Filed Under : 
Aug.21,2009Brian’s Morning Newsletter for Friday August 21st 2009
This one is for our very own Eyeball man Dave the Wave. Remember, the actual image is 1024 pixels wide, this one should be squished to 800pxs for better viewing on old monitors, like mine.
Good Morning
How about I start this off with food? You mind? Last night I made from scratch two pizzas with garden vegetable toppings.
Are dying to know what I put on the pizza?
Of course you are. Sautéed yellow zucchini, bell peppers, black olives, mushrooms with something called fiesta blend grated cheese.
Yeah baby, the Isuzu Trooper is back on the road, and our dog Cugo is already in the cargo area waiting for me to take him for a ride.
When a guy has a loving woman a good dog, a super cool truck, a new shop and wind turbine what more could he ask for?
Not a damn thing.
What is this? The box of course. What can I say? It definitely is a box, it even says the box, but not for long, we have a brand new can of brown paint for the trailer, but I think the name will stick.
For some reason the picture of the other end, of the inside came out dark, I used the gimp to brighten the image, then a filter called cartoon to bring out the grain in the wood. Neat, don’t you think? The Gimp is available for free to Windows users as well http://gimp-win.sourceforge.
Well, how about this for a Friday BMN? I wrote enough yesterday to cover a couple days worth of newsletters. Besides I know this is a bunch of pictures in one BMN, so I’ll let it go, like it is.
I leave this week giving thanks for our wonderful world and all its beauty
A big thank you, to every single one of you.
Have a marvelous weekend.
Brian Rodgers
Tarantino Blends Humor, Carnage Again In ‘Basterds’
Director Quentin Tarantino says he wants his movies to make people laugh at material that’s not usually funny.
Director Quentin Tarantino says he wants his movies to make people laugh at material that’s not usually funny.
Writer and director Quentin Tarantino has said his new movie, Inglourious Basterds, is not your daddy’s World War II picture.
In the film, a squad of Jewish-American soldiers is let loose to cause havoc in German-occupied France in the 1940s. The film quickly takes you into a parallel universe of outrageous violence and a plot to kill Adolf Hitler. The characters switch between English, German, French and Italian.
"There have been certain contrivances, especially when it comes to language, where people are supposed to be speaking German, but they’re speaking English … and I just think that’s a contrivance we’ve put up with for too long," Tarantino tells Steve Inskeep. "I think that day is over. … When movies take place in Nazi Germany and they’re all speaking in English, in particular almost Shakespearean English, you’d think the Third Reich started at the Old Vic."
It is this attention to dialogue that is reflected in Tarantino’s films. Throughout Inglourious Basterds, there are extraordinarily long scenes of dialogue that are incredibly tense. Tarantino says much of it is written when he’s sitting alone, and the conversations spout from his head.
"Basically, I just get the characters talking to each other, and then they do it," he says. "They really write the scene. I’m more like a court reporter jotting it down.
"The whole trick is to get them talking to each other, and then when I’m done writing the scene, then Quentin the writer comes in and just kind of cleans it up just a little bit."
The dialogue is not only long and tense, it also drips with dark humor — in between the killings.
"It’s just the way I write," Tarantino says. "There’s a comedy aspect to everything I’ve ever done. I stop short of calling them comedies because there’s actually serious stuff in the films. … But that doesn’t mean we can’t have a good time. …
"Part of my method of doing stuff is to make people laugh at stuff that’s not normally funny."
Tags : Isuzu trooper, the box, Trooper
Both comments and pings are currently closed.
Loading...