response 48 of 77:

Jul 8 04:29 UTC 2002

<krj wonders what not nice things Carson has to say.>
 
So the season went out in spectacular fashion tonight.  George Bedard's
band added keyboard player Whit Hill for the occasion, and the 
organ and piano lines were a great addition to the sound.  
I resisted buying any of George Bedard's CDs, because I'm not sure
they can be anywhere close to as much fun as the band is live.

O BROTHER was even more enjoyable tonight than the first time 
I saw it, because the crowd was really into the film; I previously
saw it in a mostly-empty theater.
 
Stucci's ran out of French Silk (chocolate) ice cream, and I never
did get that cheese pie I wanted.    *sniff*   Still, this was one
of the most enjoyable TOP nights I can recall, and I tossed more money
into the Obelisk and the TOP fund-raising hat than I had planned to.  :)
 
Grexers and associates spotted:  buddy, russ, aruba, Carol, 
gelinas, Cindy, a number of younger Gelinases, senna,
and other.

response 50 of 77:

Jul 8 06:42 UTC 2002

are you saying, then, Ken, that "O Brother.." is best viewed with an 
audience?  Quite a few of the movies I've enjoyed were in virtually 
empty theatres..

response 52 of 77:

Jul 8 13:23 UTC 2002

#50> "O Brother" does strike me as the sort of movie I'd enjoy more with a
crowd. There are definitely movies where you want to see the movie, and any
interruptions from the audience are a distraction; there are other movies that
are weak on their own, and stand better as interactional experiences. I think
the latter are usually movies that don't take themselves too seriously, and
"O Brother" is definitely one of those.

response 54 of 77:

Jul 8 16:39 UTC 2002

I liked "O Brother" as a movie; I liked the music _in_ the movie.  But 
when I listened to the soundtrack album I didn't like it particularly 
at all.  I think the visuals were a large part of the enjoyment.

response 56 of 77:

Jul 9 01:11 UTC 2002

I put the soundtrack on today, to listen to while tooling around town (when
not listening to the news, that is).  My memory for such things isn't very
good, but I *think* it's in a slightly different order than the movie.  I'm
going to have to see the movie again, just to check.  (Of course, we've
already put it on the "must buy" list, just because we liked it.)

Listening to the soundtrack, I figured out why "You are my sunshine" was in
it, where it was.  And "Big Rock Candy Mountains."

response 58 of 77:

Jul 12 14:29 UTC 2002

re resp:48 & resp:57 - I saw this, too, carson! (and I thought I was
the only one) It was very distracting --- for the first half of the movie, I
was wondering if showing the mics and booms was intentional and/or related to
the plot, at all. Finally, I had just decided that it was the sub-standard
theatre in which I had seen the movie. Very, very sloppy.

response 60 of 77:

Jul 13 22:34 UTC 2002

Where's a "Grexpidition" item devoted to oval and her trip?

response 62 of 77:

Jul 13 23:45 UTC 2002

What the hell are you talking about?  Do you think I'm a total idiot?  Answer
the questions, not stupid things which I'm not sure where you got them from.

response 64 of 77:

Jul 14 06:08 UTC 2002

I think polytarp was looking for the "grex perdition" item on oval's
travels, which might detail her experience with customs, amsterdam
police, her opinions regarding the dutch sex trade, any unsuccessful
efforts to fight off polyglot beggars, etc.

I don't know that oval's actual dutch experiences are anywhere near as
colorful or likely to be at all interesting to polytarp.

response 66 of 77:

Jul 14 16:54 UTC 2002

(I vote "yea."  I suspect there's a terminal setting you could put
in a file somewhere to correct it, but heck if I know what either is.)

<blank space below for oval's benefit>

response 68 of 77:

Jul 16 16:30 UTC 2002

Well, hopefully, by the end of this week, TOP will be done for another 
year.  We're still wrangling with storage issues.  Actually, though, I've 
been asked to sit in on the periodic meetings of the Summer Festival 
board's Operations Committee, since I seem to best equipped of all 
available people to provide the board some measure of depth and meaning 
to the numbers they shuffle around.

response 70 of 77:

Jul 31 00:49 UTC 2002

carson wrote: "if you look at a good majority of the shots, near the 
top of the screen, boom mics are *clearly* visible."

If you see boom mikes in a theatrical film, chances are overwhelming 
that the projector wasn't centered properly.  The sloppiness isn't on 
the part of the filmmaker, but on the part of the theatre.  It's 
regular practice to photograph films taller than they're intended to be 
shown (and thus including the booms), and have the projector grate cut 
off the part you're not supposed to see.

So sayeth Ebert.

response 72 of 77:

Jul 31 02:08 UTC 2002

The TV screen is at a different ratio. Obviously, if the boom mike is visible
there, it's because whoever transferred it into pan-and-scan messed up...
presumably somehow related to the film distribution company.