i did not know that. about Estonian and Finnish being close to each other.
Have you seen this show, Tuomas?
They should have had you translate it for the English subtitles. It's obvious a Finnish person did the translation, but their English wasn't so hot. It's okay though. Still easy to follow.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 11:27 (eight years ago) link
it's probably hard to find native English speakers who are fluent in Finnish. to do subtitles.
in Maria's job as a Dutch-to-English translator, she gets a lot of work revising the sloppy translation work of Dutch natives who may speak English with the tongue of Shakespeare (most Dutch people I have met put Americans to shame when it comes to speaking English), but who miss a lot when it comes to the written word.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 11:37 (eight years ago) link
Tuomas should do finnish->english subtitles and workshop it on ilx
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 10 May 2016 13:48 (eight years ago) link
Years ago, we literally stumbled into an open house at the EU in Belgium, and they tossed us in an English tour group that was just us and a bunch of Hungarians, because apparently it's really, really hard to find Hungarian translators.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 14:04 (eight years ago) link
found this in the back room. just need to get the victrola working and i'll be speaking Finnish like a turn of the century pro!
https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13221461_10154768352932137_6281191841352190847_n.jpg?oh=7d5f6eafc98cc271707f46aa6cd389e1&oe=57DA66C2
https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13220815_10154768354387137_2128457118847234539_n.jpg?oh=e9db3c786bb34df9adf9eb8b446ee02e&oe=57A745AA
― scott seward, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 15:18 (eight years ago) link
And yeah, in the 20th century there were some theories about Finnish and/or Hungarian being related to Japanese (and a bunch of other isolates) but the linguistic evidence is not there. Crackpot theory is an unkind term, but, well... language origins are a very fertile field for crackpot theories. Japanese used to be considered an isolate, but nowadays it is part of the Japonic family along with a dozen or so related Ryukyuan languages (all spoken in Japan, most of them moribund).
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 10 May 2016 15:58 (eight years ago) link
Pumping Iron is weird and fascinating - I didn't expect it to be so placidly verité, I do wish they'd gone into the audience a bit more because it didn't look like many aspiring bodybuilders were cheering them on. What drives you to become a fan of bodybuilding if you don't participate in it at all?
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 10 May 2016 21:46 (eight years ago) link
I have some theories
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 01:09 (eight years ago) link
Deborah Winger and Sam Elliot are so wasted on The Ranch
― los blue jeans, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 03:39 (eight years ago) link
I mean their talents are wasted, although I guess they are in a bar a lot
― los blue jeans, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 03:40 (eight years ago) link
i would never watch that but i'm glad they are getting a paycheck.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 13:06 (eight years ago) link
i wish one of you guys would watch Easy Living. i don't know anyone who watches it. doesn't anyone need a new t.v. show to watch?
i love the incremental one-step-forward-one-step-back movement of the bad things that happen to this family. it's very life-like. i like the 2nd season even better than the first too. which is always a good sign.
― scott seward, Friday, 27 May 2016 17:49 (eight years ago) link
who's airing?
― ulysses, Friday, 27 May 2016 18:30 (eight years ago) link
Color of noise amrep doc, damned doc, and wfmu doc now all up on Amazon prime.
― Here, let me Danesplain that for you (jjjusten), Friday, 27 May 2016 18:38 (eight years ago) link
"who's airing?"
easy living? well, three seasons are on netflix. it's on some cable channel in the states, i think. but i don't know about cable.
― scott seward, Friday, 27 May 2016 18:45 (eight years ago) link
i will look into it.
― ulysses, Friday, 27 May 2016 18:47 (eight years ago) link
watched the first season on your rec, Scott. really like it, though I was concerned that it lost a little momentum towards the end (while agreeing with you on the non-linear path being a strength). glad to hear season 2 is good.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Friday, 27 May 2016 19:00 (eight years ago) link
oh good someone watched it!
the 2nd season is cool because both mom and dad have jobs and watching them interact with normal people is almost always awkward and entertaining.
― scott seward, Friday, 27 May 2016 19:57 (eight years ago) link
Not Netflix, but Mr Robot will be available to stream on Amazon Prime June 13th. I've been wanting to check that show out.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Friday, 3 June 2016 01:16 (seven years ago) link
OOooooohhh thank you!! That is a great tip
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 3 June 2016 14:01 (seven years ago) link
I just started season 2 of Gommorah, it is nothing spesh just more violent Naples mafia soap opera, but shot in magnificently real urban desolation locations and wonderfully bloody.
