You’ve got to check a headline like this: Found: the giant lion-eating chimps of the magic forest. Pretty interesting stuff.
Anybody into the new HBO show, John from Cincinnati?
You’ve got to check a headline like this: Found: the giant lion-eating chimps of the magic forest. Pretty interesting stuff.
Anybody into the new HBO show, John from Cincinnati?
john from cincinnati that is….sand crabs…and it’s not kind
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that left a mark.
DeMornay’s performance last week was awful, I’ll agree.
But I kind of like the quirkiness and unpredictablity of the show.
dada, but it sure is the truth.
I watched the show for a little bit one day & saw a little again the following week.
I don`t have time for druggery like that.
I had hoped to see waves & water, sunsets & surfing.
Hitting dope, old school, in that context, although it`s always a concern, for the naive younger ones, as older & experienced people know.
A real, don`t bother to watch, slug, imo.
The ape story is good. I think in places where continuous warring is a way of life, so is individual survival, leaving no time to wander far from home. The story last month of immense herds of wildlife in southern Sudan, surprised even the most optomistic of conservationists.
There`s definitely hope for the future of the apes.
Here`s a clip from the Sudan story. It`s similar, but the apes are different in that they are a previously unknown branch of the great apes.
“We estimated more than 800,000 kob in Southern Sudan,” said Fay. “If you were a gold miner and hit a vein of gold, like we found in kob, you would have found El Dorado. Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that this kind of abundance in nature existed in a region after 25 years of civil war, virtually unknown to the world at large.”
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/massive-herds-animals-found-still-exist-southern-sudan-13453.html
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IBED (Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystems Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) established contacts with the Wasmoeth Wildlife Foundation and became involved in its activities in the Bili area and the protection of its wild life including apes.
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"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."I’ve seen the first few episodes of J from C, and while I agree with much of Wolcott’s criticisms, nvertheless I find the show intriguing. I’m no religious nut; I have no appetite for ‘savior’ stuff or ‘God’ stuff, but I do find myself wanting to know where this story is going, (if indeed it’s going anywhere).
Oddly perhaps, with the slicker production and better acting in the Sopranos soap opera, I found that show less intriguing than this one.
The story line is so bizarre that I have to tune in and watch again each week. Hopefully it won’t end up like Lost, where I can’t believe that show made it past the first season.
Plus, I love getting to see some of my old favorite actors from Deadwood again. And Ed O’Neill cracks me up in J from C.
I tried to watch it a couple of times and just couldn’t get into it. But it follows Big Love which I’m sort of addicted to.
big love is great. jfc is starting to get pretty good. big love was a little slow at first too.
Yes CG, the mondo bizarro as yet undecipherable plot line may have been deliberately designed that way to make us keep tuning in for more.
I missed the first 20 minutes of last night’s episode, but from what I did see,l with the little spiel toward the end about ‘My Father”, and some of the other disjointed storyline devices, it may be the show is about to devolve into a far less interesting and thoughtful thing than it may seem to be now.
I kind of like the idea that the characters, virtually without exception, are suffering internal discomfort and are sort of searching, (but not really), for an easing of that discomfort in their lives. And I hope the show doesn’t veer off into the realm of belief-based gobbledygook as a vehicle for carrying the stories forward. that, for me, would be very lame, and represent a missed opportunity to help illuminate the essential value of helping each other in the course of our lives, regardless of whether there are miraculous things happening or not.
Anyway, after last night, I now feel compelled not to miss next weeks show. Very clever of the folks who put this show together.
The fact that I’m even writing about this show is a bit unsettling, a tribute to how I’ve been pulled in by the cleverness in the programming. Not embarrassing precisely, not yet anyway.
He’s Prince Myshkin.
Egads BooMan. It’s been more than 3 decades since I read “The Idiot”, but Myshkin fits.
I hope the paranormal stuff and social interactiveness in this show steers clear of theological dogma and stays centered on doing good for each other for it’s own sake.
He’s Jesus/Myshkin. I find it interesting.
Yes I understand that but I don’t recall ideological preachiness being a part of the Idiot’s schtick, though just as with the tale of Jesus in Christian teachings, I think the Idiot of Dostoyevsky’s work is also turned on by those whose lives he’s affected.
Do you hear J in C being ideological and preachy?
The concept is fascinating. God comes down to Earth as a man but finds that he cannot communicate clearly. He stutters (Myshkin) or he parrots (John). He also finds that his trust is misplaced, expressed as a basic gullibility, followed by betrayal.
It’s early in the game but J in C (as opposed to just plain JC) needs to develop more vulnerability in order for this story line to work.
In the meantime, like JC and Myshkin before him, he will transform the lives he encounters through love and forgiveness.
No I don’t hear J ‘n C being preachy and I hope it stays that way.
I sense a lot of thoughtfulness in this series and I sincerely hope it doesn’t just fizzle out.
Love the site, keep it up. I am still glued to John from Cincy and I have no clue what is really going on. I might have to watch last night’s scene a few more times to get all of the symbolism.
This blog has great recap of shows.
http://mattzollerseitz.blogspot.com/
Here is a review of last week’s episode.
http://mattzollerseitz.blogspot.com/2007/07/john-from-cincinnati-mondays-ep-5-his.html