tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078779326914378322.post5695058499694812799..comments2024-03-22T14:40:33.276-07:00Comments on Blood, Sweat, and Tedium: Confessions of a Hollywood Juicer: Andy GriffithMichael Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02569781786039595929noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078779326914378322.post-30630379084135066132012-07-10T12:59:35.672-07:002012-07-10T12:59:35.672-07:00CB --
Thanks. The world we've known is indee...CB --<br /><br />Thanks. The world we've known is indeed crumbling. If I had a lawn, I'd yell at the kids to get off it...<br /><br />Courtney --<br /><br />Somehow I doubt it -- but thanks for the vote of confidence. <br /><br />JR --<br /><br />Thanks. Sorry to hear that Willie is showing his age -- although 80 years old in 100+ heat is enough to kill most people. Give him credit for still trying, at least. But yeah, I hear on the cell phone thing, and just don't understand the addictive appeal. I'm sure you're right about the future Cyborg Nation, too...<br /><br />Lakshmi --<br /><br />Great poem. I used to be a young steer once, hunting for that purer water, but a few good muscle-shredding shocks on the wire put an end to such foolishness. I kind of miss it, though...<br /><br />Such is life. <br /><br />Thanks so much!Michael Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02569781786039595929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078779326914378322.post-66148852016038678692012-07-09T09:08:37.784-07:002012-07-09T09:08:37.784-07:00Unrelated, yes (or maybe not), but I remembered an...Unrelated, yes (or maybe not), but I remembered an old poem by Philip Larkin, and thought of sending to you.<br /><br />Wires<br /><br />The widest prairies have electric fences,<br />For though old cattle know they must not stray<br />Young steers are always scenting purer water<br />Not here but anywhere. Beyond the wires<br /><br />Leads them to blunder up against the wires<br />Whose muscles-shredding violence gives no quarter.<br />Young steers become old cattle from that day,<br />Electric limits to their widest senses.<br /><br />-- Philip LarkinLakshmihttp://locks.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078779326914378322.post-8173989247583975112012-07-08T19:12:41.613-07:002012-07-08T19:12:41.613-07:00nice writing as usual taylor. and thanks for point...nice writing as usual taylor. and thanks for pointing out the man's humanity amid the usual saccharine tributes. i hear you on the cell phones on set. i see it on college campus now also, destroying once binding genuine communal links like young people sitting on "the commons" outside and talking to one another and meeting new people, sparking new ideas and direct action. now, the only students who talk are those who smoke and sit isolated doing so, the cigarette/talking action stopping the cell phone use; they actually have a real community rather than this facebook one which i believe has organizing promise but so far, mostly leads to laziness, passive "likes" of often mundane bullshit, and sitting on one's ass and staring at a screen wherever one is. last night i went to a willie nelson concert and over 60 percent of the crowd had their phones out along the guadalupe river as he played watching him on a screen as they filmed him rather than the man himself singing. the rest were on facebook or texting. only halfway through the show, as people got more drunk (though unfortunately, not very stoned as uptight, hot, asshole cops were everywhere killing buzzes)did they put away their phones and start dancing and singing and getting into the moment. that said, it didn't help that willie is getting up there and did not put on a very good show either. i saw him six years ago and well, this was night and day, he was much better then. but shit, it was 100 degrees at ten am and he held hundreds of people there with just him and his guitar at about 80 years old...once they put there phones away. i am waiting for the day, in my lifetime, when people start installing these various tv screen/commercial/information portals into their heads. trust me, they will line up to do so and eventually brag about the chip size in their brains and the hd/3d visuals. JR HeltonJR Heltonhttp://www.jrhelton.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078779326914378322.post-2634693101778688002012-07-08T17:51:40.286-07:002012-07-08T17:51:40.286-07:00Maybe all those people on the set staring into the...Maybe all those people on the set staring into their phones are doing what I do... Reading your blog...<br /><br />-----CourtneyAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02393552250213935310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078779326914378322.post-1019098285485982792012-07-08T17:04:45.571-07:002012-07-08T17:04:45.571-07:00Nice post.
Yes, they were different work ethics ...Nice post. <br />Yes, they were different work ethics not so long ago, and they did make a difference.C.B.noreply@blogger.com