Finally! Welcome back, dude. Where have you been?

In reply to this comment by pigeon:
looks like they're making your life story into a movie... finally.

http://www.gamenguide.com/articl
es/1657/20120517/avengers-member-ant-man-movie-marvel-ant-man-edgar-wright.htm

looks like they're making your life story into a movie... finally.

http://www.gamenguide.com/articles/1657/20120517/avengers-member-ant-man-movie-marvel-ant-man-edgar-wright.htm

Hey, thannks for the leads. I just watched some of Midnight in Paris, and realised I'd never read the classics. Would you suggest I start with your Connecticut one?
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[edit] woops, meant to reply on the talk post.

Twain is a great choice - definitely read A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. It's LOL funny. Some of my favorites among the American classics are Poe, Emerson, Washington Irving, Walt Whitman, Joseph Heller, Vonnegut (is he counted as classic yet?). Edgar Allen Poe is a must. I first read The Pit and the Pendulum in my 30s and it scared the shit out of me. He clearly had access to the best drugs available in the world at the time. Other top Poe choices - The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Tell-Tale Heart.
In reply to this comment by kymbos:
I'm reading Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club, which is a pretty good page turner.

I'm interested in reading some classic American literature if anyone would recommend some for a guy who has never really read any of the classics (like Mark Twain, Hemmingway, Fitzgerald).

I'm green.

Twain is a great choice - definitely read A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. It's LOL funny. Some of my favorites among the American classics are Poe, Emerson, Washington Irving, Walt Whitman, Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, Gore Vidal (are those last two counted as classic yet?). Edgar Allen Poe is a must. I first read The Pit and the Pendulum in my 30s and it scared the shit out of me. He clearly had access to the best drugs available in the world at the time. Other top Poe choices - The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Tell-Tale Heart.
In reply to this comment by kymbos:
I'm reading Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club, which is a pretty good page turner.

I'm interested in reading some classic American literature if anyone would recommend some for a guy who has never really read any of the classics (like Mark Twain, Hemmingway, Fitzgerald).

I'm green.

[edit] woops, meant to reply on the talk post.

Twain is a great choice - definitely read A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. It's LOL funny. Some of my favorites among the American classics are Poe, Emerson, Washington Irving, Walt Whitman, Joseph Heller, Vonnegut (is he counted as classic yet?). Edgar Allen Poe is a must. I first read The Pit and the Pendulum in my 30s and it scared the shit out of me. He clearly had access to the best drugs available in the world at the time. Other top Poe choices - The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Tell-Tale Heart.
In reply to this comment by kymbos:
I'm reading Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club, which is a pretty good page turner.

I'm interested in reading some classic American literature if anyone would recommend some for a guy who has never really read any of the classics (like Mark Twain, Hemmingway, Fitzgerald).

I'm green.

Hah, John Wayne was a member; why does that not surprise me? Sorry, but ye'ol Ron that is the last straw. I should have just looked up his background in the first place. Belonging to the John Birch Society is tantamount to pure paranoia to the tenth degree, with a ultra-right-wing-christian flavor.

I can't see it anywhere, but it seems like John Edgar Hoover would be a de facto member for sure yet it's not listed. The John Birch Society comes off more as a cult much like Scientology to some degree (both equally horrendous in their own way). One member that didn't surprise me too much was Mr. Koch himself (Daddy Koch). That one makes perfect sense...

Atleast a few people know just how ridiculous the John Birch Society is here on the sift. I'll have to look around and see if I can find a good program about them, as they most deservedly need their own defined space here on the sift for us to pummel into submission. Problem is most of the documentaries I've ever seen on them were done in the 1980's--so I'll have to look hard, there may be some connected to PBS.

/Goes to read all the backgrounds on all the candidates from thorough sources...
//Really surprised the John Birch thing hasn't come up far more often and much more earlier...

Oh yeah and the UN IS F@$KING SATAN!!1!1 Just so you know.

Avatar needs to open the letter from Edgar Rice Burroughs that was sealed in 1912 and given to the post office to hold for 97 years, telling them to stop stealing his shit.

Good day, sir!

What a horrible horrible way to treat your son.

Edgar, it gets better. You will be out of there soon. Work as hard as you can in school. The harder you work the further away you can go, and sooner. Good luck little guy. Hang in there. Someday people will love you and treat you right. For now, just hang in there. It will be over soon. Just don't do anything stupid like get into drugs.

>> ^Trancecoach:

oh please! We might not agree with her parenting style, if cursing becomes sufficient cause to remove custody, then we've succumbed to the police state afterall.>> ^spoco2:
Oh my god this makes me so sad What a horrible, horrible, disgusting woman that is.
One would have to hope that this gets seen by the right people and she loses custody of those kids as she is raising kids with horrible self esteem in some cases, and just disgusting mean streaks in others.
So sad
So sad



No, it's not cursing that's the problem, although it's indicative of her general mental demeaner. It's the way she's treating that child. It's abuse. You can be guaranteed there's far, far worse that's going on there.

Also... a bottle of tequila for a 13 year old? Yeah, that's appropriate.

oh please! We might not agree with her parenting style, if cursing becomes sufficient cause to remove custody, then we've succumbed to the police state afterall.>> ^spoco2:

Oh my god this makes me so sad What a horrible, horrible, disgusting woman that is.
One would have to hope that this gets seen by the right people and she loses custody of those kids as she is raising kids with horrible self esteem in some cases, and just disgusting mean streaks in others.
So sad
So sad

This was shown to the parents of all the kids there.
And now, Edgar has no friends.

? Because they're missing logic?>> ^hpqp:

Why must the dumbest be the ones to breed so effin' much?

>> ^Quboid:

DiCaprio was in Ellen?
He's so handsome, he can even turn the lesbians. Give this man an Oscar now, or we will all suffer his wrath!


Egads, if he can turn the lasses from chasing lasses, what hope do us chums stand! Guard your corn holes!

Thanks a lot!

In reply to this comment by alien_concept:
Hahahahaha! "Yes, Judi Dench."

*promote

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^shuac:
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that I do not think Clint Eastwood as a director is any great, special thing. The last good movie he directed was The Unforgiven and maybe Million Dollar Baby. And even those films, in my opinion, could have been as successful if helmed by just about anyone else.
What's my big complaint? Well, for one thing he's renown for his one-take-and-done thing. In other words, Eastwood shoots the first take and he usually doesn't ask for successive takes. This has the effect of making him popular in Hollywood for being ahead of schedule all the time (as well as for being fairly prolific) but unless you've got talented actors, such a method cannot work.
Case in point: Gran Torino. Terrible, terrible direction and it's all because his asian actors cannot act. They need a couple dozen takes to get it right and it's the director's job to get the shot. Further, it's the director's job to know when he didn't get the shot.
And even when you do have talented actors, it's still problematic. Any director who's okie-dokie with accepting the very first take can't have a very specific point of view, style, or solid narrative; all the things a good film has. It's like, "Yeah, that's good enough. Let's set the next shot up."
Ever wonder why Kubrick films are so goddamn watchable? Because he had a super-specific vision and he didn't let anyone go home until that vision was sated. Sure, that made him a pain in the ass to work with, no doubt, but just look at the results.

Very few people agree with you...have you considered the possibility that you could be wrong?


Of course not, don't be silly. Surely, you know how subjectivity works, yes?