--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you get around to unpacking and setting up your HD set instead of > watching sex on the beach then here are a couple interesting little > films to look for: > > "Confess" which is about a guy who uses guerrilla video posted > online to fall people. This script was written in 1999 way before > YouTube was around and the director laments he didn't just take the > web site idea and implement. Of course YouTube was simply spun out > of the fact that Adobe Flash available on most computers for free > and that broadband is more prevalent. This film also stars Ali > Larter (Heroes) who did the small film because she was interested > in doing more independent film projects. > > "Unholy" with Adrienne Barbeau which is sort of a trippy horror > film about supernatural Nazi technology that the US developed after > the war. I was kind of interested where the film makers got the > idea but so far the commentary shows that they just wrote what they > thought was a wild and crazy film and even joke to the audience if > the can figure out what it means to contact them because they don't > know what it means. :)
Sorta like the Vedas, eh? :-) A bunch of old guys in dhotis sitting around one day saying, "Let's make up a really wild tale that doesn't make any sense and claim that we cognized it. We can put lots of cows and green-colored liquids in it and gods and goddesses and make it really, really con- fusing. It'll drive future generations *crazy* trying to figure out what it all means." Thanks for the recommendations; I'll look for them. > Showtime showed the Neil Young "Heart of Gold" movie last night > in HD. I never got around to renting the DVD but this was a real > treat and a fine film by Jonathan Demme. Neil definitely has a > very interesting style of composition that stood out from the rest > of the Buffalo Springfield compositions and probably the basis for > much of the harmonies used by CSN&Y. It's like he's more of a poet > painting scenes with kinesthetic images and setting them to music > with a broad pastoral brush of deferent harmonic devices not > usually found in blues or rock but in symphonic and jazz works. > Sounded great on my Klipsch speakers. There's a great Neil Young story told by (I think) Graham Nash about the first time he was invited to Neil's house. It's a big property, with several houses and a barn and a lake on it, and when he showed up Neil was nowhere to be found. So Graham asked one of the workmen on the property where he was and was told, "Oh, he's out on the lake tuning the stereo." Wandering down to the lakefront, Graham discovered that Neil Young had set up one set of huge concert- style loudspeakers in one wall of the house, and another set in the barn. There was music booming through the speakers and Neil was out in the middle of the lake on a little floating platform there, shouting back to the sound technicians through a bullhorn as they tried to get the right stereo balance out of the system, "More barn!" :-)
