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  • in reply to: Any body watch Andromeda??? #73392
    Sidhecafe
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    Yeah you never see Rhade killing time reading Beyond Good and Evil….. 😈

    That makes sense, and I think he wanted to make up for Gehris’ betrayal of Dylan.

    I’m pretty much a week behind on the new season right now….just borrowed the Star Wars trilogy on DVD!!! Been in heaven!

    in reply to: THE BLACK HEART BOOK script wins BRONZE AWARD! #73382
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    This has been very mind exercising!!!!

    Thanks from me as well: To Stanelle, Logan, thefrey and Lexxlurker…

    great questions to ask of the genre that draws us!!!

    Bravo!

    I love http://www.sadgeezer.com…. 😳

    in reply to: Truth in Sci-fi #73381
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    Hieroglyphics are really just old advertisments from the greatest Marketing Firm to ever exist: Pharoh Inc.

    in reply to: thought this might cheer some of you up #73380
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    Headgehog wrote:

    We shouldn’t be talking about leaving the union, we should talk about kicking out the red states. Let them have their Confederate States of America. They wanted to leave 160 years ago, and we should have let them.

    Have you seen this website?

    www.(enter expletive that starts with “f” here)thesouth.com

    ???
    Very funny and pretty much what you just said….

    But really we can’t abandon Austin, TX the sole bastion of old time college liberalism and health food stores in Texas!!

    I’m heading that way to visit my sister in january!!

    in reply to: Truth in Sci-fi #73366
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    LOL!

    thefrey wrote:

    I wonder if we will be in danger of having people mesh our sci-fi entertainment with scraps of actual historical record.

    David MacCaulay wrote a book called Motel of Mysteries about people of the future totally misinterepreting the past….

    And I think there have been a number of Scifi stories of Aliens visiting Earth after intercepting tv transmissions and thinking they are actual representations of human life….

    Can you imagine if an Alien species had been watching the Scifi Channel and thought it was all real….

    They’d show up asking for Jack O’Neill!!! or heaven forbid Dylan Hunt! πŸ˜†

    in reply to: THE BLACK HEART BOOK script wins BRONZE AWARD! #73362
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    FAITH or rather BELIEF is not the same as TRUTH.

    Truth is an unconfirmed concept. A hypothothesis of reality. But truth can really go the way as Time….”blood under the bridge”.

    Truth and the arguement that it produces is dangerous ground for a species that has not moved beyond “eye for an eye” mentalities of justice and revenge.

    We must respect what one another believes, however and this is my version of Truth.

    Which is more accurately put as my belief in the shape of things for me.

    What any one believes as their truth must just be accepted as their Faith.

    We could spend days, megabites going back and forth over what truth is….But how does that apply to us being Scifi fans??

    Scifi provides an excellent forum in which to explore these ideas….as I mentioned before to play in our imaginations with our possible futures.

    history backwards/ reverse history…..that’s a potential of SciFi.

    in reply to: Any body watch Andromeda??? #73356
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    Isioviel:

    As I’ve watched more of the earlier seasons, I’ve come to appreciate Tyr a lot more. He’s much more Nietzschean than Telamachus Rhade.
    Though I still like seeing Rhade – the snarky drunk version, but that’s winding down now too….

    in reply to: THE BLACK HEART BOOK script wins BRONZE AWARD! #73355
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    thefrey wrote:

    While there are exceptions here and there of course, the truth as we perceive it is more *the truth of that moment* It can be altered or shaded as more facts become available or indeed as the passions of the moment pass and comunal reasoning is stacked against it.

    Yes- a more concise way of saying part of what I was trying to say, thanks thefrey!

    Nice tie in with Obi-Wan too!!!

    in reply to: Incredible (s) #73352
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    yeah for Pixar in general!!!!

    Andrew Stanton(don’t think he wrote Incredibles though) is a great writer with an amazing imagination. I’ve met him once briefly, he grew up with some friends of mine, a very nice guy too.

    Finding Nemo was fantastic, and I loved Monsters, Inc. too. Of course Toy Story.

