The Last Movie You Saw On DVD or VHS or TV.

You guys ever hang out in Ybor City?

Once in a while we do, but usually we meet friends downtown in St. Pete, on our way now to the vinoy.

Try a Parisian Spring punch. 1 1/2 measures Calvados, 1/2 measure fresh lemon juice, 1/2 measure Noilly Prat vermouth, 1 teaspoon castor sugar all shaken up together in an iced cocktail shaker. Pour it into a tall glass with ice and apple slices then top up with Champagne, (and use decent stuff).

I caught up, good show.
Youre writing is so good that we were treating you like a native.
Sorry.

We actually bought a VHS to DVD recorder, and have picked up some old VHS movies that had NOT been redone as DVD.
It seemed like a good idea at the time but , outside of some really good movies like "The Shipping News" weve barely used the damned thing because Netflix started streaming a larger number of titles.

Six weeks after my travelling-pioneering life began and, just as the Cuban Missile Crisis was hotting up in mid-October 1962, Edward Albee’s play “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” opened in New York. I saw it again on TV recently. One of the theatre critics, Howard Taubman, wrote that Albee’s characters were “vibrant with dramatic urgency.”(1)

My own life was faced with a period of dramatic urgency as well back then. It was not so vibrant, as I recall, but my life was busy: moving and pioneering to a new town where I knew noone, aiming to pass nine matriculation subjects in grade 13, with six months left in the Baha'i Plan known as the Ten Year Crusade.

Like the antagonistic relationship between Martha and George in this play, my future antagonisms in marital relationships, my part in the war between the sexes, to say nothing of other private and public wars in my life, had yet to come. Twenty months after the theatre opening, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor would enact Albee’s play on the silver screen. That movie was released a year before my first marriage with its own tragic ending a decade later in a complex and tragic world that was the world of my adulthood. -Ron Price with thanks to (1) Howard Taubman, “The Theatre: Albee’s ‘Who’s Afraid,’” the New York Times On The Web, October 15th 1962.

Six months before my
pioneering life began,
Edward, you wrote about
the theatre of the absurd.(1)

The difficulty of talking,(2)
communicating, beginning,
resulting in a perception of
the unrelenting malignancy
of incomprehensible cosmic
powers and preoccupation
with failure, dread, a fallen
world, purposelessness, death
and an endless sort of absurdity.(2)

So it was this world they told
and so it was this world I tried
to teach in the next 40 years
where men were uncommitted
except to subtle and complex
systems of individualism
linked to gardens, families,
jobs, TV and a cornucopia
of hobby apparatus--with
systems of beliefs long gone
and an endless game, sometimes
savage, comic, pathetic, mysterious,
compassionate, many things.

It became more complex than ever
and impossible to verify the past
or so your fellow dramatist said
on March 4th 1962...just before(3)
I pioneered to that nearby town.

1Edward Albee, “Which Theatre Is the Absurd One?” The New York Times On the Web, February 25th 1962.
2 The theatre of the absurd can be dated from December 10th 1896. See Arnold P. Hinchliffe, Harold Pinter, Twayne Pub. Inc., NY, 1967, p.26.
3 Harold Pinter, The Sunday Times, March 4th 1962.

Ron Price
6/3/'06 to 19/1/'14.

I'm finally watching my recorded episodes of "The Curse of Oak Island" on History Channel. I knew going in that a show with the word "curse" in the title on History was going to involve a lot of melodramatic bullshit. It only took them until the 3rd episode to call in a team of "paranormal investigators" to do some green-tinted nightvision crap. The next episode involves a guy who "decoded" a map hidden in the manuscripts of Shakespeare or some such nonsense. I don't care about curses or fake science. This show is going down hill fast and it's sad because the mystery of whether there is treasure there is something that actually interested me. Can we ever just have a real science show? They could research and dig and well ****, find nothing. The end. No, everything needs to be a soap opera.

I agree.
It's typical of the History channel(which used to be fantastic) to manipulate the script (like we're dolts).
I turned it off.

Watched 3:10 to Yuma last night. Awesome movie from a well-written Elmore Leonard book I read back in the 70's.
If you're wondering why Christian Bale is gonna win an Oscar, just watch this flick.

