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how strange. and yes, especially the music. |
"O Brother, Where Art Thou?" |
I just bought the soundtrack cd and was rather disappointed by several of the tracks. There's a lot of good stuff on it, but the scene with the 3 sirens where they sing "Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby" isn't what's in the movie -- it's sung on the cd by Emmylou Harris & Alison Krause and somebody else, and it comes nowhere near the amazing rendition done in the movie. I fucking hate when they do that. A soundtrack's a soundtrack. If I buy a soundtrack of Apocalypse Now, I don't want to hear Pat Boone's rendition of "The End". Whatever. |
it's sort of like one of the many really good liquors that I don't care for at all. |
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didn't like hudsucker proxy. thought blood simple was ok. will I like raising arizona? |
Probably not, but I'd be curious to know. Did you like the Big Lebowski? I liked all their films. |
i saw the big lebowski all the way through tuesday night. i thought i'd seen it all before, but i was wrong. |
I guess I don't like the magic realism in coen brothers films. my favorite scene in fargo is when the pregnant cop (frances what's-her-name?) is walking through the smorgasbord restaurant. the music playing in the background, the lighting, the decor. it's 100% real realism, my favorite kind. |
Big Lebowski, well, i LIVE for the dude. Raising Arizona....i liked the least of all their films. My only beef with O Brother was that sometimes the effects used to make everything *super* golden worked too well and started to really hurt my eyes. That was in the theater though. Dapper Dan ;) It's wonderful. |
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I just read something in Time about all that, but i can't sum it up. Nor can i even say what i read was true at all, since it's only Time and i never took physics. Basically the whole thing was about how the universe will end, and how no one really knows shit all about anything regarding the shape, form, creation or nature of the universe. But know this: it's not infinite. And it may not be expanding. It's shrinking. Or it's staying the same. No one can figure it out. Quote: "If you thought the universe was hard to comprehend before, then you'd better take some smart pills, because it's only going to get worse." -University of Chicago astrophysicist Michael Turner |
dougie: the set of whole number from 0 to infinity is infinite, yes? the set of whole numbers from negative infinity to positive infinity is also infinite, yes? but a bigger infinite. think of the universe as a giant sheet of rubber with a grid drawn on it. infinite area. now start stretching the rubber sheet, the space between points on the grid moves away from each other -- the universe expands. |
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/space/20010723/sc/miniature_supernova_created_in_lab_1.html http://spot.colorado.edu/~cwieman/Bosenova.html i love it when scientists say things like: "The theoretical calculations of what would happen in this situation predict behaviors that are totally unlike what we've observed," did they forget to carry a 1? or are our phundemental ideas of physics phundementally phucked? and where did those atoms go? do atoms vanish often? someday the world will wake up from science and wonder how we could have all been so silly. |
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if that was the way the universe expands, wouldn't we be able to measure? like distance between planets? best in show. g and i said 'i shit you not' everyday for months after that movie. |
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The Nova program was very interesting -- the common thinking was that the universe, because of the gravitational pull of all the universe's matter was shrinking. But Einstein couldn't prove that it was shrinking and thought it was actually staying static or getting larger, so he invented what he called the cosmological constant, a kind of a fudge-factor to reason this away. He later called it his biggest blunder, but now astronomers think he was right, and that the universe is expanding. They think his cosmological constant is actually "dark matter" and "dark energy", theoretical particles and forces yet unproven, but whose anti-gravitational and anti-matter forces could be the explanation of why the universe doesn't implode on itself. Glad you liked Best in Show, Cat. |
Thee was an articel in Discover a few months ago about multiple universes and how effectively, our universe is only liek a couple micrometers thick. Don't even ask how that's possible I can't remember the gist of it. The article had to do with some inconsistencies with how gravity works and how it should work, and one theory that was getting some attention was that gravity has something to do with things in other dimensions. I immediately thought "THINGS. NAMELESS, HORRIBLE, SHAMBLING THINGS." |
The cool thing about the expansion of the universe is that the expansion is uniform at all points. The upshot of this is that every point is at the "center" of expansion. In other words, you ARE the center of the universe. So am I, but that's beside the point. |
Actually, the great elven god sh'iallyn'ishtar created the universe as a giant crystalian structure. and while this structure IS expanding, it is expanding so uniformly that all measurements of expansion will always fall below our ability to preceive because the gaps in our preception is expanding at the same rate. praise sh'iallyn'ishtar. |
my bladder is expanding exponentially greater than the universe...hands down |
yes the universe is expanding, similarly like dots on a balloon expand when you blow it up...the question is, who or what is blowing the balloon up? O Brother was probably the greatest movie of 2001, and Big Lebowski of 1999. You hit two of my favs right there nate. |
why isn't Spider-Man out yet? May is so far away. I don't think I can whine about this enough. |
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