    And the technology is just so fantastic…Yah-Hoo!!!

    in reply to: Tyr’s Hair or lack there-of #73351
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    I really like Tyr too, I’m watching him on the reruns on Tuesdays on scifi channel.
    And now that I’ve been reading Nietzsche, Tyr is very much the warrior poet Zarathustra praised. What I really love about Tyr is his voice and how he communicates his very strong views – in some very quiet ways.
    Rhade is not as Nietzschean, and esp. in this new season – is very much got his own demons going on – though I think the directing in his scenes could be much better- particularly good example is in the new Epispode “Attempting Screed” when he disarms Lunah’s bodyguard. Very poor production/direction…as if it was a rehearsal as opposed to the final product.

    But that’s just me nitpicking! Cobb’s playing of Tyr had such a polish and style to it.
    Apparently he does have the bone blades removed, I haven’t seen that episode.
    Telamachus Rhade doesn’t use his much…

    in reply to: THE BLACK HEART BOOK script wins BRONZE AWARD! #73350
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    mysteriesofthesea wrote:

    Truth, Logan,..is absolute.

    What is,..after the event has happened,..is. That which has happened cannot be undone. All the pretending by all of the humanity in the world,.. as to how that humanity choses to percieve WHAT we call the past,…cannot alter the past.

    There I think I might have to disagree, I don’t believe truth is absolute in a communal way, only in an individual way. And even then it can change.

    When truth becomes absolute for the community is what inspires books like 1984 and Anthem to be written. However we have to agree on some things for societies to remain cohesive…which would be an interesting tact for futurists and scifi writers to tackle now….how the communal truths are so disagreed upon as to start the breakdown of society (contemporaneous example- the USA).

    mysteriesofthesea wrote:

    Sidhecafe,..you say that beauty is that experience which comes with encountering those events or experiences or “objects d’art, which..take your breath away.” By that standard,..my constant wheezing and need for an inhalor is explained!!

    Yes and I hope I accurately got across that I don’t always equate beauty with happy thoughts.
    Joy and sorrow come from the same place. – Kahil Gibran

    Logan wrote:

    often SF is speculative in nature — an extrapolation of events, predictions based on the current world. Is a dystopian reality more prophetic than a future utopia? Judging by where we are, I fear so.

    I think this is why the human imagination is captured by scifi. It helps us prepare for the future…..all possible futures.
    And that is a very important function to provide for us. Very important.

    like individual imaginations tapping into the collective unconscious to provide for a need we all hold somewhere : hope and fear, pessimism and optimism for the future.

    in reply to: THE BLACK HEART BOOK script wins BRONZE AWARD! #73334
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    Logan wrote:

    So beauty equals truth, but it’s also said that beauty is relative since “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” and also it’s said that “the truth can be ugly.” That “truth writ large” or, following the initial statement, “beauty”, is “written in the stars” is absolutism. Where am I going with this? Appearances. Truth is objectice, yet the appearance of truth or beauty, as filtered through the eye, or mind’s eye, is subjective. I’m relatively relativist.

    Mysteries of the Sea wrote:
    Are science fiction writers obligated to create a picture of the future as “beauty” or of the future as a harsh “reality”?

    If beauty is truth, truth is reality, and the reality of the future is harsh, then “oh what [perverse?] fearsome symmetry” (my line edited for postal symmetry)

    Everyone must have their own definition of beauty. I don’t believe in objectivity. My degree in Journalism and time as a reporter taught me that.

    Sidhecafe’s (my) definition of beauty:

    Beauty is anything that takes my breath away. Stops me for a moment in time – stops me paying out my currency – and places me in a state of awe. Hence: terrible beauty, sad beauty, gentle beauty, precise beauty.

    Beauty does not negate ugliness. Like all variations of light and dark- you cannot have one without the defining/differentiating presence of the other.
    Without opposites adjectives would go the way of adverbs….meaningless overstatements.

    As I describe in Emerson’s statement, in order to see beauty in the world, one must believe in beauty….but to believe in beauty is to know and accept that the opposite exists.

    The banal, disgusting and disturbing world.

    However, I’m a person who believes and accepts that that must exist too. Not that I’m happy about it, or that I will not rail against it- I’m not a fatalist. We are meant to make it better even if some of our species seems bent on the other direction.
    And scifi is one of the best way I know to explore and be reminded of this.

