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|2012-03-12, 07:08
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Many of Kaji Yuuki's characters simply sound so annoying. That's fine. Maybe they were meant to be that. But when the story tries to pass them off as sympathetic and all you can do is laugh at their attempts at being sympathetic then it's either a fault with the voicing or writing. Not that I know enough to swipe him personally, so as I said above, I won't be able to direct anything personally to them. So I don't blame him; I just blame the unfortunate likelihood oftypecasting.
As for Yoshino, everything I've seen of him, with the exception of Mai-HiME, I've simply despised, so I don't think he'll be able to deliver anything that would suit my tastes. But this is an adaptation, and maybe the source will be good enough. I don't know yet, so I'll give it a chance and hope I'm wrong. It's just that through experience, Sunrise has rarely failed me... though someone has increased the chances.
|2012-03-12, 07:53
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That is fine, like you said, everyone is entitled their opinion and I agree with most of what you said. I don't usually based my viewing habit on staff or VA too often and usually just watch every new stuff before which deciding which one I'd drop. It just ends up that I liked most of Yoshino's stuff and indifferent to Yuuki's VA work. (For me female VA is million times more important )
I'm just having issue when people are passing off opinions as facts and not providing explanations for it nor stated that if was just their preferences.
|2012-03-12, 15:42
|Link #284
Then again, I rarely can dismiss an anime right out of the gate. Maybe the character designs are enough for now. :]
|2012-03-12, 18:21
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Nice! The thread came full circle one more time!
Crapping on Yoshino/Kaji --> Main character too fat --> crap more on Yoshino/Kaji. Did everyone just ignored DenpaKano from Yoshino? That's the main reason why I think this won't suck ... 10 or so pages ago.
|2012-03-12, 18:33
|Link #286
But you know everyone else besides you may have something else to say even if there is overlap.
Edit: Also, making fun of fat people is going a bit too far... :S
|2012-03-12, 18:39
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|2012-03-12, 18:42
|Link #288
Dead horses are most certainly not fun to beat on due to sanitary reasons. I think it'd be fair to say it'll start rotting really badly when the sun comes out; halfway through the series would probably be the point where we really need to drag it out.
But let's get one thing straight: I am being unfair here. Unlike some "critics" who claim to be objectively crapping on a show (and continue to watch for unknown reasons) XD
|2012-03-12, 18:43
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|2012-03-12, 19:42
|Link #290
Can I just ask one question and then I personally plan on dropping the subject? Why do people feel it's necessary to take a stand and defend these two particular people in the thread from being criticized? I just want to know because I'm not sure what exactly the stakes are here and why people feel it's so important to do so. Do people have a particular liking for these two individuals? Do they feel it's unfair criticism/bashing? Do they feel the thread is being derailed by this discussion?
This is purely a question of curiosity
|2012-03-12, 20:09
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Me at work
|2012-03-13, 20:48
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With this director and writer together again doing a show for Sunrise, I expect something resembling their Mai-HiME and My Otome, which I didn't like, but many people did. Yoshino may have the black mark of Guilty Crown behind him, but I give him a huge gold star for Denpateki na Kanojo. Really an excellent show.
I look forward to hearing Misawa Sachika in a lead role. She was the "sweets spirit" Cafe in Yumeiro Patissiere, but hasn't done much in the past two years. Of course, she is barely 18.
I'm not a huge fan of Kaji Yuuki, but he is competent, and we'll see if he has another voice to use. The whiny one seems to be popular enough with audiences in Japan, if not here. And the rest of the main cast is very good.
|2012-03-14, 10:50
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Denpateki na Kanojo was excellent, one of the best anime shows of its year... but that was an adaption where he more than likely followed the original source. Imo a work where the author puts his own stamp on things shows his true colors, original productions like Geass R2, Guilty Crown, Macross Frontier, the Hime franchise (not saying these are all awful.. but a lot of awful moments throughout) as well as his own manga... are more telling. I find it hard to give Yoshino points for Denpateki na Kanojo when stuff where he has clearly had more input in regards to the story has turned out.. as they have. The good news is that Accel World is an adaption.. so if the original work is good enough and Yoshino doesn't drop the ball... could turn out good.
I don't mind Kaji... doesn't deserve the push he's getting but than again I could say that for a lot of VAs over the last few years. Maybe he has range, we'll never know if they keep typecasting him in these roles... see K.Rie for an example for females.. or a newer one you can use Toyosaki Aki.
|2012-03-14, 11:15
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Only reason I defended him was because Accel World hasn't even aired and there are people dissing it because of the pair.
