https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_Encounters_of_the_Third_Kind
From wikipedia:
Both Burton and Elfman consider Edward Scissorhands their most personal and favorite work.
That's cool.
Edward Scissorhands is a 1990 American gothic romantic fantasy film directed by Tim Burton. It was produced by Burton and Denise Di Novi, written by Caroline Thompson from a story by her and Burton, and starring Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Kathy Baker, Vincent Price, and Alan Arkin.
It tells the story of an unfinished artificial humanoid who has scissor blades instead of hands that is taken in by a suburban family and falls in love with their teenage daughter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Scissorhands
spoiler
You know how to whistle, don't you, you piece of shit?
Talk about an unexpected gift, eh?
I love how they left a few little mistakes in, and somehow that improves the overall effect.
Not that anyone asked but I just got the tenth season dvds from ebay, ripped them and watched this episode this weekend. This episode has a lot of laugh out loud moments, including this one.
Just posted today, recorded last year.
> Last fall at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur our show was rained out. The sky cleared just as dusk fell & someone said: let’s go into the forest. So in a grove of redwoods we played a few songs for the hermit thrushes and spotted owls. Thank you Mark Satterthwaite & crew for filming it.
I loved them before and I love them now.
I'm just the consumer so I don't know for sure, but I believe these are cases of the company sells on both platforms but fulfills all orders via Amazon, which (a) defeats my purpose of shopping on eBay and (b) is against eBay's rules, I believe.
If you're of a certain age, you might have watched this in school, as I did. The theme song will never leave my head, no matter how I've tried to purge it.
Bless the Beasts and Children is a 1971 film adaptation of the eponymous novel written by Glendon Swarthout. It was directed by Stanley Kramer and stars Bill Mumy and Barry Robins.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bless_the_Beasts_and_Children_(film)
Woke Up Dead is an American horror/comedy web series starring Jon Heder (best known for Napoleon Dynamite) as a young man who awakes in a full bathtub after 'drowning' and has no heartbeat, prompting his friends to believe him to be a zombie. The show premiered on Sony Pictures Entertainment owned Crackle on October 5, 2009.
The show was released on DVD, not as episodes but as a continuous film of approximately 90 minutes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke_Up_Dead
Thanks for the link - I visited that town last year and was quite surprised how nice that amphitheater is.
Church and state should be kept separate. We're seeing wayyy too much mixing of the two lately. But still, the best solution is the one that works best for everyone, not just the majority. In this case, that would seem to be allowing everyone equal and paid access to the facility or nobody gets access.
History and tradition should obviously not be the entirety of the decision making process and recent events should outweigh things that happened 100 years ago. Otherwise, we block all progress and if that were a good idea, we might still have slavery.
The idealist in me would hope that these people could work something out without getting lawyers involved.
All of this IMO, clearly.
Hi author! I'm Dad. :)
Thanks for joining the conversation. I thought it too much to hope you'd be on Lemmy but glad you are! Thanks for adding those bits about https, but I was saddened to see that 90% of the conversation around this centered on that one side topic.
I've only read the TOC for your book so far but it seems very much what we need to see more people adopt self-hosting so thank you very much for putting in the time and effort!
Aha, there we go. I was trying to put "end to end encrypted" and "Google" together and it just would not compute.
Edited to add: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/what-apples-promise-support-rcs-means-text-messaging
I did too, just within TMobile in the US, using the s*** word. Went through just fine.
Not that anyone asked, but my greatest frustration lately is when I order something on ebay and it shows up in an Amazon box. F THOSE COMPANIES
Yeah, you all get all the nice things we don't in the US.
I'm curious about this. Do either of you run a custom dns for blocking ads, like adguard or pihole?
Did you turn off a bunch of stuff when you first got the PC?
Do you have corporate policies being applied in your registry?
Oh I have a VPN so no worries
My client (sync) can't load the image via my instance (lemm.ee). It's that just me?
Heathers is a 1988 American teen black comedy film written by Daniel Waters and directed by Michael Lehmann, in both of their respective film debuts.
The film stars Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty, Lisanne Falk, Kim Walker, and Penelope Milford. Its plot portrays four teenage girls—three of whom are named Heather—in a clique at a Sherwood, Ohio high school.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathers
480pThe Dark Crystal is a 1982 dark fantasy film directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz. It stars the voices of Stephen Garlick, Lisa Maxwell, Billie Whitelaw,...
The Dark Crystal is a 1982 dark fantasy film directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz. It stars the voices of Stephen Garlick, Lisa Maxwell, Billie Whitelaw, Percy Edwards, and Barry Dennen.