    Why, in college, I took classes like Body Politic: Images of the Body in Science Fiction and Utopian Literature, Women’s Utopias & Intro to Science Fiction in college…as well as Woman, Man & Myth and Myths of the Feminine

    Philip K. Dick’s work points out the everyday horrors technology could wreak in our intimate lives, Tanith Lee that we are human animals still trying to learn the world- and always will be.

    *breathe* think I’m getting a little to dark here for my own good…enough of that for the moment…

    More input from others would be great!!!!

    in reply to: Double Bills du Jour #73333
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    Guy Pierce really was fantastic as Felicia too!

    However, Logan wrote:

    The song I think of mostly though when I think of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert is “I’ve been to paradise, but I’ve never been to me” which gets me thinking about the Poe poem “To One in Paradise” which gets me thinking about Phantom of the Paradise, which brings my thoughts to another rock musical on screen, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which gets me thinking about men in drag, which brings me back to Priscilla… Oh what a vicious convoluted circular web my mind wroughts (more like my mind rots).

    To which Sidhecafe replies: Logan, you just kill me! πŸ˜† πŸ˜† πŸ˜†

    I watched Priscilla was on IFC the other night and I was so happy I got to see the whole thing in honor of the Miss International Queen Paegent earlier this month in Thailand, the first transvestite/transexual beauty competition!!!

    Really these women were stunningly beautiful….they had pictures on the boston.com website. I think Miss India who was second place should have had it!

    Now I think this kind of gender- transformation is very scifi/fact. Since the technology is there to change humans from one to the other. Which if you really think about it is amazingly futuristic and mind bending….like reading Stranger In a Strange Land for the first time.

    I’m very happy I was born a woman – but if I was born a man I’d be a serious Queen! πŸ˜›

    My next double bill would be:

    Frankenstein (Kenneth Brannagh’s work out video version)

    &

    The Cell

    in reply to: Double Bills du Jour #73332
    Sidhecafe
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    Guy Pierce really was fantastic as Felicia too!

    However, Logan wrote:

    The song I think of mostly though when I think of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert is “I’ve been to paradise, but I’ve never been to me” which gets me thinking about the Poe poem “To One in Paradise” which gets me thinking about Phantom of the Paradise, which brings my thoughts to another rock musical on screen, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which gets me thinking about men in drag, which brings me back to Priscilla… Oh what a vicious convoluted circular web my mind wroughts (more like my mind rots).

    To which Sidhecafe replies: Logan, you just kill me! πŸ˜† πŸ˜† πŸ˜†

    I watched Priscilla was on IFC the other night and I was so happy I got to see the whole thing in honor of the Miss International Queen Paegent earlier this month in Thailand, the first transvestite/transexual beauty competition!!!

    Really these women were stunningly beautiful….they had pictures on the boston.com website. I think Miss India who was second place should have had it!

    Now I think this kind of gender- transformation is very scifi/fact. Since the technology is there to change humans from one to the other. Which if you really think about it is amazingly futuristic and mind bending….like reading Stranger In a Strange Land for the first time.

    I’m very happy I was born a woman – but if I was born a man I’d be a serious Queen! πŸ˜›

    My next double bill would be:

    Frankenstein (Kenneth Brannagh’s work out video version)

    &

    The Cell

    in reply to: Double Bills du Jour #73327
    Sidhecafe
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    Double Bill du jour:

    Priscilla, Queen of the Desert & Muriel’s Wedding

    (The ever so elusive Abba theme! πŸ˜‰ )

    Hugo Weaving is fantastic in Priscilla….really shows his versitility after having watched him go from Agent Smith to Elrond. Elrond seemed to me as showing a little Smith here and there…but Mitzy was a great role for him – of course that was before The Matrix and LOTR. The dress made of flip-flops was the best.

    in reply to: Soylent Green’s sequel! Its sequel… #73326
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    Yes Joel Silver!!!

    http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dimension/5357/remake.htm

    For 2006??? maybe

    in reply to: Soylent Green’s sequel! Its sequel… #73325
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    so I bought Logan’s Run instead which was another film there was talk of reimagining — based on the book — that project fizzled, I wonder if this one will?

    yeah i remember hearing somehitng about a Logan’s Run remake/sequelish sort of thing….who was going to do that??

    in reply to: THE BLACK HEART BOOK script wins BRONZE AWARD! #73324
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    Do you belive in creating your perception of beauty for the pleasure of “creating beauty?”

