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Oh, so I’ve got to know what I mean before I can have a feeling. Do I have to know that you’ll understand me? Do you have to know you’ll understand before you’ll listen?

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This is weird stuff and you must listen carefully to this one (excellent show- must see).

DEALER: I feel that you boys are ready for this Camino ….

LINC: (Includes Jake) Between the two of us we own more cars than you have on this lot. My guess is that your feeling’s probably right.

Linc meant to put the Dealer off his pitch and thereby abbreviate their business; instead the Dealer bridles –

DEALER: That’s not what I mean by ready – number of vehicles owned.

Jake and Linc tag-team their message of impatience –

JAKE: What do you mean, Pops?

LINC: We got to, uh, boogie.

The Dealer comes over their top –

DEALER: Oh, so I’ve got to know what I mean before I can have a feeling. Do I have to know that you’ll understand me? Do you have to know you’ll understand before you’ll listen?

Which appears to put Jake in a different, passive state –

DEALER (to Linc): Twenty-five cars between you — you should’ve let me sit down before you told me. I got that many dealerships in each of that many sectors, and brands on goddamn franchise. I’ve got to boogie, me.

John indicates the Dealer, in whose rhythms and accents he reproaches Linc and Jake for their failure to take the Dealer’s premise on its face –

JOHN: He feels you’re ready for the Camino.

Where Jake’s gone, Linc has now gone too –

DEALER (to John) You’re off-line now, Country.

JOHN: I don’t know Butchie instead.

DEALER: (To Linc and Jake, re John) How’s he for high-performance? And he ain’t who’s worst-underpowered.

If the Dealer had suspenders he’d flex them to indicate who he means –

DEALER: Intrusions, evanescences – I’m a shepherd without crook or understanding. Fits and stops and starts. Waves and ripples and ramifications. Busted knee, mother-son handjob …. Christ, Jesus Christ Jesus Christ.

The Dealer’s tight smile is not fully persuasive –

DEALER: Crosses and shoulders to bear ‘em.

He smacks his hand on the El Camino –

DEALER: El Camino, fifteen thousand, as is.

Linc and Jake have regained their faculties –

LINC: Is it gassed?

JOHN: F**king-A right it’s gassed Linc.

As John puts on the counter the fifteen thousand dollars in hundred dollar bills which has materialized in his pocket the Dealer’s stern gaze goes to Linc –

DEALER: You and your twenty-five cars. Circle and line on the wall, and zeros and goddamned ones, is what to turn the both of your gifts to –

The Dealer’s “both” appears to include Jake –

DEALER: — and not one damn minute to waste.

JOHN: Ragheads are going to get themselves eradicated.

DEALER: (vigorously interrupting John) Country, I took you off-line. (calling off camera, re El Camino) Manuel, get a cage on this thing.

John leans over the hood of the El Camino and employs the entirety of his wingspan to offer it a hug. Off which –

more http://www.hbo.com/johnfromcincinnati/inside/index.html

Tar_zan was trying to get a good shot of the balloons, I just shot ‘em all. Including Tar_zan

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Uploaded by Navarroe on 4 Dec 07, 12.13PM CST.

Times Square, New York, originally uploaded by Navarroe.

This is one of the views I like the most of New York, the classic Times Square… Amazing place, amazing shops, amazing theatres… well it is New york, What could we expect?

Uploaded by Navarroe on 7 Aug 07, 3.00PM CST.

“Zappa,” Kyoto, originally uploaded by MarkInKyoto.

A 4-second exposure inside “Zappa,” an Indonesian restaurant/bar in Kyoto. David Bowie once dined/drank here, circa 1979. There’s a snapshot of him on the wall. Bono of “U2″ fame was also here–as a signed record cover & snapshot attest. The restaurant is named–of course–after Frank Z.

A reveiw from Frommer’s: www.frommers.com/destinations/kyoto/D61299.html

Uploaded by MarkInKyoto on 16 Oct 07, 10.21PM CST.

Hacka, originally uploaded by myrika.

Although the use of a haka by the All Blacks has made one type of haka familiar, it has led to misconceptions. Haka[2] are not exclusively war dances, nor are they only performed by men. Some are performed by women, others by mixed groups, and some simple haka are performed by children. Haka are performed for various reasons: for amusement, as a hearty welcome to distinguished guests, or to acknowledge great achievements or occasions (McLean 1996:46-47). War haka, which had their own term, ‘peruperu’, were originally performed by warriors before a battle, proclaiming their strength and prowess in order to intimidate the opposition. Today, haka constitute an integral part of formal or official welcome ceremonies for distinguished visitors or foreign dignitaries, serving to impart a sense of the importance of the occasion.

Various actions are employed in the course of a performance, including facial contortions such as showing the whites of the eyes and the poking out of the tongue, and a wide variety of vigorous body actions such as slapping the hands against the body and stamping of the feet. As well as chanted words, a variety of cries and grunts are used. Haka may be understood as a kind of symphony in which the different parts of the body represent many instruments. The hands, arms, legs, feet, voice, eyes, tongue and the body as a whole combine to express courage, annoyance, joy or other feelings relevant to the purpose of the occasion.

The first page of the Beowulf manuscript.
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Main article: List of artistic depictions of Grendel’s mother

Grendel’s mother has been adapted in a number of different mediums (film, literature, and graphic/illustrated novels or comic books).

Angelina Jolie portrayed Grendel’s mother in the 2007 Robert Zemeckis film, Beowulf. Some teachers and scholars have stated that her portrayal in this cinematic adaptation deviates from the original poem including being portrayed as a shapeshifting “seductress” who seduces Hrothgar (making him the father of Grendel) and Beowulf (making him the father of the dragon) as well as the the elimination of the battle sequence between Grendel’s mother and Beowulf which (in the poem) ends with her death. ^[37][38][39]

According to a Southern Methodist University press release, SMU’s Director of Medieval Studies Bonnie Wheeler is, “convinced that the new Robert Zemeckis movie treatment sacrifices the power of the original for a plot line that propels Beowulf into seduction by Angelina Jolie — the mother of the monster he has just slain.’ What man doesn’t get involved with Angelina Jolie?’ Wheeler asks. ‘It’s a great cop-out on a great poem.’ [...] ‘For me, the sad thing is the movie returns to…a view of the horror of woman, the monstrous female who will kill off the male,’ Wheeler says. ‘It seems to me you could do so much better now. And the story of Beowulf is so much more powerful.’”