Posted on 12/10/2017 10:54:31 AM PST by Simon Green
The first that comes to mind for me: "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial". Sappy and overly sentimental.
(And while I'm at it, "Titanic")
Exactly. Seuss was a godsend for early readers.
Did you know he submitted to almost 100 publishers before Random House picked him up?
Talk about tenacity.
Two spring to mind:
1) Terms of Endearment: 10 minutes in, I was ready to leave, but thought my date wanted to see it. Had I realized she felt the same way, we would have been outta there.
2) Bull Durham: Sorry, horny boys. This is NOT a “baseball” movie. It’s about an aging “Stage Door Annie” who roots for the local team only so she can find her next bed mate.
On Bull Durham:
I take your point, in terms of your perspective, but that whole story line just bounces off my forehead.
It very much IS a baseball movie - one of the few that quasi-accurately depicts minor league ball. I think there are several movies in minor league ball that could be made.
Bull Durham is a great baseball movie, in my opinion. Right up to the moment Nuke gets the call to go to the Show.
As for “uses the Lord’s name in vain” - I don’t recall that in the film at all. The “cursing” of the father was in the movie mostly gibberish. Oh my dad used to curse sometimes….oh the horrors!
I think the worst thing spoken as far as cursing was when Ralphie said “Son of Bitch” and one of the boys calling the other a “"smart ass", like no 8 or 9-year-old boys (or girls) at that age has ever used that sort of language. And when Ralphie says “Fuuuudge” he gets his mouth washed out with soap. I got my mouth washed out with soap once, Ivory Soap for calling my mother a “big dummy” when she made me come in from playing outside for dinner when I wanted to stay outside. To this day I hate the smell of Ivory Soap, but I was hardly scarred (or blinded) by it.
(while being anti-gun too)
Hardly. Sure his mom, his teacher, even Santa keeps telling Ralphie “you’ll shoot your eye out kid” but in the end the dad gets Ralphie the Red Rider BB gun he’s been wanting and saying to the mom, “I had one when I was 8 years old”. And while Ralphie does break his glasses the first time he uses it, he doesn’t shoot his eye out.
It was IMO a beautiful piece of nostalgia of what it was like growing up as a kid in the 30’s, 40’s, 50’s or even the 60’s like I did as seen through a kid’s perspective. And I saw nothing but a loving mother and father in that movie with two kids who probably grew up just fine, even if some of they or some of us were sometimes scared seeing Santa or occasionally said a few “bad words” or got beat up by a bully at school and one day turned the tables on them as I did once.
thigh sideburns...LOL
Definitely American Beauty.
I was bored out of my mind.
Richard Bolla unknown porn stud from that era was her only guy in that famous flick
Glad she straightened out
Most do not
I’m thinking Debra Jo Fondren and Marilyn Lange and Lisa Welch and Candy Loving nude in the 70s
Little puffy hair patches
Gorgeous women I dreamed of I ain’t lying
I had my share ....but in teens I was lonely admittedly at times
Awkward
I agree.
I was never into Seuss .....
I read Golden Book encyclopedias and World Book and other encyclopedias like Britannica when I could get it
What was the one started with a C you could get after so many groceries at Ann Page.....?
Colliers....I looked it up...my mom got them all I devoured them
I read Nancy Drew too and I bought every Classics Illustrated I could find in the revolving rack at the local drugstore owned by old south Japanese early 1900s who had been there on that corner since the 1930s....
The old Landmark series of biographies and historical events
Robert louis Stevenson
Dickens
Defoe ...and Dumás and Hugo
We did fine before smart phones no question
I have a question considering your brimming ample brain AS.....CLASSSICAL MUSIC ....not breaking it down to baroque and classical and romantic and etc
Give me your top five in order please
Merry Christmas dear.
The Sneetch Liberation Front has all you Suess haterz marked for liquidation come the Revolution.
My favorite books were those little pocket sized guides of insects, reptiles & amphibians, rocks & gems, leaves, whatever. Golden Guides? I don’t remember anymore. Anyway I’d devour those books.
You want some classical? (baroque) One of my favorites is Bach’s Bouree in D minor, which I really could play:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtCzicjT4SI
and for sheer joy you can’t beat the Som Sabadell version of the mighty 9th:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBaHPND2QJg
My tone for classical in a general sense has improved exponentially in the past year
To me it’s JS Bach..
And then more Bach
And then even more Bach....
Then Motzart Beethoven tie
Then Schubert
Modern guys...Mahler.....
After that it’s muddy
Dufay just for being so there very early even though it’s not super listenable today
I like string Bach ....cello preferably
I heard a harpsichord number tonight I liked but don’t recall offhand
It was a like a reel ....