    Yes I do, but I also believe that the beauty is there already…our creations are almost homage to or expression of the beauty that exists always….

    “You can travel the world to find the beautiful, but you must carry it with you or find it not.” Ralph Waldo Emerson.

    My writing is mostly for myself because it’s simply what I do. I don’t do it to make money or impress others or change the world – I do it because it’s in me and has to come out. It’s who I am.

    When I first moved to Boston I took a “Intro to Writing” class just to keep me motivated. And the instructor was really focused on writing “bestsellers”.

    I interrupted him in class and told him I thought that was unnecessary to go in to, since best sellers are merely that, things that sell the most- which is certainly no indication of how well something is written or the value it has to the writer.

    We butted heads through the whole course- and he asked me to talk to the class about poetry – because he didn’t write any!!! Said he didn’t really understand it. πŸ™‚

    I love writing. I love creating characters out of myself that challenge me. I share my stuff with friends and family. I’ve sent one story out and got some rejections letters – a couple even with some good feedback 😯 .

    I don’t know if I’d want the pressure of producing product for my living…though the thought of collaborating on a project does sound very attractive. What really made me think of that was the interviews of Phillipa Boynes/Peter Jackson about working also with Fran Walsh on the adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. How they each contributed with careful consideration the intrepretation of that work….I was practically drooling with envy!! πŸ˜‰

    My creations are very emotive in nature. I usualy start with an instant wherein a character is acting out from an emotional state and then the story evolves around that character what she is doing, why and how did it come to be…

    However I also feel that writing is not the sole thing I cna contribute…I also used to draw when I was younger and haven’t since. But I love to make collages occasionally and other odd projects…last weekend I started work on making my own mobile of the Solar System. I need it too for the story I’m working on now.

    Every once in a while I need to branch out again, last winter I took violin lessons for a while….

    But I’m now applying to grad school again, hopefully this will be the right program at the right time. I’d like to use my reading, writing and comprehesion skills in an academic setting once more – in a more focused way this time around πŸ˜‰ to enrich myself and then inturn hope to enrich others.

    what has worked for you in your “creations?”

    What really worked the best for me was the old writing workshop I had been in, unfortunately I couldn’t take it with me when I moved!
    It was a great group of people with a great leader. It never turned into group therapy – it was all about the writing and help each other become better writers. Good helpful feedback – always balanced – with like to not like….And when you didn’t like somthing you told the writer it didn’t work for you how could they try it differently and stay true to their vision.

    That might sound coddling to some, but it was all designed to strengthen the writer, build confidence and encourage risk taking. plus it was a pleasure to interact with a group of varied talented writers.

    But in a more personal way – what works the best for me is to really let the characters speak and be who they are — it feels a litle multiple personalityish sometimes…but once I know a character well enough, that personality helps shape the story.

    Need to go and make paper snow flakes now…. πŸ˜†

    in reply to: Soylent Green’s sequel! Its sequel… #73312
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    However, the idea of a sequel doesn’t leave the same bad taste in my mouth.

    thus sayest the pun master πŸ™„ πŸ˜† πŸ˜† !

    in reply to: thought this might cheer some of you up #73318
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    πŸ˜† πŸ˜† πŸ˜† πŸ˜† πŸ˜† WEE!

    in reply to: THE BLACK HEART BOOK script wins BRONZE AWARD! #73317
    Sidhecafe
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    Good morning, your last post got in there while I was writing that last one…..as for your latest…

    If you were to go back and read those stories,..you should be able to see two conflicting voices in them. Her voice is the voice of a woman,.who is dying and she knows it. My voice is the person, who has to stand and watch a friend undergoing horrific medical treatments, and I can’t do anything about it.

    I think it is incredibly valuable for those distinct voices to be distinguishable. Firstly to cloud those voices would be to betray the poignancy of the reality behind them – and both of your voices needed to be given expression through such a difficult and painful time.

    And there’s no reason why those voices can’t be authentic and express a cohesive narrative at the same time.

    only change in some of the writing arrangenments that I would have made which would differ from past arrangements is that my name would be also listed on the “ISBN” number!!

    Yes you should be given credit for the work you do!!!!!!

