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Post by spaniard on Aug 31, 2006 18:02:46 GMT -5
This is the off topic section and I like the way the posts flow. I bet trekkies can't talk about The Chieftains, Cretan Iconographers, The Brontës and foreign languages in the same thread.
We are a bunch of really smart people.
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Post by janetcatbird on Aug 31, 2006 20:25:25 GMT -5
Umm, Spaniard, I am a Trekkie! If you like, under "Other TV Talk" there's a whole thread about the various Star Treks, which was fun conversation! (Check it out to see how the other half lives or whatnot.) See how surprising we CI fans are--we are multi-faceted individuals with cool diverse interests! (No offense, I can laugh at myself, but just a little friendly note.) I know I've seen some El Greco, but I can't think of any pieces off the top of my head. The Chieftains: I've heard some of their stuff. I like Celtic Music, but I think it's cool how they always pull in different artists and genres. I do know that the northern coast of France, Brittany, still has very strong links to Celtic culture from ancient occupants. (The Chieftains did an album tied to the Brittany region but I can't think of the name of it.) They've also done stuff related to bluegrass-makes sense, all the Scots and Irish settled in the mountain region. And Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits has always enjoyed/been influenced by country twang. As to off-topic, eh, stuff reminds us of stuff reminds us of stuff...I for one don't object to a natural flow of conversation. But this is for the Brontes, so it would be nice to keep those in the back of our head. Charlotte, at least, recognized the importance of art. Remember Jane Eyre's painting and sketches--how Rochester was so fascinated by what they showed of her personality? And how Luchy Snowe loved to browse the galleries? (I giggled all through Monsieur Paul reprimanding her for looking at "obscene art". Cleopatra surrounded by "pots and pans", hee!) Cool site, something a very dedicated and scholarly fan set up for Anne Bronte. Mainly interested in her connections to Scarborough, lots of pictures, but also cool stuff for her life, her sisters, etc. If you tool around the site you can find several of Anne's sketches, and a couple of them struck me as, well...the girl running through the woods, or standing looking out to sea. Those speak to me personally. Here's the home page: www.mick-armitage.staff.shef.ac.uk/anne/bronte.html--Catbird
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Post by spaniard on Sept 1, 2006 7:29:02 GMT -5
I'm a trekkie too! my show is the next generation because it was the way I learned english, with Patrick Stewart and Data. But for some reason everytime I find someone that likes this show too ends up being a geek, not the Goren like, the 'I cannot date a woman that doesn't speak klingon' like. Everytime I want to go to watch a ST movie, or my partner hates it or shows up dressed like Spock. I would pay for a middle term.
I avoid ST forums because they are too mono-theme, they usually don't talk about anything else. This forum has variety, a big one.
About gothic, it is my favorite kind of books, especially in summer with this endless heat, I dream of wind, storms, mystery and...a quicky in front of the fireplace on a scottish blanket with Van Helsing...roooaaaarr ;D
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Post by janetcatbird on Sept 1, 2006 9:55:44 GMT -5
Oh, sorry to be touchy! We actually talked about that on the last burst of Star Trek thread chatter: why Trek fans are perceived the way they are, conventions, etc. (Although Techguy did post a couple links so I can learn to cuss in Klingon, but strictly for idiot driverss on the road, not conversation!)
Really? Scarborough as rocker gathering ground? Obviously the Anne site didn't talk too much about that! There are pictures of the different churches, the Sands, Anne's grave. Apparently in recent years there's a steady stream of people bringing flowers to her--something I definitely want to do. (If only I could find primroses or bluebells!)
But I do want to get over to the UK at some point. London, Scarborough, Oxford, Haworth and Yorkshire. Lewis has me thinking "Newcastle" but I don't know anything about the place. And Ireland, and Scotland, and Wales though I don't know quite as much about that last culture.
--Catbird
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Post by Techguy on Sept 1, 2006 13:58:59 GMT -5
Whoa, let's not paint all Trekkies with the same brush! I'm one too and proudly I might add. I'd post a choice Klingon phrase to demonstrate my linguistic abilities, but I dont want the Proboards folks to have a fit.
