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Subject: Having too much to say......
Time: 10:19:00 PM EST
Author: bbartle3
Mood: Loopy
Music: CNN
I'm reading two books: A book about Hemingway's relationship with what turned out to be his wife number 3, (of 4) title, Nothing Ever Happens to The Brave. I'm halfway through: "The Story of Martha Gellhorn," is the sub-title. She's dull, but the sweet-tempered biographer keeps his gloves on. Hemingway comes over as somewhat goofy, but I don't mind, he might very well have simply been more kind, generous, empathetic and noble in purpose than is generally granted him in spite of his Nobel Prize (mostly for his use of language).
Apparently his marriages suffered from his fierce concentration on his fiction writing. While with Gellhorn he wrote For Whom The Bell Tolls. She wrote news copy for Colliers magazine, mostly about the approach of WW2 and the failure of the Allies to keep Hitler muzzled.
The other book is A History of Western Music, by Donald Jay Grout. (Norton, 1960). I picked it up at Goodwill for pennies because there's a Chapter on Beethoven whom I have become greatly enamoured of ever since my under-one-year-old son Mark Andrew 'sang' along with the third movement while travelling in his car seat. I wanted to find out why the music was so compelling. I found clues, but I lack the language of music notation so I'm still virtually in the dark. Here is one clue however: nah, I can't quote briefly what takes pages of prose in the book. To my ears it reads almost as if Beethoven was the Marlon Brando of his eara, in his field. He used his subjective life in other words far more than did other composers had done up to his time, while all the time using the music inspiration provided by Bach, Mozart, Haydn, etc. But, here's a quote I just found: "Beethoven's music, more than that of any composer who came before him, gives the impression of being a direct outpouring of his personality."
Probably I won't be able to get any closer to the music, and its source, until I bite the bullet and learn to play a musical instrument. The piano I guess. Beethoven was a pianist.
Reading two non-fiction books at once: now there's a new development. Ha!
Barry
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Don't believe me? Believe one of Barry's own posts, verbatim, in an AOL Screenwriting message board, 9/26/2007:
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Black Dahlia, directed by
Brian DePalma (sp?) is so
weird my 5 year old
understood it better than did
his father. It's not really any
one genre as it's detective
tease, sex frustration taken
to the end of the tube, a put
down of the rich, a lame attempt
to make LA glamorous because
it is so violent, and, perhaps
most weird is that every frame
is dim brown as if the digital
camera needed its batteries charged.
The lead actor is handsome but
inert, as if nervous that he might piss
off the cameraman by leaving the
frame again.
This is the kind of garbage that
makes Paul Haggis look like such a
genius from cinema heaven.
Barry
Elroy (?) Leonard, sumthin, wrote the
novel based on the real life murder of
a prostitute in the 1940's.
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Perhaps I'll be able to find that thread about the "20/20" story of the Amish girl who was shunned by her family and community after she went to the local police because her two brothers had been repeatedly gang-raping her. Barry pooh-poohed the incestuous gang-rape and condemned the girl as a hussy who only wanted to leave the community so she could try on lipstick.
Yep, your wonderful little Barry actually said it. -
Keep in mind that we can only know a person online from what they tell us, from the kind of language they use, the tone of their writings, and from the direction their writing takes them. We also know them from their written responses to our own writings, and by their choice of words for building up rather than tearing down. The Barry we knew here is not the Barry orcachow speaks of. If Barry were here, he'd delete your screen name. Shame on you for taking advantage. If Barry has passed away, let the man rest in peace. bea
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Barry, I've been emailing and haven't heard from you. Are you all right? If anyone who reads this knows what happened, please let me know. I haven't come across an obituary, so I'm hoping he scored an acting job in Europe, or something. Can't bear to think of the worst it could be.
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On AOL writers boards, Barry was famous for his hair-trigger outrage that would lead him to "plonk" (filter) anyone who disagreed with him, regardless of however mildly they had dissented. "Little Lord Plonkleroy" even accidentally filtered himself several times and called the local police on AOL and various fellow posters each time it happened.
He also thought that bulk-delivery form emails he got from AOL founder Steve Case indicated he had a personal relationship with the guy. Barry used to proudly post those emails, clueless to the fact that everyone else had gotten them, too. And he regularly tried to sic Steve Case on us, even after Steve left AOL.
He had a piece-of-shit PC (it's all he could afford) and whenever it acted up (he knew nothing about computers and even less about their maintenance and debugging), he insisted people were remotely controlling his machine. He insisted I'd been doing just that and threatened that the cops would soon be paying me a visit to confiscate my PCs. I welcomed him to call them because part of the investigation would require the police to inspect HIS computer and if they found any kiddie porn on his computer... He went silent for a couple of days and never again threatened me with police action.
Only the spectre of being caught with kiddie porn ever shut the guy up. He apparently knew something the rest of us only assumed.
Yep, saps, that's your wonderful Barry.
7/24/08 4:58 AM
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< Barry,
Please don't let your children watch adult-content films with you.
Please. >
Very well I won't. We do not EVER have porno in
the house if that's what you mean. [The parents
enact porno but in private and it's never filmed or
photographed.] Mostly because
there is no sex in porno and the acting is atrocious, and
nobody ever, ever, ever reaches emotional climax.
Faked, oh sure.
[Brian de Palma sp? is a cartoonist. But he's not
as bad as Sponge Bob. Sponge Bob is NOT
permitted in my home.]
I hope that satisfies your strictures.
My boy's fav. bit in CRASH:
Michael: "The rescue of the woman
immobilized under the crashed automobile."
Patrrick: "Get the fuck out of my car!"
(Because, he says, it's "funny".)
Vincent, in the highest group in the
country in Mathematics, is still at school.
Mark Andrew has no speech yet. He's
going on seven months old. He's not quite
as enamoured with CRASH
as the rest of the family. We haven't
been able to see In the Valley of Elah
yet.
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A response from a board resident, a Hollywood producer:
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I'm not talking about porno.
But you knew that, right?
I'm talking about The Black Dahlia, a violent and exploitive film about the murder and dismemberment of a prostitute, the quality of which is immaterial.
Believe it or not, that's far more mind-fucking for a five year old than Sponge Bob Squarepants.
But you know that, right?
And you're not merely fucking with us either. You really are letting your five year old watch horribly inappropriate movies with you.
RIght?
And because this creeps me out to the very bone I'll throw out one more futile plea that you stop doing this. There is no one one earth, and certainly not CPS, who will back you up.
But you k