    A couple of co-written books come to mind while thinking on this:

    The Crown of Columbus by Michael Dorris & Lousie Erdrich

    The Talisman by Stephen King & Peter Straub

    And in both of those I could tell when the voice changed here and there but it did not distract from the story…..

    in reply to: THE BLACK HEART BOOK script wins BRONZE AWARD! #73316
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    Love the poem!!!

    I would be happy if Absurdity was our ruling monarch and Silly the Prime Minister!!!

    Are you or were you a fan of the cable TV scifi show,…Lexx?

    I’ve only ever seen one episode of Lexx- ages ago, so I haven’t really had the opportunity to check it out. When it was on more regularly here – I didn’t even own a tv then.(I spent almost all of my 20’s without any access to cable or television at all) And in my area now it’s on at 2 or 3 in the morning.

    in reply to: THE BLACK HEART BOOK script wins BRONZE AWARD! #73299
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    Are you trying to create the “experiences”…that will be the payoff for your deepest desires? Does time give us a means and a remedy for such? Who knows?

    πŸ˜† πŸ˜† Deepest desires? That wasn’t want I had in mind! πŸ˜€

    Just new experiences yes, a new way to meet new people. An excuse for to get out with other people besides the friends I hang out with now.

    It’s a little weird but different. So what the hell, right?

    Just finding new ways to spend my currency! πŸ˜‰

    What sci-fiction genre are you a fan of and how do you think that reflects what we have been smoozing about for the past two days? We both must be scifi buffs or we wouldn’t be hanging out in a place like saddy’s cafe!!

    I find myself interested in all different types of scifi…I particularly like space travel centered – ships and the science of it(Farscape, Andromeda, Stargate SG1,) – and also character driven(Star Wars)….anime scifi(Ghost in the Shell)…cyberpunk(William Gibson, Pat Cadigan, The Matrix- 1st movie)…..everything Philip K. Dick…(my man Phil!) and of course the scifi by Tanith Lee is indescribably beautiful and strange…

    I think scifi definately ties in with what we are talking about because of scifi’s ability to challenge perception of the present by proposing possible or alternate future/universes.

    Particularly the idea of “otherness” and how societies define culture.

    Whoa -at work here still, got’s to go….more later

    in reply to: Virtual cafe #73297
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    to sum up briefly….

    2 drinks and we went our seperate ways.

    Pretty lame, but not horrible- at least we both realized it wasn’t going to work out.

    And it was something different, so I’m willing to try it again. But this is kind of bizarre….like constantly going on blind dates.

    Humans are so weird πŸ˜›

    in reply to: Would it help if I said I’m from New Jersey??? #73296
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    I think the telling thing about that immigration article is that people looking at the website is one thing…Americans migrating enmasse something completely different.

    Yeah some folks will leave – I’m sure of that….it’s a little premature for me to leave yet.

    After the next four years if there is another conservative elected to the office – then I’ll consider heading to Europe or Canada.

    I’m applying to grad school and if I get in it’ll be a few years before I can go anywhere – and I’m pretty wedded to Boston. I love it here.

    But things change allthe time. And the dollar is weakening now…so several places are going to be more expensive anyway.

    in reply to: THE BLACK HEART BOOK script wins BRONZE AWARD! #73295
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    “If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing!”

    YES!

    I’d pair that with, “Live so as your soul would fill your skin that you may shine with the light of it.”

    Jumping out of that plane was an exercise in trusting myself and the universe. The pinnacle of my excercise like that really. Before that I had left my finace and then moved from the area I’d lived for 10 years to move to Boston.
    Skydiving was a thrill but also like an affirmation – yes I can take risks and know that I’ll be alright, maybe even better than I was before.

    Telling you about them is in a sense..freeing up my own psyche so that I can write about them later on.

    I think that I lost someone,.who was willing at one time to help me put certain thoughts on paper,..because I could not come up with certain details fast enough..at least,..I think that was the reason. I really am not sure.

    I was in a writing workshop where I used to live for three years and the organization that offered it started their work offering workshops to low income women and at-risk children.
    Their philosophy – and one I hold in high esteem – is that EVERYONE HAS A STORY AND THEIR OWN VOICE WITH WHICH TO TELL IT

    Everyone has a incomprehensibliy valuable voice(that doesn’t mean just spoken!- but any kind of expression) with which to add to the human tapestry. Sounds like the person who was trying to help you write was trying to get you to write how they thought was correct as opposed to your natural voice….I find blurting out lots of confused ideas to a friend or on paper before I can go back and try and form it in to a more smoothly flowing something or other…..

