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Watched Stevie Nicks: In Your Dreams (2013) on Netflix. An in-depth look into the making of an album - lyric writing in particular. I just LOVE her!
The Killing Season. Holy sh*t, it was amazing. All three episodes are free online, I'm not sure if people outside Straya can access them, but if you can, I can't recommend it highly enough. Peeps are already calling it one of the best docos ever. Episode 1 - The Killing Season (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Basically, it documents the rise and fall of the Australian Labor Party from 2006-2013, and all the behind the scenes backstabbing (it is largely made up of interviews with the two main players, former Prime Ministers Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd). I knew what was going to happen, because I was alive at the time, but it was still riveting.
Basically, it documents the rise and fall of the Australian Labor Party from 2006-2013, and all the behind the scenes backstabbing (it is largely made up of interviews with the two main players, former Prime Ministers Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd). I knew what was going to happen, because I was alive at the time, but it was still riveting.
Watched Good Ol' Freda (2013) on Netflix about Freda Kelly who was the secretary for The Beatles for ten years. I thought it was very interesting, mainly because I don't know much about The Beatles. She is and was incredibly loyal to the band and would be very wealthy if she would've sold all the memorabilia she had accumulated, but instead, she gave most of it away to other fans. When the docu was filmed, she was still working as a secretary. I hope she is applauded for her integrity.
Did anyone catch the docu on Glen Campbell this weekend? So sad. But I was so proud of his family for their compassion and resilience. Glen is trapped in his long goodbye, Alzheimers.
I have my own Glen story.
Where I live, we have this huge rodeo. We used to have country western stars as entertainment. They always played right before the bull riding, the last event of the night. The powers that be always felt that if they did the stage show AFTER bull riding, everyone would leave because bull riding was THE event most people came to see. Of course they wanted a good crowd for the celebrity.
The year Glen Campbell came, they changed things up. They put him on AFTER the bulls. This was also during his big drinking and drugging days.
Well, he played his show and when the lights came up, in a stadium that seated approximately 10,000 people, there were only about 50 of us left, scattered here and there! It was horrible. I was embarrassed for him and sad.
It was customary for the celebrity to get in a stagecoach and slowly go around the arena to slap or shake the kid's hands who climbed up on the fence. Well, Glen did it. He got in the stagecoach and made his way around the arena to shake hands with the few of us who made our way to climb the fence.
I was one of them. I climbed the fence and shook his hand and thanked him.
A tough career night for Glen.
I wish him a peaceful and happy life.
I have my own Glen story.
Where I live, we have this huge rodeo. We used to have country western stars as entertainment. They always played right before the bull riding, the last event of the night. The powers that be always felt that if they did the stage show AFTER bull riding, everyone would leave because bull riding was THE event most people came to see. Of course they wanted a good crowd for the celebrity.
The year Glen Campbell came, they changed things up. They put him on AFTER the bulls. This was also during his big drinking and drugging days.
Well, he played his show and when the lights came up, in a stadium that seated approximately 10,000 people, there were only about 50 of us left, scattered here and there! It was horrible. I was embarrassed for him and sad.
It was customary for the celebrity to get in a stagecoach and slowly go around the arena to slap or shake the kid's hands who climbed up on the fence. Well, Glen did it. He got in the stagecoach and made his way around the arena to shake hands with the few of us who made our way to climb the fence.
I was one of them. I climbed the fence and shook his hand and thanked him.
A tough career night for Glen.
I wish him a peaceful and happy life.
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Okay, this is the last one. Just feeling misty. With every little change of my memories, I feel my world shifting under my feet.
Okay. I lied. Had to post one more. So many to choose from.
SAMSARA -- This was a Netflix thing. Don't know what made me pick it, maybe that it's been in the line-up for so long, I just finally broke down out of curiosity.
This is sort of a philosophical, spiritual thing. not one spoken word in the whole thing. Set to various music, an occasional lyric word could be heard, but not prominently.
Definitely most people would not watch this. Just images. I watched the whole thing. I found it interesting.
Photographers on the board might enjoy it strictly for the images. Don't expect anything more.
