From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=436">Jon</a><BR>
Date: 29 April 2002<P>

Just some girl~Thank you, I'm glad you thought so. I don't know why but I have always wanted a girl first. I would be so sweet to her, I would take her every where...hehe okay I'm starting to sound like a dork so I'll stop. Thank you though.<BR>
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Jennifer~Thank you, I'm glad you liked it too. Heh honestly I didn't think I was getting that much emotion through on "I need you" but it's nice to hear that I might be wrong. Thank you again...your comments mean a lot to me.<BR>
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Take care and all that sweet stuff.<BR>
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-Jon
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">TJ Holland</a><BR>
Date: 29 April 2002<P>

zero love ~ I 'm a detention officer. I spend 12 hours a day with people who thought (and some still do) that the thug's life is bomb. Too many times too late they begin to see how wrong they were. Do you mind if I share <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.04.28.19.50.3361">what they told me </a> with some of them? It was very profound. <BR>
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-Teej 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=8">Ali</a><BR>
Date: 29 April 2002<P>

B.K.~<BR>
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<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.04.28.20.34.7356">A Wild Cat's Eyes</a> was excellent! And let me just say, "Meow!" Hehe...Great writing girl!! *smile*<BR>
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Love and trusting eyes, Ali
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=768">Camouflage</a><BR>
Date: 29 April 2002<P>

In reply to Spaceman - Thank you for commenting on my work.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=34">Just Some Girl</a><BR>
Date: 29 April 2002<P>

Camouflage and Spaceman:<BR>
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Damn!! You guys are burning up the Blender with your beautiful words!! Keep it coming! 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=644">wordley</a><BR>
Date: 29 April 2002<P>

Hi everyone, just got home from my first day at my new job...Boy am I bushed!!.....but it was great to be working again!!<BR>
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BK,....You little MINX..."a Wild Cat's Eye" is so Full of feline ( feline...feeling...feline...Get It???) Seriously girl, it's a lion tamer you need!!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=706">splatipus</a><BR>
Date: 29 April 2002<P>

Spaceman - I really enjoyed <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.04.28.15.18.26039">The Real Girl</a> <BR>
Camouflage - wow, excellent submissions<BR>
BK - A wild cats eyes - gorgeous<BR>
Wordley - Pleased your first day at the new job went well. Am actually residing in Buckingham itself, old chap.<BR>
Jimmyallgrownup - Sorry about all the UK dialect banter,:-) keep reading and you'll soon pick it up, might come in useful in case you meet a cockney stud (altho being from the North am not much good at Cockney):-D<BR>
Kisses to all<BR>
The Duck Billed Splatipus
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=757">Caravan of Dreams</a><BR>
Date: 29 April 2002<P>

(please forgive the space, but as it relates to earlier posts about this film by others)<BR>
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.     MULHOLLAND DRIVE        .<BR>
October 12, 2001 BY ROGER EBERT<BR>
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David Lynch has been working toward "Mulholland Drive" all of his career, and now that he's arrived there I forgive him "Wild at Heart" and even "Lost Highway." At last his experiment doesn't shatter the test tubes. The movie is a surrealist dreamscape in the form of a Hollywood film noir, and the less sense it makes, the more we can't stop watching it.<BR>
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It tells the story of . . . well, there's no way to finish that sentence. There are two characters named Betty and Rita who the movie follows through mysterious plot loops, but by the end of the film we aren't even sure they're different characters, and Rita (an amnesiac who lifted the name from a "Gilda" poster) wonders if she's really Diane Selwyn, a name from a waitress' name tag.<BR>
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Betty (Naomi Watts) is a perky blond, Sandra Dee crossed with a Hitchcock heroine, who has arrived in town to stay in her absent Aunt Ruth's apartment and audition for the movies. Rita (Laura Elena Harring) is a voluptuous brunet who is about to be murdered when her limousine is front-ended by drag racers. She crawls out of the wreckage on Mulholland Drive, stumbles down the hill, and is taking a shower in the aunt's apartment when Betty arrives.<BR>
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Rita doesn't remember anything, even her name. Betty decides to help her. As they try to piece her life back together, the movie introduces other characters. A movie director (Justin Theroux) is told to cast an actress in his movie or be murdered; a dwarf in a wheelchair (Michael J. Anderson) gives instructions by cell phone; two detectives turn up, speak standard TV cop show dialogue, and disappear; a landlady (Ann Miller--yes, Ann Miller) wonders who the other girl is in Aunt Ruth's apartment; Betty auditions; the two girls climb in through a bedroom window, Nancy Drew style; a rotting corpse materializes, and Betty and Rita have two lesbian love scenes so sexy you'd swear this was a 1970s movie, made when movie audiences liked sex. One of the scenes also contains the funniest example of pure logic in the history of sex scenes.<BR>
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Having told you all of that, I've basically explained nothing. The movie is hypnotic; we're drawn along as if one thing leads to another--but nothing leads anywhere, and that's even before the characters start to fracture and recombine like flesh caught in a kaleidoscope. "Mulholland Drive" isn't like "Memento," where if you watch it closely enough, you can hope to explain the mystery. There is no explanation. There may not even be a mystery.<BR>
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There have been countless dream sequences in the movies, almost all of them conceived with Freudian literalism to show the characters having nightmares about the plot. "Mulholland Drive" is all dream. There is nothing that is intended to be a waking moment. Like real dreams, it does not explain, does not complete its sequences, lingers over what it finds fascinating, dismisses unpromising plotlines. If you want an explanation for the last half hour of the film, think of it as the dreamer rising slowly to consciousness, as threads from the dream fight for space with recent memories from real life, and with fragments of other dreams--old ones and those still in development.<BR>
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This works because Lynch is absolutely uncompromising. He takes what was frustrating in some of his earlier films, and instead of backing away from it, he charges right through. "Mulholland Drive" is said to have been assembled from scenes that he shot for a 1999 ABC television pilot, but no network would air (or understand) this material, and Lynch knew it. He takes his financing where he can find it and directs as fancy dictates. This movie doesn't feel incomplete because it could never be complete--closure is not a goal.<BR>
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Laura Elena Harring and Naomi Watts take the risk of embodying Hollywood archetypes, and get away with it because they are archetypes. Not many actresses would be bold enough to name themselves after Rita Hayworth, but Harring does, because she can. Slinky and voluptuous in clinging gowns, all she has to do is stand there and she's the first good argument in 55 years for a "Gilda" remake. Naomi Watts is bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, a plucky girl detective. Like a dream, the movie shifts easily between tones; there's an audition where a girl singer performs "Sixteen Reasons" and "I Told Every Little Star," and the movie isn't satirizing "American Bandstand," it's channeling it.<BR>
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This is a movie to surrender yourself to. If you require logic, see something else. "Mulholland Drive" works directly on the emotions, like music. Individual scenes play well by themselves, as they do in dreams, but they don't connect in a way that makes sense--again, like dreams. <BR>
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The way you know the movie is over is that it ends. And then you tell a friend, "I saw the weirdest movie last night." <BR>
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Just like you tell them you had the weirdest dream.<BR>
 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=765">spaceman</a><BR>
Date: 29 April 2002<P>