It's all fine if they mentioned that it was only their opinion like AW did.
The problem I have are those few who passes off personal opinions as facts and claimed the pair were "death" to their project or unpopular and mediocre when in reality the pair had won various awards in their field and is generally popular with fans and definitely had more commercially successful projects than failures.
Its like talking about the Yankees, I can hate the Yankees all I want, but I can't just start saying that entire Yankee franchise is the greatest failure in the history of baseball without some reasoning behind it. Even if I bring up the 2004 collapse to my Sox, the fact remains that the franchise won more titles than any other baseball franchises by far.
Really, I personally had no interested in Yuuki and didn't even notice Yoshino's involvement until people mentioned it. Because as I said, I pretty much watches every show I can find and the decide which to drop. Stuff really don't have much pull for me other than that it might cause me to give it more time if it's a staff that I liked.
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|2012-03-14, 14:52
|Link #297
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Tough to say, consider that R2 is a sequel, Yoshino's name will still pop up even if he was not involved. But either way, projects he headed and thought up are all fairly similar in terms that they are all sci-fi/fantasy with tons of girls and plenty of fan services for male oriented series. His work on Kuroshitsuji also earned him tons of praise from fujoshi crowd.
You either like them or you don't, but at least the projects where he was involved are mostly big sellers that brought lots of dough for bunch of people, even the one that he was barely involve in like SEED Destiny. As far as I can tell, Guilty Crown is really the first blake mark on his resume where it fell both critically and commercially in almost every ACG circle.
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WIKI Howto
A Wiki is a free form database that outputs as a series of editable web pages. Anyone with a browser can be a web master
Q: Do I need to learn HTML?
No. It is better not to. The code looks simpler and is easier to edit for non HTML users.
Use Wiki coding where possible
Wikis are designed to convert very simple code into HTML
making them suitable for anyone to edit including those without HTML skills
Recently I had to add some data to an HTML wiki page
though complex it was possible but time consuming
to those without such skills it would have been daunting
and their data input would have been lost
Stripping out HTML
Q: Is it like a blog?
A: People can have a diary or journal inside a wiki. It is like a blog in that it can be used and edited from a browser. A blog is usually one person or occasionally a small group of people
Q: Is it like a forum?
A: This is the forum for Puppy. Forums are text based (with added options) and linear in format, best suited to question and answers and chat. Wikis normally have a way of adding comments but they are a way of presenting the essence of a forum, the knowledge without the questions. The Puppy wiki has comments at the base of each page - these can be toggled off and on. You can double click on most Puppy wiki pages and edit (and use the formatting tools at the top of the page)
Q: What makes them unique?
A: They are diverse in format and capability. The Puppy wiki is an easy and fast one. They allow everyone to create and develop web pages and for useful data to form
Q: Who owns the Wiki?
A: We do. Everyone is equal. Barry is the host and admin, just as John Murga is the host and admin of the Puppy forum. The person hosting and administrating, for obvious reasons has more power and control over the wiki. Some people are more active but that is through choice. Most pages on a wiki can be edited from any browser without registering.
Q: Do all wikis work in the same way?
A: No. The principles are the same but wikis evolve fast and are different. The Puppy wiki is simple to use and fast, just like Puppy. It is a great way of learning.
Q: How do I edit a page?
A: Double click on most pages to edit. Click on add comment (base of page) to add a comment. Highlight and then click on the icons at the top of the page to make bold, italic, indent etc
Q: How do I create a new page in the wiki?
A: To create a new wiki page, simply edit an existing page and include a CamelCase word. The CamelCase word will become a link to a blank page (assuming that CamelCase word is not the name of an already existing page, of course!)
Use meaningful naming at the start
If people use the index search
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Q: What is CamelCase?
A: A word starting with a capital letter, with a capital in the middle or end eg PuppyLinux, or PuppY
Q: How do I save a page?
A: Click on Store. You can always re-edit. If using the preview option remember to store. You can also name your edits and this is recommended as the name appear in the index.
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A: Click on Login/Register
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click Register
Q: Can I edit a page owned by someone else?
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Q: So people can edit my personal pages or journal?
A: A journal may be a page you restrict. Other pages are a group effort. You want people to help and work co-operativly
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Ah, Lobster, you crazy crustacean, you...you've forgotten one!
How do I create a new page in the wiki?
To create a new Wikki page, simply edit an existing page and include a CamelCase word. The CamelCase word will become a link to a blank page (assuming that CamelCase word is not the name of an already existing page, of course!)
