tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post8400599935475896697..comments2023-11-05T09:33:34.696+00:00Comments on The 'Spill: A frog by any other name...Blimpyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03062521891682719767noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-16413210351045313252008-02-07T23:52:00.000+00:002008-02-07T23:52:00.000+00:00Well, my name's quite boring too, obtained from a ...Well, my name's quite boring too, obtained from a book title, surely no need to state it in full. Unlike some of my friends, I've never grown out of loving the book, and I've been using Catcher as an identity basically since I first went online, lo these many years ago. I quite like it actually, as a word and a name.Catcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11482176727788044536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-18317442867439106112008-02-07T17:19:00.000+00:002008-02-07T17:19:00.000+00:00Haha, I'd get it from netflix, and apparently they...Haha, I'd get it from netflix, and apparently they're sending out versions dubbed into Spanish--so much for my Portuguese. I wonder why they'd do that? It looks good. If they sort out the language thing I'll get it.<BR/>We have friends from Oaxaca that watch their telenovela very faithfully--the men, too, which surprised me at first, based on my ideas of American Soap operas.steenbeckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14870117999742670522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-47186644373851088222008-02-07T16:05:00.000+00:002008-02-07T16:05:00.000+00:00Hmm a telenovela is more like a daytime-TV soap op...Hmm a telenovela is more like a daytime-TV soap opera with a bigger budget and shown in prime time. There's another brazilian film with 2 distinct sides. Handy since it takes place in arecord shop and the "A Side" is all about musical passions, it's called Durval Discos if you ever come across it.<BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmYYe6MHjL8<BR/>You can also practice your portugueseejaydeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09375968795284771538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-70668357973910692992008-02-06T20:41:00.000+00:002008-02-06T20:41:00.000+00:00I don't remember his name, but I think he had live...I don't remember his name, but I think he had lived in NYC for a while, or maybe had friends there.<BR/><BR/>Lower City was more like I imagine a telenovela to be--very dramatic. The Man Who Copied was imaginatively shot, and I think Ramos' performance was amazingly natural and good. It did take a strangish plot turn in the middle, but I like the rest so much I didn't really mind.steenbeckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14870117999742670522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-50381447721309135042008-02-06T18:26:00.000+00:002008-02-06T18:26:00.000+00:00Don't know the first one, but I've seen Lower City...Don't know the first one, but I've seen Lower City. That actor was playing in the prime time telenovela last year (it seems to be more respectable here). Funny about the ad, it could have been him (he's worked on some french hip-hop videos), his name wasn't Jeremy was it?ejaydeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09375968795284771538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-56636419020523717292008-02-06T15:51:00.000+00:002008-02-06T15:51:00.000+00:00It was The Man Who Copied, with Lazaro Ramos. (I'm...It was The Man Who Copied, with Lazaro Ramos. (I'm playing it safe with the English title.) And the other was Lower City, a very different film, but also good in a lot of ways. <BR/><BR/>I put an ad online last spring for a cinematographer for a short film I want to shoot here, and someone from Paris responded. He had done some hip hop videos. The videos were pretty good, and I liked to hear hip hop in French. But it would have been a very long commute.steenbeckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14870117999742670522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-42369341594965904892008-02-06T00:11:00.000+00:002008-02-06T00:11:00.000+00:00My friend's starting so he's doing small jobs like...My friend's starting so he's doing small jobs like filming a lot of shows and plays, as well as a few EPKs. His end of school project is about the history of the Venitian ghetto (he's still editing it). I have the teaser, but I can't really put it up on youtube without his agreement.<BR/>I don't know the film you mention, was it with Rodrigo Santoro? I'd like to see the film my sister did too but I've never seen it! I should ask her about it. It's probably still in VHS.ejaydeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09375968795284771538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-39038258195442610812008-02-05T15:38:00.000+00:002008-02-05T15:38:00.000+00:00I think that Tarantino has a lot to answer for. Ma...I think that Tarantino has a lot to answer for. Maybe I'm just bitter, but I feel like the early to mid-nineties were a terrible time for independent film. Before that you had Spike Lee, Jim Jarmusch--people doing sincere and interesting and courageous work. After that you had people trying to be cool in a really false way, and trying to make some edgy though hollywood-esque film that would make it big. <BR/> I'm planning to get back to it someday. I still have this idea of a perfect film in my head somewhere. What kind of films does your best friend make? I feel like it's possible now, with digital video and the internet, for a whole new movement, a new wave, I suppose. Actually it's probably happening all around me and I'm completely oblivious!! And it's probably not happening in America. I've seen some really good Brazilian films--Central Station, and these films (I