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I am getting tired of jumping from one thread to another to pick tidbits of info and pertinent links here and there.
This thread is established with only one purpose.
Central Station, info center. Any links, info, please post here. Above the link please include short description of it.
Let's try not to include a lot of personal interaction, it
will distract users, complicate finding necessary information.
Let's combine all info here. If you think this is a bad idea, what else you can suggest to streamline the flow of info?
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Re: information center for John from cincinnati
Nov 18, 2009 11:44 PM
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Where do you get those transcripts, Captain?
Some of the monologue is better suited for a reading, not listening, where it may sound pretentious or too artsy.
This I absolutely admire though, for being true and written brilliantly simple.
"It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home."
Yes, some people do.
Thanks for posting.
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Re: information center for John from cincinnati
Nov 18, 2009 6:49 AM
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sven... you've gotta be the top JFC trainspotter of all time! good job!
lists... yeah... remember High Fidelity w/ John Cusack portraying Rob the compulsive list maker? to wit:
Barry: Top 5 songs about death. A Laura's Dad tribute list, okay? Okay. Leader of the Pack. The guy fuckin' beefs it on his motorcycle and dies, right? Dead Man's Curve. Jan & Dean.
Dick: Do you know that right after they recorded that song Jan himself crashed his car...
Barry: It was Dean you fuckin' idiot...
Rob: It was Jan. It was a long time after the song.
Barry: Okay, whatever. Tell Laura I Love Her. That would bring the house down - Laura's Mom could sing it. You know what I'd want? One Step Beyond by Madness. And, uh, You Can't Always Get What You Want.
Dick: No. Immediate disqualification because of its involvement with The Big Chill.
Barry: Oh God. You're right!
Dick: Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot.
Barry: You bastard! That's so good - that should have been mine... The night Laura's daddy died. Sha na na na na na na na na! Brother what a night it really was. Mother what a night it really... angina's tough! Glory be!
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Rob: Top five things I miss about Laura. One; sense of humor. Very dry, but it can also be warm and forgiving. And she's got one of the best all time laughs in the history of all time laughs, she laughs with her entire body. Two; she's got character. Or at least she had character before the Ian nightmare. She's loyal and honest, and she doesn't even take it out on people when she's having a bad day. That's character.
[holds up three fingers]
Rob: Three;
[long pause, hesitantly]
Rob: I miss her smell, and the way she tastes. It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.
[shakes his head, recollecting, then looks back and lip synchs 'four' while holds up four fingers]
Rob: I really dig how she walks around. It's like she doesn't care how she looks or what she projects and it's not that she doesn't care it's just, she's not affected I guess, and that gives her grace. And five; she does this thing in bed when she can't get to sleep, she kinda half moans and then rubs her feet together an equal number of times... it just kills me. Believe me, I mean, I could do a top five things about her that drive me crazy but it's just your garden variety women you know, schizo stuff and that's the kind of thing that got me here.
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Rob: Songs at my funeral: "Many Rivers to Cross" by Jimmy Cliff, "Angel" by Aretha Franklin, and I've always had this fantasy that some beautiful, tearful woman would insist on "You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me" by Gladys Knight. But who would that woman be?
and just because:
Rob: You think sex is a basic human right?
Marie De Salle: Hell yeah, yeah.
....so in following with that overall theme:
Top Five Scenes from JFC?
for me...
1. when shaun comes out of the coma afer being kissed by the bird
2. when ed o'neill says, I'm here on orders from my bird
3. when shaun and john come surfing back from Cincinnatti
4. when cissy yost trashes her husband's getaway loft and blows cigarette smoke into statue's face
5. when shaun asks for p&b sandwhich instead of a tuna sandwhich
just my humble opinion folks!
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Re: information center for John from cincinnati
Nov 17, 2009 12:11 PM
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It's sometimes baffling to see our obsessive attraction to making lists of different kinds, you know, "Top Ten" of this and that. Who's especially prone to that addiction is women magazines. You'd agree if you ever spend time in a queue at the cash register at a grocery store. "27 ways to break up", or "96 best designer handbags," etc. I always wonder, how do they come up with such a number...
Found one list though, "AV Club's best TV episodes of the decade" where, between good, not so good, and definitely bad shows JFC is featured for the "Cookout" episode.
