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  • TigerLilly
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    Primo? You know a guy called Felipe, by any chance? or already been to the fest that marye was just writing about, on your own?********************************** Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you will still exist, but you have ceased to live. Samuel Clemens
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    I want to make Rock-&-Roll movies with the AXIS Guitar reefer with calm honest merkin burger toys & Mahawkma Rentacotux the caulmn BA peeshorezz lady ~rocketzz w/ spuing corn on shakers .. I was playing my fiddle and it was smoken each note -primo¹
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    The Trips Festival Film Screening This Saturday: August 16th 7:30pm Sanchez Concert Hall 1220 Linda Mar blvd. 650-355-8000 advance tix www.pct26.com $12 general admission Film Night Pacifica is here again. On Saturday, August 16th please join us at The Sanchez Concert Hall. On this evening we'll be enjoying some truly Magical films witha 1960's theme. Learn about our region and the birth of the "hippie" generation as well as many other facts that have impacted our community and the world. Celebrate with PCT as we bring history and a look back at history Saturday, August 16th. Start time 7:30pm SHARP! Advance tickets at 650-355-8000 Background: What's The "Trips Fest"? from Charles Perry's A History of the Haight-Ashbury On new Year's Eve 1965, Stewart Brand and some associates staged a parade down Montgomery Street, the heart of San Francisco's financial district. The real reason for the parade was to get a little press attention for an event three weeks in the future, a sort of circus that would gather together the Acid Test, the Open Theater, Tape Music Center activities, rock bands, light shows and everything else the organizers could think of. Brand and his friends were going to use Longshoremen's Hall and have Bill Graham coordinate it. The name was straightforward: the Trips Festival. The Trips Festival was the seminal event that was the passing of the baton from the beatnicks to the hippies. It also was the coming out party for Bill Graham, the father of modern concert promotions as we know them. Before graham's experiment at the Trips festival, the idea of lights, multi-media and other "mood inducing" production elements in live music was pretty much unheard of. Many aspects of concert promotion and pop culture that we now take for granted were breakthroughs at the Trips.Festival. Many acts whom we now regard as part of Rock & Roll royalty were also discovered at The Trips Festival; acts like Jefferson Air-Plane (today known as star-ship) and The Grateful Dead. In Fact, one of Pacifica's own, Steve Brown, worked for the Grateful Dead and contributed in the making of the film. Steve will be on-hand Saturday to share rare footage and stories with us.  The film's creator will also be on hand to discuss this amazing piece of local and international history. Please join us this Saturday at 7:30pm at the Sanchez concert hall. Advance tickets can be found at PCT: 355-8000
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    "Gonzo" Viewing Update...
    *The following is for entertainment purposes only and is dedicated to and inspired by a true American hero, Hunter S Thompson (HST). This is a test of each reader's humor response system, as required by Homeland Insecurity, on an annual basis. My attorney has advised me to include this disclaimer* OK, for anyone within a day's drive and the stones to meet me face to face, I'll be reserving an entire section of the ESPN Zone, just down the street from the E Street Cinema, in the name of Raoul Duke, for around 5:30 pm. I want to take over the entire restaurant with crazed Deadheads like locusts in Egypt, if possible. I want to remind the current status quo, in that God forsaken city, what they're up against if they keep fucking with us. Selah! If The Man is out there reading this, along with your bullshit "new" surveillance law, I'll just let you know that I'll be loaded down with all types of contraband so I would advise bringing everything at your disposal and prepare for an ugly scene reminiscent of the town when it was taken over by drug addled hippies during the Viet Nam crisis. Mace, dogs, tasers, those tear gas guns used to kill Salazar, fuck man, whatever you can get your hands on will be needed to subdue me and my attorney by the time the hor d'oeuvres get to the table. Fair warning...
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    "Gonzo", this Saturday night (7/12/2008) @ the E Street Cinema, NW Washington, D.C. in the beating heart of the Beast itself.... if you dare. We're hedging toward the 7:20 pm show, at the moment. "I like to load up on mescaline and turn my amplifier up to 110 decibels for a taste of 'White Rabbit' while the sun comes up on the snow-peaks along"... Pennsylvania Ave. "Fear and Loathing in America - The Gonzo Letters, Volume 11, 1968 -1976", p. 235. Note that HST says, "... Continental Divide" and not Pennsylvania Ave but I think he'd share the sentiment, had he stayed in town long enough (and met me).
  • GRTUD
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    Opening July 4th
    ...there will be bats! "You know what the trouble about real life is? There's no danger music."
  • GratefulGigi
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    I watched this movie last night on HBO for the 2nd time, I'm not a Tom Cruise fan,but he rocked this movie!
