The Isolated Blurt Thread XXI: Killswitch Edition

[IrezumiKiss]

Yes you can, but I would love to see pictures of your Hoisin sauce.

I want to taste it!

I want to dip my dumplings in it!

 

[Mr Noone]

I have not seen the movie. I did a Google image search.

It's one of the greatest films ever made. Seek it out.

The story goes that Carol Reed and some actors went to a bar in Vienna while shooting and Alax Karas was playing, and they all agreed that it was the perfect Mitteleuropa feeling for the film.

This isn't from the film, but distinctly shows the frets.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r8jN1treRKQ

 

[Aglaopheme]

I want to dip my dumplings in it!

Even better.

It's one of the greatest films ever made. Seek it out.

The story goes that Carol Reed and some actors went to a bar in Vienna while shooting and Alax Karas was playing, and they all agreed that it was the perfect Mitteleuropa feeling for the film.

This isn't from the film, but distinctly shows the frets.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r8jN1treRKQ

Nice!

I shall seek the film out based on you recommendation.

 

[bluebell]

I want to dip my dumplings in it!

I want to taste it!

Yes you can, but I would love to see pictures of your Hoisin sauce.

Weeeeeeeeeeirdos!!

http://www.estalysticfood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Rice_crepes_hong_kong_style.gif

 

[anchoredinocean]

So far a better game than I thought it would be.

 

[Equinoxe]

how did i miss The Last Kingdom?

anyone watch it? it was aired on BBC America yesterday, too.
i'd only glimpsed fighting vikings and wotnot as i channel hopped the last week, didn't even know it was on but i has some great opening reviews.

I watched it, because I have an irredeemable love of period pieces and will watch almost any, though they usually amount to either romance novels on film or soft-core porn in gorgeous costumes. Or both.

It does not appear to be either.

So far, there is only the first episode, so it's hard to say for certain where it will be going; it's definitely going to be a rough, even brutal story, not unbefitting the age, but it seems to have promise—you weren't overcome with the sense, as you sometimes are in period pieces, that these are modern people playing at being mediæval people, yet they remained human, and neither did it have that sort of judgemental lens, where you could feel the creator(s) trying to impress upon you how much worse things were then (or better things are now). It did feel somewhat rushed, having to compress the whole of the main character's background and upbringing into one episode (the caught between two worlds aspect—from one but raised in another—I find over done and artificial-seeming), there were occasional awkward bits of dialogue (though nowhere near some other period television series), and at times it felt a bit like you could see the wheels in the machine driving the story (such as above about his background), but I got the sense that they were aiming for something more authentic.

It remains to be seen whether it really will be such, and not just compromised characters and brutality for the sake of brutality, but there is at least reason for hope.

 

[Killswitch1]

Hiding behind Queersetti.


Sounds like a real kinky foot routine! Hope all your four-legged furballs are well.

Will you pick up some PineSol for me, please? I forgot yesterday.

Theyre good thank you for asking Blue.

Lor thats why I went back for a few things I forgot this week.

I've been loving this fresh local apple cider were getting.

 

[butters]

I watched it, because I have an irredeemable love of period pieces and will watch almost any, though they usually amount to either romance novels on film or soft-core porn in gorgeous costumes. Or both.

It does not appear to be either.

So far, there is only the first episode, so it's hard to say for certain where it will be going; it's definitely going to be a rough, even brutal story, not unbefitting the age, but it seems to have promise—you weren't overcome with the sense, as you sometimes are in period pieces, that these are modern people playing at being mediæval people, yet they remained human, and neither did it have that sort of judgemental lens, where you could feel the creator(s) trying to impress upon you how much worse things were then (or better things are now). It did feel somewhat rushed, having to compress the whole of the main character's background and upbringing into one episode (the caught between two worlds aspect—from one but raised in another—I find over done and artificial-seeming), there were occasional awkward bits of dialogue (though nowhere near some other period television series), and at times it felt a bit like you could see the wheels in the machine driving the story (such as above about his background), but I got the sense that they were aiming for something more authentic.

It remains to be seen whether it really will be such, and not just compromised characters and brutality for the sake of brutality, but there is at least reason for hope.

thankyou! sounds well worth a look if i find time

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Is that like Alex Karis's zither, from "The Third Man"?

[Passing on the obvious "lap organ" joke.]

