Postby ET, the Extra Terrestrial » Tue Jan 29, 2013 10:49 pm
Last night me and the missus went to a screening of Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo", with Kim Novak

and James Stewart. Apparently it was recently voted the greatest film of all time by a large group of film critics. The film club guy who introduced it said that it was one of the first films that explored gender role reversal, but I'll be blasted if I saw it in there anywhere. I was surprised to see that it was in color - I thought I remembered it as a black-and-white film, but it's been at least 30 years since I last saw it, so maybe my memory has faded a bit. Kim Novak was lovely, but man, the horrible things they did with eyebrows back then. It looked like she had completely plucked her forehead bald, and painted on these huge skidmarks that might have been left by a hot rod peeling out of a parking lot. Too bad she died at the end. The other thing that's a little disconcerting about those old films is the way a couple can fall deeply in love after a three minute conversation. Seems legit.
"Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens."
("Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.")
-- Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K Dick
What happens when all the renewable energy runs out?
-- Victoria Ayling
English isn't much of a language for swearing. When I studied Ancient Greek I was delighted to discover a single word - Rhaphanidosthai - which translates roughly as "Be thou thrust up the fundament with a radish for adultery."