  • grdaed73
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    my feet hurt
    at the mention of that movie, and i can picture him twisting his neck and the cracking sound
  • c_c
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    scary shit there mom. another one was Bangkok Hilton, about a brother and sister. lots of books out too, written by people who were / are inside for smuggling. don't do the crime if you can't do the time. BIG warnings printed in RED on the Malaysian arrival/departure cards, that drug traffickers will be sentenced to death. they also announce that on the plane before you land. Thailand has similar punishments for traffickers. but yeah, Midnight Express is the best among all of those films. peace
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    Brokedown Palace (1999)
    With Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale...Two women are arrested for smuggling while vacationing in Thailand.Not a bad flick, but Midnight Express (1978) was better!!
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all vids were for YOU rider. all 4 YOU. love&peace&peace&love p.s. foosball is for mooks.
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of course they were! :) ha ha ! Mystery & legend surround that Ol' Attorney ( wasn't he a bit obsessed with Barbara) ??. His name has slipped my mind. Hope he's where the climate suits his clothes anyhow :) I've got an interview on CD somewhere in the rubble, gonna have to dig it up ..... PEACE
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I can dream of j.... can't I? (without the belly button is much sexier) *** not yet, still rubbing ben gay (not that there's anything worng with that) on the bum hip. a lawyer? shit, enough people hate me. AND, I never passed a BAR in my life without stopping in for a couple of drinks... still waiting on that rider footfetish 'she's got bells on her toes' DVD... talking about movies, that is. ON topic, as ever here in deadland. ( -: peace.
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never a lawyer, nor an attorney, but, however, ever so often a 'solicitor' read into that what you will. ( -; (getting old, forgot to include that joke in the previous post-- or blame Carlo Rossi) peace.
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thanks for the hunter clips ccjoe. that man is still one of my heroes.nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile
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my pleasure gypsy. *** watch your local 'Straight to Video, Video shop' in a nighbourhood near you for: 'The Tie-Dyed Atache Case' the true life story of cc the 'solicitor' international scoundral ... a treatment under consideration in some lesser known indie Hollywoodland studios. (you heard it here first) ( -; peace.
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.that is definitely on my must buy list, if you are serious. heck, even if you are not nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile
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I don't know why i love this.
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Couldn't let this one go by... Jerry & Hunter are alike in some ways, different in others. They were both artists and they both took their own lives, which is a controversial and radical expression of freedom. To say that Jerry didn't know he was taking his own life at some point in the 20 years he was using is ridiculous. Is that the distinction you are trying to make? Please PM me on this if you'd like to reply, most people have no appetite for this subject.
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George Clooney will probably win an Oscar for his role as a corporate exec. who flies around the country firing people. His goal in life? To accumulate 10,000,000 frequent flyer miles. It is a very witty and sophisticated comedy. The people he fires are played by people who have been recently laid off from their jobs. This whole movie is really quite poignant and very good. One of the best I've seen in the last 5 years.
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At one point, a "prophet" named Benjamen Creem say's: "God told me to watch in the window. the're was a carB.M. and you got in the car? B.C. Yes" Sound familiar to me. lmao, Richard.
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Samuel L. Jackson fans will love this one. The movie is a thriller about a terrorist who plants a number of nuclear bombs around the country in the major cities, exactly what number is the main question. The movie has several statements to make about fighting terrorism in general: Who the players are Who has the moral high-ground: Are both warring parties on the same level?? How far are the players willing to go to accomplish their missions? This is a movie you watch from start to finish without stopping, or at least hitting the pause button. Highly recommended if you are into action thrillers that are well done and leave you thinking afterward.
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A great film from 1990 (I think) w/ Tim Robbins. Very underated and highly recommended.
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I remember feeling sorry for Jacob Singer and then really happy for the guy once I figured it all out. Having eaten a couple of bad ones in my day, I realized it could have been alot worse. This film really spoke to me at the time. ( Can't remember why?). I think this was Mackuly Culkin's first role.
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....to me, if I want to laugh I'll throw on "Blazing Saddles" or "Life of Brian". My two favorites. I wonder what would have happened had Mel Brookes teamed up with Monty Python? Mmmm...
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Have any of you seen an environmental documentary called "The Cove"? About a guy trying to save dolphins from being slaugtered in a bay in Japan?? My animal-loving almost 13 year old is asking to see it on tv tonight, but I am not sure whether this is a good idea.********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
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but I think it's pretty gory and somehow I think your 13 year old already knows that slaughtering dolphins is not so swell.
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filter for the fact that my gore tolerance is just about zero.
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America's finest actor or a guy with a real problem? Made me laugh ....and sort of therapeutic
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is pretty much how I feel today********************************** I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde
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It was funny!!!
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Pineapple express!!!!!
