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miss_porcupine

stuff about stuff

Dec 02, 2010 12:21

* General cantankery: I seem to be having the 'Chanukah is not the Jewish Christmas' conversation far more often than usual this year, especially with people who really should know better than to ask if I have had fun celebrating the holiday (15 hours in) or was taking off work for it. It's the middle of the week (so I don't feel like shredding and ( Read more... )

watching the detectives, randomness thy name is...

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supplyship December 2 2010, 18:29:38 UTC

Oh my. The Young Riders, how I loved that show! This then-15-year-old thought The Kid was sweet, but Jimmy was the cutest. You'll have to post your findings after you and the BFF rewatch!

Jim Beaver, really? And I just looked the show up on IMDB... Cynthia Nixon was in two episodes! LOL.

*runs to add to her streaming queue*

Happy Chanukah, all eight days of it! :)

miss_porcupine December 2 2010, 19:14:15 UTC

Thank you. :)

The list of who guest-starred in this series is both funny and interesting. Someone like Jim Beaver (even in a minor cameo) and Keith Carradine make sense. Cynthia Nixon... maybe less so considering her later work.

cofax7 December 2 2010, 18:56:01 UTC

The Young Riders is on streaming?

And here I am home sick, and all caught up on Fringe. Oh, dear...

miss_porcupine December 2 2010, 19:19:58 UTC

You know you want to watch.

By today's standards -- or maybe I really have watched too much Deadwood -- there's a sweetness to the show that's very much of its time. It's not going a lot of places it so easily could (and that more contemporary shows do). It's content to be good-natured entertainment and not worry about the details too much.

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miss_porcupine December 3 2010, 02:54:48 UTC

Very much nostalgia. But good nostalgia, less of the 'omg, I watched this?" type.

cimmerdeux December 2 2010, 23:11:29 UTC

But, but what about the dreydl song? Surely you must love that? LOL

I thought the Young Riders were super cute and watched it every week. I don't remember a single plot but I do remember the guys (and gal).

I actually got to see the restored version of Metropolis complete with live orchestra when it came through the Bay Area a few months ago. The gentleman who found it and the lady from the archive society were there and gave a talk on the events leading up to finding and getting the restored version out on the road - Indiana Jones eat your heart out! It was a great story including trying to convince the Germans that no, really, this is complete, no fooling. LOL

miss_porcupine December 3 2010, 02:56:21 UTC

I'm already sick of 'Silent Night.' We shall not speak of dreidel songs.

That sounds like a fantastic Metropolis experience. That, or a plot from a WEB Griffin, since he's always got the WWII Germans hiding stuff in Argentina and environs.

cimmerdeux December 3 2010, 03:32:54 UTC

The story did sound a little bit like a Jack Higgins novel complete with some French entrepreneur who caught wind of the fact they had a complete copy of Metropolis and kept offering big bucks if they would just sell it to him because they couldn't give it to those "nazis" (end quote LOL). It was fascinating. And, the guy who found it took years trying to convince people that there was a complete copy out there and it was all based on a projectionist who made a comment about not changing a reel or something when he showed it in this little town and this film archivist caught that and realized that by golly, this guy had been showing a complete copy sent out and saved before the Nazis pulled it from distribution. It was very Indiana Jones. LOL ( ... )

ohevet_likro December 3 2010, 02:41:26 UTC

I lived for watching The Young Riders when it was first on...
I was thinking about getting Netflix streaming for myself as a Chanuka present, now I'm seriously considering it. I wish the 2nd and 3rd seasons were available too though.
TYR was one of my first fandoms, it's too bad that most of the fic websites are long gone.
And I know what you mean about the annoying questions "Will you be in the office the whole time? You mean you can work?" and of course the best question (from my kids) "Have we finished lighting the candles yet? When do I get my present????
The best thing was since the building management knows that the boss of the firm is Orthodox, when they didn't know how to light the menorah in the lobby, the manager came up to us to ask. Except they must have assumed (wrongly) that everyone was Orthodox and asked the Catholic paralegal.

miss_porcupine December 3 2010, 02:58:46 UTC

All three seasons are available on streaming, it seems. Even though the second and third seasons aren't on DVD. I guess they're legal TV rips.

The Chanukah questions aren't nearly as grating as the folks who wish me a happy Yom Kippur every year despite me patiently explaining every year that that's not the point.