And in happier developments,....
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captainsblogWe've discovered an amazing collection of films on DVD in the past week.
Happy Times and Not One Less are Chinese films which show the touching depths of relationships between people half a world away, along with lots of views of the changing world of China. The conflicts between commune and capital, and between rural and urban, are shown in remarkable ways.
Weeping Camel goes even further into rural Asia, to the outermost reaches of Mongolia, to show a tale of love and determination with perhaps the fewest words you will ever understand in a full-length motion picture.
And last night brought us back to this country, and to much of its southern breadth, as we watched Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown. Somehow, I'd mixed this up with Garden State or somesuch and thought it was set in New Jersey, but it instead takes you to Louisville, then Nashville, and on a truly bizarre and wondrous journey from those places with a soundtrack to die for and performances that are first-rate all around.
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Line of the night during Elizabethtown, as Eleanor was beginning to come down with the cold that wound up keeping her home all of today:
Me: (hearing assorted noises from her side of the living room) Are you okay?
She: Yeah, I'm fine. I coughed, sneezed and farted at about the same time, that's all.
Me: Wow, three orifices. Blow something out your belly button and I'll get the newspapers on the phone.
Obviously, we've been married a LOOOOOONG time, to find such remarks spit-takingly funny rather than offensive.
Happy Times and Not One Less are Chinese films which show the touching depths of relationships between people half a world away, along with lots of views of the changing world of China. The conflicts between commune and capital, and between rural and urban, are shown in remarkable ways.
Weeping Camel goes even further into rural Asia, to the outermost reaches of Mongolia, to show a tale of love and determination with perhaps the fewest words you will ever understand in a full-length motion picture.
And last night brought us back to this country, and to much of its southern breadth, as we watched Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown. Somehow, I'd mixed this up with Garden State or somesuch and thought it was set in New Jersey, but it instead takes you to Louisville, then Nashville, and on a truly bizarre and wondrous journey from those places with a soundtrack to die for and performances that are first-rate all around.
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Line of the night during Elizabethtown, as Eleanor was beginning to come down with the cold that wound up keeping her home all of today:
Me: (hearing assorted noises from her side of the living room) Are you okay?
She: Yeah, I'm fine. I coughed, sneezed and farted at about the same time, that's all.
Me: Wow, three orifices. Blow something out your belly button and I'll get the newspapers on the phone.
Obviously, we've been married a LOOOOOONG time, to find such remarks spit-takingly funny rather than offensive.
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Date: 2008-12-07 01:43 am (UTC)Also, I'm very glad that Eleanor didn't explode.
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Date: 2008-12-07 01:58 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-12-07 04:23 am (UTC)At breakfast, I was stuck in such an orgy of outgassing I commented that I was surprised my ears weren't venting a sort of steam-whistle.
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Date: 2008-12-08 06:27 am (UTC)