can't for the life of me remember the titles) but they starred the same, very appealing, guy. In one he worked in a photocoppy place and was obsessed with the girl in the apartment across the street. The way the story was told and filmed was so unexpected. Does it ring a bell? <BR/>I'm going on too long... Don't get me started about film. Your sister's film sounds very interesting, I'd like to see it.steenbeckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14870117999742670522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-52907195655813216332008-02-05T01:06:00.000+00:002008-02-05T01:06:00.000+00:00No she's not, had she not stopped when she had her...No she's not, had she not stopped when she had her first child, she would have been more into journalism. She told me how all the other students were making Tarantino-style films, while she had made a documentary on Black nannies of the Upper East Side, and how basically that wasn't encouraged. I'll ask her about those 2 though. My best friend is a filmmaker though, and I have another cousin who started out as that and is now an editor, and I have another second cousin who's into post-production as well. Oh and another cousin is an actress. I have a large family, so we have most occupations covered.ejaydeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09375968795284771538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-19566550645621874552008-02-05T00:57:00.000+00:002008-02-05T00:57:00.000+00:00Is your sister a filmmaker? What a strange coincid...Is your sister a filmmaker? What a strange coincidence. My professor was Darrell Wilson, and he's one of the most amazing people I've ever met. I can't really describe him, but...I don't know what to say, he was very inspiring, and I felt this great affection for him. I guess you'd have to meet him. But maybe your sister has!! and the guy that did sound on my first feature (which I haven't youTubed at all yet) was Jeff Roenning.steenbeckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14870117999742670522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-49726836118117155672008-02-04T22:09:00.000+00:002008-02-04T22:09:00.000+00:00Hey steenbeck, I'm not sure if they're the same t...Hey steenbeck, I'm not sure if they're the same thing, but my sister went to NYU as a postgraduate and studied film there, not sure if it's the same thing as the NYU FIlm School. Funny you should mention connections, because guess who was in her class: Spike Lee's sister, the one form She's Gotta have It (apparently she was really snooty, a total b*). She might know these people if you give me some names.ejaydeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09375968795284771538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-83223188660911955502008-02-04T13:44:00.000+00:002008-02-04T13:44:00.000+00:00I just find the years go by quicker as I step into...I just find the years go by quicker as I step into them. Oh, and every Friday seems to reel round ever more rapidly with each new RR theme.Tempusfugithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05224691271795814331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-31064664625136636942008-02-03T18:49:00.000+00:002008-02-03T18:49:00.000+00:00Everton fan - male. Quite dull really. I suppose ...Everton fan - male. Quite dull really. I suppose 'boy' is pushing it a bit at my age - perhaps the whole thing's a sub-conscious attempt to come across as sweet and loveable. As if!ToffeeBoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09610938852113922395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-91122400298212765892008-02-03T10:37:00.000+00:002008-02-03T10:37:00.000+00:00What pseudonyms?What pseudonyms?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-32831020417960879152008-02-02T20:51:00.000+00:002008-02-02T20:51:00.000+00:00My nom-de-blog comes from the name of an online ga...My nom-de-blog comes from the name of an online game I started running more than 10 years ago, which is still running.<BR/><BR/>It has nothing whatsover to do with the short-lived and apparently very sickly alcopop of the same name. I've owned the kalyr.com domain for longer, and can prove it.<BR/><BR/>It's a word I just made up, but I started using the name as a username on a number of music-related forums since then.<BR/><BR/>If you really want to know what the game is all about, the archives of the game are online <A HREF="http://www.dreamlyrics.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum;f=54" REL="nofollow"><BR/>here</A>, with a summary of sorts <A HREF="http://www.phoenyx.net/kalyr" REL="nofollow">here</A>.Tim (Kalyr)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00960811565368970485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-14960495858724498322008-02-02T08:11:00.000+00:002008-02-02T08:11:00.000+00:00Nice memories of a very very influential broadcast...Nice memories of a very very influential broadcaster. And by your accounts a nice bloke. We used to laugh at the way he said 'Splodgenessabounds' in that accent....Oh and glad Gordon really is called Gordon!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-76768367138001088022008-02-01T22:22:00.000+00:002008-02-01T22:22:00.000+00:00Ahem, well my old nickname was kittencat, oft shor...Ahem, well my old nickname was kittencat, oft shortened to KC. I asked for some Fall for my ex, who was travelling that night from Aberystwyth to Wrexham, just to see the Fall. Peelie then told a story about his little brother almost falling out from Pater's car just outside Wrexham and then chuckling away at my nickname for about 5 mins. He played the White Stripes' Red Bowling Ball Ruth instead, the first time he'd played them, I believe. My ex kept bumping into Peel when we later moved down to London, notably in the loos the first time Peel played Fabric. He recognised my ex and confided he was petrified of what the cool Fabric crowd would make of him. My ex said "Play what you usually do, they'll love it! You're giving us Teenage Kicks, right?"