God the academia is deteriorating around here lately!
That’s because the Amygdala is accelerating.
Don’t start … I am saying NOWT, lousche.
is that a new faster Jap train??
I noticed actor Liam Neilson has been very busy making films since the tragic death of his beloved wife a few years ago, maybe it’s his way of coping with his loss. That made me wonder do actors who work too hard making picture after picture run the risk of forgetting who they really are?
I couldn’t act me way out of a paper bag, but you read about actors like Christian Bale losing vast amounts of weight to play a certain role, to ‘Live’ the part, melt into the character, as they say in the film business. I can sort of understand that if they want to do the best job they can, but what is it like to live with a person who’s Batman one month and Saint Peter the next? It has to have some kind of side effects.:shock:
I’ve been listening to some of the old Sherlock Holmes stories on audio book in bed over the past week, just listening to them mind you not acting them, and last night I woke up and said to the wife “Quiet Watson, I’m looking for clues” well that’s according to her I don’t remember even wakening up.
Was that young man Marian Mitchell Morrison ever seen again when he changed his name to John Wayne and went on to be 250 other characters in his lifetime? If you were to break that time up and see how much time he actually spent being himself it would be surprising, a bit scary is it not? Brings one back to I am a yam, that’s what I am, but maybe in the case of a bad actor “I am a Ham”
Just another thought, what would happen to a star actor if he found himself in court and needed a character reference? “Ah your honour, let me see, what character would you be wantin’ now, I do a grand Richard the Third, will that do yeh?”
but we are all actors really - one minute a dad, then next a husband, then a fitter and turner; then a lay preacher etc etc - we all play multiple roles everyday we just don’t on the screen!
Too right Gummy, but we avoid stage fright cos we are acting in reality, exit stage left.
I never looked at it that way Gumbud, how right you are too, the whole World is a stage as Elvis said in one of his songs.( I think he nicked that from Shakespeare) I suppose professional acting is just getting well paid for playing the games you like, just like footballers and snookers players.
My missus always knows when I’m acting out a lie, don’t know how she does it but I can never get away with anything, I end up having to laugh then give in and own up. How some of these actors can hold in the laughing while delivering some of the stupid things they have to say is beyond me.
I just played out the hand I was dealt in life and crossed me bridges as I came to them.
aah!! - but what is reality - we even see colors differently and interpret things differently ; misinterpret facial expressions etc and are we really the only life force in this universe - reality is as shifting as quick sand!:twisted:
Sometimes it is best to ignore your own reality, for peace of minds sake.
I always ignore my wifes own reality that gives me a lot of peace!
Pat forever got his haircut at Bob the Barber.
Bob was an insufferable type that would not let anyone have or be better than he. If you had one, he had two. If your wife was pretty his was beautiful. If you knew the vice-president, he knew the you-know-who. Pat hated it but Bob was the only barber in town.
Pat had been on vacation for 3 weeks and really needed a haircut this day. In the barber chair finally, Bob says, " Well, Pat, see you been out of town on vacation. Hope you got to places I have seen before. They were really great."
Pat couldn’t stand it anymore… not another one-upmanship by Bob. “Well, Bob, I went overseas.”
Bob replies, 'Really… been overseas myself stacks of times."
Pat says, “and I went to Rome.” ----
“Oh yeah, I really enjoyed Rome.” says Bob.
Pat offers, “and I had an audience with the Pope at St. Peters”
This really catches Bob off guard. “Wow, really??!”
“Yeah,” says Pat, “and I approached him and knelt and kissed his ring and then he leaned over and whispered in my ear.”
Bob the barber was really got. “No kidding…what did he say to you?”
Pat replies, "He said, “Where did you get that lousy haircut??”
Good on yeh Pat me boyo.
The more I look back through the years now the more it all seems like it was only a dream, it didn’t really happen and I’m awake now. When I think of it I shudder, half a dozen clashes with death, getting up at 5.30 on Winter Mornings and walking 5 miles to work during a 3 month long bus strike, taking orders from a gobshite foreman who didn’t know his arse from his elbow, and all for thirty bob a week as an apprentice. Not to mention some very embarrassing moments as a young man, I didn’t really do that did I?, no, all that had to be a dream. I can no longer see the faces of my old mates both living and dead, time has buried everything forever.
