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As I said yesterday it's been years since I've seen Help! It is a good movie, but I think A Hard Day's Night is better. I needed to see Pattie Boyd say "Prisoners?"

Athough over the weekend I'm going to make a list of what I call Hot Beatles Moments in Help!

The list will actually consist of a lot of George moments. I think last night was the first time when I thought George was a total fox.

So next week I want to order movies from modcinema.com. I've decided to wait on getting Joanna. I find Genevieve Waite interesting, but the reviews I've read are really mixed about the movie. Plus she has the strangest voice of any actress I've ever heard and I don't know if I could stand to listen to her for 2 hours. So I need help in deciding what movie to get.

I've narrowed it down to a few and I want your opinions. If you've seen any of the movies, have heard about them, or think it's something I would enjoy. So I'll provide the titles and plots given out on the website. And you tell me what you think. My little opinions are in italics.


IN SEARCH OF GREGORY (1969)
In this psychological drama, Catherine (Julie Christie) is an attractive young woman living in Rome who is infatuated with a man named Gregory, whom she's never actually met. She flies to Geneva for a wedding ceremony and imagines Gregory to be an athlete in an advertising poster she sees at the airport; she's lost in fantasies about him, even as her brother Daniel (John Hurt), with whom she once had an incestuous relationship, attempts to seduce her. While she misses meeting Gregory, she does run into the sports star from the poster (Michael Sarrazin); but soon discovers that his chiseled looks don't match his drab personality.

I adore Julie Christie and Michael Sarrazin.

THE CHRISTIAN LICORICE STORE (1971)
Franklin Cane (Beau Bridges) is a red-hot professional tennis player who climbs the ladder of success with his trainer, Jonathan (Gilbert Roland), at his side. Jonathan was once considered the greatest American tennis player and intends to guide Franklin to the high-road. Franklin does not transcend the interest he has in local Hollywood-type parties littered with has-beens, wannabes and think-they-ares. It is there that he meets Cynthia (Maud Adams), a pretty photographer who makes a living photographing people like French filmmaker Jean Renoir and taking production photos of commercials. Cane becomes slowly seduced by the fast-track life and, when Jonathan suddenly passes away in his sleep, he succumbs to a lifestyle that is completely devoid of morality.

It sounds interesting, has Beau Bridges, filmed at least partially at Mike Nesmith's house, and is directed by James Frawley. What could go wrong?

FIRE SALE  (1977)
Alan Arkin directed and starred in this anarchic comedy. Benny Fikus (Vincent Gardenia) is the owner of a department store that's on its last legs, with his nebbishy son Russell (Rob Reiner) serving as his second-in-command. Benny's bother Ezra (Arkin) used to work with him at the store, but he quit to coach basketball in the midst of a long losing streak. Ezra's wife Marion (Anjanette Comer) desperately wants a child, and Ezra needs a new star player, so he thinks he's helping both of them when he adopts a black teenager (Byron Stewart) who shoots mean hoop. Benny, looking for a way out of the store's irrevocable financial slump, wants to burn the place down for the insurance money, but rather than hire an arsonist, he tries to convince his brother-in-law, Zabbar (Sid Caesar.)

This sounds hilarious and I'm a huge fan of Alan Arkin.

KNIFE OF ICE  (1972)
Yet another giallo thriller from prolific Italian filmmaker Umberto Lenzi and starring Carroll Baker, whom Lenzi had already featured in Paranoia and Orgasmo. Baker stars as Martha Cauldwell, who was struck mute when she saw her parents die in a railroad accident at the age of 12. She was taken in by a family in Martinique, and her cousin Jenny comes to visit her as the story begins. Jenny is murdered shortly thereafter, and the police tie her death to the sex killing of a teenaged girl a few hours earlier. The prime suspect is a hippie whom the locals believe to be a sex maniac is roaming the countryside; killing pretty young girls. The already traumatized Martha seems likely to be the next victim but the case turns out to be far more complicated than it would first seem.

I have a thing for thrillers made by Italians.

