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BigKenagain

Member Since 05 Jun 2002
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In Topic: Music - my one constant through it all...

05 September 2002 - 07:19 AM

Ren and Mari;

I made my statement a little hastily, just that for the most part I have not been well treated by your gender. With the exception of my wife, the truth is that relationships, both romantic and friendly have not always gone well. I was raised by my widowed Grandmother and my twice divorced Mother. I had two sisters, two female cats and a female dog... needless to say Testosterone levels in my household were not a major concern. I learned about "feminine protection" before most boys knew that there was a physical difference between boys and girls. Not to put to fine a point on it, but I knew when my sisters were having their "monthly visitor" before they did... for a few years I had it down to the day!!!! I have always been taught to respect women. In fact one of the last pieces of advice my Grandfather gave me, before passing away, was "no real man, ever hits a woman... even if she deserves it!!!" I know now that he was refering to not fighting with my sisters, but it is an advice I have taken to heart. My Mother taught me to always listen to what women had to say, my Grandmother taught me that women were (sorry about this fellas) wiser than most men. So you see it is a healthy respect that I have for women... and having said all that, women for the most part treat me ( and most of the men I know) like doormats.

I have come to the conclusion, after years of clinical research, that men will NEVER know what women want, because WOMEN DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY WANT!!!! For decades, women have professed the desire to meet a nice, sensitive, gentle, kind, considerate, intelligent man. And this is true, as long as all these qualities come wrapped up with Mel Gibson's face, Pierce Brosnan's ass and Donald Trump's bank account. Know, I know what you are thinking everyone, this sounds very cynical... Maybe I am, I wasn't always. Y'know, Guys have been the object of scorn for years because we lust after women like Pamela Anderson :angry: Daisy Fuentes and The latest cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition... While this is sadly true, here's the truth... Were in the open about it!!!! Does that make it right ? NOPE, but at least you know where you stand!!!! And if you decide to follow that guy down the aisle, then it's your own funeral. Now, I personally think Pamela Anderson 8O is an unattractive, silicon moulded, vapid, brain-dead, talentless, simpering moron... whose only redeeming feature seems to be that eventually she will die like the rest of us (I think, isn't silicon a known preservative). Daisy Fuentes, while reasonably attractive, has the intellectual capacity of a garden hose and I stopped being interested in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition after the last Kathy Ireland cover...

I personally know of at least three friends, who would fill every one of the criteria listed above, but all are,sadly, single. I say sadly, because they are valuable human beings, who any sane woman would want to be with, but friend number one has a weight problem, friend number two is the exact opposite, he's 6' 7" and weighs 185... When we were kids we used to use him to get the football out of the sewer :biglaugh: and the third guy, well I'll leave him out of it, because he has other issues he's dealing with at this time... So what is wrong with these guys??? Nothing!!!! Why aren't they dating??? It isn't for lack of trying... And when they have been in relationships they were frequently one sided and abusive... So I am sorry when I say that all women are evil, I just haven't had proof that I am wrong as yet...


Big Ken: who after all that is a hopeless... wait-a-minute, hopeful romantic and knows that somewhere his "Basheart" is waiting...

In Topic: Will there ever be a better Superman then Christopher Reeve?

04 September 2002 - 08:19 AM

Seeing as how we are talking two of my favourite topics here (Superman and the Superman movies) I gotta stick in my two cents worth (or after the American exchange rate .009 cents).

Kirk Alyn was the Superman of the Forties

George Reeves was the Superman of the Fifties

Christopher Reeve is the Superman of all times and here is why...

He did something with the character that no other actor had done previously... made him human. Hell, he even cries near the end of the first film. For the first time ever we related to superMANman. He made it seem like it could be any one of us... the guy sitting next to me in the theatre in December 79 could have been Superman.  This was the first big budget treatment of the immortal character, and it meant a lot to the Superman fans of the era. Superman was strong without needing to flex his muscles. He could fly... he was, well, SUPER. But it was possible to be a man in amongst all that blue spandex. This was a guy who could date Lois Lane, or your sister and it was believeable and you wouldn't have minded, cause this was a guy you could talk to before the date... Bear in mind also this was the time of the Anti-Hero in motion pictures. Characters like Rambo in the 80's and Travis Bickle in the 70's, were the heroes of the day. Guys who answered every problem with a violent and bloody solution, Superman in the first film never throws a punch... Not once!!!! He uses his powers and abilities in a more pacifist manner, in defense instead of offense. read the comics of the 70's and 80's. For every action story there is a strongly character driven story, the stories of Elliot S! Maggin and Cary Bates. These stories were of novelistic (?) quality. Far better than the drivel being doled out now. And what is up with the comic appearance of Superman now???? The Incredible Hulk wasn't drawn the way they are drawing Superman now, give me the more realistic look of Curt Swan and Murphy Anderson's Superman all the time!!!!! But I am going off on a tangent here...

