Author Topic: Hey 88 (Read 637 times)

DiabloTX · « **Reply #15 on:** December 03, 2006, 02:53:10 AM »

Speaking of the avatard...

Larry McMurtry is one of my favorite authors. And HE feels he needs to do something different with every book he writes. That kind of drives me nuts.

DiabloTX · « **Reply #16 on:** December 03, 2006, 02:54:08 AM »

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a grape changes color when it sees another grape.

Good enough.

JB88 · « **Reply #17 on:** December 03, 2006, 02:54:12 AM »

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Originally posted by DiabloTX
I think artists, by far, are the hardest on themselves. I think it's harder to stay with what you know best, what made you. I think re-invention is the pressure coming from others that think you have to change. I don't buy that at all.

But I can understand the wife deal...sometimes they make men do stupid things.

well, it depends. if you are doing it to please others? sure. that sucks.

or in another, equally turmulous, the want to experience growth...or as the destination on the bus might say "further"

JB88 · « **Reply #18 on:** December 03, 2006, 02:56:45 AM »

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Originally posted by DiabloTX

Larry McMurtry is one of my favorite authors. And HE feels he needs to do something different with every book he writes. That kind of drives me nuts.

perhaps that is why he is your favorite.

DiabloTX · « **Reply #19 on:** December 03, 2006, 02:59:10 AM »

No, Wouk is my favorite, McMurtry is just one that I enjoy, for the most part, to read. McMurtry just doesn't deal with other people's expectations or historical facts, but he has a way with words.

JB88 · « **Reply #20 on:** December 03, 2006, 03:00:08 AM »

wordsmiths.

DiabloTX · « **Reply #21 on:** December 03, 2006, 03:03:30 AM »

Have you read any of McMurtry's stuff?

JB88 · « **Reply #22 on:** December 03, 2006, 03:04:32 AM »

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Originally posted by DiabloTX
I think artists, by far, are the hardest on themselves. I think it's harder to stay with what you know best, what made you. I think re-invention is the pressure coming from others that think you have to change. I don't buy that at all.

But I can understand the wife deal...sometimes they make men do stupid things.

you can't escape this. what you know best IS what makes you...

how then does one continue to EXPAND on what they know best.

that is my point.

JB88 · « **Reply #23 on:** December 03, 2006, 03:07:02 AM »

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Have you read any of McMurtry's stuff?

no. but i am wondering which of his works you think are his best...
any recent films catch your fancy? oh what is that screenplay that he wrote about you and your buddy on fishing trips...something mountain or something or other.

(nice try...google is the roxor)

DiabloTX · « **Reply #24 on:** December 03, 2006, 03:08:15 AM »

By seeking perfection? Did Michaelangelo have to re-invent? Da Vinci? Shakespeare?

I just think artists like to be critical of themselves. Not that that's a bad thing, just don't think they have to change to seek what they strive. Maybe, as was said earlier, boredom?

JB88 · « **Reply #25 on:** December 03, 2006, 03:10:00 AM »

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By seeking perfection? Did Michaelangelo have to re-invent? Da Vinci? Shakespeare?

I just think artists like to be critical of themselves. Not that that's a bad thing, just don't think they have to change to seek what they strive. Maybe, as was said earlier, boredom?

ABSOLUTELY!!! especially michealangelo and Davinci!!!

(not a big shakespeare guy, but i would guess that yes, he did too)

i am not referring to changing CORE...i am talking about getting up out of a chair and looking at a problem from a totally different angle.

DiabloTX · « **Reply #26 on:** December 03, 2006, 03:10:26 AM »

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no. but i am wondering which of his works you think are his best...
any recent films catch your fancy? oh what is that screenplay that he wrote about you and your buddy on fishing trips...something mountain or something or other.

(google is the roxor)

Don't ask, don't tell.

Well, his stuff is mostly western and I have to say Lonesome Dove is, by far, his best work IMHO. The other books in the series vary from good to WTF??? The Last Picture Show is well loved too, but I couldn't get all the way through it, my wife loved it though.

JB88 · « **Reply #27 on:** December 03, 2006, 03:11:09 AM »

i saw some good titles on the list.

was thinking that i might have been setup for an ambush. lol.

JB88 · « **Reply #28 on:** December 03, 2006, 03:13:48 AM »

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ABSOLUTELY!!! especially michealangelo and Davinci!!!

(not a big shakespeare guy, but i would guess that yes, he did too)

i am not referring to changing CORE...i am talking about getting up out of a chair and looking at a problem from a totally different angle.

which is actually how CORE is able to change.

but i don't see any advantage to this being an arbitrary occurrance.

it's just the thing that keeps things interesting.

shouldnt our lives also have plot lines and twists?

DiabloTX · « **Reply #29 on:** December 03, 2006, 03:14:46 AM »

I was on active duty when the tv mini-series Lonesome Dove was aired. I didn't get to see it but judging by the title alone I thought it was some revisionist's story of a white woman on the high plains of the mid-west fighting off horny cowboys and savage injuns while raising 7 children all by herself. Good thing my wife made me watch it one afternoon about 10 years ago. Read the book (twice) and became a fan.