(08-11-2012, 07:00 PM)buzzenator Wrote: ^ LOL...thanks for sharing that Whadabout, and thanks for joining the group. I have not seen "A Serious Man" and I love Coen Brothers movies, so I am going to get serious about watching the rest of the Coen library I have not seen.
Whadabout the Columbia Record Club...that is what makes me laugh. While in college I lived on campus in a fraternity house at the University of Minnesota. Part of our weekly humor was signing up for the Columbia Deals under hilarious pseudo names with the fraternity address. Every week someone was getting the initial order of records under a name like Norm Ezboldt, etc. You only lived there 4 years (some of us 5 or 6), so the letters and records and bills would keep coming for years...until they finally figured out the guy didn't exist or didn't live there. Probably why I like Monty Python and Coen Brothers humor so much...Buzz is somewhat off kilter, according to some. 
LOL, you frat boy, Buzz! Here is where I like to point out that I am younger than someone...anyone...you in college, me just starting HS :p You might really like the Minnesota angle of that movie. You probably know the Coens are from Minnesota. "Fargo" is another of my all-time fave movies. Their magic is in how they develop their characters. I am not really an action movie fan. My favorite movies focus on the characters. Characters are much more interesting than shoot 'em up, blow 'em up scenes, to me. The family in A Serious Man, everyone in Fargo and Raising Arizona...so much more interesting than seeing explosions and what not, when I want to vicariously be a character in an interesting movie. That said, I shall now attempt a full twist, half pike, double salchow video post about A Serious Man..
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(08-11-2012, 11:05 PM)whadaboutluv Wrote: (08-11-2012, 07:00 PM)buzzenator Wrote: ^ LOL...thanks for sharing that Whadabout, and thanks for joining the group. I have not seen "A Serious Man" and I love Coen Brothers movies, so I am going to get serious about watching the rest of the Coen library I have not seen.
Whadabout the Columbia Record Club...that is what makes me laugh. While in college I lived on campus in a fraternity house at the University of Minnesota. Part of our weekly humor was signing up for the Columbia Deals under hilarious pseudo names with the fraternity address. Every week someone was getting the initial order of records under a name like Norm Ezboldt, etc. You only lived there 4 years (some of us 5 or 6), so the letters and records and bills would keep coming for years...until they finally figured out the guy didn't exist or didn't live there. Probably why I like Monty Python and Coen Brothers humor so much...Buzz is somewhat off kilter, according to some.
LOL, you frat boy, Buzz! Here is where I like to point out that I am younger than someone...anyone...you in college, me just starting HS :p You might really like the Minnesota angle of that movie. You probably know the Coens are from Minnesota. "Fargo" is another of my all-time fave movies. Their magic is in how they develop their characters. I am not really an action movie fan. My favorite movies focus on the characters. Characters are much more interesting than shoot 'em up, blow 'em up scenes, to me. The family in A Serious Man, everyone in Fargo and Raising Arizona...so much more interesting than seeing explosions and what not, when I want to vicariously be a character in an interesting movie. That said, I shall now attempt a full twist, half pike, double salchow video post about A Serious Man..
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Gah, no video!! I suck at this stuff. If you have read this post thus far, please Google the scene, it's out there. Classic for us oldies growing up in the 60s/70s.