The plot revolves around Jen and Kira, two Gelflings on a quest to restore balance to the world of Thra and overthrow the evil, ruling Skeksis by restoring a powerful broken Crystal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Crystal
John Dies at the End is a 2012 American comedy horror film written and directed by Don Coscarelli and based on David Wong's novel of the same name. It stars Chase Williamson and Rob Mayes, with Paul Giamatti, Clancy Brown, Glynn Turman, Daniel Roebuck, and Doug Jones.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dies_at_the_End_(film)
> As Guided by Voices’ resident mad scientist, Robert Pollard churns out songs at a rate that makes the speed of light seem slothful. From homegrown four-track fuzzfests to comparatively high-tech stints with famous producers, GBV’s dozens-strong discography defies easy listening. With Pollard as the only constant, the Dayton band toiled in ‘80s indie rock’s sub-basement obscurity before emerging as the surrealist kings of lo-fi land in the mid ‘90s.
> Today, they’re a scrappy but stalwart alt-rock institution. At each album’s core are Pollard’s delirious dream-logic lyrics and miniaturist mania, with songs sometimes ending after a single verse. “I’ve tried to write epics, but I’ve got a short attention span from working with kids for 14 years,” the former schoolteacher told SPIN.
It's Propeller, right? The best GBV album? Yeah, OK.
Listen to "If It's Gone" by Good Looks on any music platform - Free smart music links by Songwhip
Nice and mellow.
Listen to "Set the Stage" by Lunar Vacation on any music platform - Free smart music links by Songwhip
The band has a new album due out in Sept.
https://lunarvacationatl.bandcamp.com/album/everything-matters-everythings-fire
I dig 'em.
Disclaimer: I'm no expert on this.
I realized recently there are two common types of Self Hosters here.
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I work in IT and host some services for my employer so we don't have to rely on the big tech companies, for economic or other reasons.
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I self host some services at home or on a VPS, as a hobby or for other reasons, but nobody pays me to do that.
The answers people provide seem to vary greatly based on whether the commenter is in the #1 or #2 camp. I myself have gotten answers along the lines of, "why aren't you acting more like a paid IT person?" and it's a little off-putting.
How to resolve this? Could we refer to one group or the other differently?
Maybe I'm making a bigger deal out of this than is warranted and I'm the only one confused?
If nothing else, I will call out my hobby status from now on when posting/commenting here.
Edited to add: TIL. I'll use these terms carefully in the future. Thanks!
The Little Shop of Horrors is a 1960 American horror comedy film directed by Roger Corman. Written by Charles B. Griffith, the film is a farce about a florist's assistant who cultivates a plant that feeds on human blood. The film stars Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, and Dick Miller, who had all worked for Corman on previous films. Produced under the title The Passionate People Eater, the film employs an original style of humor, combining dark comedy with farce and incorporating Jewish humor and elements of spoof.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Shop_of_Horrors
They Call Me Hallelujah (Italian: Testa t'ammazzo, croce... sei morto - Mi chiamano Alleluja, also known as Guns for Dollars, Deep West and Heads I Kill You, Tails You're Dead! They Call Me Hallalujah) is a 1971 Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Giuliano Carnimeo and starring George Hilton.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Call_Me_Hallelujah
The Black Swan is a 1942 American swashbuckler Technicolor film directed by Henry King and starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara. It was based on the 1932 novel of the same title by Rafael Sabatini.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Swan_(film)
Not to be confused with the 2010 psychological thriller-horror film, Black Swan.
Neverland is a fantasy television miniseries that aired on the Syfy network (United States) on December 4 and 5, 2011, and Sky Movies (United Kingdom) on December 9 and 16 December on Zee Cinema (India), written and directed by Nick Willing.
It is a prequel to the story of Peter Pan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverland_(miniseries)
This book will free your data and empower your users.
I've not read this yet, just passing it along, as it looks really interesting.
I'm not affiliated in any way with this.
ETA: If anyone has read it / bought a copy, a review would be very appreciated.
Touch of Evil is a 1958 American FILM NOlR written and directed by Orson Welles, who also stars in the film. The screenplay was loosely based on the...
Touch of Evil is a 1958 American film noir written and directed by Orson Welles, who also stars in the film.
The screenplay was loosely based on the contemporary Whit Masterson novel Badge of Evil (1956).
The cast included Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff and Marlene Dietrich.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_of_Evil
The Mystery of Chess Boxing (Chinese: 雙馬連環; pinyin: Shuāng mǎlián huán; also known as Ninja Checkmate) is a 1979 Hong Kong kung fu film written, produced and directed by Joseph Kuo and starring Mark Long, Jack Long and Lee Yi Min.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_Chess_Boxing