― calzino, Friday, 3 June 2016 14:15 (seven years ago) link
Ok Lady Dynamite is starting to win me over
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Friday, 3 June 2016 14:27 (seven years ago) link
not til month's end, but that fgti-scored semi-James Dean film Life is coming to N'flix
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 June 2016 14:30 (seven years ago) link
the kids and i really enjoyed watching angie tribeca on hulu last night. love rashida so much. a sledge hammer! for a new generation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKivuQ4HpF4
― scott seward, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 14:19 (seven years ago) link
i tried it but the jokes didn't really bite for me somehow? i dunno i usually love this sort of thing. maybe i just wasn't in the right mood.
scott if you liked that you should really try to, uh, obtain A Touch Of Cloth. unfortunately they only made two of them (or was it three?) but each one is as long as a movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0FDAqS0Wy4
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 June 2016 10:39 (seven years ago) link
i would watch that. i kinda liked that angie tribeca wasn't non-stop sex jokes and was just silly. though i haven't watched them all yet. i don't want everything to be Airplane humor, but i thought it was a nice homage.
― scott seward, Thursday, 9 June 2016 15:45 (seven years ago) link
touch of cloth does occasionally veer too far into gross-out sex jokes. but the first one is near-perfect imo.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 June 2016 15:47 (seven years ago) link
Touch Of Cloth is the best of its kind since Police Squad
― my concern would only be that you don't have serenity. (stevie), Friday, 10 June 2016 09:48 (seven years ago) link
I can't believe none of you folks aren't raving about the stylish Italian organised crime series Gomorra. https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/9f/fd/67/9ffd67df17fee3ac7232787205eb3642.jpg
― calzino, Friday, 10 June 2016 22:54 (seven years ago) link
did anyone recommend the Ali Wong special yet? it is funny as fuck
― akm, Friday, 10 June 2016 23:54 (seven years ago) link
so the italian show is based on the movie? i still haven't watched the movie yet. which is on netflix.
― scott seward, Saturday, 11 June 2016 00:41 (seven years ago) link
This kicks off in July. The only reason I've known about it for so long is that it filmed in my little Atlanta 'burb (and further out in the boonies). But even if that hadn't been the case, I'd watch the hell out of it. Spooky mystery show starring Winona Ryder!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWxyRG_tckY
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 11 June 2016 00:54 (seven years ago) link
xp
it is a spinoff from the movie, but the only thing it shares with the movie is the theme of organised crime and the criminal hierarchy on the mean streets of Naples. I didn't think the movie was any great shakes tbh, the series however - I'm finding quite addictive.
― calzino, Saturday, 11 June 2016 10:30 (seven years ago) link
Stumbled onto Hinterlands - I'm only one ep in but it's good & bleak & basically all i want in a murder mystery detective show
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 June 2016 04:03 (seven years ago) link
Trophy Kids. Brutal. Parents are assholes.
― Jeff, Sunday, 12 June 2016 10:51 (seven years ago) link
ok hinterlands took a left turn into pointlesstown, it's not as great as first thought
so i tried Happy Valley instead YES
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 June 2016 05:56 (seven years ago) link
Love happy valley
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Monday, 13 June 2016 11:40 (seven years ago) link
the end of episode 4 / start of episode 5 of the first series of happy valley has stuck with me, the brutality and the way they handled it.
― koogs, Monday, 13 June 2016 11:59 (seven years ago) link
haven't watched season 2 yet but season 1 of happy valley is amazing
― dan selzer, Monday, 13 June 2016 12:08 (seven years ago) link
yeah it's great
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Monday, 13 June 2016 12:39 (seven years ago) link
I've watched a few episodes of the new Voltron series:
a) I did not expect to laugh so much at it. Hunk especially is genuinely funny to me.b) I did not expect Hunk, Pidge and Lance to actually have personalities or to be anything more than background wallpaper, as that's how I remember them from the original showc) I'm enjoying the hell out of it
― STOP KILLING ANIMALS, THEY'RE MINT (DJP), Monday, 13 June 2016 13:26 (seven years ago) link
Lady Dynamite is something special imo. Not a show you'd binge-watch tho
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Monday, 13 June 2016 13:28 (seven years ago) link
Comet w/ Justin Long & Emmy Rossum by the guy who created Mr. Robot. Got terrible reviews and I see why (very Eternal Sunshine+500 Days of Summer+mumblecore) but it was strangely compelling.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 13:04 (seven years ago) link
i keep getting stuck on happy valley. i've started it twice. get a little further each time though. i'll go back to it. kinda reminds me of a laughless fargo.
i still haven't finished lady dynamite either.
i started watching southland on hulu...
― scott seward, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 13:35 (seven years ago) link
i was impressed with the episodes of southland i watched because i actually got nervous/scared watching a stupid california cop show. there is that jittery random violence energy to it.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 13:37 (seven years ago) link
also they opened the first episode of the first season of Southland with just the intro of "School" by Supertramp and that is something i totally would have done. if i had been in the position to do it.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 00:11 (seven years ago) link
the morton downey jr. doc is worth a watch. never heard of the guy before, a total piece of shit but fascinating all the same
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Wednesday, 15 June 2016 16:50 (seven years ago) link
well consider yrself lucky
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 June 2016 16:57 (seven years ago) link
you might be lucky to have missed his reign of terror. certainly the genesis of a lot of american t.v. ugliness. i never missed his show.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link
lucky x-post
― scott seward, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 17:00 (seven years ago) link