Anyhow.......without Bach there’d be no rock music that has a keyboard in it for sure
You read Nancy Drew? :-)
I liked lots of different books, when I was little ( somethings never change )and also loved being read to.
Fairy tales, from all over the world, has been a life long passion, ancient Mythology too.And as I wrote in an earlier post, Victorian and Edwardian children's books, which were not written in a dumbed down fashion and still hold up well today.
Loved comic books too and devoured the Classic Comic books, Superman, Batman, and the Marvel Family. And then, at 10, I discovered MAD...when it was just a comic book that cost a dime.
My grandmother read me Dickens, Twain, and Dumas pere and Fils ( got through ALL of those books, by the time I was 10 1/2 ), which she began reading to me ( plus the Lamb Shakespeare ) when I was around 4. And this used to be considered pretty "normal" for a lot of kids, back then.
Hmmmmmmmmmm...classical music?
Well, my grandmother was a child prodigy pianist, so I heard her play, from the womb onwards and so was exposed to a gigantic swath of great music, played by a true virtuoso. I don't know if I can list my top ten in order, so I'll just give you 5 and two categories shall be lumped in genres.
1)Chopin 2)Liszt 3)Operettas ( with G&S leading the pack, of course, but also love Humperdink [his HANSEL AND GRETEL was a childhood favorite], Mozart [THE MAGIC FLUTE is great for kids], etc. ) 4) Opera ( my family always listened to LIVE FROM THE MET, when I was little) so I've always ( still do ) all of the old "chestnuts" and at 7, fell in live with TALES OF HOFFMAN! 5) Bach 6) Saint Sans 7) Beethoven
Ooooooooooooopps two over, sorry ( the two genres + the 5 should have been only 7 ), but I couldn't help it. LOL
All of the above were my childhood favorites ( from the age of 3-10 ) and yes, still are. Of course, I like other Classical stuff and a lot of other kinds of music too, which I am forever indebted to my parents and grandparents for exposing me to from birth and before. :-)
And a very Merry Christmas to you and yours!
P.S. What categories would you place Souza's marches ( my grandfather LOVED them ! ) and Stephen Foster stuff in?
Your taste in music, is superior to your taste in books. :-)
Exploring an early Hildegard instrumental as i freep at 1 AM....annette morning mom is asleep of course next to me...she never snores much except when expecting
It almost sounds Irish Celtic
One thing that distinguished Bach and i was explaining it to my 15 year old while in car queue at Mcdonalds tonight buying 20 99 cent burgers for my rotties
Counterpoints
His mom teases me about being sophisticated now but he was curious so we rode around and toured baroque napster
I swear my ear has matured no question....I really do like it more than before
Cello JS Bach...yo yo or whomever...it’s just like meditation
Bach and the mastery of counterpoint.....he was first to truly nail it
Pity his kids had more acclaim in their lifetimes than he did in his
Am I wrong?
I think most trained ears lean Bach though some go Beethoven
This piece by Hildegard is the best early work I’ve discovered
Almost 900 years old
Simply amazing
It all flows from catholic and later reformation choral pieces really
I’m familiar with the two Bach works
That Val Triste is considered a tearmaker song by many.....along with Saint Saens mi corazon es abierto para ti
But that Dutch composer was incredible....what singers ensemble ..wow
And that buxom Australian girl singer up front....yowza
Where was that performed?
He’s amazing
Been listening to classical music regularly for a long time. Some favorite works by my favorite composers...
J.S. Bach, esp. Toccata and Fugue in F major, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Six Cello Suites, The Art of Fugue, A Musical Offering.
F.J. Haydn, any number of symphonies and string quarters. (He was the father of both). Most underrated composer, in my view.
L.V. Beethoven, esp. the late string quartets, Piano concertos #4 and #5, Piano sonata #23, Violin concerto (he only composed one), and the symphonies depending on my mood.
Igor Stravinsky, esp. Apollo, Orpheus, Symphony of Psalms, Concerto in D, Symphony in 3 Movements, The Soldier’s Story, Octet.
My favorite form is probably the string quartet. Aside from the Haydn and Beethoven mentioned above, fave SQs include those by Felix Mendelssohn, Alexander Borodin, Paul Hindemith, Sergei Prokofiev, and (esp.) Bela Bartok.
Preferably listened to on an audio system that includes vintage tube amps and large, efficient speakers by Altec, JBL, or Klipsch.
The Green Mile. Just LOATHED that POS!
Any of the Lord of the Rings movies. All ate too dark and too long make for a good weekend nap time movies.
But I did like the Hobbit movies.
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