"David Milch?s post-Deadwood effort was one of the most famous creative busts of the decade, but it provided at least one indelible episode: a weirdly clarifying hour that spelled out Milch?s grand theories about damaged people forming communities to help each other, and his idea of how God might reach out to touch the lives of burned-out drug addicts and former surfer kings. The episode?s final 10 minutes?set in the parking lot of a hotel where the titular John, the show?s Christ figure, gives his version of the Sermon On The Mount?are simultaneously completely baffling and strangely moving, as John?s words bring together the sad, tortured souls of Southern California to reach toward a higher purpose. That purpose never came, thanks to the series? rapid deterioration and subsequent cancellation."
Some truth to that, right? Wouldn't agree that the show deteriorated of course, or at least that it was the creators fault.
We know better.
Anyways, JFC is remembered and rightfully so.
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Re: information center for John from cincinnati
Nov 5, 2009 12:11 PM
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 I have watched Modern Family. It is or has had some hillarious moments.......
Ed O'Neil is great in it,
I got to see Van Holt ( nice on the eyes) last night on Couger Town....
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Re: information center for John from cincinnati
Oct 26, 2009 9:29 PM
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Two short mentions of Ed O'Neil role as Bill Jacks, taken from "TV Squad"here.
He is lauded for his part in Modern Family. I'm still watching it, it's not bad at all.
"If you watched John from Cincinnati, you knew how awesome he was separated from Al Bundy. In fact, his character in John From Cincinnati was much more interesting and authentic than his character on Modern Family.
"Fair enough, Justin and I agree with you on at least one point - I thought Ed O'Neill was brilliant on John from Cincinnati as well. The article is correct in that he is really the anchor of this show."
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Re: information center for John from cincinnati
Oct 26, 2009 9:19 PM
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Cissy, it's not Butchie that does "the ass grabbing", unfortunately. He would've been just great, doing it with flair and innocence.
By the way, the reviews compliment Van Holt, as the only character worth watching that show.
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Re: information center for John from cincinnati
Oct 18, 2009 10:45 PM
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee
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And, no, I don't think it belongs on the Algonquin Thread.
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Re: information center for John from cincinnati
Oct 16, 2009 2:47 AM
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Hi Sven thanks, for the tv reviews. We only get so many channels and those on different days, we have a hard time finding most of the things you watch, or have available to you.
We almost always can get one of the public broadcast channels though. I am pleased when I find that many people I see through the week turn out to have watched those same public broadcast specials. And they're not even having a pledge drive! Bonus!
I will have to check out the ass grabbing on Butchies new show, is he the one who does it?
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Re: information center for John from cincinnati
Oct 15, 2009 6:45 PM
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I am recording "Modern Family" on DVR . Ed O'Neill, as someone already said, could play this role with his eyes closed, he is brilliant in every move and inflection. His lines are sharp, there is some good playwriting, although ending every episode on a compulsory "Hallmark moment" seems to me artificial, as are some situations in that story.
Cissy, "Cougar Town" is an awful blend of vulgarity and cheep tricks and is, in general, demeaning and offensive. In the first episode the viewers were subjected to an ass grabbing, sickening dialog between a mother and a teenage son, and, let's use a nice word - a fellatio. Courtney Cox is just plain hysterical and it's painful to watch. She is definitely not Samantha from Sex and the City. I suffered through two episodes just to see Van Holt, and decided to not waste my time any longer.
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Re: information center for John from cincinnati
Oct 15, 2009 3:04 AM
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Oh! He does look good! He looks really good to me!
I wish abc would stop telling me I can watch it on their site! It never works! Ever!
How many times I've sat there trying to watch Lost...
Know better now though.
Hope I can find eps somewhere so I can see this show! Thanks Little Sister!
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Re: information center for John from cincinnati
Oct 15, 2009 12:06 AM
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MS!!! omg! A whole show with Butchie as lead?
I am going to heaven! Get me some Butchie time in serious!
We will have to make an adjustment that allows me cable, I don't want to miss this!
But sometimes I wonder if it's actually the character Butchie that I love so well...It wouldn't have been the same without without this actor. I hope he goes far!!
Get him out of suits, too! Cop suits, bad guy suits, no more! Give him a real character to work again!
Thanks for posting Sonra!!!!!
Yippee!!!
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Re: information center for John from cincinnati
Oct 14, 2009 9:10 PM
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As "Voice of San Diego" reports, El Camino Motel is for sale as bank owned.
That's how it looked last summer.
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Re: information center for John from cincinnati
Oct 14, 2009 8:51 PM
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Honestly, I have no idea if "White Collar" is something worth watching, but here is Willie Carson who plays Mozzie, a criminal with connections.
"White Collar" starts October 23 on USA
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