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Then check out "A Wild American Forest" narrated by Susan Sarandon. It's a film about the Klamath-Siskiyou ecoregion which straddles the Oregon-California border and where I've lived for the past 25 years. Check it out and then come visit ! Walk you in the tall trees
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Just saw this particular version for the first time. Had me rockin' even though I didn't attend. Fell in love with '69 Grace Slick. Triple Scorpio with those piercing blue eyes! Janis Joplin with the crazy quilt stargown. Wavy Gravy's announcements from the stage. Jimi Hendrix playing the Star Spangled Banner>Voodoo Chile (I think) ~ Hipsters, tripsters, real cool chicks sir ~
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Soldier Of The Road - a film about Peter Brötzmann. "This film came out of an irrepressible desire to hear Peter Brötzmann's music live, to record his sounds as he crafted them, to film the energy and the freedom of this man. I knew the old vinyl covers he had designed as well as his posters, but the discovery of his painting was a revelation, Above all, as we discussed, enjoying a good cigare, I discoverd a sensitive, open minded man. It was a privilege..."
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A variation on the mad scientist theme. Modern pharma hires bright young DNA splicers to create new life and come up with life saving medicines. They create Dren, a humanoid creature that can be aquatic or avian when the need suits and has many other attributes as well, like being able to change sex. Which she does and has sex with the boy-friend, girl friend couple who are the splicers. Worth seeing but the morality play part (big corporation toys with life for profit) is weak in this movie to concentrate on the main character.
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Riveting! I feel as though I knew this man my entire life yet we never met and I never saw him perform. An acquaintance over on rottentomatoes (as well all three of my sons) turned me onto Bill Hicks a few years back and my life changed for the better ... I no longer felt alone. I also really like "Sane Man".
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. always a stretch to challenge the '79 adaption with Alec Guinness. but with a superb Director in Tomas Alfredson; Let The Right One, yes the original Swedish film, not the pointless American remake. are U.S. citizens really so dumb that a language outside of English, a cinematic production with subtitles is so completely incomprehensible? Remember: SUBSTANCE OVER STYLE. digression in the rear view mirror. nicely paced, nicely shot and nice sound. not exceptional, but anything with Gary Oldman has a certain gravitas. and Kathy Burke is always a treasure. dominates any scene she's in.
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from the mind of Hunter S Thompson. Johnny Depp plays Hunter not so well in this book that was not so good. Trying to squeeze every last dollar out of the estate, eh? The movie opens 10/28
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Johnny Depp reading the phone book is probably worth the price of admission, but still.
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i wonder if he'd read it in a faux kooky 'I'm eccentric, me' exaggerated dead dull void like tone?talent deserted long ago, producing visual ennui while the crowds gawp on in pleasure, drowsily spooning mouthfuls of congealing nachos into their glistening chops. Depp's recent films represent untertainment at it's finest and will be warmly welcomed by anyone who regularly sits in front of the screen with a loaded shotgun in their mouth, trying to pluck up the courage.
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the last time I set foot in the local multiplex was for the Dead movie screening. They're not going to get my money for this. But there's nothing wrong with being fun to watch, and luckily Johnny Depp can make the phone book fun to watch. You want high art, this is probably not your movie.
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Oh, it doesn't have to be high art!! I like my candyfloss fluff too!I just don't like candyfloss fluff dressed as high art. Still, nice cheek bones though. I would.
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The karma you will suffer is pollution of your work in the future lives. We don't want spam.
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a documentary by visionary filmmaker Jan Kounen.the heart of the Shipibo Shamans.
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Kevin Spacey, Donald Sutherland & various others team up on a witty, fast-paced comedy about three white guys in LA trying to kill their bosses. How they managed to make this plot very good is beyond me. Great acting, production values and blooper reel at the end.
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unrelentingly grim but another astonishing performance by Tom Hardy.
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great documentary film on the history of surfing.
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beautiful short film "Poleaxed", written, directed and part filmed by the always impeccable Helen Petts.A meditation on stillness and perception following a road accident and subsequent illness. A contemplation of her life over the course of a year in her local park. Part 1 - Part 2 - Helen Petts is an extraordinary artist. She often collaborates with musicians, as well as running a Youtube channel devoted to free improvised music and is co-promoter of the Mopomoso series of free improvisation concerts with guitarist John Russell. She is currently making a film about Kurt Schwitters for a solo exhibition at the Hatton Gallery in Newcastle to open on the 21st June 2012. www.helenpetts.com www.youtube.com/helentonic http://www.youtube.com/mopomoso Schwitters project blog - http://helenpetts.tumblr.com/
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"I dance because I believe I can furnish something for my time in the next stage." Min Tanaka and his Mai-Juku Company. Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 -