Re: McQueen in Los Angeles

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McQueen in Los Angeles

I've been waiting for a "Bullitt" reboot.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 03- 4-16 6:49 AM
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What a coincidence! I saw a performance of Julia Wolfe's piece Believing on Monday.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 03- 4-16 7:43 AM
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Please let me know when this event takes place in Virginia.


Posted by: will | Link to this comment | 03- 4-16 9:33 AM
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Huh, LAX is kind of a dump.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 03- 4-16 10:22 AM
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It's the worst! Get out of that place now.


Posted by: R Tigre | Link to this comment | 03- 4-16 10:34 AM
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I'd go to this if I were in the area. Of course, Jesus never tells us when he visits SF.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 03- 4-16 12:12 PM
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I'm probably out, unfortunately, though that does sound like fun.


Posted by: Stranded in Lubbock | Link to this comment | 03- 4-16 12:19 PM
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I guess you aren't in Lubbock anymore?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 03- 4-16 12:20 PM
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Nope, thank god. For various reasons, I now split time between LA and the Cincinnati area, and I'm now in LA for a sizeable chunk.


Posted by: Stranded in Lubbock | Link to this comment | 03- 4-16 12:28 PM
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At least half of those places have spaghetti with chili on top.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 03- 4-16 12:29 PM
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9: BAD CHOICE, friend. And now you don't even get to go to a cool concert!


Posted by: Thorn | Link to this comment | 03- 4-16 12:30 PM
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11: Yeah, but that's because I might be doing something else fun that, further to 10, most definitely does not involve spaghetti with chili on top. I do miss the horrible winter weather, though.


Posted by: Stranded in Lubbock | Link to this comment | 03- 4-16 12:40 PM
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most definitely does not involve spaghetti with chili on top

The phrase "three way" covers either possibility.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 03- 4-16 12:43 PM
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I'd like to come!


Posted by: jms | Link to this comment | 03- 4-16 1:42 PM
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14 to 13.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 03- 4-16 1:44 PM
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I really should read the thread before commenting.


Posted by: jms | Link to this comment | 03- 4-16 1:46 PM
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We had the cutest, fattest snowflakes yesterday, Lubbock! Other than that, you're not missing much. Anyway, I envy the LA meetup and hope it goes well!


Posted by: Thorn | Link to this comment | 03- 4-16 2:03 PM
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Here's something to tempt Jesus, maybe.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 03- 4-16 2:43 PM
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I've only been to SF once without telling you! And that was because I couldn't have made a meetup! The Ligeti thing does seem great, though...I may have to think about that.

What time works for LA people? If we're going to meet downtown, is 9:30 unreasonably late? Or should we try for before the film?


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 03- 4-16 4:01 PM
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4 LAX really is the worst. I was in John Wayne yesterday (and the day before) and it actually wasn't bad. Except that it's in Southern California.


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 03- 4-16 4:16 PM
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We will almost certainly be at the Ligeti Ligeti Ligeti! Yum!


Posted by: dairy queen | Link to this comment | 03- 5-16 12:07 AM
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Looks like we've converged on 9:30ish tomorrow night, which is to say immediately after the film. I was thinking maybe the rooftop bar at the Ace, unless you Angelenos have better ideas.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 03- 5-16 12:13 AM
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21: BUT WHAT about the Grisey I emailed you about huh??


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 03- 5-16 9:05 AM
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I must have missed your email! I will look for it now ...


Posted by: dairy queen | Link to this comment | 03- 5-16 11:02 AM
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Oh wow are those the performances at z space?


Posted by: dairy queen | Link to this comment | 03- 5-16 11:06 AM
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Guys, I'm not going to be able to make it at 9:30 tonight.* HOWEVER I will be going to the Julia Wolfe concert tomorrow night and could do a meetup before or after.

*rooftop bar at the Ace is great and wish I could go, anyone reading this who can should go.


Posted by: R Tigre | Link to this comment | 03- 5-16 12:23 PM
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Oh also I have an EXTRA FREE TICKET to the Sunday night concert if anyone wants to go. You have to sit next to me, though, and I smell.


Posted by: R Tigre | Link to this comment | 03- 5-16 12:28 PM
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25: yes.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 03- 5-16 12:56 PM
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Kung Fu Panda 3 is offensively bad. On topic because this is the fault of Los Angeles.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 03- 5-16 5:32 PM
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You people let the phrase "I was in John Wayne yesterday" pass without comment. I'm ashamed.


