If you’re going to lose your housing, start advertising for live-in pet sitting.

I love her!

In the handicapped zone of the parking lot, always leave a cart or two, or three. Older people like to get out of the car, and have a cart right there to act as a walker across the parking lot, and across the street.

We had five cats, and they all knew each other’s names.

We probably look like little Minions, running about.

At some point a horny platypus fucked a chicken, and invented the duck.

I just saw a post in a different thread where someone called it the worst thing they’d ever watched.

I loved it, but I could definitely see both sides. It was a weird movie. But great. And fun.

“Well, you’re fooking elephants, ain’t ye?”

Watch those two movies, two nights in a row, and every movie you watch for the next year will suck.

I did enjoy it, but what is he looking at?

“Oh, no! I shouldn’t be driving this car!”

In the 40s & 50s, Alfred Hitchcock made a series of incredible thrillers that hold up to this day. Some were B&W, some were color, but ALL of them were at least 4 star movies, and many are 5 stars, and some are absolute CLASSICS.

My favorites:

• Lifeboat (1944)
• Notorious (1946)
• Rope (1948)
• Strangers on a Train (1951)
• Dial M For Murder (1954)
• Rear Window (1954)
• The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
• The Wrong Man (1956)
• Vertigo (1958)
• North By Northwest (1959)
• Psycho (1960)

He made a lot more than these, and like I said, they’re all terrific, but these are my personal favorites. Rear Window is my favorite film of all time, a PERFECT movie. Also, in Rear Window, Grace Kelly was the most beautiful woman who has ever appeared on screen. Watch it, and tell me I’m wrong.

Hitchcock is addicting.

I’ve always felt the structure and pacing of 2001 to be musical, literally a symphony in four movements. The classical music soundtrack really sells that concept.

The light show at the the end has to be taken in context. It was 1968, the peak of the hippie movement, and one of the most explosively creative moments in popular art in history, partially fueled by hallucinogenics like weed, but also LSD, which was making it’s way across the country. It was already widely available in California, where it was being distributed by associates of the Grateful Dead in San Francisco.

In LA, Kubrick would have been quite familiar with the trend, everyone was, it was being talked about in the media constantly. Would it be that surprising if Kubrick tried what everyone was talking about, and was as blown away as everyone always is, and had to reference it in his movie?

Light shows of various kinds were becoming a standard addition to concerts, using colors, lasers, projections, blobs of colored fluids, etc. Kubrick knew that people would be coming into this movie to trip, and he wanted to give them a big light show to entertain them. If they dropped their tab at the beginning of the movie, they’d probably be reaching a nice peak right around when the light show started, or at least tripping enough to enjoy it.

I’ve always figured that was the reason. If it was any other era, I would doubt it, but this was made in California in 1968, when EVERYTHING was about drugs or the Vietnam War, and this wasn’t about the war.

That’s a pretty good analogy.

Something I never hear people talk about with BB is how it hit differently when it was first being broadcast, than when it hit streaming.

The original show spooled out slowly, an episode a week, and then nearly a year before the next season, then they broke the final season in half, and dragged that way out. So between episodes and seasons, you remember the excitement, and you apply that to Walter, and sort of forget all the atrocities he’s committing. He’s just a cool anti-hero.

But when you binge it on streaming, your shock at his behavior doesn’t dissipate, it accumulates, and by the end, he’s just a bad guy who got a lot of people killed, and deserves his fate.

I watched it during its initial run, then binged it, and I can’t think of any other show that had such a different dynamic between the two.

You quit too early! It totally redeemed itself by the end!

Just kidding, I’ve never even heard of it, but your review of it made me want to check it out right away. It’s sounds like my kind of movie.

I also once read that the Romans believed thoughts came from your heart. I get that. After all, when you feel loss or separation, you feel it in your chest.

Still, it’s interesting to think about - why do we think thoughts come from our head? I’ve tried to imagine thoughts coming from my heart, and it doesn’t feel right. I think it might be because our eyes and ears are right there, feeding information straight into our brain. And yet the Romans believed it. It must have felt right to them, so that would indicate that it’s a socialization sort of thing. We’re told where our thoughts emanate from, and we believe it.

I guess they didn’t know what the brain did exactly, but they must have noticed from battle injuries that the brain is key to being alive.

I was reading recently that thought as we know it, is a relatively recent development in humanity. Up until only a few hundred years ago, any ideas we came up with, were automatically attributed to the Gods. You didn’t come up with any ideas on your own, you wondered what to do, and God told you, and you did it.

It was only a few hundred years ago that people began to realize that they were thinking up these ideas on their own, and God had nothing to do with it.

Some people STILL think this way.