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Rainbow over Ward St.
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Spotted this over Ward St., everyone had their phones out, it was a lovely evening...
The Room
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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I've never seen this, but Vox makes a good case for it. It seems to have everything I look for in Movies, and I've seen (and admired) a lot of the recommended related favorites.
- Link: Wiki describes "The Room" (Spoilers!)
- Link: The Room Funniest Scenes (YouTube)
- Link: BBC Describes "The Room"
- Link: Vox Analyzes "The Room"
Reviews:
- Ross Morin: "The Citizen Kane of bad movies"
- Jason Bailey: "If there is a 21st-century Edward D. Wood Jr., it is probably Tommy Wiseau."
- Kurt Loder: "What puts 'The Room' in a class of its own is its overabundant idiocy. While you're still gasping at one of the film's moronic lines or vagrant plot knots, another one rises up to smack you in the head."
- Steve Rose: "To make a movie that's so bad it's good you need vision, drive, luck and obsessive vanity. Fortuitously, The Room's writer/producer/director/star Tommy Wiseau appears to possess all of these qualities, combined with a total lack of acting talent."
- Ed Whitfield: "Watching The Room is like crossing over to a counterfactual universe where the rules of film grammar and screenwriting have been written by Dan Brown."
- Beth Accomando: "And that's the conundrum of 'The Room.' It's so very bad that it becomes riveting."
- Phil Hall: "It is a prime example of enthusiasm outrunning talent."
- Luke Y. Thompson: "'PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE'" gave me nowhere near as many belly laughs. Tommy Wiseau is a bit like Shatner or Schwarzenegger before they became self-aware."
Mumblecore
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I was aware it existed, but didn't know it had a name...
Mumblecore. Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumblecore
Garage Sales - Blewett, Beasley, Castlegar, etc.
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Up at 4:30, a misty morning on the lake, coffee, fidget, can't sleep, not in my bed anyways, not until the guests leave, so I mope about the house drinking coffee until it's time to go off garage saling.
A misty morning, countless spots to stop and take pictures - every morning the same, clouds wreathe the road, the road winds above them into the jeweled morning, then down again into the mist. First stop is Blewett - 7:00 AM, a collector. It takes me a few tries to find it, consulting the phone, and despite my being so early I still manage to arrive late. Classic farmyard full of antiques and collectibles, mostly car related - Studebaker, Model T, parts, a few other treasures:
A very antique typewriter, beyond repair or restoration, but cool looking in the morning light, I gave it a pass.
3 machine parts of some sort, or display for lightbulbs? I don't know, I'll use them as pencil holders. I'm drawn to anything that promises to make my life more orderly...a mere $1.50.
An old - 40's or 50's - bakelight rotary phone, excellent condition, he has a few, I pick it up for $25.00. I don't need another but it's impossible to leave it at this price, I can find it a home. The others - well, a dealer has beaten me to two, and I've shallow pockets at the moment, I leave them.
Onward, searching, next stop Robson - Garage Sales, 8:00 AM, I'll be late...
On the way, sidelined, another sign, garage sale, and here my next (and last) big find:
Native American Maul - hammer, some 7" or so high and weighing a ton (well, few pounds, distinctively heavy, Museum Quality, probably sculpted from meteoric iron...I should check that out.). Apparently gotten by the seller from a widow at Thrum, her husband had it, likely picked up locally. I prefer to find these things myself, but there are finds and there are finds, $25.00 for this, it's coming home with me.
From here the day is more or less done, find the Robson garage sale, nothing, then into Castlegar, few more, all bad, returning, Beasley, 2 fishing tackle boxes filled with lures, floats, sinkers & reels, both for $5.00, good - fishing equipment is abundant, you have your choice. Then through Nelson, quick coffee to go, few sales in town - none worth mentioning, and a couple of sales out of town, the latter of which gives me an old tripod for the cameras I bought and a CO2 canister for a paintball gun I bought a couple of weeks ago - next week, or the week after, it will be the paintballs, it's just a matter of time.
Home, or Homeless, more like, by noon, time to change and head to work...
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