For Eric the Fruit Bat.
For we love him so, and because you did not comment on Lem's excellent find the first time. I mean come on, this has bullets and danger and everything.
Edit: I think this is fixed. Possibly.
Edit: I think this is fixed. Possibly.
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Okay, you got me to watch. Awesome footage. The ammunition popping reminded me of when my uncle's house burned. He'd raised three boys, all hunters, and they packed their own shells. Decades of powder accumulating between the floorboards ensured the house went up in flames swiftly. Total loss, much like the one in the video.
Yay!
* clicks on play button *
"This video is private."
* sadz *
I never saw The Grapes of Wrath 1940 until last night.
It was pretty much the same thing as doing a homework assignment that I never did but the teacher said I had to do it by the end of the year or I won't pass. I'm 100% positive I never read the book even though it was assigned reading maybe a half-dozen times.
Anyway, I'm not sure what to make of it. There are a lot of movie conventions from that era that I find unappealing. I never cared for Henry Fonda, the Tom Hanks of his generation.
There was this scene where they're at some kind of a refugee camp or something and the grandmother character is confronted by these hungry little kids who have nothing to eat. She has barely anything to share.
Okay. That got me.
John Ford is famous for his landscapes, among other things.
The version we watched was formatted for an old TV screen with those black bars on the sides.
That didn't help.
One of the things worthy of mention was the forcing to prominence the phenomenon by which people with power can turn your friends into your enemies.
An example is the dialogue between the guy with the shotgun trying to protect his house and the guy on the bulldozer.
"No you won't. You'll only hang for it and there'll be somebody else on this dozer in two day's time."
Well done.
Does it work now?
I think the song might have been holding it up. I had a heck of a time uploading it.
(1) The video, she works.
(2) My elation at seeing the video work was immediately brought down by the sadness of seeing the house burn.
On the other hand, a pop-up ad informed me that there's a sale at Jos. A. Bank, 3 dress shirts for $99.
Is this a great country, or what!
(3) My guess is that clothes line in the front yard violates the terms and conditions of the restrictive covenant and that the Homeowner's Association will take swift remedial action.
Property values and all that.
Thanks for reporting. The video showed to me the whole time.
The close line got me too. It's like an anachronism. But I was thinking such a thing in Denver would dry clothes in three minutes.
Clothesline. I wondered why it wouldn't put those two words together.
Here's an alternative sound track, pregnant with thoughts on 1960's Watts and Detroit, and also Ferguson:
House Burning Down
Haz, I would delete your comment if, God forbid, your cabin does burn.
Yeah... I was thinking about the wisdom of deleting that comment, Haz. :)
I think that a lot of times, unless the fire gets put out by homeowners with a fire extinguisher, the firemen are there to stop the fire from travelling to other houses.
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