[AGL] Film and Xmas
Igor Loving
lovingigor at hotmail.com
Wed Dec 14 09:30:55 EST 2005
I just got this dish thing and it came with three months of movies. There
are something like 12 movie channels and last night I thought to myself I
willwatch a movie. I have not rented a movie since my kids were 6 and then
only once. Anyway with 12 channels there wasn't a movie I wanted to watch. I
watched bits of 12 of them and nothing grabbed me so in desperation I read a
book.
Holidays comes from the term "Happy Holy Day." Duh!
A pal's Mom told a great story about the three wise men. It would get the
Pentecostals up in arms.
The wise guys saw a star; and took off to see where it was pointing. That is
the weak part of the story but in those days there wasn't much ambient
light. These wise guys were from India and they got there late, by two or
three years and they showed up at Herod's house. Mistake? Well he was the
king, right? Oh and their names are never really recorded unless herod has a
record of the visitors?
They spilled the beans and good Ole Herod decided that all the boy childs
should be offed. The wise guys split and poked around until they found old
Jesse and his dad and then what? What happened to all that stuff they
brought, that Myrrh and Francense and the gold? Mary and Joe used it to set
up a business? Carpenter shop making groovy furniture?
Now I read somewhere else that Joseph, of where ever it was, was a "techt"
which means he designed buildings and was quite wealthy. He got to stay in
the special apartment over the stable. He had to pay his taxes of which he
had a bunch and that was why he showed up. Mary in this research (?) was
from Ireland and came by boat to Palestine.
So as a good Episcopalian, I am doomed to hell, for thinking that this stuff
might actually be on the money. And who were these Mathew, John, Mark and
Luke? They were on the scene? No, they were Jesse's guys later and heard the
story. They needed some good tale to tell and so they worked on it, waited
for awhile and wrote all the stuff down. And as usual no one got the story
straight just sort of. They embellished it of course to wow the natives.
And Dec. 25th, is an arbitrary day chosen by the Roman emperor in
Constantinople. He just said it is, and it was. "Make it so Mr. Scott."
I really like the "Dia de Virgin Guadalupe." it is actually very nice and oh
so religious.The Mexicans and Latinos have it correct. Religion is wonderful
when it is practiced for the religion and the feeling of grace that it
imparts on the participants. One gets a union from all the people who are
worshipping together and there is a power that comes from it that enters
your body, your soul, your spirit. A feeling that is so hard to get from the
gringos. They don't seem to get it. A lot of them are just there for the
being there and being seen.
Our society has a large missing element. That of the mystic. The magic that
once was. I saw in a film awhile back, a long while back; Merlin telling
Arthur that there used to be Dragons but people started to forget and
started no believing in them so they all died. An interesting idea.
If we stopped believing in George Bush would he just disappear
Charlie Loving
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>I know Dian. Vulcan Video is one of the few cultural resources available
>to
>film lovers in Austin. Very fortunate to have such an establishment in
>town. We loved it when we lived there. Nothing like it around here.
>
>Funny how Carrey was in "just about everything" a few years back.
>Now............
>
>I can still remember the "shock" of seeing Kaufman for the first time,
>doing
>his "Lotka" stand-up comedy routine. I was caught, hook, line and
>sinker!!!
>It was an incredible performance. He was....for a while...truly gifted.
>Then...boing...something went wrong. Especially around the time of the
>wrestling schtick. Ugly.
>
>Meanwhile, I still crave...........Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Shelly Berman,
>Bob Newhart, Jonathon Winters, Buddy Hackett, Sid Ceasar (sp?) and the
>younger Woody Allen. Not to forget Steve Allen. What IS it with these
>Allen
>people?................timing?
>
>wgJ
> -----Original Message-----
> From: austin-ghetto-list-bounces at pairlist.net
>[mailto:austin-ghetto-list-bounces at pairlist.net]On Behalf Of Michael
>Eisenstadt
> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 4:18 PM
> To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s
> Subject: Re: [AGL] how many cables, Mario?
>
>
> I haven't seen The Mask. I agree that Carrey was great in the
> Andy Kaufman bio pic. Andy is said to have been borderline
> autistic and again Carrey's strange deficit of normal affect
> made him the perfect casting choice. In an interview I heard
> Carrey say that to prepare for the film he made himself over
> into Andy by watching films of him over and over and over.
>
> "Mickey Mouse will save the day." - Andy Kaufman
>
> Dian Donnell, a subscriber, owns Vulcan Video
> (misspelled Dian, sorry).
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Wayne Johnson
> To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s
> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 2:07 PM
> Subject: RE: [AGL] how many cables, Mario?
>
>
> First of all, I ain't Diane. I'm Mildred.
>
> Secondly, I believe that there were no "special effects" in The Mask.
>All that was done by Carrey hisself.
>
> Thirdly, best Carrey flick was when he channeled Andy Kaufman.
>
> Yours in love with large metal antennas and Lon Chaney Senior.
>
> Mildred Pierce
> -----Original Message-----
> From: austin-ghetto-list-bounces at pairlist.net
>[mailto:austin-ghetto-list-bounces at pairlist.net]On Behalf Of Michael
>Eisenstadt
> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 11:49 AM
> To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s
> Subject: Re: [AGL] how many cables, Mario?
>
>
> It would be interesting to have Jim Carrey drop
> by. Actually eye am the cable guy here.
>
> He was, I thought, very good in the Truman Story.
> Great casting, like Keith Dullea as a kind of zomby
> in 2001. Lacking normal human qualities, Carrey
> was the perfect casting choice for such a fantasy.
>
> And I know it's not your personal fault, Diane, seeing
> as you only rent them out, but why haven't there been
> any good movies recently?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Wayne Johnson
> To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s
> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 9:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [AGL] how many cables, Mario?
>
>
> Sounds like a job
>
> for
>
> the
>
>
> Cable Guy!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Michael Eisenstadt
> To: austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net ; byron at byronmarshall.com
> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 10:55 AM
> Subject: [AGL] how many cables, Mario?
>
>
> I counted and find i have 13 different functioning cables going
> to the back of the computer (I am including the power cable in
> the counting)
>
>
>
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