HIGHLA-L Digest - 2 Apr 2006 to 3 Apr 2006 (#2006-72)
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There are 5 messages totalling 298 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. I reason because --- my current preoccupation
2. I reason because --- my current preoccupation (SPAMMED?) (2)
3. Things I love about HL but had forgotten over time (2)
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Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 08:30:14 -0700
From: Jess R <passionate_lover_thinker@yahoo.com>
Subject: I reason because --- my current preoccupation
I reason because
(Background: Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1)
Wonderful and amazing life gave me the ability to appreciate and question my existence
Who am I?
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Why do I feel hunger, thirst … pain?
Why do I yearn to learn and keep learning?
Conversely, why do I yearn to teach and keep teaching?
But most especially. why do I yearn to love and keep loving?
What are all these other things around me?
Where did they come from?
Is there such thing as creation?
How come there is no well defined concept of creation in mathematics?
Is there infinity?
If in fact energy and mass can never be created nor destroyed, where did all such things go when they are drawn into singularities with practically no dimension such as a black hole?
Do they just stay as “points in space-time at which gravitational forces cause matter to have infinite density and infinitesimal volume, and space and time to become infinitely distorted?”
Ah ... but then we have to assume there is such thing as infinity!
Or are they gateways to other worlds?
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Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 16:25:16 +0000
From: Earl Heinrich <eheinr007@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: I reason because --- my current preoccupation (SPAMMED?)
I guess this message could be an example of why there are/were list rules and why we need/needed a listowner with a whip to keep things in line. There was not even an OHR or tangential topic in this e-mail.
This is an issue only the listowner can address.
DEBBIE!!!??
Earl J. Heinrich
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Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 12:31:49 EDT
From: Billie Lee Williams <McCelt2003@aol.com>
Subject: Re: I reason because --- my current preoccupation (SPAMMED?)
I got that message as well; I did not, however notice it was a HL LIST
Message. I deleted it because of the highly questionable subject line.
Is there no other way to prevent such a thing from ending up in List Mail?
Please pardon if this is a really stupid question.
Forever Yours,
Billie-Lee
In a message dated 4/3/2006 9:27:21 AM Pacific Standard Time,
eheinr007@COMCAST.NET writes:
I guess this message could be an example of why there are/were list rules and
why we need/needed a listowner with a whip to keep things in line. There was
not even an OHR or tangential topic in this e-mail.
This is an issue only the listowner can address.
DEBBIE!!!??
Earl J. Heinrich
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Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 21:46:40 +0200
From: TMar <tmar@polka.co.za>
Subject: Things I love about HL but had forgotten over time
Watching the DVDs has reminded me very powerfully of the fact that
I *love* Highlander. Sure, my enthusiasm faded a little over time, but
watching it again has brought back a lot of it.
Things I'd forgotten about that I love in HL
1. Adrian Paul. Damn but that man is handsome. Duncan MacLeod was
the absolute perfect role for him. He's SO good in it - both good looking
and his actng is good. He really came a long way from War of the Worlds
(I was an Adrian fan BEFORE Highlander!). He needs to find a new role
that will challenge him as much as Duncan did. Preferably a role with lots
of kung fu. :)
2. The music. Not just Queen (Queen *rules*), but the incidental music
as well. Also "Bonny Portmore", which I love. (I was a Loreena
McKennitt fan - yes, I know it wasn't her version in the show - long
before her song was used in HL 3.)
3. Fantastic flashbacks. All those different times and places and cool
costumes. Wow!
4. Guest stars who remain in the mind even after single performances. (No,
I don't mean Michael Shanks. Sod off, Nina.)
5. Really good continuity and storylines which intertwine. Okay, so TPTB
occasionally made some mistakes. But they *tried*, which is more than
most shows do. And they never tried to act as though characters who had
died (and no, I don't mean Richie) never existed in the first place,
which is
a sin a lot of drama shows commit.
6. Actors who cared about the show. More than that, actors who can
remember storylines and plot points! That's rare in television. Especially
years after the fact.
7. The fact that you can see how Duncan (Richie, Methos, Amanda, Joe)
changed over six years. TPTB *let* the characters change and grow;
another rarity in television.
8. Cool swordfights. :) A person forgets over time just how well done
the swordfights were. Watch another show that has swordfights and
the people look clumsy - that is, if it's actually the actors at all! I love
the fact that HL seldom used stunt doubles for the fights. Wonderful
stuff!
9. Accents on parade. HL showcased a far greater variety of accents
than any other show I can think of. Farscape's universe was populated
by Australians. Stargate is populated by a lot of Americans and one or
two South Africans (Baal rules!!). But HL had Americans, English
people, Scots, French people, Germans, Russians, etc. Fantastic
variety.
10. The whole package. What a show!
- Marina.
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"Expecting" (Angel)
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Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 15:04:23 -0700
From: MacWestie <macwestie@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Things I love about HL but had forgotten over time
Marina--
> 1. Adrian Paul. Damn but that man is handsome.
Yes, totally.
> and his actng is good.
Well, sometimes. It even got uniformly good on HL:TS
by season 4 or so. But, there were clunkers. Like
that shriek of anguish on finding Darius beheaded.
(And, that awful "Darius!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" of his
got repeated no end in the "Prieviously on Highlander"
thingees. It MUST have been an inside joke on AP.)
> He really came a long way
> from War of the Worlds
The best that can be said of his work back on The
Colby's is that he had plenty of room to improve.
Oh--& that he was totally hot as an young,
angst-ridden, defecting Russian ballet star in love w/
a complete zero of a character. (And, God, but the
women on that show _worked_ the big hair & padded
shoulders!)
> He needs
> to find a new role
> that will challenge him as much as Duncan did.
> Preferably a role with lots
> of kung fu. :)
Please, no--I really don't think his career could
survive that.
I long to see AP in a normal role as a good guy on a
mainstream doctor or cop show--to demonstrate he
REALLY can act, as opposed to playing an
immortal/alien/vampire/hologram, etc. But, to get ANY
decent role, he 1st must hire an agent from the ranks
of the living & breathing. That's apparently a
problem for him.
> 4. Guest stars who remain in the mind even after
> single performances. (No,
> I don't mean Michael Shanks.
Who?
> Sod off, Nina.
And, again, I fondly consider geography, blessing the
physical distance between us.
> 10. The whole package.
Oh, so we're talking about AP's package now? Cool....
Nina (who hasn't forgotten anything about Highlander
or my love of it) (except, things like ep #'s are
getting hard to recall) (due to a decidedly NOT
seamless transition in email from Verizon to
HawaiianTel, I'm really not here at present)
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