    I supposed I should really go do some work now(at work now)….more later!

    in reply to: THE BLACK HEART BOOK script wins BRONZE AWARD! #73287
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    “Ou sont les neiges d’automne?” (Where are the snows of autumn?)

    and

    “Il pleure dans mon coeur comme il pleure sur la ville…?” (As the rain pours down on the city,..tears pour from my eyes…)

    Thanks for the translations! I don’t know French well enough to have figured them out on my own!

    Now is that all speculation? Or your life? Seems to me it’s your experiences, like I said I think your life invariably must have challenged you and changed you in amazing ways.

    You’ve turned tarnished currency into gold and obviously still had to pay it.

    I really can’t speak to how you must approach your life, I can only speculate and try to understand and appreciate the strength of a person who tries to do what they think is right and good.

    And in striving to live as you believe is the best way – in helping yourself and other people you meet to not be over looked or disregarded – that is living authentically.

    Where are the snows of autumn?

    They live with us all the time. We know that the snow must come but it passes too. Autumn suggests winter suggests spring.

    I don’t know who wrote that, but I do believe winter is its own restraint – of introspection – a concentration inward to the dark places of ourselves and the dark we encounter in others. And we all must confront this in some way at some point.

    As Anais Nin said, “it’s our feelings in the face of experience, and not necessarily the experiences themselves that make us similar.”

    As the rain pours down on the city,..tears pour from my eyes

    Everything can be cleansed.

    I could definately think some more on both of these….

    yeah I like our little corner of the pub πŸ™‚
    Thanks Stanelle!, this ongoing conversation is very stimulating![/quote]

    in reply to: Double Bills du Jour #73279
    Sidhecafe
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    Solaris / Solaris might be interesting but I have not yet tried it.

    I loved the Russian Solaris!!! So I tried watching the remake and I couldn’t do it….I had to shut it off I was so disappointed with the gross reworking of the female character….took away her poeticness.

    I googled, it’s called Marquis. Haven’t seen it yet, but have read about it before. By the way, on the first Marquis link I clicked on, they cross-referenced Quills with Meet the Feebles — not terribly surprisingly.

    Marquis! Yes that’s it….it was great…twisted but great. Found it randomly years ago with my ex-fiance in a video store.

    in reply to: Would it help if I said I’m from New Jersey??? #73275
    Sidhecafe
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    Please please let Hillary run in 2008.

    Thanking the universe I live in Massachusetts…

    in reply to: Double Bills du Jour #73274
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    Here’s my double-bill for today: Quills and The Devils.

    The Devils was a HAUNTING movie….what they do to that nun to exorcise her…. 😯

    (I loved Quills….ever see that movie about Sade in prison(same story) with the puppets 😈 ? – can’t remember the name.)

    Ok my double bill for today – staving off listlessness πŸ˜‰ :

    Meet the Feebles & Muppets in Space

    in reply to: Two Centauri stumble into a bar…. #73264
    Sidhecafe
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    hee πŸ˜† !

    in reply to: Virtual cafe #73263
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    thefrey wrote:

    TheSister meet two gentlemen from UK land on the internet. What it was about them that interested her I am not sure, because other than the UK’ness they were totally different.

    I actually wouldn’t mind meeting Americans/ not irishmen for a change…since in Boston, all of the guys I’ve met/dated were Irish immigrants- because I happen to live in that part of town. Which was great – don’t get me wrong. I made some good connections and have been over to Ireland twice because of friends made….but I haven’t dated an American guy in a few years!

    in reply to: WOO-HOO! Wish me luck! #73260
    Sidhecafe
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    Congrats!!! Best wishes to the baby girl and her family.
    I’m glad to hear it turned out well and no c-section.

    Though it sounds like you had some scray moments there, it’s good Mom didn’t have to go through surgery too.

    My friends are alos home now and adjusting to their new life as a family.

    These little babies are such precious things.

    Glad to hear it, thanks for the update!

