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wlah...@gmail.com
May 14, 2013, 12:52:15 AM5/14/13
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Gtr,
Not sure if you liked Ramin Bahrani's Man Push Cart, but I recently saw Goodbye Solo and Chop Shop and I definitely recommend both. Great stuff.
Not sure if you liked Ramin Bahrani's Man Push Cart, but I recently saw Goodbye Solo and Chop Shop and I definitely recommend both. Great stuff.
gtr
May 15, 2013, 4:12:36 PM5/15/13
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gtr
May 20, 2013, 9:51:59 PM5/20/13
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> ...Chop Shop and I definitely recommend both. Great stuff.
I remembered this as Chop Suey and so I've been hunting down Bruce
Weber, a director I never really knew before. I noticed he had also
done "Let's Get Lost" about Chet Baker which a friend raved about in
the 80's. Having just officially rejected movies about junkies, I
didn't see it. So now I'm slowly taking a turn to examine Weber when I
realize my folly.
Walker Percy wrote a fascinating essay in his book "Message in a
Bottle" called "Metaphor as Mistake". One of his examples was from his
youth. As a child in Georgia, he was hunting with his father, a brother
and a "Negro guide" . They saw a blue bird flying along, then folded
his wings and drop like a stone into the woods. The guide said it was a
"blue dollar hawk". Young Walker loved that name and said it over a few
times. It was the coolest name he had heard for a bird.
Later his father told him he had mistaken the name: It was "blue darter
hawk". Which took all the fun out of it.
I remembered this as Chop Suey and so I've been hunting down Bruce
Weber, a director I never really knew before. I noticed he had also
done "Let's Get Lost" about Chet Baker which a friend raved about in
the 80's. Having just officially rejected movies about junkies, I
didn't see it. So now I'm slowly taking a turn to examine Weber when I
realize my folly.
Walker Percy wrote a fascinating essay in his book "Message in a
Bottle" called "Metaphor as Mistake". One of his examples was from his
youth. As a child in Georgia, he was hunting with his father, a brother
and a "Negro guide" . They saw a blue bird flying along, then folded
his wings and drop like a stone into the woods. The guide said it was a
"blue dollar hawk". Young Walker loved that name and said it over a few
times. It was the coolest name he had heard for a bird.
Later his father told him he had mistaken the name: It was "blue darter
hawk". Which took all the fun out of it.
wlah...@gmail.com
May 20, 2013, 10:43:42 PM5/20/13
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On Monday, May 20, 2013 9:51:59 PM UTC-4, gtr wrote:
> I remembered this as Chop Suey and so I've been hunting down Bruce
> Weber, a director I never really knew before. I noticed he had also
> done "Let's Get Lost" about Chet Baker which a friend raved about in
> the 80's. Having just officially rejected movies about junkies, I
> didn't see it. So now I'm slowly taking a turn to examine Weber when I
> realize my folly.
>
> Walker Percy wrote a fascinating essay in his book "Message in a
> Bottle" called "Metaphor as Mistake". One of his examples was from his
> youth. As a child in Georgia, he was hunting with his father, a brother
> and a "Negro guide" . They saw a blue bird flying along, then folded
> his wings and drop like a stone into the woods. The guide said it was a
> "blue dollar hawk". Young Walker loved that name and said it over a few
> times. It was the coolest name he had heard for a bird.
>
> Later his father told him he had mistaken the name: It was "blue darter
> hawk". Which took all the fun out of it.
Thanks for the esoteric aside -- with literary references -- but I have no clue what you're getting at . . .
> I remembered this as Chop Suey and so I've been hunting down Bruce
> Weber, a director I never really knew before. I noticed he had also
> done "Let's Get Lost" about Chet Baker which a friend raved about in
> the 80's. Having just officially rejected movies about junkies, I
> didn't see it. So now I'm slowly taking a turn to examine Weber when I
> realize my folly.
>
> Walker Percy wrote a fascinating essay in his book "Message in a
> Bottle" called "Metaphor as Mistake". One of his examples was from his
> youth. As a child in Georgia, he was hunting with his father, a brother
> and a "Negro guide" . They saw a blue bird flying along, then folded
> his wings and drop like a stone into the woods. The guide said it was a
> "blue dollar hawk". Young Walker loved that name and said it over a few
> times. It was the coolest name he had heard for a bird.
>
> Later his father told him he had mistaken the name: It was "blue darter
> hawk". Which took all the fun out of it.
gtr
May 21, 2013, 1:51:18 AM5/21/13
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wlah...@gmail.com
May 21, 2013, 10:06:39 AM5/21/13
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On Tuesday, May 21, 2013 1:51:18 AM UTC-4, gtr wrote:
> Six degrees of separation.
Duly noted.
> Six degrees of separation.
Duly noted.
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