R Soul on 14/1/2017 at 00:25
A common thing is to vote for a political party based on what it used to stand for.
Tocky on 14/1/2017 at 05:07
Quote Posted by Kolya
Digitalised most of my CDs, now listening to Eric Burdon & The Animals. This following program is dedicated to the city and people of San Francisco who may not know it but they are beautiful. kehe I should still have some weed around.
Funny you should mention weed. A buddy of mine who is going to Nashville to drum for some band there I can never recall the name of left me some because I always talk of the old days and how free and easy things used to be. I suppose that can be a nostalgia trip down memory lane of a sort. Oxford, Ms. was a cool bohemian town once upon a time. Now, like San Fran, it is a poor copy of itself. The old jinky juke joints have been replaced by new brick and chrome imitations. I suppose for those who never knew it is the coolest thing going. It must be for the incredible amounts of money they pour into it.
We didn't need money and if we did we could hustle some at Purvis pool hall. Rack 'em Mr. Baxter. We had Son Thomas playing blues for tips. Monty Python movies at the Hoka you could carry a beer cooler in with to watch. Hell, I burned one with the owner and projectionist in the booth while "Wizards" clicked away. I took my wife there on our first date and we then went to airport hill to watch the planes take off from our quilt at the runway end. We flattened the grass enough for Dorothy to set her house down in and never saw a plane. Still on that first date. Never parted.
I loved the old days in Oxford. You could go to a party and meet a world famous author then hook up with that girl from history class while visions of sugar shrooms danced in your head. We may have lost some football games but we never lost a party. Then I grew up. Sort of. I accepted responsibility and enjoyed the next phase and it was as great in a different way. But somewhere when I wasn't looking the old Oxford was replaced by an invasion of the city snatchers. Bands still play but people care about what you wear to see them. Every so often you run into someone who remembers and you sit and laugh but it's most likely at a restaurant. There are no more dives. There are no more dangerous back alley encounters. You can't go home again.
Sulphur on 27/1/2017 at 07:46
Every now and then, I get a pang of memory, a welling up of a blurred remembrance of a past joy, like a movie or a song or a cartoon... and I can't remember what it was. For near on a decade there have been moments where I've resolved to look up a movie about a mom and a pop UFO that meets a family, because I remember being enthralled by it when I was widdle. Part of why I haven't wanted to look it up is because, really, should we mess with the pristine happiness of those half-remembered moments? Wouldn't they be better left as they are, instead of puncturing them with the cynicism of being older?
But what if they live up to the memory? Can you deny yourself that? I have, despite myself, Googled a plot premise, seen Flight of the Navigator and The Last Starfighter. While I enjoyed them as an adult, I'm not a kid any more. They are, of course, not as good as I hoped. How could they be? The memories of them remain but are also, somehow, less bright after the viewing; yet I cannot help myself. The memory must either live up to itself or be diminished, and these days, we have the chance to do exactly that in a matter of mere moments.
I have chanced across a random list and discovered: *batteries not included is the name of the mom and pop UFO movie. ...well. Wish me luck.
demagogue on 27/1/2017 at 09:39
For an extreme example, I rewatched Raiders of the Lost Ark not long ago and was thinking uh ... this has not aged as well as I would have imagined.
It's still a fun adventure movie, but didn't have that immortal flavor like before, like makes people put it in the pantheon of immortal movies like Star Wars, Jaws, The Godfather....
On the other hand, some old things I've tracked down made me happy as a peach. E.g., some games I never finished back in the day and went back to finish on an emulator made me irrationally happy. The Pawn is the one I remember best. I was stuck at this one place when I played it back in the 90s, and used to have dreams what might be beyond that one room. And it wasn't until 20 years later I got it on an emulator and finally figured out how to get past the room, and I can't even describe the feels. It wasn't even that the description of the next areas were all that great. It's just that feeling of accomplishment, I finally made it somewhere I'd dreamed about.
Thirith on 27/1/2017 at 10:09
What made you think so re: Raiders, dema? I'd disagree with you in that one, but I'm curious as to where you're coming from.
Kolya on 27/1/2017 at 11:49
I PREFER THE
COMPANY OF
DEAD PEOPLE
demagogue on 27/1/2017 at 11:53
Watching it? Not sure what you're asking. I wasn't logically thinking it out at all. It was just the impression I had that I didn't ask for. He was suddenly very young, the dialog suddenly seemed forced, the interplay with Marian was suddenly kind of bungling, the scenes that aren't the big ones -- hanging out in the university or Cairo -- were kind of just ok... It's like going back to your old elementary school and everything is just as you remembered it only somehow smaller.
Thirith on 27/1/2017 at 12:07
Yeah, that was basically my question: what made you think it hadn't aged all that well.
Sulphur on 27/1/2017 at 12:16
I suppose as good a question as any is, what things has anyone revisited that they found did stand up to their memories? Absent the rose-tinted glasses, personally, it's not even movies like Star Wars, but things like Calvin and Hobbes and The Wonder Years and M*A*S*H that rekindled the spark, even though for at least one of those things (hint: not C&H) that's with a few qualifications.
demagogue on 27/1/2017 at 12:39
Quote Posted by Sulphur
I suppose as good a question as any is, what things has anyone revisited that they found
did stand up to their memories? Absent the rose-tinted glasses, personally, it's not even movies like Star Wars, but things like Calvin and Hobbes and The Wonder Years and M*A*S*H that rekindled the spark, even though for at least one of those things (hint: not C&H) that's with a few qualifications.
Well yeah that's the flip side of that story because for some things the magic is still there all over again. Speaking of comics, I added a Far Side feed to my FB recently because, while I really thought they'd be beyond passe by now and I'm sure I've seen them all 20x over, when I saw some I was reminded a lot of them were sardonic as hell. I'm still second guessing it, but then again -- "Oh boy! It's dog food again!"
80s movies-wise, I'm looking at my list, Alien still has it, BladeRunner of course, Conan, Full Metal Jacket, Name of the Rose, War Games (although Little Nikita, Red Dawn, Highlander, Romancing the Stone, eh, not quite.)
Or things I never caught in their day/ when I was younger but only recently, I right away catch the magic for the first time. The Graduate is the one I think of for that, or Charles Laughton in anything he's in.
