Timothy Treadwell looks at these anneemals und sees people in beah syoots

[shunn]

bobhowe and I saw Grizzly Man last Saturday, and just now on coffee break we were cracking each other up with our Werner Herzog impressions:

"Ven I look into de eyes of de beah, I see de flat, dead stahe of Leni Riefenstahl, above me in de dark viss de vhip..."

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[asphalteden.livejournal.com]

Yahahahahaha!

[shunn.livejournal.com]

Now I'm dying to see The White Diamond.

[asphalteden.livejournal.com]

Speaking of Leni, I found this picture the other day and am pleased I'm able to use it twice in one week on LJ.



Who said German cinema couldn't have a sense of whimsy?

[shunn.livejournal.com]

The irony is so rich I might go into insulin shock. One wonders if she's picturing them with pink-triangle armbands.

[bobhowe.livejournal.com]

Holy Christ! Too many jokes I must make.

Bill, do you still have the Leni film poster jpeg I did? I can't get to my copy on the home machine, and it's be the perfect complement to this image.

[shunn.livejournal.com]

Was this around the time she died? I might be able to find it if I can fix an approximate date.

[asphalteden.livejournal.com]

Well, you know it's got to be Leni's house because there aren't any Boris Vallejo/Julie Bell/Rowena abortions on the walls.

[shunn.livejournal.com]

Right -- I forgot S&R had the same interior decorator as Saddam Hussein.

[asphalteden.livejournal.com]

My favorite of Vallejo's (aside from the one with Christ breaking off the cross):



Why, you ask?

Because of the icon possibilities:



Good ol' mittenstein is responsible for that one.

[shunn.livejournal.com]

I stand in awe. Brilliant.

[friendly-flea.livejournal.com]

Boss, Boss, stop! You're killing us back here!

[bobhowe.livejournal.com]

In the Department of Embarassment of Riches:

The Present of an Illusion

http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/002819.html

Girl: They're making a musical of Siegfried and Roy's life.
Guy: Didn't they do that on Friends already?
Girl: They did?
Guy: Yeah, remember Joey was the singing psychiatrist?
--Wall & Exchange

Girl #1: I wish we coulda seen those magicians with the tigers, but they don't perform anymore...
Girl #2: You mean Sigmund Freud and Roy?
--Circulo Theater, E. 4th Street
Overheard by: scott cendali

[shunn.livejournal.com]

Synchrofuckingnicity!

[bobhowe.livejournal.com]

German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl shuffled off to the final Fuhrerbunker reunion at age 101, on September 9, 2003. This movie poster commemorates her long-overdue appearance at the Hades Film Festival.

[shunn.livejournal.com]

Hah! You know what, I don't remember having seen this when it was new...

[no1typo.livejournal.com]

all this and Tom Lehrer too what a polymath

[shunn.livejournal.com]

Now I'm blushing. More OCD than polymath. I simply had to buy the Tom Lehrer box set (http://www.rhinorecords.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=79831) so I could complete my adverbial mix CD (http://www.shunn.net/music/index.cgi?q=l&f=a&i=3074) in proper fashion. I need help.

[bobhowe.livejournal.com]

Let me hasten to add that it was Bill's screamingly funny one-liner. I'm still laughing about it, twenty minutes later.

[shunn.livejournal.com]

And your boss is no doubt cocking a nonplussed eyebrow in your direction...

[bobhowe.livejournal.com]

Nice picture! Venn I look at zis corpse I zay to myzelf, "Zis vas no boating accident!"

[shunn.livejournal.com]

You are goink to need de beeger boat.

[bobhowe.livejournal.com]

Here iz to zwimmen viz bowlegged women. Zat is zee perfect icon, for zo many reazons.

[steelbrassnwood.livejournal.com]

It scares me that I am reading all this and thinking, yeah, this is why I love hanging out with these guys. Something is wrong with me. Us. Egads.

[bobhowe.livejournal.com]

No, no, we're all fine here. Really. The fucking group portrait of mental health, we are.

[shunn.livejournal.com]

For some reason, your comment puts me in mind of that Times of London story (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1798944,00.html) about societal ills you sent yesterday. Group portrait of mental health indeed!

[steelbrassnwood.livejournal.com]

The United States is almost always the most dysfunctional of the developing democracies, sometimes spectacularly so.

This seems particularly spectacular...

What happened to the fox?

[(Anonymous)]

I saw Grizzly Man this past friday night, what a portrayl of a psychotic man. In all honesty, I do have medical experience, and clinically he was insane. His outrage against the public in the documentary was characteristic of Timothy McVeigh's outrage against the American government, instead of blowing up a building, Timothy Treadwell took an innocent and deceived woman into the forest to become bear food with him. Even the way he touched the bear feces, it was almost like he wanted to become it, and he did. One question remains: What ever happened to that delightful innocent fox companion of his? He is truly the victim here. I mean we heard of how the two bodies were found, but seriously, where is the fox? This is a true tragedy if he also became bear feces like his friend.

Re: What happened to the fox?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't believe this man was not insane. He may have been portrayed that way in the movie, but who was actually there? None of us. Only he saw what was going on. He got cought up in the moment during some of his filmings, but I'm sure venting out sometimes keeps him and everyone sane. Maybe he should not have done some of the things he did, true. However, after continuously going to the same place year after year, gave him a certain comfort. After all that time things become an educated risk. He pushed it to the limit, which caused his death. Not because he was insane.