Bill McCarty Repository
CB
Bill's latest posts but not interfere with the thread it was originally
posted in (artangel's Brokeback Mountain thread). In general, since Bill -
uneducated anti-semitic homophobe that he is - tends to divert attention
from more intelligent conversations, I hope others will feel free to move
conversations with him to this thread as well.
"Bill" <bm...@XpaM.net> wrote in message
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>
> It seems like the average Cannuckistanian needs to go back and
review
> her economics books. The outlay was NOT, repeat NOT the 14 million you
> quoted. It was 14 million PLUS the advertising budget. Which dropped the
> profit figure well below the 100 million minimum for any film with any
> pretentions to success.
Bill, sputtering will get you nowhere. It's cute in Elmer Fudd, but doesn't
carry much weight. Lee's movie info gives a current gross of around 153
million (prior to DVD release), and 100 million expected from rentals. The
estimated advertising is set at 15 million, the estimated distribution costs
at 9 million. As of now, that makes 125+ million in profit (without the DVD
income counted). and it currently stands at #22 of US films in domestic
gross for 2005 releases, which is quite respectable for a low budget film.
Now if you can provide better information, please do so; otherwise one can
only suppose you are once again making up facts to support your bigotry.
<As for being tolerant and accepting, when will
> Cannuckistan show some tolerance for the millions of Quebeckers who seek
> independence and want out of your frostbitten,
> mosquito and black fly ridden festering pest hole ?
>
Quebec is free to go any time it wants; the province has held several
referenda on the issue over the last 30 years, and each time the Quebecois
have voted to stay. Should they decide at some point to leave, then
accommodation will be made for that; in the meantime Quebec remains an
important factor in adapting Canadian federalism to modern needs. Most
Canadians are committed to a peaceful evolution of their society; the small
experiments in strong-arm tactics (like the FLQ, or Trudeau's use of the
armed forces during the October Crisis) proved politically disastrous for
both sides, while the political bigots that can cause so much trouble
elsewhere - especially the semiliterate ones like yourself - are generally
reduced to figures of fun.
CB
CB
"Biljo White" <biljo...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> Chris, you are assuming that Bill can add. I'm again thinking that he's
a
> put-on; he's too far over the top to be real. Isn't he? God, the horrible
> thing is that in America he could be for real. Stay up there in
> 'Cannuckistan,' it's nicer.
Lol, nah - I couldn't go without my visits to DepravityCentral, if only for
the art. Though the people (well, outside of some we know in Bungaloid, Pa)
are pretty cool. The US - independent of whatever political currents are
running at any given time - is still an amazingly dynamic place; I always
feel re-energized after visits. We all, unfortunately, have our disgruntled,
impotent, and unaccomplished Bills, but they do serve the purpose of
demonstrating just what happens when people are too afraid to leave their
(physical or intellectual) hamlets for a wider life.
BTW (and maybe this should go in another thread), there's an interesting
book called "The Undressed Art/Why We Draw". It's not a great book - it does
tend to the maudlin & simplistic - but it raises some interesting points.
One of which is the frequency with which artists tend to move. Maybe it's in
search of wider vistas; so much of art seems to be focused on the conscious
broadening of experience. Or maybe just avoiding pursuing creditors :)
Cheers;
Chris
Erik A. Mattila
Hokusai lived to be 98 and moved 104 times in his life. Why? Because
his houses just got too dirty to stay in. Kind of contradicts the pop
image of the fastidious Japanese artist, doesn't it? One of his best
images "Autumn Leaves" was actually a record of one of those chickens
with feathery feet running through the ink and across a piece of rice paper.
CB
"Erik A. Mattila" <e...@nospamimpix.com> wrote in message
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> >
> Hokusai lived to be 98 and moved 104 times in his life. Why? Because
> his houses just got too dirty to stay in. Kind of contradicts the pop
> image of the fastidious Japanese artist, doesn't it? One of his best
> images "Autumn Leaves" was actually a record of one of those chickens
> with feathery feet running through the ink and across a piece of rice
paper.
Maybe artists are the same the world over :)
BTW - on the subject of Japanese art - do you have any recommendations w/r
to Japanese art history, particularly leading up to the late 1800's? I'm
quite at sea with this, and my interest has been piqued by a number of
reproductions of Hokusai and Hiroshige prints in a book on van Gogh's
drawings.
Thanks
CB
Erik A. Mattila
on Hokusai in '58 (The Hokusai Sketchbooks: Selections from the Manga).
I think that single book had the greatest affect on my learning to draw.
(Wow, I just looked that book up on Amazon - it's a collector's item -
with the raw silk binding and slip cover, worth about 200 bucks.)
But I've seen plenty of books over the years on Japanese art - just
nothing stands out as I never did specialize in that area of study. I'm
sure you can find something good, though. One thing nice about art books
is even if the text stinks, the pictures are pretty.
I've actually been thinking about Hiroshige lately. We have a mountain
here at the south end of Imperial Valley, Mount Signal (or La Centinela,
since it actually is in Mexico) which really dominates the vista - so I
was thinking of "a thousand views of Fuji". Check it out:
http://home.att.net/~amcimages/mtsignalimages.html
CB
> I've actually been thinking about Hiroshige lately. We have a mountain
> here at the south end of Imperial Valley, Mount Signal (or La Centinela,
> since it actually is in Mexico) which really dominates the vista - so I
> was thinking of "a thousand views of Fuji". Check it out:
> http://home.att.net/~amcimages/mtsignalimages.html
I've been poking through that and you know that mountain reminds me more of
Cezanne's Mt. St. Victoire - at least from a physical perspective (here's
the first hit from a google search, for the unfamiliar:
http://www.artofeurope.com/cezanne/cez11.htm ). It's funny that that one
even has sort of a desert feel to it; perhaps he's been reincarnated down
your way.