You might like to try the Discovery Channel.-Ron
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STAR-TREK: Modern Man in Search of A Soul1

You can read about the documentary Star-Trek: The True Story, at the following link. This doco was originally televised in the US on the Discovery Channel on 5 January 2013. Go to:http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_True_Story. I will not give you, therefore, the details of this program that I watched last night,(2) as my cocktail of anti-psychotic and anti-depressant medication began to take effect and produce its sleepy-euphoric state. I have enjoyed many of the Star-Trek episodes over the years since its inception in 1964 when I was a student at university in a four-year honors history and philosophy course in Ontario Canada.1 -Ron Price with thanks to: 1 Carl Jung, 1933, and2 ABC TV, 10:55 to 11:40 p.m. 28 July 2013.

The Star Trek franchise created by Roddenberry has produced story material for five decades, all of my adult-life. It resulted in six television series consisting of 726 episodes, and twelve feature films. The popularity of the Star Trek universe and films inspired the parody, homage, and cult film Galaxy Quest in 1999 which was released as I was retiring from a 50 year student-working life: 1949-1999.

Star-Trek also inspired many books, video games and fan films set in the various "eras" of the Star Trek universe which readers can read about in detail at Wikipedia.

I watched many episodes of Star-Trek
back in the 1980s and 1990s while my
son was growing-up….I never became
the enthusiast both he and his mother,
my wife, were and still are, as this TV
series continues its life beyond its first
5 decades toward the years 1964-2064.

I found it interesting, somewhat surprising,
to hear about Roddenberry’s shortcomings
and failings as a human being. So often we
know so little about the real person in life,
even if they run-the-gauntlet of the TV in-
depthinterview. Perhaps that is why Freud
said a true biography can never be written.

Still, writers will keep trying to unearth the
inside story of some human being. And so
it is that biographies and autobiographies
will continue on their merry-way into the
future as we try to understand ourselves!!1

1 “A man like me,” wrote Freud, “cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion,” in Schiller's words---a tyrant.”Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller(1759-1805) was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. “I have found my tyrant,” continued Freud,“and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology. It has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now… it has come so much the nearer.”

Perhaps sci-fi was Roddenberry’s ‘tyrant’. I certainly know mine, a tyrant which I slowly became accustomed to in the 1950s and 1960s before working within its administrative Order from the far north of Canada to the far-south of Tasmania.

1.1 “The life-work of Freud had been devoted to understanding as fully as possible the world of man’s soul.To Freud psyche and soul were the same, conscious and unconscious mental life. Psychoanalysis is the science of the soul.”--Erich Fromm, The Art of Listening, Constable, London, 1994, p.75.
1.2 Dreams are the result of the activity of our own soul. -Sigmund Freud in Freud and Man’s Soul, Bruno Bettleheim, A.A. Knopf, NY, 1983, p.71. The goal of psychanalysis is to integrate the emotional life and the intellectual life. idem. Your unconsciousness is your companion. Persona is a protection. In my case, my dreams seem to be the result of my medications.

1.3 “I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador, an adventurer, if you want it translated, with all the curiosity, daring, and tenacity characteristic of a man of this sort.”–Freud in a Letter to Wilhelm Fliess, Feb. 1, 1900. The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess 1887-1904 (1985).
1.4 “The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endlessly repeated rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which it may be optimistic about the future of mankind, but in itself it signifies not a little.”

Ron Price
29/7/’13 to 21/1/'14.

Yesterday I caught "Forest Gump". I had forgotten how good the movie was, very enjoyable.

Tom Hanks did a respectable job in that movie.

So last night we watched "Blue Jasmine", great actors, great performances and when it ended I wanted to throw myself in front of a speeding train. I suggest others watch it and make up their own minds.

I almost plunked down $5.99 but held off.
I'll wait for some more revues here

The acting is great. Andrew Dice Clay of all actors hands in a stunning (albeit brief) performance.

But I was ultimately disappointed in the story and the characters. I was hoping for a more light comic movie. Too many stupid people making the same mistakes over and over. Not much in terms of character development.

The ending is a major downer as well.

Tsar, I decided to invest in a little known movie called Twenty Feet From Stardom

It was a moving film for me, being a musician ,but it might bore some who don't follow singers.
The high point of the doc was hearing Merry Clayton sing that famous part in Gimme Shelter as Mick Jagger explains how it was recorded

Thanks to glitterbag for suggesting it.

I've been looking forward to this documentary for awhile. I'll try and grab a copy when it hits the library.

We've been trying to see Nebraska, has anyone else seen the film.

The Butler. Good flick.

No, but I lived there when I was a little boy.

Oh, I lived lots of places when I was a little boy.