Thanks Hippygreen and Coujeaux, you are most welcome. Where is everyone?
Misti, I just read Defective Robot and the brutal honesty in your words never fails to surprise me. YOu have an amazing way of putting your feeling into words that they totally come alive for those who read your writings. Excellent as always.
Where are BK, TJ, Wolfscreamer, etc? Everyone seems to be missing...
And Rennie Lorca, Chances, jwb71913, Galadrial, Ali, Deeva, Darwin, etc, etc...
Thanks, Star of David. My life is like a bad traffic accident that keeps repeating itself. My life is like a David Lynch version of "Groundhog Day" with Sean Penn (instead of Bill Murray) in the starring role. And forget Andie MacDowell as the love interest. More like Christina Ricci circa Ang Lee's "The Ice Storm." God, that is a weird fucking movie but I love it. My life keeps sucking hugely and in a daze I keep writing it all down, detail by bloody detail. If I ever publish a book of my poems, I will title it Mnemosyne, with the subtitle Girls With Mean Daddies Don't Forget A Damn Thing.
Heya Star o' David!
Just been extremely busy as of late. Which I'm sure is a plausible excuse for the majority of us hey? but I do read the board every day, just haven't had much of the muse as of late. Thanks for thinking of me though!!! :)
Darwin
I just read Misti's comment on "The Ice Storm" I would agree Misti, weird ass Movie, but oh so good! My husband has this huge collection of movies and that is one of them. We could literally stay in our apartment for months and not watch all the movies we have. Plus we have playstation.....
It's so hard being a geek sometimes.
has anyone seen 28 days later????? I just saw it and it seriously is an awesome movie, not for the fact that is part of the "horror" genre, but also because it makes you think about virus's at the same time. Scary stuff! I love psychological movies!
Thanks for asking Star,
I'm here, just lost my muse.... She will return one day..... I read everything here, just have not had much time to take notes and comment.... Jim
Finally, some of you guys are here. I miss everyone! It was getting lonesome on the board you know without the usual comments flying by.
And Misti, I totally get what you mean about the dad thing. But try not to be too bitter about it 'cos it will only weigh you down - I know from personal experience that's easier said than done though! Take care and keep the faith.
Darwin,
You should see our apartment! My husband has a better video selection than any Blockbuster. I have my own little collection...I have movies that most people wouldn't know or appreciate like "Flash Gordon" and a documentary on prostitutes called "Hooker" and "Night of the Comet." But Chris has "The Ice Storm," "Donnie Darko," "The Royal Tenenbaums," "The Hours," "Moulin Rouge," "The Wonder Boys," "Annie Hall," "Manhattan," "Hannah and Her Sisters," "Rosemary's Baby," "The Shining," etc. etc. I bought him "200 Cigarettes" for his birthday and he still hasn't watched it. I finally watched it last night. He generally won't buy a movie until he's read the review at allmovies.com. He turned me on to Woody Allen. Living in Texas, all I knew about the guy was that he was a neurotic New Yorker who married his daughter.
Star of David,
I'm beyond bitter. I realize my father is just a fallible, emotionally bankrupt man who married out of high school and couldn't handle the stress of having a wife and three kids. He abused me both emotionally and physically but those are old hurts that rarely surface. I hit the bad daddy jackpot, though, 'cause my first stepdad was a bastard. I am employing dark humor when I make jokes about Girls With Mean Daddies Don't Forget A Damn Thing. I'm also generalizing. I'm sure not all girls with mean daddies have long-term memories from hell. But I certainly do! Also, I'm reading Blood and Money and I almost envy the relationship Joan Robinson Hill had with her millionaire oil man father, Ash Robinson. Her father adored her and would not rest until he brought the man who allegedly murdered her (her husband, Dr. John Hill)to justice. He didn't bring him to justice, as it turned out. He had him taken out. There's a great line about fathers in "She's So Lovely" but I forget what it is.
Laurel Ahlfeld, A Poem About a Tree(A Poem About You and Me) is lovely.
And Misti,
I enjoyed reading Another Olive Garden Poem
I love donnie darko....plus the old tears for fears song just sends shivers up my spine. gary jules does a good remake of it
"though I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
that the dreams in which I'm dying
are the best I've ever had"
As for the royal tennenbaums, it took me a bit to get into it. But i love those offbeat kind, where it's more an atmospheric experience than it is anything else.
though my husband is a japanimation freak. he attempts to make me watch those occasionally. though they are alright. I have started to like Vampire Hunter D a bit....
as if I didn't feel geeky before, i'm definately feeling adult onset geekness.
Congrats on all the front pagers! Great Digest once again. Good Grief! I am REALLY behind on reading here. Forgive me, blender family, while real life intrudes. I'm extremely happy, off and gone on the road a bit, and got a bit of the chest cold left. Thank goodness I missed the problems with the change-over here or I would have been suffering Blender withdrawal with the rest of you. Kirk, I sent you a t-shirt order by e-mail. Maggie says: "Lemme smack Cuz Jim with a nine iron and see if that rattles his muse" ... good thing she doesn't play golf or have one on hand, Jim :). Pam, hope all is well with you. I'm several hundred e-mails behind. Gala, ladyinwaiting, kase, star~ thanks for thinking of me! B.K.~ keep calling. I enjoy the laughs and inspiration. I read each of Blender's posters accounts in sequence, so I'll comment when I get more reading time. Love to all ..... Rennie
Star of David~
I'm still around; I've just been crazy busy. I'm still checking in here, though. I posted a few poems last month, and a few the month before. I'm probably post one or two tonight. *smile* Thanks for askin'.
Love and silver songs, Ali
CS58 ~
Gordon Lightfoot. Not sure of the original album (yes, ALBUM) but it should be on any his greatest hits.
Great song... I've quoted it often, myself.
-tc
...OF his greatest hits...