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Post by **sgt.null** » Fri Apr 22, 2011 10:34 pm

linna - the blue blanket as water is inspired.

the quote is from the movie Jeremiah Johnson.

for you then..

“I shut my eyes in order to see.”
Paul Gauguin

Post by **dANdeLION** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 3:08 am

Linna Heartlistener wrote:the house that we both initially thought was a rocket!

That sounds like something out of Flower of Doom.

Post by **sgt.null** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 5:51 am

dANdeLION wrote:
Linna Heartlistener wrote:the house that we both initially thought was a rocket!
That sounds like something out of Flower of Doom.

The convoluted story for this Chinatown drama was written by Rex Ingram, who also directed -- and it's surprisingly shoddy material from this renowned filmmaker. Even though he is innocent, Charley Sing (Frank Tokonaga) is arrested for the murder of a rival Tong. He is released when political intrigue intervenes, and journalist Harvey Pearson (M.K. Wilson) writes a sob story about the situation. Harvey is romancing Neva Sacon, a cabaret dancer (Gypsy Hart), and he takes her down to Chinatown. He has given her a silver poppy which he obtained during his research, and it just happens to be the symbol of Sing's Tong. Ah Wong, a member of Sing's rival gang (Gordo Keeno) sees it and kidnaps Neva. To get her back, Pearson kidnaps Ah Wong's wife, Tea Rose (Yvette Mitchell), while Sing writes a note in Chinese suggesting that the two women be exchanged. That is done, and Pearson proposes to Neva, who accepts. Tea Rose, meanwhile, has plans to run off with Paul Rasnov (Nicholas Dunaew), a Russian dope fiend. Ah Wong, however, discovers her plans and strangles her to death. Then he dies in a struggle with Rasnov, who dissolves his own woes in opium smoke.

Post by **Linna Heartbooger** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 4:21 pm

Thank you. Stream-of-consciousness thread, you say? Since you mentioned Chinatown, I can scarce resist responding with this...

Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue.

With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery.

Also- okay, the blue blanket was suggested by me last time we played something like this... BUT this time I was proud of him for coming up with a plan (even if it involved derivative elements) and setting his heart on it.

He's come up with WAY more inspired things than that. =) And now I'm boasting about my child.

Post by **peter** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 6:09 pm

Jeremiah Johnson!

Post by **sgt.null** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 6:13 pm

Post by **peter** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 6:53 pm

Gosh - doesn't that look like a Van Gough painting in the middle. I forget the exact one but I'm sure I saw it in the Musee d'Orsay in Paris. WOW

(silly me as usual)

Post by **sgt.null** » Sun Apr 24, 2011 5:40 am

Post by **peter** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 9:06 am

Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful!

Post by **sgt.null** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 10:55 am

"Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Post by **Linna Heartbooger** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 8:44 pm

sgt.null wrote:

Any of these by anyone you know? =)

Post by **Linna Heartbooger** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 8:44 pm

I see you... Cameraman Jenn!

(ooh, double-post on the picture, oops.)

Post by **sgt.null** » Tue Apr 26, 2011 12:44 am

no. just stuff i found on the webs.

Post by **peter** » Tue Apr 26, 2011 7:58 am

Ars longa,
vita brevis,
occasio praeceps,
experimentum periculosum,
iudicium difficile.

(Hippocrates, Aphorisms (sect 1, no 1)

Post by **sgt.null** » Tue Apr 26, 2011 10:58 am

"rust never sleeps"

- neil young

Post by **peter** » Tue Apr 26, 2011 11:41 am

They took me to the battlefield
Saw the mushroom clouds
Said "I can see the colors
Even when my head is bowed"
They showed me the destruction
The slaughter A la Carte
Isn't nature wonderful
But is this Art

They took me to the hospital
and pulled aside the sheet
Said "Look at that pulsating,
Just listen to the beat"
Then showed me the incision
That took away my heart
Oh isn't nature wonderful
But is this art

They took me to the scientist
Who opened up a phial
Said "This is only chicken pox
And rhino bile"
They showed me what it did to mice
Said "This is just the start"
Isn't nature wonderful
But is this Art

They took me to the tenement
Kicked down the door
Said "Have you seen the copulation
As practiced by the poor.
We select the ones to breed
Then we reject the part"
And isn't nature wonderful
- But is this Art?

(Peter Morgan 1973 - or indeed the Levellers Is this Art on youtube)

Post by **sgt.null** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 1:28 am

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad, and then made an even more terrifying discovery, the difference between very good writing and true art: it is subtle, but savage.

-Capote,Truman

Post by **Linna Heartbooger** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:18 pm

peter wrote:Ars longa,
vita brevis,
occasio praeceps,
experimentum periculosum,
iudicium difficile.

(Hippocrates, Aphorisms (sect 1, no 1)

Something is long, life is short, something-something, something-something, clear understanding / good judgement is difficult?

I don't know.. translate for those of us who didn't take latin?

Post by **sgt.null** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:24 pm

'life is short, the art (craft/skill) long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult'.

Post by **Linna Heartbooger** » Sat May 07, 2011 3:47 pm

Interesting. "experiment treacherous." *sigh*

"The white mouse does not learn from other mice. In order to adapt to its own environment, each mouse has to acquire its own set of experiences through a process of trial and error. Mice are unable to transmit their experiences to other mice; they cannot learn from each other. Humans, however, have the ability to think abstractly and to use complex symbols. They can accumulate not only their own experiences but also those of others. The transmitted patterns are accumulations of a group's common experiences, which we often refer to by the term culture."
-Fei Xiaotong, sociologist

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