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8753. wabbit - 3/15/2009 5:39:49 PM JaH, I have no doubt! But my little collection isn't worth much to anyone but me. Seriously. I do have some books and art pieces that might be worth something, but the containers? I think my small collection of skulls is worth more. It's just my stuff, and that's fine with me. The only thing my family members want is my jewelry, lol.
Arky, what a lovely idea. 8754. judithathome - 3/15/2009 7:30:49 PM Leslie had a HUGE collection of skulls...the exterior of his house was like a museum with antique tools, various animal skulls, antiquw signs...in his den, which was very Western in theme, he had cow skulls hung all around the room...with western artwork and decorator touches like bridles, bits, spurs...on one skull, he stuck a red silk rose in one of the eye sockets in homage to Georgia O'Keefe.
Very interesting guy, my son.
He and I had similar quirks when it comes to decorating...I use antique ice tongs from a local 19th century ice house as my paper towel holder in my kitchen.
One thing that made me proud was that my son framed a photograph I'd taken of a delapidated barn up in Maine...he used weathered barn wood on the frame and hung it in his den between two steer skulls. 8755. wabbit - 3/15/2009 9:47:44 PM omg, antique tools, I have a few of those as well. I have only one steer skull, but I knew the animal personally. Most of my skull collection is what I've found walking around in the woods — I have one I haven't identified yet. Nothing Western about my collection; more goth, I suppose, although I like skulls because I think they are interesting and I like drawing and painting them. Not as much fun as live models, but much cheaper and they can stay still for weeks on end… ;)
Years ago I lived in a small house in PA (I think I've mentioned this house before, we had a lovely outhouse with beautiful leaded windows). There were no closets, so no storage space, and I had maybe 30 baskets of different shapes and sizes hanging from the wooden beams, holding all my bits and baubles. It was a fine house.
Are we somehow distantly related?? 8756. judithathome - 3/15/2009 10:49:22 PM I think so!! ;-)
Leslie collected these skulls from a friend's ranch south of here...cattle that had wandered off and met bad fates. He was so excited to "harvest" mother and calf skeletons that were "curing" in the pasture at this guy's place...he was supposed to go retrieve them the week he passed away. What he had planned for them, display-wise, remains a mystery but he was REALLY excited about getting them.
Keoni and I have collected some fine pieces of antique luggage peices over the years...we use them as end tables or coffee tables or just to fill in corners in a room. We suddenly realized we can use them for storage! Ha!
I plan to use a few to hold the photos and material I have culled out of boxes and boxes of stuff left over from my parents' lives...and my son's. Found a picture of him from high school riding a bull at a rodeo...too bad that snapshot doesn't have sound! I remember the night it was taken...I was across the areana leaping up and yelling "HOLY SHIIIIIIT!" at the tops of my lungs, embarassing the hell out of him, I'm sure. Somehow, I had it in my mind that "bull riding" equated to "little cows".
8757. wabbit - 3/15/2009 11:17:41 PM Nothing like a good container. Maybe you could post some of the photos if you ever get the chance to scan them?
That sounds like it would have been a great video! There are so many events I remember and wish I had on video. Especially now that my brain is melting…
what was I saying?
I guess that's a discussion for the health thread! 8758. judithathome - 3/15/2009 11:57:06 PM It's just a snap shot...video cameras weighed about 7,000 pounds back then...ha! But you're right...would have made a great video...me screaming, him cringing, the bull charging.
He told me afterward that I broke his concentration and embarrassed him in front of his friends. Ha! 8759. wabbit - 3/16/2009 12:22:09 AM But what are parents for? LOL! 8760. wabbit - 4/3/2009 2:16:58 AM Trust me … if you have any kind of beverage in your hand, put it down before you watch this video.
Safe to watch at work, so long as your coworkers like Joe Cocker. 8761. alistairconnor - 4/4/2009 3:26:21 PM Oooh very clever
I wept copiously. It's true that at the time, I used to wonder why the lyrics were so different to the Beatles version, and what language they were in. 8762. wabbit - 4/5/2009 6:28:05 PM Yesterday afternoon, my mother and I went to see Two Men of Florence. It was great!
Playwright Richard N. Goodwin developed his play, produced in England as The Hinge of the World, into the Huntington Theatre Company production of Two Men of Florence. The play is about Galileo Galilei and Pope Urban VIII and their adversarial positions on Galileo's Copernicanism and heliocentrism vs. the church's Aristotelian geocentrism. Galileo had no problem reconciling his science with his Catholocism, but the Vatican did, and Galileo was eventually forced to recant heliocentrism and live his last years under house arrest on orders of the Roman Inquisition.
Galileo is played by Jay O. Sanders, and he spends the better part of two hours on stage. The play is a ton of dialog and Sanders makes you believe in and sympathize with Galileo. Edward Herrmann brings humanity to the "bad guy" role. You expect not to like his Pope, but you can't help but see the predicament in which he finds himself. You may not agree with him or his opposition to Galileo, but you understand his position.
The play isn't historically accurate (his daughter was a nun, but she was cloistered, not his assistant), but it hits the main points of Galileo's passion and problems. The Boston Globe says, "…Goodwin reveals both men as fascinating and complicated human beings, full of intellectual curiosity and spiritual passion." You can read the Boston Globe review and listen to theater critic Louise Kennedy discuss the play while seeing some slides. The set itself is spectacular, simple but very effective. The center part of the stage rotates at various points throughout the play, and stagehands dressed in dark shrouds silently move the set pieces around. I disagree that the staging was 'heavy-handed', but she's right about the dialog. You really need to pay attention and doing a bit of pre-play re-reading of your high school Galileo wouldn't hurt. I didn't have any problem at all relaxing into the play and am very happy to see at least some people don't want everything dumbed down to the lowest common denominator. If the play had been just the two men arguing, I suspect Kennedy would have had problems with that as well.