If God doesn’t forgive me for my sins and sends me back down here again as punishment I hope I come back as a big rock, a rock feels absolutely nothing, doesn’t have to eat, drink, work, worry, shave, or even shit, it just sits there doing nothing for millions of years, oh my kingdom for a rock.
The wife was a big fan of Rock Hudson years ago, she would swoon whenever he was on screen, the women don’t seem to ’Swoon’ anymore at the stars why’s that? anyway she found out he was gay and that was the end of that for her. Every time I see him in a film on TV I tease her “Ah look Philly, there’s your chap” she’ll put on a face and say “I’m finished with him as you well know” “Well you sure can pick’em ducky” I get a malicious kick knocking the Rock.;-)
Up in Heaven I stood in the dock
Found guilty and sentenced to become a Rock
Thrown out from the land of honey and sweetcorn
And plonked on top of the mighty Matterhorn
Where the wind, snow, and ice did do it’s best
But could not shift me from my eternal rest.
nice story Jem - yep we all had those kind of foremen and bosses but ya know I think they were our grinding stones that turned us into diamonds! they do say [who are they - well the archangels ; judges in the sky??] that there are no bad experiences in life just learning ones - as someone once said you can turn any bad experience around it only takes you and your mind no one else!
I was asked by an acquaintance why it is I’m known as ‘the baker’.
I told him; “It sounds SO much better than in-bred”…[regardless of spelling]
fancy some night classes Pug??
EVENING CLASSES STARTING SOON
CLASSES FOR MEN
Topic 1. How to fill ice-cube trays.
Topic 2. Lavatory paper rolls: do they grow on the holders?
Topic 3: Differences between the laundry basket and the floor.
Topic 4. The after-dinner dishes and silverware: can they levitate and fly into the kitchen sink?
Topic 5. Loss of identity: losing the remote to your significant other.
Topic 6. Learning how to find things, starting with looking in the right place instead of turning the house upside down while screaming.
Topic 7. Health watch: bringing her flowers is not harmful to your health.
Topic 8. Real men ask for directions when lost.
Topic 9. Is it genetically impossible to sit quietly as she parallel parks?
Topic 10. Learning to live: basic differences between mother and wife.
Topic 11. How to be the ideal shopping companion.
Topic 12. How to fight cerebral atrophy: remembering birthdays, anniversaries, other important dates and calling when you’re going to be late.
CLASSES FOR WOMEN
Women think they already know everything, but wait…training courses are now available for women on the following subjects:
Topic 1. Silence, the Final Frontier: Where No Woman Has Gone Before
Topic 2. The Undiscovered Side of Banking: Making Deposits
Topic 3. Parties: Going Without New Outfits
Topic 4. Bathroom Etiquette : His Razor is His
Topic 5. Communication Skills I: Tears - The Last Resort, not the First
Topic 6. Communication Skills II: Getting What you Want Without Nagging.
Topic 7. Driving a Car Safely: A Skill You CAN Acquire
Topic 8. Telephone Skills: How to Hang Up
Topic 9. Introduction to Parking
Topic 10. Advanced Parking: Backing Into a Space
Topic 11. Water Retention: Fact or Fat
Topic 12. Cooking : Bringing Back Bacon, Eggs and Butter
Topic 13. PMS: Your Problem . . . Not His
Topic 14. Dancing: Why Men Don’t Like To
Topic 15. Classic Footwear: Wearing Shoes You Already Have
Topic 16. Household Dust: A Harmless Natural Occurrence Only Women Notice
Topic 17. Integrating Your Laundry: Washing It All Together
Topic 18. Oil and Gas: Your Car Needs Both
Topic 19. TV Remotes: For Men Only
Topic 20. Shopping Without Dropping
A wise person once said life = 50 years of damage limitation.
I was just thinking of some of the brave (or stupid) stuff we did when younger, I used to go into a notorious Biker Pub, with the Gang, wait for the jukebox to go silent, go to it and select Lily of Laguna to play, three consecutive times.