tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6727975.post6748832252901910880..comments2024-03-25T16:30:58.213+13:00Comments on GREENIE WATCH: JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6727975.post-1051226781497633892008-02-29T18:03:00.000+13:002008-02-29T18:03:00.000+13:00"Many readers may recall that Al Gore used hurrica..."Many readers may recall that Al Gore used hurricanes prominently in An Inconvenient Truth."<BR/><BR/>Many readers may recall that movie tickets cost over $12 in the USA, which is over 10X what they cost when those born in the 60s or 70s were kids, and so very many readers recall not seeing any *political* movies, in the past few years, except that Schwarzenegger's movies have been turned into a TV series, so we (illegally) download those, weekly, like entire seasons or Dr. Who (4th with Tom Baker is best, but the first "old man" guy was pretty cool too), or the IT Crowd. Benny Hill is still funny but rather over-reliant on slapstick and wiggly boobies. Better is old Charlie Chaplain movies such as 'The Great Dictator', and Kurosawa flicks, or Woody Allen (in 'Sleeper' they make the joke that fatty foods are good for you now that science has dug into it) or, Fellini.<BR/><BR/>"The truth is, I can't explain why I make films. I just like to create images. There is no other reason. It's congenial to my nature. That seems enough of an explanation." - Federico Fellini<BR/><BR/>"Everything begins with the belief that something is possible." - Federico Fellini<BR/><BR/>"If you are nice to them, you are presumed to be worth even less. They hold themselves in such low esteem, they can't respect you if you would know them. Why are some people like that?" - Federico Fellini <BR/><BR/>"A world that has been impoverished is in an instant ready to accept that this is the way it has always been. The unthinkable is taken for granted." - Federico Fellini<BR/><BR/>"I have no patience with so-called common sense (a spurious article, unutterably different from the genuine one) one is told to use, and which they say one does not use as soon as one deviates from the ordinary course and takes a risk. I repeat, I have no patience with it. I have no patience with it for the very reason that my own common sense, if I reflect, leads me to wholly different results than the conclusion of narrow-minded worldly wisdom and prudent, half-hearted righteousness. Oh, that dawdling, oh, those hesitations, oh, that not believing that good is good, that black is black, that white is white." - Vincent van Gogh<BR/><BR/>"At these soirées there were always one or two social climbers who tried to remake the world in their own image and spat venom as a skunk does stink. I picked them out early and forthwith discouraged them from spewing their acid on me by urgently requesting that they talk about me and my genius. I made them so certain of my success as well as my madness that they no longer knew what to think, lest they make themselves ridiculous. They became my courtiers rather than feeling crushed, preferring to laud what they could not bring down to their own level. I have always created a humus for my success with the corpses of those who least favored my genius. I attract crackpots and backbiters, whom I turn into stepping stones or footmats for my success. In those periods I met many rattlers whom I reduced to common garden-snakes so I might tan their hides for my wallet." - Salvador DaliAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com