A really DECENT movie!!!

[reallyME]

A movie I saw today, I highly recommend.  It's called High School Musical. If you hate musicals, you won't like it, but if not, you might find it really good...there is no bad language, no sex scenes and just a really decent moralistic, musical story about love and caring and acceptance.

Please see it

[Sela]

Whew!  It's so hot here!  I keep popping back in because I feel like I can't move around or I'll melt.  I just want to sit infront of my pc and that's it!

Thanks for this one RM.  My youngest d is into musicals and I bet she'll like the one you saw.  I'll mention it to her.

Going to the basement now......to clean fish tank and then the only other possible slow moving activity I'm interested in today.....

sewing.

  Sela

[mudpuppy]

This flick was on the Disneychannel about, oh I'd say, 75 times so far.
My wife and daughter love it.
It makes me want to find something to do outside. Guess its a chick flick.

mud

[mudpuppy]

I watch it al the time.
Drive's my daughter batty.

mud

[Hopalong]

I like The Deadliest Catch too but it's made me see the reality of overfishing
and I no longer eat crab.

Better not show me any tomato movies or I'll starve.

 

Hops

[portia guest]

The Sound of Music...

always has me crying, or at least sniffing and pretending not to cry. And now it's being shown in Austria. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4361449.stm

[mum]

I just have to share: this movie was the big deal this past year with my older elementary students....and my daughter watched it a lot and has the cd, too, so I knew all the songs. During a fourth grade class, some of the kids were singing one of the songs while they were painting, so I joined in. They were flabbergasted and sooo happy I knew the songs (the boys were groaning....yup, it's a young chick flick). Then they wanted to sing with me every day (um...I'm the art teacher).
Those Disney folks sure know what they are doing.....(ok, let's not get started on the political monopoly stuff.....)

[mudpuppy]

I like The Deadliest Catch too but it's made me see the reality of overfishing
and I no longer eat crab.

Huh? They've been fishing like that for many, many decades and they're still hauling the critters out by the millions, plus the Feds have a strict quota to prevent overfishing.

Hops if you are so inclined as to eat something as disgusting as a bottom-grubbing, scavenger, giant spider thing; go ahead there's plenty.

mud

[Hopalong]

Tee hud Mud, giant spider things. 

I used to work for a graduate marine science consortium and the overfishing of crab and many other ocean species is real. They try to manage it but we've messed up the oceans ecosystem along with the land one.

Another argument for vegetarian living (I'm only 90% there, just sharing info): it takes about 10 times the land and resources to produce a pound of vegetable-based protein as it does to produce meat. (IOW, you feed the grain to the cows to make the meat...and all the pollution and energy that requires). Or, you can eat the plant-based proteins directly instead (soy, other legumes). Way fewer steps.

Same kind of overbalance ecosystem messup happens in the oceans when humans eat extravagant amounts of dwindling seafood.

Hops

[mudpuppy]

High School Musical was on last night, so I managed to get through it with my daughter. Not as bad as I thought.
It wasn't The Bandwagon or You Were Never Lovelier (two of my favorite Fred Astaire flicks) but it wasn't bad.

Besides it was too hot to do anything outside.

mud

[Hops]

Me too, Mud!
I was so surprised at the coincidence.
I thought it was a cute show and kept thinking of the board. 

I kept having to remind myself that it wasn't a real school or the real world...
I always imagine little kids watching things. So, I was imagining an inner-city
kid watching that show...where there is no crime, violence, or even graffiti.
But its innocence was really nice.

Okay, now out comes the Hops crab:
I thought the girl's voice was really nasal. Yerggghh. The boy sang well, imo.
Shame these days so many singers are encouraged to sing through their sinuses.

And you know that glissando swoopy thing practically all pop singers do these days...all
those acrobatics, sliding from note to note? You're in luck, I have a...rant!

I used to have gospel albums because I always loved it.
Early classic amazing singers such as Mahalia Jackson would "leave the melody" out of the pure emotional force of what they were experiencing as they sang. Aretha Franklin did that too, but on a sexual channel rather than a spiritual one.

So anyhow, I Do. Not. Like. It. when contemporary singers do this...boinging around the notes thing...with no feeling. I'd rather they sang a pure note until LIFE demanded a different thing to happen. Instead, they sail around (what's the word I'm looking for, Write?) like robots.

Ahhh, such a satisfying spasm of old-fogeyness.
(I do a great old-crone cracky voice...wanna hear it?)

 
Hops

[mudpuppy]

And you know that glissando swoopy thing practically all pop singers do these days...all
those acrobatics, sliding from note to note?

Drives me bananas when they do it to the national anthem, probably because that's the only time I hear pop singers. Self indulgence is fine as long as you haven't got 65,000 people trapped in a stadium having to indulge you as well.

mud

[Hops]

Oooo, snarky, Mud!
A fogey-fest! 

Why are you denying yourself the pleasure of good pop or acoustic music, silly man?

There are still a lot of wonnnnnnderful singers around.
Think of Nora Jones...just 19 when she first soared up the charts.
A beautiful voice.

Hops