No doubt that Christopher Reeve was dashing in the costume, but you didn't lose him behind the costume... That was sadly missing from the Dean Cain Superman, although Teri Hatcher's Lois Lane just seemed pissed off all the time, buth that's another story... In truth, Dean Cain more resembles the comic bookl Superman, better physically... But if you substituted a cardboard cutout of him in a scene no one would have noticed, and that's too bad because I really wanted Lois and Clark to work, I had very high hopes. I am sorry, but I just don't think that as long as names like Nicolas Cage, Jude Law and Brendan Fraser are being thrown around, that anyone will ever improve on the Christopher Reeve Superman...

One last note; I believe Chris Reeve will walk again someday, because he believes it so strongly... If you read his wonderful book "Still Me" you will believe a man will walk...


Big Ken:  :music: The Witches of Eastwick (DVD iso score)

In Topic: Music - my one constant through it all...

04 September 2002 - 07:39 AM

Oh, Ken, that's awful.  I'm very sorry to hear about all the crap at work.  Music has helped me through some tough times, too.  Probably the worst thing I went through was a very very ugly divorce.  It went on for five years, and ended in a five day long TRIAL.  Ugh.  I remember one day as I was driving to court for another day of hell, I stopped to pick up the latest new JW release -- The Patriot.  I got to listen to some of it before arriving at the courthouse, and as horrible as that day was, I knew at the end of it I would be driving home with my 'friend' JW who never lets me down!

Cheers
Dr. Know (formerly Jimbo Jones -- remember me, Ken?)



Of course I remember you Jimbo... You came to my rescue on the worst birthday of my life, so far...

Actually you have helped me out in a way you don't even know about... Your generous present of the discs from The Fury and The Towering Inferno have been some of the most listened to lately so thanks again.

I am so sorry to hear of the difficulty you went through and I truly hope that this matter has resolved itself... You have my thoughts and prayers.

Neil... All women are evil :music: When you think you have finally started to understand them they throw out a WHOLE NEW SET OF RULES! See above...

Daryl Van Horn...
"Do you think God knew what he was doing when he created Woman?...
So what do you think? Women? A mistake or did he do it to us on purpose? I really want to know! Because if it's a mistake maybe we can do something about it... Find a cure! Invent a vaccine! Build up our immune systems... Get a little exercise... You know, twenty push ups a day and you never have to be afflicted with women, ever again!!!!!"

In Topic: Music - my one constant through it all...

04 September 2002 - 07:21 AM

Thanks for all the well wishes everyone...


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In Topic: Old Composer question

02 September 2002 - 08:46 AM

But should film music not be judged first and foremost on how it functions in the film?



Well, in my own case I am judging his work on how it functions in the film, because I don't own any of his CD's... I have never heard anything that made me want to waste $20.00 bucks on his crap. In the slightly enjoyable category...

Driving Miss Daisy Nice melody, good reflection of the era, completely over-used
Green Card Again a nice melody, nothing great...

In the bad to worse category
Gladiator Sorry, IMO, this was the biggest fault in a movie full of them...
Crimson Tide More of his "Jerry Goldsmith wannabe" sound...

And the winner for the [b]WORST film score thus far recorded... Mission Impossible 2... Arrghhhh, what was that tech-noise, pseudo-spanish, GAWD-Awful, steaming pile of dung all about. I wouldn't have thought it possible to make Lalo Schifrin's incredibly tuneful and catchy Mission Impossible theme unlistenable, but this un-talented musical mobster and his Media Ventures Mafia figured out a way to do it...

Big Ken: who really needs to learn to express his feelings more :oops: