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- From: jammer@eskimo.com (Lyle Harwood)
- Subject: Re: How We Rung In The New Year
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.114336.10092@eskimo.com>
- Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
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- References: <1993Jan2.055129.28331@atlantis.uucp>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 11:43:36 GMT
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- aaron@atlantis.uucp wrote:
- : "Well, I took Mary Merrytail's advice and stopped worrying about what
- would be
- : the 'right' way to celebrate the New Year and just did it.
- :
- : "Nicole and I did a really neat jigsaw puzzle she got me for
- Christmas--an
- : artwork called 'Critters' by Ray L. McGinnis, with another artwork on
- the
- : back of the puzzle. Only 529 pieces, so it only took us a couple of
- hours, but
- : it was worth it.
- :
- : "Then we went out and rented a few movies. Then we watched them.
- :
- : "The first one was 'Harvey', with Jimmy Stewart. This is my first
- Jimmy
- : Stewart movie--yes, I've never seen 'It's A Wonderful Life'--and I
- enjoyed it
- : immensely. I highly recommend it as an incredibly heartwarming movie
- for any
- : sentimental occasion.
- :
- : "The second was 'The Empire Strikes Back'. We recently realized it
- had been a
- : while since we'd seen the Star Wars movies, so we rented 'Star Wars' a
- couple
- : of months ago and now got the sequel. This one didn't age as well,
- somehow...
- :
- : "We took a dinner break in between the above two, by the way...but
- after TESB
- : was finished, we checked the movie channel and discovered that 'The
- Naked Gun
- : 2 1/2' was just starting, so we watched that one again. Then we
- watched 'The
- : Maltese Falcon', another first for both of us. Somewhere around the
- time that
- : Mr. Cairo and Miss O'Shaughnessy were both in Spade's apartment,
- midnight
- : struck and we celebrated with a kiss. Then we watched the rest of the
- movie.
- : I can see what all the fuss was about...
- :
- : "Finally, this evening I watched Pump Up The Volume, the last of the
- movies we
- : rented yesterday. I took this one mostly on a whim, and it was an
- okay watch.
- : It would've been better if I was an angst-ridden teenager, but it
- still wasn't
- : that bad, even though my wife left about twenty minutes into it. Oh,
- well.
- :
- : "While I'm on the subject of movies, I highly recommend 'A Few Good
- Men'. I've
- : never given Tom Cruise much credit for acting ability, but he does a
- damn fine
- : job in this one. Nicholson is also excellent as usual. James
- Marshall(from
- : Twin Peaks)does a creditable job as a Marine who isn't all that
- bright, mainly
- : because he's not trying to act above his intellectual level...and not
- trying to
- : be James Dean anymore either."
- :
- : --
- : ---Alfvaen(Still looking for "October's Baby")
- : "Just like the falling rainbow, just like the stars in the sky
- Life should never feel small." ---Black
- : Current Album--Black:Wonderful Life
- : Current Read--Tesseracts4
-
- Jammer speaks up.
- "If we're gonna talk about movies, then I have to mention The
- Unforgiven.
- If more movies were made like that, I think there'd be less violence...
- I really do. If you knew that squeezing a trigger would make you sick
- to your stomach, if you could see, in glorious technicolor what a
- sucking chest wound REALLY looked like, you would hold gunfighters in
- far lower esteem than you have been taught to...
- and I'm afraid that you HAVE been taught.
- I love nicholson. He's one of the truely talented people out there,
- he can truly ACT. He can make you believe that he's crazy, (Cukoos nest)
- or that he's a world-wise and weary detective, (Chinatown) or that he's
- possesed, (Wites of Eastwick), insa, (that one about the axes,)
- and you BELIEVE.
-