A few people around us, mom included, thought the first half was too long. I thought it was fine, but that's me. The play closes today. 8763. wabbit - 4/14/2009 12:19:47 AM Phil Spector, the rock music impresario behind such hits such as “Da Doo Ron Ron,” “You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feeling” and “Be My Baby,” was found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of an actress at his mansion in 2003, after a night of drinking.
Mr. Spector, 69, faces a possible 18 years to life in prison. Sentencing is scheduled for May 29.The jury reached its decision after deliberating whether one of the recording industry’s best-known producers shot the woman in a fit of anger or, as his lawyers argued, merely witnessed the woman’s suicide… 8764. Ms. No - 4/18/2009 7:50:47 AM The MESA Club at our school had a fashion show tonight -- Trash 'n' Fashion!
We got to see 15 lovely creations made of trash. My favorite --- and truly a stunning piece --- was made of yellow plastic dinner plates. It was this huge asymmetrical skirt that flared out as if the model were wearing petticoats. She'd slipped it on over a black catsuit and paired it with a black shrug with rhinestone accents. This thing was H.O.T.
Fun but not nearly so lovely was the minidress made of Doritos bags, but there was a paper bag pouffy mini-skirt that was really cute and a Little Black Garbage Bag Dress that could've walked out of Wendy O's closet.
It was a great time --- and I even got to make some roses out of cardboard drink carriers! 8765. Ms. No - 4/18/2009 8:00:20 AM Wabbit,
I'm glad they found him guilty. I've been irritated all along because they hardly ever talk about Lana Clarkson by name or with any value attached to her as a person---- as if not being a currently hot celebrity makes her life worth less or even worthless.
I happen to be a semi-fan of Clarkson because of her stint as the Barbarian Queen for Roger Corman. I'm actually only a fan of the first one not the second ---which isn't really a sequel but a totally unrelated film in which Clarkson again plays a Barbarian Queen. Weird. It's like they had two scripts and decided to make both and not bother with coming up with a second title.
Anyway, neither of the films is good --- Roger Corman, 'nuff said --- but I've got a soft spot for the first one and so I've always liked Clarkson and I was sad to hear she'd been killed.
And, honestly, who the fuck goes to a famous stranger's house and commits suicide with his gun in his foyer? Even in Hollywood that's ridiculous. Clearly his lawyers were selling that story hard though since all you've ever heard in the media is what a sad sack Clarkson was at this point to be 40 and working as a hostess at the House of Blues.
8766. judithathome - 4/19/2009 1:03:11 AM I didn't have any problem at all relaxing into the play and am very happy to see at least some people don't want everything dumbed down to the lowest common denominator.
Just saw this and couldn't agree more...I am so sick of plays, movies, TV shows being rendered almost illiterate so the unwashed masses can understand them. Read a book once in awhile, people!
And that includes the recent "Bible translations" with language a moron can understand...it's an ancient document, people! It shouldn't be written in text messaging language! 8767. judithathome - 4/19/2009 1:04:40 AM Hllo GD...Iv snnd...plse 4gve me. 8768. wabbit - 4/19/2009 1:36:24 AM LOL!!
I'm glad to hear someone else enjoyed that play as much as I did. There is altogether too much exposition in film and tv.
I hate to invoke Harry Potter, but JK Rowling was told to change the name of Hermione to something that American children could pronounce. Bless her, she refused, saying essentially, "they'll learn."
imho, ymmv 8769. wabbit - 4/19/2009 1:37:34 AM Ms. No, I couldn't agree more. Why is she a sad sack, but he isn't washed up? I can't say I don't get it, but it's irritating to say the least. 8770. alistairconnor - 4/20/2009 4:59:39 PM 
Dear old J.G. Ballard is dead.
You know him as the writer of the books of the movies : Spielberg's Empire of the Sun, and Kronenberg's Crash (which I've never seen).
For me, his early novels from the 60s and 70s were a big influence : The Wind from Nowhere, The Drowned World, The Drought and The Crystal World (four variations on the global catastrophe novel).
That was in my "science fiction" period, and he was one of those who helped me grow out of the genre.
Reading his obituaries, I feel inclined to check out his later work, particularly Millenium People.
(Footnote : unsurprisingly, he has a thing about Surrealism, and likes to be photographed with his Delvaux paintings... I was in Paul Delvaux land the other day, northern Flanders)
8771. alistairconnor - 5/1/2009 1:38:13 PM I never really thought of the Rolling Stones as an art-school band. Keef :
I mean, my experience of art school is basically sitting in the john all day playing guitar when I wasn't forced to draw some fat old lady [...] So then I went to study this stuff and I realised that these blues men, they're talking about getting laid. And there's me studying what they're doing, but I ain't getting laid. I mean, there was something missing in my life - obviously, to be a bluesman I have to go see what this lemon juice is, running down your leg. And you know, these guys are actually living a life - they're not studying. 8772. wabbit - 5/11/2009 2:11:04 PM AC, you might enjoy this, as you have moved the novel into mitochondrial territory.
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