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- edd-e0
^whoa!!!
...sorry vena... but that coffee is soooo good!!!
slappy check your email!!!
- ninjasavant0
ugh . . . not again.
- ********0
Watched "The Lives of Others" last night.
- _eh_0
Did you get my email ?
- GreedoLives0
What did you think of 'lives of others'?
- detritus0
"another asks for my business proposal templates"
Mmblgrmbl.. I hope that's not me you're referring to, epill - I merely asked NT for advice. It was you who offered up your templates via email.
What do you get from it? Karmic satisfaction and samples once the project's done.. as promised (the latter, not the former)!
Nairn
xps. I'll send you a copy of the spec sheet sometime today.
- ********0
aside from being a tacit voyeur watching the watchers, life watching art, the film was very good. Nice palette, good art direction ( those stasi vans were stylish ) and excellent actors working a script that easily could have been turgid in less deft hands. Have you seen it?
- GreedoLives0
Yes, loved the ending, redemption through art.
"Although the opening scene of the film is set in Hohenschönhausen prison, the movie could not be filmed there because Dr Hubertus Knabe, the director of the memorial, refused to give von Donnersmarck permission. Knabe objected to "making the Stasi man into a hero" and tried to persuade von Donnersmarck to change the movie. Donnersmarck instead cited Schindler's List as an example showing that such a plot development would be possible. Knabe's answer: "But that is exactly the difference. There was a Schindler. There was no Wiesler."
- ********0
I find it difficult to believe there was no Wiesler. The nature of secret organizations is that they can only be known incompletely. Were there no acts of compassion, redemption, kindness? I liked the movie for offering that people survive despite the seeming monolithic seamless paranoia. But it isn't and can't be.
I see the point of Dr Knabe- but there is much more nuance to his glib example has which he elides. War profiteering isn't exactly a virtue even if the greater good was served by saving lives. And, the issue- as presented in the movie- was cultural rather than political. The only political act was betrayal although to be sure being a DDR citizen was in effect to betray.
- ********0
there was, and then there wasn't
- ********0
some know before others
- _eh_0
It wasn't amy btw.
- ********0
" Some day or other I believe I shall find a way of having an exhibition of my own in a cafe."
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it was jenny, after all
- GreedoLives0
Just got out of a meeting where the speaker trailed off 20 sentences with "so..."
Am i wrong to count those?
- r_mutt0
hello dear blog,
i have many things to report, but won't bore myself with the details.
missing you,
- ********0
ach so?
- ********0
And theyre bringin em to me
Askin me,
Kill them now, or later?
Askin me!
Kill them now, or later?
- edd-e0
"another asks for my business proposal templates"
Mmblgrmbl.. I hope that's not me you're referring to, epill - I merely asked NT for advice. It was you who offered up your templates via email.
What do you get from it? Karmic satisfaction and samples once the project's done.. as promised (the latter, not the former)!
Nairn
xps. I'll send you a copy of the spec sheet sometime today.
detritus
(Oct 18 07, 05:35)eh,,who is writing this?
Nairn? or detritus??Nairn, i like you and we know each other thru here and it was a pleasure and i would help you again without question.
i was refering to getting an email asking for something that the sender didnt even leave a name, they seemed to just want the easy way out of life and get someone else to do all the work for them...
if thats what it is then, no...get it form someone else... if you dont be polite enough to greet yourself in an email asking for favours dont expect the favour to be extened as anything other than a deleted email.
- ********0
http://yiddish.haifa.ac.il/tmr/t…
I hope this clears it up