Dear Violet, I liked the feel of <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.04.29.13.08.24736">Glow</a> that glow can be a beautiful thing, and you nailed it perfectly. <BR>
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Jon <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.04.29.10.23.3402">Bubble Gum</a> there's still a bit of the boy in all of us men.<BR>
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Wistful <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.04.28.20.54.20922">Hiding</a> I am feeling that way myself these days.....but how long can we hide? <BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=765">spaceman</a><BR>
Date: 29 April 2002<P>

I am of course an idiot, the couplet is by Robert FROST. 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=752">somedaysoon</a><BR>
Date: 29 April 2002<P>

~B.K. i really liked <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.04.28.20.34.7356">A Wild Cat's Eyes</a>.  all your stuff is really great, but this one really seemed to touch something today... thanks!<BR>
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~wistful, <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.04.28.20.54.20922">Hiding</a> really hit home for me... i know keeping myself busy is the only way i can keep from missing him....<BR>
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everybody, this place is amazing... i'm so glad i found it!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=71">Me aka Niki</a><BR>
Date: 29 April 2002<P>

2 Spaceman~ Thx for your comment:)<BR>
And I jut love all of your new works, nice going<BR>
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Lots-a-Luv <BR>
~Niki
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 29 April 2002<P>

Oh you guys, you all made my day. Ali, R.H., Splatipus, somedaysoon, I have had a headache for two days and it's something I never have. I even called a client named Underwood, Mr. Underwear (boy was my face red) So today my Daddy mowed my grass and fixed my lawn mower and you all liked my poem. What a wonderful day. (sigh) I love you all!<BR>
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bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=141">wistful</a><BR>
Date: 29 April 2002<P>

Spaceman & somedaysoon ~ glad (and sad) that "Hiding" hit a chord with you!  Welcome to the wonderful world of the LoveBlender; a wonderful support group for those in love with love. . .
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=141">wistful</a><BR>
Date: 29 April 2002<P>

And spaceman ~ we can hide until we are exhausted or exposed.  Or when the pull of possibilities is stronger than the pain of the past.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=436">Jon</a><BR>
Date: 29 April 2002<P>

spaceman~Admire your work, and yes we can all be little boys at time...some more than others...like myself. :-)<BR>
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Max-Rom~Wow, I liked your latest. Espcially the last lines...great stuff.<BR>
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Take care and all that SPIDERMAN-THIS-FRIDAY!!! stuff<BR>
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-Jon
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=679">Babygirl</a><BR>
Date: 29 April 2002<P>

Hey People, how's everyone been lately, good I hope?!?!<BR>
Jon~ Just wanted to say that I thought <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.04.29.10.23.3402">Bubble Gum</a> was really cute, I loved it,keep it up I love reading your work!<BR>
Anywayz I'm bored and can't sleep so I just decided to write. <BR>
Night-Night!
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