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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2019 11:59:25 GMT -5
I enjoyed a few movies back in the day but nowadays all of the stuff I see on screen is redundant to me. I do go when the wifey wants to see a movie. I do not go to enjoy the show, that would be a rarity. I go to watch over her safety in the movie house and the parking lot afterwords. If she has a sister or friend she attends a show with, I just pass on it if I think she is relatively safe. I am not a fan of movies or television at all. I might find something on the TV, usually on PBS that I might enjoy, but the network stuff is super boring to me. I have seen all the plot lines and emotive drivel over and over. Once I see a movie going into emotive drivel I lose interest, and most of them are designed to manipulate the emotive processes. No matter what you or anyone else will say the whole media thing to me is nothing but a big bore. But I do watch stand up comedians on the I-Pad, or some documentaries. Plus sometimes I find some neat things on PBS. The wife watches all that emotive drivel on the tube, that is what my MP3 Player and headphones, and that I-Pad and headphones are for, so I do not have to endure that crap, and still leaves the wife happy with the TV she wants to watch.
I will watch The Masked Singer when it comes back on, but it is not for the contestants or the masked singers, it is for the comedy the judges present when they assess or guess who the masked singer is. Now that is funny.
I will also watch some comedians on TV if I run across them in my "usually unsuccessful channel surfing". So in conclusion no thanks to going to movie theaters, and no thanks to TV programs especially dramas. Netflix and Prime on my I-Pad are my primary viewing medias, and usually only comedies.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2019 12:09:56 GMT -5
I also watch Stories from the Stage on PBS. That emotive stuff is real, and not the product of some slick producer or director. But The TV stays off most of the time.
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Post by whitefang on Aug 12, 2019 10:16:22 GMT -5
Heh. Frankly a lot of the newer flicks I see advertised don't interest me either. Maybe one or two out of a dozen, and I can wait until they hit the OnDemand list of my cable provider. Due to my wife's mobility difficulties even before her stroke, going to the show was difficult. The last movie we both went to see at a theater together was GRAVITY('13). But long being a "movie buff" I do look at a lot of older, "classic" films on various channels, mostly Turner Classic Movies channel which shows them uncut and commercial free. Movies are a lot like music in that they too, are subjective. Some will only go to see one kind of movie only, while others will go see almost any kind of flick. Just like some only like ONE kind of music( which baffles me) and still others like a wide variety of music. But, I can't watch any movie on any medium smaller than my 50" widescreen LED monitor. Or any television program either. I'm not the least bit interested in nor can understand why anyone would want to watch any movie or TV show on any screen the size of a business card, or on a device that can fit inside a corn flakes box. Just makes absolutely NO sense to me. But, like it's said... "To each....." And being a photographer too, there has to be some outstanding visual appeal movie-wise for me. Which is why I'm drawn to older 30's, 40's B&W movies and "film noir" shot by cinematographers like GREGG TOLAND, JAMES WONG HOWE, TED McCORD and their ilk. Whitefang
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2019 7:31:17 GMT -5
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Post by whitefang on Aug 13, 2019 9:32:13 GMT -5
According to the PBS show, THIS act wasn't originally scheduled to go on first, but because he was the first of the scheduled artists to SHOW UP, they quickly had him go on because the crowd was getting restless.
Whitefang
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2019 9:40:59 GMT -5
Richie Havens made up the Freedom song on the spot, because they needed him to keep on going, there were no other acts ready to go on.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2019 20:15:18 GMT -5
I heard he played for two hours.
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Post by whitefang on Aug 14, 2019 9:36:42 GMT -5
For Havens in those days it doesn't sound unlikely. What tickled me about the documentary was that some fiends of mine, who I didn't know until about that time,never HEARD of Richie Havens before. But to us old "folkies" he was an old friend. And didja also know.... The tune he opened with, "Handsome Johnny" was co-written with LOUIS GOSSETT Jr.? Maybe it was Louis who later got Richie into acting... Anyway, here's how the tune sounded on his debut LP( '66) Wish my old copy didn't get lost in some long ago shuffle.. Whitefang
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2019 11:00:19 GMT -5
Thank you for sharing!
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