Lynch uses PD150 for new flick!

[etimh]

Canada?

What about Canada?

Evan, USE MORE WORDS to express yourself. I do, and look where it's gotten me.

Tim

[Mitch Perkins]

Tell you what - I kinda love it how these threads always seem to go OT...although the 911 thing was a tick much.

Just trying to smack you out of your ridiculous egotism and self-absorption with a relevant reality check.

I beg your pardon sir, my egotism and self-absorption are not ridiculous; they are serious business, very dignified, and regarded in a quite favourable light by some of the world's most discerning pricks.

"I'm a professional, dammit. I am, really."

Well...

And you wonder how they get away with it all. Nevermind. It's all about you, man.

Tim

Who knows, maybe I had a bad day and made a mistake. I could smash my knees with a ball-peen hammer...

By "they", do you mean Haliburton, PNAC etc.?
Even if not, I agree that my complaint is Super-trivial in the big picture. Maybe it's a(nother) manifestation of the frustration I feel over the big picture.
In the little picture, I'll grant you your point, and keep it in mind in the future.

But realistically I'll probably write something really jerky again. Oops in advance,

Mitch

[Evan Kubota]

Prepend whatever you like to that word.

- I've been only to Vancouver en route to Whistler, never to the eastern area
- Vancouver has excellent food
- Canadian people are sort of like Americans, but different
- Canada has a nationalized health care system, apparently.
- Prescription drugs can be cheaper there.

(this is what I do when I'm radically behind on reading and don't want to do it)

[Mitch Perkins]

Prepend whatever you like to that word.

Prepend! Whoa! I'd like to prepend something to that word...if you know what I mean...

Mitch

[etimh]

But realistically I'll probably write something really jerky again. Oops in advance.

Ah, I love you man.

Current events have just been getting me down lately. And in those moments when the big things and the seemingly little things collide, sometimes I have to put it in perspective. Not for you, necessarily. For myself.

Sorry I intruded on the discussion.

Tim

[super8man]

Prepend whatever you like to that word.

- I've been only to Vancouver en route to Whistler, never to the eastern area
- Vancouver has excellent food
- Canadian people are sort of like Americans, but different
- Canada has a nationalized health care system, apparently.
- Prescription drugs can be cheaper there.

(this is what I do when I'm radically behind on reading and don't want to do it)

Yes to all of the above but its not necessarily a positive:

NO MEXICAN FOOD (Taco Bell is not Mexican, in case you were thinking about that). I repeat, you cannot even buy the basic ingredients in Vancouver to make you own Mexican food at home. I kid you not. Good Chinese food though. Not sure they do the monkey brains thing but it would not surprise me.

Different as in FUNNY HA HA Look at the idiot? or Different as in Woody Allen married to his daughter like?

Nationalized health care but LONG waiting lists - so much so people either chose to die or more likely take out a loan and pay for top quality USA medical treatment.

Cheaper prescription drugs...you got me there. There is no excuse as to why drugs are so much more in the states...

[Evan Kubota]

NO MEXICAN FOOD (Taco Bell is not Mexican, in case you were thinking about that). I repeat, you cannot even buy the basic ingredients in Vancouver to make you own Mexican food at home. I kid you not. Good Chinese food though. Not sure they do the monkey brains thing but it would not surprise me.

Nationalized health care but LONG waiting lists - so much so people either chose to die or more likely take out a loan and pay for top quality USA medical treatment.

Cheaper prescription drugs...you got me there. There is no excuse as to why drugs are so much more in the states...

Yeah, Mexican may not be as big there, but I'd rather have excellent Chinese and Japanese food... you can get most anything in Vancouver that you'd be able to get in HK or Tokyo.

And I'm not saying that Canada's nationalized system is *good,* just that it exists. Which explains why I used 'apparently.'

I don't use prescription drugs, but for people who do it might be an issue.

[Angus]

My how did this veer so far off topic?

Just an anecdote on universal healthcare....in my wide travels, the only people I have ever found anywhere in the world who doubt the value of universal healthcare are Americans.....who of course don't have any.

Now to make this somehow on-topic....wonder if Mr Lynch has ever filmed in a hospital using autofocus?

[timdrage]

Now to make this somehow on-topic....wonder if Mr Lynch has ever filmed in a hospital using autofocus?

he kind of has actually! His early short "The Amputee" was a test of 'quality' of 2 different types of 1974 videotape for the american film institute.

Dunno if he used autofocus but it's certainly a precedent for Lynch making good use of knowingly bad looking video!

[woods01]

What's this crazy talk about no mexican food? :lol: Its true there is much
better Asian food but you'd expect that when 30% of the people are
Asian. But I can think of two Mexican places within walking distance of
my place, one a Tex-Mex place and the other is real Mexican (and
more popular with Mexican ex-pats). But Monkey brains are a hard find
outside of Indiana Jones maybe you can buy them at St. John's in London?

Lynch is quite an odd fellow and I'd expect his new video to be full
of his surealism and be interesting regardless of format. But it will
probably be as successful as any of Soderbergh's recent video
adventures.

[Evan Kubota]

in my wide travels, the only people I have ever found anywhere in the world who doubt the value of universal healthcare are Americans.....who of course don't have any.

And Japanese... the national health care system is a joke and people would much rather pay a shitload to go to private hospitals because the level of care provided by the public system is very minimal.

There are a lot of problems with the system as it stands in the US but please don't try to claim that the UK is much better ;) Look at your teeth... (collective 'you')

[etimh]

I don't use prescription drugs...

What do you mean?

You don't use prescription drugs because you don't need them? Or because you're into alternative therapies?

I'm interested.

Tim

[Evan Kubota]

Well, I don't need them at this point, but even if I did, I'd probably avoid them as much as possible. If you can call that an alternative therapy (no medication, not herbal remedies either) I guess that's what it is. The one thing about scientology that actually has a kernel of truth, along with their hatred of psychiatry...

[Angus]

I know a few people who have been helped immeasurably by good psychiatry....to the extent that without it they could not funciton as human beings.

Also know plenty of people whose personalities have been totally destroyed by one religion or another....but we'd probably better not go down this path.

Super 8 related.....I once shot a film for somebody who now, years later, teaches psychiatry...

[Evan Kubota]

I know a few people who have been helped immeasurably by good psychiatry....to the extent that without it they could not funciton as human beings.

What brought them to the point that they felt they needed psychiatric treatment?