Posted by: snarkout | Link to this comment | 03- 5-16 6:05 PM
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30: You could at least have linked to that scene from Repo Man.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 03- 5-16 6:15 PM
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Anyway, meetup no. 1 tonight, rooftop bar, Ace Hotel. Probably more like 9:45, but we can still call it 9:30, since I have it on good authority that no one is never on time in this city. Lurkers welcome. Meetup no. 2, at or near Disney Hall tomorrow, specifics to be determined.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 03- 5-16 6:28 PM
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I can't believe that Taebaek Mountains has only one review. About a small town in Southern Korea, 1947-1950 as control shifts back and forth between communists and nationalists. Horrible, beautiful, masterful anti-war anti-politics heart-breaking film. 244 fast-moving minutes. Film starts with flocks of birds doing those patterns in the sky, and the movement of people is constant. Easy watch, except for the horrible subject matter.

Im Kwon-taek is the best director you've never heard of. 102 films and still active, he is just a little sentimental and trite, and not aggressively challenging, one of those humanist types with one foot in commercialism. Just enough arthouse and film festival to not disappoint or embarrass, better than serious Spielberg or Shindo Kaneto. Less grandiose than Kurosawa.

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Posted by: bob mcmanus | Link to this comment | 03- 5-16 10:35 PM
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Jeez 2 hours 44 minutes not 4 hours

But I still usually split long movies in two. Very watchable.

Exactly what you would expect with the commies and righties causing death and destruction...

...but the point wasn't missed that the nice peaceful humanist liberal figure is at the end of the movie sitting in the ruins surrounded by corpses. He didn't stop anything, help anybody, have any allies or friends.

Im Kwon-taek always surprises me like that, adds subtle value above and beyond.


Posted by: bob mcmanus | Link to this comment | 03- 5-16 11:20 PM
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Do we have commenters or lurkers in Berlin? 'Cause that's where I am, until Thursday. I couldn't think of anyone off the top of my head, but it's worth a try.


Posted by: Awl | Link to this comment | 03- 6-16 1:50 AM
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Meetup 2: the bar at Kendall's, underneath the music center next to Disney Hall, 6:30.

Incidentally, the bar last night was quite the wild scene. Three hot 30ish women approached me while I was waiting for a drink; one of them said, I love the flow of your hair, all three started running their fingers through it (I think they were on E), and one of the others asked what shampoo and conditioner I used. That has to be the most LA thing that's ever happened to me.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 03- 6-16 2:06 PM
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Pretty sure that's never happened to me and I've lived here most of my life. On the other hand, most women are intimidated by how attractive I am.


Posted by: R Tigre | Link to this comment | 03- 6-16 2:21 PM
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36: If there was ever a time for a live-blog...

Sorry to miss you this time around, Jesus. Tigre, k-sky, jms, etc., let's arrange another meetup soon, and we can put Tigre's intimidation/hair-strokability ratio to a second round of tests.


Posted by: Stranded in Lubbock | Link to this comment | 03- 6-16 4:36 PM
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Meetup liveblog: performance about to start. K-sky as nice as you'd expect, Tigre less threatening than you'd expect. We'll see what happens after our intermission cocktail.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 03- 6-16 8:34 PM
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Knife fight?


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 03- 6-16 8:35 PM
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I assume that's what "nice as you'd expect" means.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 03- 6-16 8:39 PM
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Our intermission drink featured (for real!) my Mom. Was she threatening as fuck? Who among us can say. The post-intermission concert was amazing and super metal for any reasonably broad definition of "metal." But seriously for real amazing.


Posted by: R Tigre | Link to this comment | 03- 6-16 11:16 PM
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I was just about to comment about that. Sure, it was awesome to meet Tigre and k-sky and to hear one of the greatest pieces of the 21st century, but holy shit I met Tigre's mom. It doesn't get more metal than that.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 03- 6-16 11:31 PM
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I just saw Vox Balanae, which was pretty metal in an extended sense, and also a piece by a guy Wikipedia claims invented deathcore and then became a composer of concert music, for electric guitar, drum set, and amplified clarinet, and it was pretty metal, too, in a more ordinary sense.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 03- 6-16 11:49 PM
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The same concert/music festival also featured a lot of crap, though.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 03- 6-16 11:49 PM
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