A DEGREE OF MURDER (1967)
Despite its film noir trappings, director Volker Schlondorff's dispassionate thriller transcends its sub genre to become a more broad-based study of alienation and angst in West Germany during the 1960s. Clearly a product of its times, the film stars erstwhile sex symbol Anita Pallenberg (Performance) as Marie, who shoots her ex-lover (Werner Enke) when he comes to her apartment and attempts to rape her. Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones, who was dating Pallenberg at the time, makes a brief appearance in the film as well as writing and performing the bouncy, psychedelic score just months before his untimely death.

Anita Pallenberg and Brian Jones. Need I say more?

TONITE LET'S ALL MAKE LOVE IN LONDON (1967)
Peter Whitehead's 1967 documentary of London scene in the swinging-60's is a visual treat for Mod enthusiasts everywhere. Featuring a who's-who of the scene, Tonight Let's All Make Love In London is a visual patchwork of 60's culture, seen through the eyes of the people leading it. Mick Jagger, Michael Caine, Vanessa Redgrave, Allen Ginsberg, and Julie Christie are all here, alongside counter-culture artists and other musicians who helped shape their generation and future ones to come. Most of the musical content comes in the form of extremely rare concert footage and inside studio recording sessions, while other segments include candid interviews, strange political demonstration footage, and even a segment on the radical art of body painting! Yes, politics and sex are on the palette here as the psychedelic soundtrack from a very young Pink Floyd, swirls and pushes the film on towards the climax of it's brisk 70 minute running time. Languishing in distribution limbo for too long, Tonight Let's All Make Love In London is a fitting testimonial to the changing times in the mid-60's and one that should be able to live on in the years to come for the young and old to look back on and enjoy. Also features rare footage and music from: Eric Burdon, Chris Farlowe, Lee Marvin, The Small Faces, Twice As Much, Andrew Loog Oldham, and many more.

This sounds like it's right up my alley.

POP GEAR (1965)
Very cool British Invasion rock and roll movie! The Beatles open and close the film with live performances. British disc jockey Jimmy Savile introduces Billie Davis, The Honeycombs, The Animals, The Rockin' Berries, The Nashville Teens, The Fourmost, Peter and Gordon, The Four Pennies, Matt Monro, Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas, Sounds Incorporated, Spencer Davis Group, Susan Maughan, Herman's Hermits, Tommy Quickly and the Remo Four. This film is also known by the title "Go Go Mania."

This just sounds cool.

 

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So I found a pretty cool site that makes copies of rare movies on DVD and sells them. They have a Buy 3 Get 1 Free special that I'm strongly considering doing. 

The movies I'm thinking about getting are Jane Asher's movie Deep End, The Herman's Hermits Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter, Genevieve Waite's film Joanna, and Sharon Tate's last movie which is an Italian film called 12+1.  I figure I might as well get Sharon's movie for free since I won't be able to understand much of it anyway.

Each movie is like 15 bucks and shipping should be 5 bucks.

It's not a bad deal considering none of the movies are in print and there are only a couple scenes from most of them on YouTube.

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From: kozmickitsch

Go to urbandictionary.com and type in your answer to each question in the search box, then write the FIRST definition it gives you.

1) Your name? Kristen
Slang for "most awesome girl ever"

emeraldqueene

It was a bad idea to have me in a class where everyone has a computer in front of them. Right now my prof is talking and I'm updating. Damn my short attention span.

At 10:30 I have a class given by a guy who acts like a mild Quentin Tarantino and sounds like Clay Aiken.

I just picked up Donovan's autobio and CSNY's Deja Vu Live.

You know how in Futurama whenever Bender has a magnet on him he starts singing folk songs because his secret dream is to be a folk singer? That's what happens to me whenever I hear a banjo. I'm odd.

I ended up buying the South Park movie yesterday since Wal-Mart had it really cheap. I can't help finding it hilarious.

I have so much work to do I may end up having to come to school on the weekend to work in the computer lab.

I kinda wish I could go to the Experience Hendrix concert that'll be in Portland in November I think. Just because Mitch Mitchell and Buddy Guy will be there--but I'll be busy.