There is a craft cocktail bar in Alphabet City inspired by the movie, un-ironically called "The 3rd Man." (Actually stylized as "The IIIrd Man.")

http://s3-media2.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/vG-bN0mxhOHhPPmKatgG8Q/o.jpg

http://s3-media2.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/b_PMoDGVi2795sFEzrsZlA/o.jpg

I haven't been over there yet, because I'm not one of those hung up on pricey "mixologist" drinks and my regular cheapo dives that I frequent give me all the fun times I ever need, but...I'm curious about the space, so might try bopping over just once.

 

[Aglaopheme]

There is a craft cocktail bar in Alphabet City inspired by the movie, un-ironically called "The 3rd Man." (Actually stylized as "The IIIrd Man.")

http://s3-media2.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/vG-bN0mxhOHhPPmKatgG8Q/o.jpg

I would go just to steal, I mean admire, the industrial looking copper vases.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

I would go just to steal, I mean admire, the industrial looking copper vases.

Got your closet steampunk vaginny all juicing, eh?

Bet you're not the only eyes to have designs on them. They look like they might be bolted or weighted down, though.

When I do recon, I'll let you know for sure.

 

[Aglaopheme]

Got your closet steampunk vaginny all juicing, eh?

Bet you're not the only eyes to have designs on them. They look like they might be bolted or weighted down, though.

When I do recon, I'll let you know for sure.

Most definitely!

 

[lovetoread]

the youngest wants sushi for her bday dinner.

gross

she is weird

 

[Mr Noone]

There is a craft cocktail bar in Alphabet City inspired by the movie, un-ironically called "The 3rd Man." (Actually stylized as "The IIIrd Man.")

I haven't been over there yet, because I'm not one of those hung up on pricey "mixologist" drinks and my regular cheapo dives that I frequent give me all the fun times I ever need, but...I'm curious about the space, so might try bopping over just once.

Looks cool. Pricey but cool

But are there really any dive bars left in Manhattan? I mean south of Inwood?

 

[Equinoxe]

thankyou! sounds well worth a look if i find time

You're welcome. I think so. I definitely don't regret having watched it. I don't expect to find it as good as, say, Wolf Hall, but it's obviously going to be very different.

And at no point did I feel obliged to roll my eyes or laugh at its ridiculousness: they did not, for example, give any characters magical powers or introduce actual historical individuals just so the main character could have sex with them.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Looks cool. Pricey but cool

But are there really any dive bars left in Manhattan? I mean south of Inwood?

There's still some hanging in there! Crazy in this age of upscale $$$$ restaurants downstairs from a pre-war tenement apartment, I know! I don't know for how long, but they are holding it down.

If you avoid the blatant NYU frat boy crap bars, there's Fish, International, Coal Yard, Sophie's in the East Village...might be a few in Hell's Kitchen still, I haven't been to Rudy's in years. They used to do the free unlimited hot dogs thing.

 

[Mr Noone]

There's still some hanging in there! Crazy in this age of upscale $$$$ restaurants downstairs from a pre-war tenement apartment, I know! I don't know for how long, but they are holding it down.

If you avoid the blatant NYU frat boy crap bars, there's Fish, International, Coal Yard, Sophie's in the East Village...might be a few in Hell's Kitchen still, I haven't been to Rudy's in years. They used to do the free unlimited hot dogs thing.

Ah, there used to be tons of them in Hell's Kitchen. Pressed-tin ceilings and mahogany woodwork only held together by generations of nicotine residue. I remember once in the early '80s jumping into a place on 9th Ave while waiting for Ronnie Ray Gun's motorcade to pass (he was at the UN that day), slurping down 50c Schaffer drafts. Gone, all gone.

 

[girlsmiley]

I swear his drunken bullshit gave me a nightmare.

Cunt.

 

[pointless]

i hate doctors.

even more than unreliable cunts.

i still hate those, though.

enjoy your photoshoot, you druggie bitch. i'll have fun dealing with the panic and denial.

 

[Jennifer]

Crisis averted. Stopped by the bodega and picked up a cute little piece for eight bucks.

 

[Killswitch1]

Crisis averted. Stopped by the bodega and picked up a cute little piece for eight bucks.

Post 2000 in my awesome thread.

Congrats, Applebottom..

 

[Jennifer]

Post 2000 in my awesome thread.

Congrats, Applebottom..

 

[Killswitch1]

What. It's a compliment.

It looks like a lil apple.

 

[NHKitty]

Autumn in NH...from our walkabouts and bike rides this weekend:

 

[Wings]

Got the new sink installed, now to get this blasted reverse osmosis system hooked up and I can take a nap.