...and thus Peel became a Fabric favourite.<BR/>Interestingly my fiance also met Peel at Glasto several years back: Peel stopped him (!) because he was wearing an Ipswich Town shirt and wanted to know how they'd played that day.<BR/>I had to make do with mockery...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-85237500196143389202008-02-01T21:41:00.000+00:002008-02-01T21:41:00.000+00:00OK then...it is a night in the early 70s, in Shrew...OK then...it is a night in the early 70s, in Shrewsbury, and my spouse and I are in bed listening to JP on the radio, when he announces the birth of his first child, and that said child has been given the middle name 'Anfield' after Liverpool's ground. So I said: "Ho, it's just as well he doesn't support Shrewsbury Town!" and my spouse, being tickled by this, wrote it on a postcard and sent it in, and JP read it out on the air.<BR/><BR/>And I was a bit miffed, because after all it was my joke: but anyway JP has it in the book and says that he used to tease his son with it. We knew, you see, because JP had been to school in Shrewsbury, that he would know Shrewsbury Town's ground was called the Gay Meadow.treefrogdemonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08668655760960757921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-80377960222231414922008-02-01T21:30:00.000+00:002008-02-01T21:30:00.000+00:00Please go ahead! You simply must!Please go ahead! You simply must!Blimpyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03062521891682719767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-71950608284958824762008-02-01T21:18:00.000+00:002008-02-01T21:18:00.000+00:00John Peel quotes my joke in 'Margrave of the Marsh...John Peel quotes my joke in 'Margrave of the Marshes'...he doesn't credit me, but then he didn't know it was mine.<BR/><BR/>If you would like to know the joke I will tell you but I'm afraid it's not very politically correct for these times.treefrogdemonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08668655760960757921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-89328446161060101822008-02-01T20:05:00.000+00:002008-02-01T20:05:00.000+00:00frogprincess, you may have misunderstood my earlie...frogprincess, you may have misunderstood my earlier comment (it's way back up the post, in the boring bit before the film). I had to be gordonsomething 'cos yes, that is my first name. I wish I'd been a bit more inventive tho'.<BR/>Sigh!<BR/>And ofcourse when I came up with it 'Gordon' wasn't such an unpopular name in the UK....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-74852845103086812122008-02-01T19:44:00.000+00:002008-02-01T19:44:00.000+00:00I'm with you Goneforeign, I'd much rather play a s...I'm with you Goneforeign, I'd much rather play a scruffy, sausage munching, beer quaffing, jazz listening German official next to Darcey's hard bitten, rock obsessed Scotland yard type than be a freakshow twinned hippo.nilpferdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08818100352162861468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-13751389667714848762008-02-01T19:36:00.000+00:002008-02-01T19:36:00.000+00:00Utter utter respect to TracyK for having been insu...Utter utter respect to TracyK for having been insulted by John Peel. But you're among friends here and we really want to know - what was your pseudo and what record didn't he play?<BR/>--<BR/>Steenbeck - VOD is video on demand - the most risk-free form of film distribution ever. Your films can be sold or rented on line by a distributor. No print costs, no marketing etc. I'll see what sites I can find if you want.....https://www.blogger.com/profile/12459690684592261821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-85084274567927433512008-02-01T19:07:00.000+00:002008-02-01T19:07:00.000+00:00A nun, Goneforeign? I don't think so. I'll buy the...A nun, Goneforeign? I don't think so. I'll buy the rest of the story, though. I'll set Malcolm to work making the figures out of play-doh as soon as he gets home from school.<BR/><BR/>Well, I think you'd make a damn good dj if you were so inclined, Ejaydee. Did your sister go to NYU film school? I thought about it, actually had an application, but it's very expensive, and I thought if I was going to spend that money, might as well spend it making a film. Thinking back, now, I think you go to NYU for the connections more than anything. My undergrad filmmaking professor taught at NYU simultaneously, though, and I worked with an NYU student on my first feature. Would your sister know them?<BR/><BR/>What's VOD, frogprincess? I'm intrigued. I'm working on transferring my films to DVD, and editing them, but it feels pretty damn pointless, I must admit.steenbeckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14870117999742670522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-84766330651316027502008-02-01T18:58:00.000+00:002008-02-01T18:58:00.000+00:00I'm called Tracy ("council estate chic", says my m...I'm called Tracy ("council estate chic", says my most superficial friend) and my surname starts with a K. But only for 6 more months!<BR/>I started posting on CiF and I didn't want a ridiculous name, having been stuck with a previous slightly silly screen name, which grew into an actual nickname, which John Peel roundly mocked for about 5 minutes after failing to play one of my requests a few years back.<BR/>I sometimes wish I'd been more creative!<BR/>Does anyone else read Blimpy McFlah as Blimpy McFlash? I'd assumed it was the latter for months before I actually noticed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com