    And a girl too! Yeah!

    in reply to: A guy walks into a bar… #73259
    Sidhecafe
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    It’s the uncomplex humor that always gets me!!!

    in reply to: A guy walks into a bar… #73256
    Sidhecafe
    Participant

    πŸ˜† πŸ˜† clapping! πŸ˜† πŸ˜†

    in reply to: Virtual cafe #73255
    Sidhecafe
    Participant

    Thanks for the support / insight!! And yes I’ll be safe!

    He just emailed me to solidify our plan and used the word “serendipity” in a sentence…..Who does that?! πŸ˜›

    Could be a very bad sign…..that and he said he’d be wearing khakis(sorry if that offends anyone).

    It’ll be a story anyway….

    My roommate’s already thinking about staking herself out at the bar of the resturant so she can make fun of me later πŸ™„ πŸ˜†

    They make us evil 😈 here in the Northeast…

    in reply to: Virtual cafe #73251
    Sidhecafe
    Participant

    No problem on the drink, first round’s on me.

    I agree nothing can replace meeting new people face to face or that crazy chance experience of “knowing” the second you meet someone….

    However I did just take the online plunge and agreed to a date this week. I’m kind of horrified πŸ˜› but I figure it’ll be an adventure no matter what too.

    Did you like that shaken or stirred?

    in reply to: THE BLACK HEART BOOK script wins BRONZE AWARD! #73249
    Sidhecafe
    Participant

    Because of this,..my entire life has been spent in an effort of trying to deal with this condition as best as I can and trying to help others deal with their so-called dis-ABILITIES.

    mysteriesofthesea, I find that very courageous and accomplished of you to reach out and help others while facing your own life challenges. And this must have changed your perceptions and brought many new altering experiences into your life.

    You asked me what I thought types of experiences liek that could be and I pulled from my own life: skydiving, experimenting with drugs, being stopped in my tracks by thoughts and ideas that I read or encountered in other people.

    I’d love to hear some of your examples!

    in reply to: THE BLACK HEART BOOK script wins BRONZE AWARD! #73234
    Sidhecafe
    Participant

    Perception changers….some of the more bigger ones: brushes with death & birth are good times to step back and reflect on what is important and not important in my life.

    A couple of years ago my sister’s birthday present was a skydive.
    So there I was just turned 29 years old, in a plane that I was about to jump out of…looking outside on the landscape of northern Massachussets spread out to all horizons.
    My instructor asked me if I didn’t think the view was beautiful.

    My imediate answer: “Yeah but I can’t wait to see it from the outside.”

    I had no fear of jumping from that plane. Which I’m still amazed at, when I was younger I was afraid of heights. But something changed in me. Really changed, and I have a good idea why but at that moment in that plane I remember one pause as we just reached 1300 ft. “I’m going to jump out of this plane? Yes! Of course I am!”

    That was better than any drug. The exhiliration and abandon of diving out into the air was so freeing.

    Definately a hard example of an experience that changed my perception of myself and reality.

    Altitude not attitude. Which could correspond to a lot of metaphors of reaching a higher state of being, raising oneself up from the mundane. Or just plain being silly – which can be a giddy, heady experience.

    Also I think that’s why mind altering drugs exist, many began as spiritual aids to cross the worlds of perception (talking the naturally occuring ones here). I’m done with my recreational drug use days but if a person is drawn to them – a judicial amount can defiantely impact perceptual experiences.
    However, they can/do harm terribly. A price that’s often paid for the experience.

    Fear is what keeps me in comfortable positions where my perception of “reality” and “truth” is not challenged. When I move passed fear it’s usually to find that there is nothing to be afraid of, but fear manifests itself not nessecarily as a boogeyman kind of feel but as apathy, laziness or just plane “Nah I don’t want to”

    The best way to be open to challenging experiences for me is to just be honest with myself.

    πŸ˜† πŸ˜† Hello tangent!

    in reply to: THE BLACK HEART BOOK script wins BRONZE AWARD! #73233
    Sidhecafe
    Participant

    What are some of the other factors..do you think, which can distort one’s perception of real life and take you…”Beyond the Doors…(of reality)?”…if you get my allusion…

    No! No!! Not “illusion!!

    πŸ˜† πŸ˜†

    gotta go, more latter!!!

    in reply to: THE BLACK HEART BOOK script wins BRONZE AWARD! #73231
    Sidhecafe
    Participant

    (Here is a highly UNLIKELY example)

    thus wrote mysteriesofthesea

    I don’t think any of that is unlikely, I believe that anything is possible and sure why not good/bad feedback to any idea….

