tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post1239023273029072158..comments2023-10-04T09:50:08.070-05:00Comments on Logismoi: An Unexpected HaulAaron Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17775589009145031773noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-50419567911413922382010-01-18T09:54:38.413-06:002010-01-18T09:54:38.413-06:00Kevin> Well, I don't always like Williams, ...Kevin> Well, I don't <i>always</i> like Williams, even in <i>Dead Poets</i>. But that's one of those movies that I saw in the theatre (at which point remember I was significantly younger than you) that really made an impression. We recorded it on vhs at some point, & I used to watch it pretty frequently. Now I have it on dvd & still do. Of course, partly I just enjoy the setting & cinematography, but the snippets of poetry, even when it's not much good, & the pathos of the thing, even when it's excessively sentimental, endeared it to me. <br /><br />Now one actor that I do refuse to expose myself to is Angelina Jolie. I just dislike her so much that I actually swore an oath back in the nineties never to watch another one of her movies.<br /><br />Ivan> Well, I find it's always a good practice to give things away from time to time when you know someone else would appreciate them. But maybe next time you'll be quicker off the mark so you won't have to resort simply to taking advantage of my philanthropy! ;-)Aaron Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17775589009145031773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-43899075335501150982010-01-18T00:35:04.570-06:002010-01-18T00:35:04.570-06:00Thanks again for so generously offering me one of ...Thanks again for so generously offering me one of your "dibs." You are a true gentleman and philanthropist.Ivanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17928559011681907548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-81706788445022215492010-01-17T23:14:34.367-06:002010-01-17T23:14:34.367-06:00Yes, I only saw Dead Poets' Society once, back...Yes, I only saw Dead Poets' Society once, back when it was new. It didn't really do it for me. Whatever "it" is, that is. I am sorry to say that Mr Williams' presence in a movie is, for me, tantamount to asking me never to watch it, and, if seen, to purge it from the databanks at earliest opportunity. There are a number of such actors. Oh, I suppose all of them, these days....<br /><br />Agh! Back to work!Kevin P. Edgecombhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16590490181739464401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-74423856497310103682010-01-17T17:42:42.560-06:002010-01-17T17:42:42.560-06:00I need to get out more.
Ya think? Nearing the com...<i>I need to get out more.</i><br /><br />Ya think? Nearing the completion of your Old Testament Pseudepigrapha index, you're talking about compiling yet more reference works!Aaron Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17775589009145031773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-91444143551453458332010-01-17T17:41:18.693-06:002010-01-17T17:41:18.693-06:00So did you see and dislike Dead Poets, or did you ...So did you see and dislike <i>Dead Poets</i>, or did you never see it?Aaron Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17775589009145031773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-66342846472609313222010-01-17T17:25:37.210-06:002010-01-17T17:25:37.210-06:00I need to get out more. Two of your unexpected qu...I need to get out more. Two of your unexpected quotes from me today have left me giggling.<br /><br />I've really tried to love Whitman, really I have. But the more I read, the less there was. I think you'd have to be a Transcendentalist fanboy to love him, or a gender studies major at a liberal arts school in the Gay Nineties.... Still, there are some few glimmers in Whitman of a talent that was unguided and unencouraged, as much as his vulgarity and egotism was unpruned. I've always liked "I saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing", possibly because there's at least an attempt at cadence there, if not verse proper.<br /><br />And I am most very sorry, but I <i>cannot</i> imagine any case where "Robin Williams's delivery helps a lot."Kevin P. Edgecombhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16590490181739464401noreply@blogger.com