amateurist, i have a question,

1. Dr. Zhivago
2. The Apostle
3. This is Spinal Tap
4. Ghost Dog
5. Dead Man
6. Empire Strikes Back
7. The Godfather
8. Grizzly Man
9. The Wanderers
10. Mullholland Drive

i've got a funny feeling amst is doing a... writing program!

i have been kept up all night, strangely and embarassingly, by regret. specifically, regrets concerning two women i met when i was in paris. more broadly, i've been nostalgic for the independence (even the loneliness) i felt in paris. i feel really robbed of that independence now because i've spent the past three weeks recovering from a really awful bout of mono on my mother's living room couch. bleh.

same. living in the same place at about the 2 year mark starts to feel constricting, doesn't it?

(6 years ago)

holy shit

i feel bad for flaking on n/a and sarah a few too many times. sorry guys. you and jaymc and other folks in chicago are really great. i feel like i abused people on ilx sometimes, by accepting lots of kindness but being sort of aloof in return.

i didn't know an individual could abuse a group

?

i don't remember you flaking on us? at least no more than i may have. it's cool.

Amateurist, have you seen "Hotel Imperial" (1927) dir. Mauritz Stiller, and what did you think of it if so? just curious, like.

(6 years ago)

holy shit

IIRC, sometime in 2005, ILX freaked out and changed the date to "June 27, 2001" for a day. Pretty sure you weren't actually here in 2001. Morbius definitely wasn't.

maybe. i definitely was hanging around in early 2002, when i had been working in e*a*s*o* for a while.

n/a, i feel like maybe i didn't return your phone calls or emails a few times, or said i was in town and then never got in touch to hang out. i guess for a long time (still, in fact) i'm ambivalent about whatever "life" i might have had online and wasn't comfortable making it a big part of my "real" life. if that makes sense. I just hope you didn't get any bad vibes or standoffishness because you guys are terrific, i always thought that. you too jaymc. hope everybody's doing fine.

no i haven't seen hotel imperial but i'd like to! can you get it from tcm or anything? (i don't have cable anymore. :-( )

I got my copy from Grapevine, so the quality isn't awesome, but it's watchable. it's a Paramount, so don't hold your breath for an "official" version.

It's very good! Some amazing tracking shots, a good story, Pola's acting is very good, and in a couple of scenes excellent. The leading guy is good too. I think it's the last Mauritz Stiller movie that survives complete.

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i didn't know an individual could abuse a group

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vote, amateurist

~~~~The Top 75 films/movies of the 2000s/oughties VOTING THREAD~~~~ BALLOTS DUE FEBRUARY 2

that's not really a question i suppose.

Amateurist, I thought about reviving the MS records thread for this but these is so much negativity contained therein.

How do you feel about the five volumes of Lomax field recordings coming out on Mississippi? They've been compiled by Nath4n Salsburg, who's been working with the archive for 10 yrs. Many of the performances have been previously issued on the volumes by Prestige & Atlantic, but there are many previously unreleased cuts as well. On the one hand it complicates the idea of 'collecting' the field recordings due to the extreme duplication with previous issues, but more importantly the puts the material back into print and i think that is much more important than its perception by record collectors, of which i am one tbh.

info here including track lists & liner note excerpt:
http://networkedblogs.com/6LYzB

yikes redunancy

ahem.

i said, AHEM!!!

@amateurist: 'misogyni' is my Danish spellcheck kicking in. Could you please stop making fun of me for being a foreigner? All over this site, you rag me and talk down to me for not being born in the same country as you, and not speaking your language as well as an English speaker. It pisses me off. So shut the fuck up, you xenophobic asshole. How well do you write in your second language? I write fucking brilliant English for a Dane, I've had pieces published on English-language websites, and I'm not going to take your patronizing bullshit anymore. Go to hell.

i'm putting this at the top of my CV

I've no axe to grind with fredb but as far as euro-mordybaiting-lefty-makes-overly-simplistic-arguments-while-looking-for-mad-kudos-hairtrigger-temper ilxors go le bateau ivre is my boy from now til eternity and I don't think we have room for a reserve

i get a tuomas with a bad attitude vibe from fred

THOUGHT YOU COULD ESCAPE TO ANOTHER THREAD? WHAT ARE YOU TWO UP TO UNDER THE COVERS WITH THAT FLASHLIGHT?

Need to identify this eighties/early nineties film. amy do you know what that movie with crabs might be

oh man that sounds familiar, but no

i don't want to ruin the paris thread w/ this engagement so i'll place it here:

i kinda didn't really notice you as a distinct poster for quite a while (nothing personal - i'm often very bad at linking individual posts to particular posters) but recently in between you calling my snotty twice in like a week, then some kinda lame posts on two separate threads i went back and realized you were the guy whining on the Nigeria thread that you didn't like the links i posted to ilx. so i have two questions a. were you always a crank? b. do you have a personal issue w/ me or am i just getting normal amateurist blowback and if it is personal, can i suggest that maybe you go back to your habit of not reading my posts? i mean i don't care but it does seem bizarre.

were you always a crank?

and when will you stop beating your wife?

hey amateurist, let me ask you a question: WHAT TIME IS LOVE?

also: leave Mordy alone. he's a star and sincere.

<3

hi mordy i'm actually not sure what you're referring to! i have nothing against you actually have a vaguely positive impression of you (i write "vaguely" just b/c i have a pretty vague impression of everybody on this site, it's really only the folks i've met IRL who i have a firmer impression of). i appreciate that you seem willing to buck some of the left-wing orthodoxy that shows up here, even if i don't always agree with you.

i don't actually recall calling you snotty (or even using the word "snotty") at all... are you sure you aren't mixing me up with another poster?

it's true that i don't like reading slavoj zizek but i don't mind that you posted a link to something he wrote! if there are some other links you posted that i didn't like, i don't remember them. there was some time when you (among other people) were posting a ton of thinkpieces about something or other and i remember expressing some general exhaustion of looking at thinkpieces... but i can't recall if i aimed that directly at you.

anyway that's all to say that i'm sorry if it seems like i'm picking on you, and i don't intend that, to the point where i honestly don't know how you might have gotten that impression.

i actually have no idea where i failed to "leave mordy alone." i don't think i engage with, or criticize, him any more than anyone else. i'm a bit mystified but i guess i'll consider it more in the future.

oh, i guess i did call you 'snotty' since you were mocking the idea that a communications professor would write about 'twilight.' i guess i think that is a little snotty. it doesn't seem like a particularly merciless putdown and i don't mean any real ill will.