I suppose we can start preparing for the history of Halloween, Trick Or Treating, Thanksgiving, The Truth About Sleepy Hollow and The Mayflower/Pilgrims.

While on the subject of Revolutionary history and David McCullough, read his "John Adams", probably the least known of the major players, and the one who did the most to eventually make independence a reality (IMHO...).

The John Adams series on HBO was rather interesting...lil boring at time, but those French..........

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Originally posted by WernherVonTrapp:
I suppose we can start preparing for the history of Halloween, Trick Or Treating, Thanksgiving, The Truth About Sleepy Hollow and The Mayflower/Pilgrims.

I'm sure you've been to Jamestown...aren't you sorta near there. Those three towns are one of my favorite places to visit..Jamestown, Yorktown and Williamsburg.

Can't imagine crossing the ocean in one of those little ships.

There saw a program I saw awhile back I think on the 4th of July about the American Revolution but I don't remember what it was called, probably The Revolution.

Off topic...
Do any of you guys ever spell a word but you mix up the letters and you don't notice it. For example, I spelling saw above but instead of saw I typed was or sometimes when I spell were I spell it as ewre.
I'm so odd some times.

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Jamestown, Yorktown and Williamsburg.

My memory hasn't been as sharp as it used to be but, isn't Jamestown the first official settlement, where Virginia Dare was born? Or, am I confusing that with another locale? I used to know all this stuff on the fly.

It's considered the first English Settlement..

Think Dare was first born. Think that was the lost Roanoke colony...


Use to have a play there every year.

You youngin's wouldn't remember "Brother Dave Gardner"..comedian/singer, even a little old for me. As a kid I found those big old records my parents had of him and played them all the time in the 70's.

Searching through Mom's attic..50 years of crap from God knows how many situations, I found those old records again, and the dang things still play fairly well on the old record player that was up there...with a new needle.

Of course it's old humor, but I love this guy
He really is funny....

http://www.myspace.com/brotherdavegardner

Trying to remember some of the older broadway comics.....

How about Spike Jones?
In some secluded rendezvous...

Be nice to get more of these acts into some radio stations....

I needed something to do anyway.

Has anyone here seen The Perfect Storm.
Here is my favorite track from the soundtrack.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...D216CA99FC6&index=65
I guess I like this one to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...D216CA99FC6&index=65

Tonight HC is starting a new show called What Went Down. The first epi is about Pearl Harbor, second will be on the Alamo.

Hey Star Gate Universe came on last week, it is in the middle it is not like SG-1 or Atlanits.

Has anyone seen Watchmen? It's a brilliant movie. I read the comic book, then I was surprised to find that they were making a movie. It's a good movie, ine of the best I've seen. It's got a great soundtrack, with music from Bob Dylan to The Guarfunkle Brothers. The music is from each era that the story is set, from the 40's to the 80's. It's a darn good movie.

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Originally posted by J.L.Chamberlain:
Hey Star Gate Universe came on last week, it is in the middle it is not like SG-1 or Atlanits.

Yep watched the pilot.

That computer boy really goes on my nerves but i like Robert Carlyle as the "commander". Quite a change in the line of typical Stargate commanders and the selected actors.

Or at least he wants to be the chief. Its clear that they writers intend a future clash between him and the military guys.


Sad that he has much less of a scottish accent than Paul McGillion (Dr. Beckett) from Stargate Atlantis.

Did you notice how fat Richard Dean Anderson has become ? I almost did not recognized him when he appeared on that computer guy's front door in the beginning

Well he is getting old and like many actors he will get fat loose hair. But it was kind of annoying at the begining because the Guold as far as can remember were destroyed so how would they get those mother ships. All I no is that that Dr. Rush is the smart one.

Don't know how many of you will remember these but, I've been on a mission to search out and purchase movies that I liked when I was in my twenties. I was always a big John Ritter fan ever since "Three's Company" and bought a couple of sleepers from the 80s.

So far I've purchased:
Hero At Large (John Ritter)
Real Men (John Ritter/Jim Belushi)
The Falcon And The Snowman (Sean Penn/Timothy Bottoms)
At Close Range (Sean Penn/Christopher Walken)
Diner (Micki Rourke/Steve Guttenberg/Kevin Bacon)
Heathers (Christian Slater/Winona "Hottie" Ryder )
The Pope Of Greenwich Village (Micki Rourke/Eric Roberts/Daryl Hannah)
These were top notch movies in their day, especially the "cult classic" Heathers, which made overnight sensations of Slater and Ryder. Not too many will remember this but, after Heathers first aired, some critics were touting Slater as the new Jack Nicholson (For those who remember his role in "Five Easy Pieces". ).
Anybody else ever seen these?

Yesterday, i watched one of my favourite movies again and thought i would make post about it here.


The topic is quite relevant as the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin nears.


Its "The Lifes of Others"

Trailer here

The line "You dont know me, but i know you" really sums it up.


A political drama about east germany's secret police the STASI , and one of their best agents monitoring a writer and artist who plans to publish a article about suicide rates in east Germany in the , at that point, west-german newsmag Der Spiegel.

Its a fictional story but based on a typical Stasi observation case of which hundreds of thousands were conducted in 40 years of GDR history.

The Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler (Codename HGW XX/7) who monitors the writer gains insights into his life and that of his girlfriend who is an actress , their love for music and art and slowly and for the first time, he begins to develop personal interest and fascination into the lifes of the people he is spying on.

Without them knowing it, he kinda takes part in their life and slowly but surely this results into Wiesler changing his opinion aswell as his believes ...

As far as i know there is no english dubbing but the DVD comes with english subtitles.

The first 5 minutes of the movie with subtitles

The movie won lots of awards and that for good reason.

Not sure how many ppl here have seen the movie "2012".

I think it's an awesome movie with full effects. Not much of a story but still quite a bit of a thriller

Am going to watch the second installment of Twilight "New Moon". I like the first one so we'll see what the second one like.

December will be quite exciting .. the new "Avatar" of course and will watch it in 3D ... gonna be an awesome movie

The way things are going they probably should've named it 2010.