vaporous entities and musings (in other words - BS)

[Paolo]

And you can just bet that there will be idiots who try and take their kids to see it, then complain about it!

[Dave (imported)]

I remember that back a number of years ago, I talked my Mother into getting our of the house to see CHICKEN RUN. It was in a brand new theater (the first "stadium seating" Multiplex in Pittsburgh. I told her she could brag to her friends at the Senior Citizen center about seeing the theater before they did.

Now CHICKEN RUN is claymation about a a chicken farm where they make chicken pot pies. One of the Roosters is named Rocky and his love interest is a hen named Ginger. They conspire to set the chickens free. In the claymation are all sorts of references to other movies. One of which is a "cooler" that mimics the "cooler" that Paul Newman is sent to in THE GREAT ESCAPE complete with the tennis ball being thrown off the walls. In the end Rocky pilots a chicken powered airplane. It's cute and fun but filled with goodies for adults.

The movie is fun and enjoyable but behind use in a rather empty theater was a grandfather with two little kids. You could hear the puzzled little kids and the grandfather who was completely lost as to what he was seeing. After all -- it wasn't Wallace and Gromit.

So as the owner of the company is chasing Rocky through the Pot Pie factory and the evil machines are turning into teeth and knives and all sorts of scary things, we hear a little voice behind us -- "Grandpa, are they going to EAT Rocky?" -- there wasn't a grandfatherly response.

Well My Mother and I surpassed a laugh in the theater but driving home, we laughed all the way.

I suspect that SAUSAGE PARTY will have walkouts for the vulgarity.

[Paolo]

Agreed, Dave.

The trailer, while a shock at first, was a huge turnoff for me.

And I suffered through Chicken Run as well when G3 was little.

[Dave (imported)]

I liked Chicken Run. It's a fun and entertaining movie.

But it was filled with all sorts of references to WW2 movies that went over kid's heads.

[Dave (imported)]

I need an intervention, I think...

The CEO of the National Enquirer is named Pecker.

That's right David Pecker.

The biggest scandal sheet on Planet Earth in both the last century and this century and its editor has a suggestively vulgar name?

That's the universe effing us over...

Please take me into a dark corner and let me whimper myself into oblivion.

I want to go cry in the dark somewhere dark and warm, under a blanket...

Maybe flog myself with Judge Judy repeats for a year or two.

[C&TL2745 (imported)]

I need an intervention, I think...

The CEO of the National Enquirer is named Pecker.

That's right David Pecker.

The biggest scandal sheet on Planet Earth in both the last century and this century and its editor has a suggestively vulgar name?....Maybe flog myself with Judge Judy repeats for a year or two.

Going from National Enquirer to Judge Judy? Somehow that reminds me of a story:

A guy goes before the judge, saying he wants to get his name changed.

"What's your name now?" the judge asks.

"Joe Sh*t," the guy says.

"Well, I can certainly see why you want to change your name," the judge says. "What would you like to change it to?"

"Bob Sh*t," he says.

Sandi

[Dave (imported)]

Two thumbs up...

Good joke.

[Dave (imported)]

Skyfall is a bore.

I know it is a 2012 movie but USA channel is showing it and there's not much else on ("Beat Bobby Flay" isn't exactly entertaining) but its a bore.

And Javier Bardem as an effete blond is just eye-popping awful.

[Dave (imported)]

Today was one of my Symphony days -- The Pittsburgh Symphony with Manfred Honeck conducting. Had Emmanuel Ax (the pianist) as guest and he did Brahms Piano Concerto #2. Beautiful music done live...

And one movement has an extended Cello solo in it that is echoed own the piano that was sublimely beautiful.

Emmanuel Ax is a yearly guest with the Symphony and always plays the regular concert series.

The second half the concert had the combined University Choir (there are five university choirs in Pittsburgh) as a guest and did several short selections:

"Oh Fortuna" from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana

"Chitester Psalms" by Leonard Bernstein

Overture to La Forza Del Destino by Verdi (no chorus because it mates with the following piece)

"Te Deum" from the Four Sacred Pieces by Verdi (his last composition, I think)

"Final Psalmody from Mefistofele" by Boito

A long concert and an extremely enjoyable concert.

BTW -- The Psalms and the excerpt from Mefistofele are rarely heard because of their length and orchestral demands.

[Dave (imported)]

I went to the Public Theater today and the play was DISGRACED by Ayad Akhtar ...

It won the Pulitzer for Drama in 2013. It is short, 90 minutes, one act, five scenes.

Excellent drama about race, religion, terrorism and relationships. A big question it asks is what is the Muslim American Identity.

In short -- Amir Kapoor is an invented man, an apostate moslem from Pakistan with a new identity as a nondescript person from India. A coworker at the law firm he works at has even given him a statue of Shiva. His wife is a painter obsessed with Islam. Her agent is a Jewish man obsessed with her. The agent's wife is an African American who also works at the same law firm. Both Amir and his wife's agent's wife (get that) are up for partnership.

But what happens when this delicate house of cards is disrupted by Amir's cousin whose Imam has been arrested for giving money to Hamas?

It's a fiery and rather stark drama. Good food for thought of what is the truth of interpersonal relations and what is the reality for people who are assumed to be evil or (ben worse) plotting the next horrid incident or (most unjust) simply not one of "us."