This is sort of a philosophical, spiritual thing. not one spoken word in the whole thing. Set to various music, an occasional lyric word could be heard, but not prominently.
Definitely most people would not watch this. Just images. I watched the whole thing. I found it interesting.
Photographers on the board might enjoy it strictly for the images. Don't expect anything more.
I must have heard this song 1000 times as a child. My dad would come home from work, put Glen Campbell on the stereo, and all was well with the world. To this day, when I hear Glen's voice, a calm, peaceful feeling comes over me.
I can't watch his documentary though. I don't believe I'd make it through.
This one has my all-time favorite song line:
And I need you more than want you,
And I want you for all time.
As a young girl, I thought, That's the definition of love, when you need someone more than for all time...
I always loved this duet by Glen and Anne Murray singing two completely different songs together.
He was very sweet.I saw that documentary and it was nice to hear his old songs. Your story is good, too Dana Jean - good of him to shake the hands of all that were there.
I watched this tonight, oh my Lord... total utter devastation and heart break.
Time and again babies and children are not protected when they should be... it is so sad and tragic.But then.... what a beautiful family and the story that was told. If it is possible to heal from that, they at least have strength in their love and many bonds.
It was pure devastation. So many failures to protect and these people should be ashamed.I watched this tonight, oh my Lord... total utter devastation and heart break.
But then.... what a beautiful family and the story that was told. If it is possible to heal from that, they at least have strength in their love and many bonds.
But yes, the family was amazing.
My mom still has a collection of his records (though nothing to play them on). His voice reminds me of feeling small and safe between my parents. His last song breaks my heart--can't even think about it without becoming misty.
Watching A Place at the Table again. Food insecurity is such a terrible devastating thing.
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island Of Dr. Moreau
I find the nuts and bolts of movie making fascinating. I find directors that make big budget films fascinating too because of the knowledge they must possess to do their job. Directors are basically building contractors in charge of a multi-million dollar project. They must know about construction, electrical, cameras, lighting, financial issues and how to deal with a wide range of eccentric people and on top of it all, they are artists. And they must complete their job under enormous pressure from the investors in a very short period of time.
So, what we have with this documentary is a movie that went terribly wrong and it's quite a spectacle to see. Richard Stanley had made a couple of small budget movies that were well received and New Line offered him an opportunity to do a film for them. He loved the HG Wells story and was very excited about doing The Island Of Dr. Moreau. He did a script everyone liked and the project was given a budget and a green light. Everything was going pretty good with the preliminaries until New Line somehow got Marlon Brando to be in the movie. When that happened (along with some other things) the budget swelled and Richard Stanley was in charge of something a lot bigger than he was prepared for. What turned out to be a great idea in the beginning turned into one of the worst movies ever made and the journey to that point is quite something to watch with a fired director and Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer sabotaging the film. Marlon Brando was just making stuff up as he went along to see how weird he could be.
If you like this kind of stuff, this doc is one of the best.
I find the nuts and bolts of movie making fascinating. I find directors that make big budget films fascinating too because of the knowledge they must possess to do their job. Directors are basically building contractors in charge of a multi-million dollar project. They must know about construction, electrical, cameras, lighting, financial issues and how to deal with a wide range of eccentric people and on top of it all, they are artists. And they must complete their job under enormous pressure from the investors in a very short period of time.
So, what we have with this documentary is a movie that went terribly wrong and it's quite a spectacle to see. Richard Stanley had made a couple of small budget movies that were well received and New Line offered him an opportunity to do a film for them. He loved the HG Wells story and was very excited about doing The Island Of Dr. Moreau. He did a script everyone liked and the project was given a budget and a green light. Everything was going pretty good with the preliminaries until New Line somehow got Marlon Brando to be in the movie. When that happened (along with some other things) the budget swelled and Richard Stanley was in charge of something a lot bigger than he was prepared for. What turned out to be a great idea in the beginning turned into one of the worst movies ever made and the journey to that point is quite something to watch with a fired director and Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer sabotaging the film. Marlon Brando was just making stuff up as he went along to see how weird he could be.
If you like this kind of stuff, this doc is one of the best.