beeeeep!
Some thoughts then. Hmmm....
Okay.
I like Harry Potter. Now I know he makes a lot of people very angry, because they can't stand the speccy little git, but I like the stories. They are very well written for "children's books". "Strongly internally consistent" is a term I'd use. And the films are remarkable adaptations; that girl just *is* Hermione, Rickman *is* Snape. Brannagh as Lockhart? Definitely. The great Mr Harris? Beyond superlatives.
The Lord of the Rings films are another set of fantastic adaptations. No, they aren't exactly the same as the books; in some places this is good (No Tom Bombadil! Yipee!) and in others bad (Faramir's been butchered, poor fellow) but just ace nonetheless. Looks, characters, settings, and the music...
Aah, the music... I like to listen to soundtracks. They are, in many ways, the emotional content of a film in sound format. Yeah, the dialogue and the acting may do the trick, but there's nothing like the swelling music for the Lothlorien bit to transport you right back there. And that goes for any film, or at least those with a proper, purpose-written soundtrack. What would Raiders of the Lost Ark be without that amazing "God" music? Star Wars without all the triumphant fanfare music? Unthinkable. And the music for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is just sublime.....
Boring you yet?
Ummm... World news?
Why do The Shrub and his Muppet Meisters not seem to be listening to even a tiny little bit of reason? Anyone would think they really want to go and blow stuff up and kill people just because they can, rather than at least try and take a less painful way through it. I suppose the saying that war makes for profit is their mantra, or something.
Michael Jackson; yep, gotta mention him. He lives in a different world to the rest of us, doesn't he? One where what he does is simply innocent, playful niceness. Unfortunately, from where the rest of us is sitting, it looks like something much more odd and sinister. I'm not saying it is sinister, just that it looks like it. Either way, a quiet investigation should clear it up. If it was anyone more "normal" it would have been done by now.
And why does it matter if famous people wear diamonds that might have been brought into the country to be sold to finance terrorism, when they are free to advocate the wearing of clothing and footwear built on child slave labour in under-developed countries? Just a thought.
This is the echoing chasm between my ears, signing off.
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Some thoughts then. Hmmm....
Okay.
I like Harry Potter. Now I know he makes a lot of people very angry, because they can't stand the speccy little git, but I like the stories. They are very well written for "children's books". "Strongly internally consistent" is a term I'd use. And the films are remarkable adaptations; that girl just *is* Hermione, Rickman *is* Snape. Brannagh as Lockhart? Definitely. The great Mr Harris? Beyond superlatives.
The Lord of the Rings films are another set of fantastic adaptations. No, they aren't exactly the same as the books; in some places this is good (No Tom Bombadil! Yipee!) and in others bad (Faramir's been butchered, poor fellow) but just ace nonetheless. Looks, characters, settings, and the music...
Aah, the music... I like to listen to soundtracks. They are, in many ways, the emotional content of a film in sound format. Yeah, the dialogue and the acting may do the trick, but there's nothing like the swelling music for the Lothlorien bit to transport you right back there. And that goes for any film, or at least those with a proper, purpose-written soundtrack. What would Raiders of the Lost Ark be without that amazing "God" music? Star Wars without all the triumphant fanfare music? Unthinkable. And the music for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is just sublime.....
Boring you yet?
Ummm... World news?
Why do The Shrub and his Muppet Meisters not seem to be listening to even a tiny little bit of reason? Anyone would think they really want to go and blow stuff up and kill people just because they can, rather than at least try and take a less painful way through it. I suppose the saying that war makes for profit is their mantra, or something.
Michael Jackson; yep, gotta mention him. He lives in a different world to the rest of us, doesn't he? One where what he does is simply innocent, playful niceness. Unfortunately, from where the rest of us is sitting, it looks like something much more odd and sinister. I'm not saying it is sinister, just that it looks like it. Either way, a quiet investigation should clear it up. If it was anyone more "normal" it would have been done by now.
And why does it matter if famous people wear diamonds that might have been brought into the country to be sold to finance terrorism, when they are free to advocate the wearing of clothing and footwear built on child slave labour in under-developed countries? Just a thought.
This is the echoing chasm between my ears, signing off.
click
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