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^Yep. Life is great that way.

That was part of the point. You have this family drudging across the American prairie. Day after day doing the same thing, seeing the same thing ... their lives dwindling away under the light of a faint dream. It's not an easy read, especially the first time you read it. Yeah, it's probably not for everybody.

Prices mean nothing isolated. You can't just say "it costs more to buy X" as an illustration of a problem. Without noting other factors, like a wage index, that information means nothing.

seeing people's awful handwriting would be part of the point.

What's your recommendation?

I think you explained it real well. Unfortunately, the Coldplaying.com community exists in a virtual space, a very difficult domain in which to hide a physical object. You could start a book train, where you read a book and then send that book to the next person on the list. Within that book you can write notes or underline passages and that would be your means of communiticating with the next person. They would do the same and before you know it you get a book with multiple people's thoughts in it. Imagine getting a book in the mail that had been read four times, had notes throughout it, small stickers and cards hanging from it. What character! What you could learn about those other people! The problem with that, though, is time ... not everybody has the time to read books at the same pace.

... an open sore that tastes really good.

We need more smilies? Already people are replying w/o any words: just smilies. No, I wouldn't like it if people had more means to post without actual words.

Mystic River isn't so much a downer ... well, I guess it could be. The movie is dark, though. Sean Penn is excellent in it. It's my favorite performance of the year from a male lead.

I've got a really, really good song of the day, today. I'm so happy. i've been whistling it a lot: Norah Jones Don't Know Why

Maybe you should start a Coldplaying book club, where somebody picks a book and then on a designated date you all can log on and post about it.

yes but who was the bigger slut the pir or jason biggs? Pie. Pie didn't even have any clothes on ... almost never goes (except for the occasional towel). Anarchy pie sucks. Anarchy cheesecake rulez.

Most of you seem to be reading very contemporary stuff ... I don't think I have a ton in comon with you as far as reading tastes ... for the most part, I tend to stick to what I read in school (the classic novels). I guess I need to get out more.

It'd probably be right about the same place. Punk was a movement, and no movement lasts forever. Since on of the tenets of punk was an antiestablishmentism, it would be almost impossible for it to survive any prolonged period of time without deriving some self-defeating reason for incorporating itself into the music mainstream. As is, that's what happened. Punk went mainstream. For the most part, people didn't leave the movement ... they just grew up and started families and jobs and lives and, since punk was no longer a rebellious outlet for the younger fans, punk wasn't bringing in any new fans. So it died. Just a theory.

Did you two sneeze or something?

The Eagles - talent The Strokes - talent Matchobox Twenty - trash I can't believe some of the responses to this thread :P CSNY are rock legends, helped frame pop and rock music as we know today. Deja Vu is a classic album ... I don't see how anybody who has listened to that album could say anything but talet. There are a lot of songs on the album that people love yet forget CSNY wrote. Pearl Jam? You guys are kidding, right? PJ has also framed today's rock scene more than contemporaries Nirvana and Soundgarden and ... et al. That's both good and bad because things like Matchbox Twenty and Creed and Nickleback and Puddle of Mudd wouldn't be around if it weren't for Pearl Jam, but just because those carbond copies aren't good doesn't mean the original isn't great. Oh, man ... I'm so disappointed in the youth of the world :bigcry: I'm semi-kidding. I don't want to force my preferences on anybody. I would just encourage people to listen to those two albums: Pearl Jam: No Code Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: Deja Vu

Yes :) ... we'll see how that works out.

1. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond 2. 1984 by George Orwell 3. Quicksilver by Neil Stephenson 4. Dickens, Orwell, Heller, Steinbeck; East of Eden and Catch 22 being my favorite books.

ten years ago? talent. now? trash, but trash by choice

Yeah, Mystic River is really good. There actors in that one are just spectacular. I wouldn't be surprised if 3 of the 4 best acting awards came from that movie.

Hee hee ... see the post above ... 3x Gisela? :)

Oh, that's right. Well, it doesn't give away the ending, but it does give away some of the plot. >>> from the other thread But let me post the intro to the thread, because that will answer your question: Eight Golden Globe nominations were the worst thing which could have happened to Cold Mountain (CM) in the media blitz leading up to its release. While the relevance of the Golden Globes has (and always will be) debated, any movie which leads the field in nominations carries with it heavy expectations. As such, I expected CM to blow me away. It didn't. In fact, there were moments during the first parts of the movie where I carried on a mental dialogue questioning the critics who placed the movie on its pedestal. As a fan of movies, rethinking this hype after seeing CM, I feel gypped. This was a very good movie, and only in light of those expectations does this movie deserve any criticism. So, here forward in this write-up I'll move past the hype, leaving here the fact that I don't feel this movie was as good as my elite movies of the year (Return of the King, Mystic River, and 21 Grams). I do, however, feel it is right behind, making it an excellent movie in its own right.

I agree with you. I don't particularly like Quicksand, especially in light of the other songs of the album.

Big Fish jumps around in it's chronology. I think each of the last six or seven decades are represented. with the possible exception being the nineties. McGreggor plays a soutern American and pulls it off excellently. While I've never seen McGreggor give a great performance, I've never seen have been bad. I really like him. I posted about 800 words on Cold Mountain in another thread. You should read that. I think it will tell you all you'd like to know.