    And good things don’t happen usually unless someone is willing to work at their goals or take risks.

    also:

    But do we want..good experiences or bad experiences,..individual preference,…myself,..I prefer good experiences….not just for myself,..but for everyone,….

    Good and bad experiences both because they both have value to each person’s growth as an individual….I think the times I really know myself best is when I am reacting- being conscious of myself reacting to good and bad experiences.

    Someone told me that to think of responsabliity as really “the Ablilty to Respond” to all life experiences.

    Though we do all pay for experience with Time, it is the best currency we have because ultimately we decide how to spend it. πŸ˜‰

    and also:

    What is a new experience in your opinion anyway? Also,…I would like to know how realistic you think my “speculation”..is.

    Do you think that it would make the basis for a good manuscript?

    Does it sound…..realistic?

    I think “new” experiences take me out of my usual everyday perceptions of my reality. Something that jolts me awake, opens my eyes wider, stops me with a new thought, challenges what I perceive as “truth”, or even quietly making me smile at the world, making me remember things I need not forget.

    I think that’s great subject matter for a manuscript, and speculation is the creative mind at work, laying ground work for new ideas and projects!

    It’s interesting you’d mention it, I had been thinking recently about some of my favorite scifi shows and how much fun it must be to collaborate with others on characters and story lines. Bouncing ideas abck and forth. It seems like it’s very challenging rewarding work!

    in reply to: Opps – SadGeezer down, sorry about that :/ #73225
    Sidhecafe
    Participant

    I like thefrey and headgehog’s logo for the college.
    Mostly I’m just happy it’s friday now….

    bye bye Colin Powell, we loved you.

    in reply to: Opps – SadGeezer down, sorry about that :/ #73224
    Sidhecafe
    Participant

    thanks!

    in reply to: THE BLACK HEART BOOK script wins BRONZE AWARD! #73223
    Sidhecafe
    Participant

    Nietzsche : “And the hottest South has not yet been discovered for mankind.”

    nothing was ever good enough for Nietzsche!! πŸ™‚

    But really, to get back to what we were metaphorically talking about, the price we pay for our heart’s desire – which ultimately is some sort of experience….

    The price we pay for experience…..Time….if you could use that as currency…

    in reply to: Opps – SadGeezer down, sorry about that :/ #73220
    Sidhecafe
    Participant

    Don’t know if I posted that image right, but it was the front page of London’s Daily Mirror.

    fixed the image -HH

    in reply to: Opps – SadGeezer down, sorry about that :/ #73209
    Sidhecafe
    Participant

    headgehog wrote:

    That’s becuase most of us are still either in the denile or severe depression stages.

    exactly why i’m happy not to see any, the Boston Globe was enough for me.
    πŸ˜₯

    trying to stay positive, think happy thoughts….

    like sadgeezer.com up and running,

    happy little black and purple screen,
    happy little avatars,
    posting folks from all over the world….

    oh look – here come the teletubbies….

    in reply to: Opps – SadGeezer down, sorry about that :/ #73207
    Sidhecafe
    Participant

    Yeah me too!

    Like maybe there was a bunch of rant/rave ‘ing going on over the US election, but actually I’m glad that hasn’t happened here.

    in reply to: THE BLACK HEART BOOK script wins BRONZE AWARD! #73206
    Sidhecafe
    Participant

    the Devil and I will be waiting…..

    in reply to: THE BLACK HEART BOOK script wins BRONZE AWARD! #73203
    Sidhecafe
    Participant

    Or how about giving up everything you think you know to see something different but better?

    Losing what you think of yourself in the process…….

    Existence is a tricky place.

    in reply to: THE BLACK HEART BOOK script wins BRONZE AWARD! #73201
    Sidhecafe
    Participant

    Yes very interesting….

    And yeah for small presses!!!

    mysteriesofthesea wrote:

    Could you sell your soul to Satan in exchange for “special powers”…and live with the consequences…even if you wanted to try to back out of your deal??

    This is a very probing question….or you could ask if you could acheieve your heart’s desire at a price, what sort of price would you be willing to pay?

    Sorry couldn’t resist a little “devil’s advocacy” πŸ™„ – Bad pun…. 😳

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