a 'making of' the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Hollywood suggested, the script is great, however it would go over a lot better if it was Hispanic.
Having said that my favourite 'making of' is Hearts of Darkness about apocalypse Now.
Apocalypse Now is one of my favorites, especially with the TS Eliot quotes. The poem Wasteland has a quote from Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
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Post by angra on Sept 21, 2013 19:35:24 GMT 10
Nuns on the Run - the original George Harrison production, not the Whoopi Goldberg rip-off (although she's good).
Idle - "How do explain the trinity?'
Coltrane - "Well that's a bit of a bugger"
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Sept 22, 2013 12:01:41 GMT 10
The reference to Coltrane caused me to recall this: Skip to the five-minute mark. A gung-ho and very annoyed detective who's had enough and just knows that there's a smuggler's boat arriving at the other end of that breakwater! There's no way that was safe to film. Can't say that the film itself as a whole is a "favorite". For a comedy it's pretty bleak, but it was the UK ... and it was the 80's. I think it's the first film I saw with Robbie in it though, and that sequence is memorable. The BBC has a podcast up at the moment called " UK Confidential". It's a bunch of recordings and readings about declassified documents from particular years. I've listened to a few of the ones from the 70's, and they're interesting, but I can totally understand why people emigrated. Listening to the political arguments that dominated the early 70's in Britain is soul-eroding.
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Post by angra on Sept 22, 2013 12:30:49 GMT 10
Coltrane is brilliant - one of the numerous Brit character actors who you see so often, but forget their names. Bernard Cribbins is another unsung hero of many films - watch him in the Dr Who reruns. He ad libs many of his lines. And Cracker was desperate though utterly believable. Here's Coltrane on Parkinson talking about Hagrid. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8uXdThjmNU
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Post by angra on Sept 28, 2013 9:02:05 GMT 10
ABC are rerunning the original Dr Who series - starting with the very first with William Hartnell from 1963. It sets all the main story arcs, and was a masterpiece (though obviously low-budget).
The Tardis remains original. (Austin A30's optional).
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Post by angra on Nov 4, 2013 13:40:11 GMT 10
Australia on Trial on the ABC is pretty compelling viewing. I doubt if you'd find anything like this on commercial TV . I wonder what Bolt or his hero Windshuttle would make of it? www.abc.net.au/iview/#/view/76461549
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Nov 4, 2013 16:03:21 GMT 10
"Australia on Trial on the ABC is pretty compelling viewing"
See previous post. Damn you, space-radiation ... or whatever!
Every couple of weeks I have to re-wiggle my rabbit-ears. I'm renting, so I can't just bash a hole in the roof and stick up a proper antenna. I have no idea why, but Canberra's a roll of the dice for TV reception (maybe up the voltage a bit? Guys?), and the dice never stop rolling (ok, so roulette might have been a better metaphor ... whatevs)
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Post by angra on Nov 4, 2013 16:13:43 GMT 10
Well MOC - some white settlers massacred 28 Aborigines in cold blood at Mayall Creek in the 1830s. But justice eventually found it's true course. It involved several trials, corruption and deception. 28 men, women and children were killed in cold blood. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myall_Creek_massacreIt is very sad, but this incident was only the second time that a European had been hanged for the murder of an Aboriginal person. Not good, but justice at the time (flawed as it was) was meted out at last.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Nov 4, 2013 16:53:57 GMT 10
... and in this week's episode of "bozo-watch" I give you ... www.wnd.com/2013/10/the-peoples-plan-to-issue-our-own-money/CM seems to have updated that "coat of arms". I wouldn't dare to suggest that it was in relation to any sort of pressure (real or imagined) from the people who actually have the right to use the old one. I prefer to imagine that he probably just likes being associated with an idiotic lego-knight with its hands on its hips. Maybe ... if he stuck some balls on it? Maybe have it doing a poo? That would be unique, AND appropriate. Read it. It's the most stupid thing you'll read today, even IF you read bolt's nonsense about ... whatever he's written today. I'm so looking forward to CM's next trip to the antipodes. He's going to be pretty much invisible. I'm dying to see how he sells tickets to something without anyone in the press (or anyone with a camera) knowing about it. How's THAT going to pay for the plane fare? Oh, but how he'd like to work with jen and andy. People with regular paychecks. They don't seem to have exactly shouted their support to the world, though. Poor CM. An advisor to Maggie, eh? Now we understand.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Nov 4, 2013 16:55:57 GMT 10
I just don't understand why he went with "talents"
Surely "special" would have been more hillarious?
I wonder ... would he like a job on the glen beck show peddling gold?
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Post by angra on Nov 4, 2013 23:19:02 GMT 10
Interestingly, in the case of the Myall Creek massacre, The Australian took the side of the Aborigines and the SMH that of the settlers, saying "the whole gang of black animals are not worth the money the colonists will have to pay for printing the silly court documents on which we have already wasted too much time".
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