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Post by spaniard on Sept 1, 2006 15:08:03 GMT -5
I went to Colchester where there is a norman castle and I 'played tourist' there, making everybody feel ashamed. Taking pictures of every living thing is fun when nobody knows you. I was surprised that this place had so many graveyards and the city has grown around the churches and graveyards so they are in the middle of the city, you turn a corner and you have four or five gravestones. The funny thing is that people have lunch there, around the place like if they were picnic spots. England is a great place when you have a camera...and you are not afraid to use it. I don´t know Ireland though but I want to visit one day. Westminster Abbey is my favorite place, I go everytime I step on England but there is another place I visit with even more excitement. I always go to see my favorite painting, it is Ophelia by John Everett Millais at the Tate Gallery. My family thinks the painting is creepy but I simply love it. ---------- I woke up the Trekkie Wrath!!! oh, Gods protect me! I don´t think all the trekkies are like the ones at the conventions and I don´t think that all the fans of Star Wars are like those that go to the premiers dressed like Chewbacca. I'm a fan of both things myself and I live and act like a human being, I don´t have any costume (with my size I should be an ewok) and I can´t quote William Shatner. Like with LOCI, sometimes I think I'm the only one that likes the Next generation in Spain because their movies always have had a very short life here so when I try to find people with my same taste in my town or they speak klingon, or they show me their light saber (the first time I heard a guy saying that I thought he was using a very dirty double meaning and I didn´t know if I had to laugh or cry when I saw that he really had a light saber) or they try to translate my name into Elvish. Gandalf doesn´t know how much they have damaged my social life ;D. I used to like X-files and everytime there was a fortune teller, madame katiuska, a ghost hunter or whatever on tv my father used to tell me "this woman is one of your, you know, your people". "Wh..what?! just because I like a tv-show doesn´t mean that I know every single weirdo on tv!". So I know the feeling of being considered a member of a big group of people with a high level of weirdness. If I´ve offended someone, my apologies (no, I won´t use klingon)
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Post by Techguy on Sept 1, 2006 19:32:35 GMT -5
Question is though techguy,would you go shopping with Mrs T. if Trekkie toys were on the shopping list?!!!! I don't have to leave the house for that--that's why I have an eBay account. Anybody game for a Deanna Troi or Worf action figure? ;D
Spaniard: no offense taken, I was just showing off my Trek fandom.
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Post by sarahlee on Sept 2, 2006 11:12:55 GMT -5
Spaniard-I'm a trekker too, did you see the epi (Next Gen) on the planet terra-formed to copy Scotland? I was rooting for the "ghost". Gothic-sci-fi-romance, I'm so there.
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Post by janetcatbird on Sept 19, 2006 15:40:46 GMT -5
Yep, that's the one! Due on our side of the pond in January (at least, if my local PBS will follow the schedule). You'll have to tell us about it!
I haven't seen Toby Stephens in anything, could he pull off the Rochester role?
--Catbird
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Post by janetcatbird on Sept 20, 2006 21:21:10 GMT -5
Janethyland, don't complain about us getting CI first. I've been online looking at trailers, interviews, etc. and from what I've seen I am so excited about this new version...I could just spit that I have to wait until January. ARGH! Curse being on this side of the Atlantic! You're right, Rochester does look most promising, and so does Jane. Be sure to let us know how it is.
I also saw on BBC that one of the channels is adapting Wide Sargasso Sea, the Jean Rhys prequel from the view of Rochester's "mad" wife. I didn't care terribly much for the novel, but it would be interesting to see it on screen. I think that comes on in October on BBC4; no word on whether that'll cross the pond. Man it stinks living in America.
--Catbird
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Post by janetcatbird on Sept 25, 2006 17:45:13 GMT -5
Well, I'm not too worried about plot spoilers, but it is nice to know a heads-up. Thanks for indulging a whiny book brat. The truth is I haven't read Jane Eyre for a couple years now, so hopefully I've detached just enough to evaluate the movie on its own.
The color schemes sound interesting. Jane herself had a very vivid artistic eye, so it makes sense to play with some cinematography, I think. Have we not met Rochester yet?
--Catbird
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Post by Sirenna on Sept 27, 2006 20:56:47 GMT -5
I want to learn to curse in Kligon, spanish dialects and gaelic. Who knows when it might come in handy? post away techguy, spaniard and janethyland
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Post by Techguy on Sept 27, 2006 21:54:50 GMT -5
I want to learn to curse in Kligon...post away techguy Somehow I don't think words like yIntagh (as in "I will personally cut your tongue out, Yintagh!") belong on a Brontes thread (well maybe if you've also seen ST:TNG "Redemption").
And there's something about the way Patrick Stewart's Captain Picard says "Qu'vatlh guy'cha b'aka!" in "The Mind's Eye" so that even Vagh compliments him, saying: "You swear well, Picard. You must have Klingon blood in you."
But if you really want to get someone's attention, nothing comes close to "QI'yaH!" an expression of extreme disgust or repulsion, and one of the strongest, most foul Klingon expressions that defies translation.
Source material: www.geocities.com/Athens/8853/curse.html
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Post by spaniard on Sept 28, 2006 18:50:55 GMT -5
I will love to teach you but I think I will do it through pms, we are very nice until we curse, we get pretty nasty. Spaniards are really bad but majorcans are much worse. For example, when something simple goes wrong like spilling milk on the counter, nothing serious, we say "I poo on the female sexual worker!!" but we use other words instead of those in italics. We don't like single soft words, we like whole gross expressions. Ok, we get very nasty. Please, please, please, don't let a thread about the Bröntes end with this post.
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Post by madger on Sept 29, 2006 12:43:50 GMT -5
Or, if the milk stains your carpet: "I poo on the female sexual worker that gave birth to the devil" I love cursing in Spanish, you can go on and on until you feel better ;D BTW Who are the Brontes?
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