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Posted: Wed 15 Jun 2005, 02:55
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Well spotted ND. Fortunately (just like with a wiki) I can edit any mistakes or updates (which I have done)
You can also use a CamelCase link like this
[[ThisIsTheLink These words are the link that appears]]
in reality you would do it something like this
[[ExampleLinks Puppy Test Files]]
Everything after the Camel Case is what displays on the wiki page
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Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2005, 05:22
Post subject: !WOW!
A wikki maybe a newbie should look there for answers as well as the forum!!!
But seriously, the wikki is more pro, indexed to easily navigate.
I suggest noobies look there as well as forum.
And another thought would be to enlarge the search button on the forums
main page so people can search for an answer on the forum and wikki!!!
Just a thought, Don't know if it's possible?
And for my brief commercial, come visit my part of the wikki:
membership is free no shipping, no handling fees!!!
Heaven is on the way, until then let's get the truth out!
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Would someone tell me how can one delete a wiki page after creating it?
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You may be able to delete pages
by putting delete at the end of the page name and pressing enter
If that does not not work send me a PM (private message)
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Posted: Sun 07 Aug 2005, 20:40
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We might need a sticky with a link to the Wiki on each section or a main header link to the Wiki.
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I think that that's a grand idea, Ian.
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Posted: Sat 29 Oct 2005, 08:57
Post subject: wiki that need improving and updating
The first part of this page has been updated here:
That address above is at our NEW wiki address - If you have websites or other links they should be to the new site . . .
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Posted: Sat 07 Jan 2006, 09:56
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There are many pages on the wiki that need improving and updating - who is up for it? News Editors are very welcome as are formatters and spell checking and editing eagle eyed Puppy wikkians . . .
If you need any assistance ask in the
section on this forum
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Posted: Sat 07 Jan 2006, 12:20
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Lobster wrote:
There are many pages on the wiki that need improving and updating - who is up for it?
I can help, PM or email me with your list of priority pages.
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Thanks Babbs
I trust peoples interest and judgement
I would read and edit at the same time
This way I learnt about Puppy and Linux and wikis
The wiki is a great resource that I hope will be made great use of in the official documentation. I have learnt so much from this forum and working and participating in the Puppy Experience. Trust your intuition. Trust the Force Babbs. Trust the Force. Just have fun. Learn and share.
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Advanced Wiki skills
Use Wiki coding where possible
Wikis are designed to convert very simple code into HTML
making them suitable for anyone to edit including those without HTML skills
recently I had to add some data to an HTML wiki page
though complex it was possible but time consuming
to those without such skills it would have been daunting
and their data input would have been lost
Use meaningful naming at the start
If people use the index search
they will find a lot of pages called PuppyIRC
or PuppyWikikInfo
and WikiInfo are far better names
the key word is at the start
Anyone else have some tips?
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Post subject: Puppy HowTo in other languages
I did change today this page:
and create
under using of 2
- the first include inserts separately pro language a common left margin text for all the page of each language so that if you add or change one line in this included page, all the pages in the language are actualized
see: http://puppylinux.org/wikka/rand, http://puppylinux.org/wikka/randD and http://puppylinux.org/wikka/randF
- the second connects all translations of the same page together
see http://puppylinux.org/wikka/pgetTongue.
the next advantage of the proposed presentation is to arrive to almost the same presentation without need to mixt HTML and Wiki-Speciallanguage. It is a diabolic mixture for people not experimented with the mixing! I did lose a lot of hours to find how to reproduce the same page presentation as the creator of the pages... but the actual result was possible and content itself with the official FormattingRules!
I didn't find a way to redimensionate the right "float" (s. item 11 on http://wikkawiki.org/FormattingRules ) to give more importance to the text part on the right side. I am sorry...
the original PuppyGet page is saved under pgetOriginal so it is no problem to reactivate it if the community refuses the change.
the language information in ( ) in the left rand (comes from f.ex. http://puppylinux.org/wikka/randF) is to understand as following: (Fr) the page is partially (40 .. 90 %) translated in French, (De) the page is partially translated in German, (FR) the translation of page French is finish, (DE) analog, (fr) only create, and less than about 40 % is translated etc.
Notice: the foot of the page includes yet a large part of HTML. I am sorry: I am no time today to make the 3 pages (UK, FR, DE) clean: it's my problem, that I work in 3 languages... My English is bad. Can one of you be so kind and check / amend this page: http://puppylinux.org/wikka/TheOneTwoThreeEtcPointsProgrammForMicrosoftWindowsUserHowTo/
(will be continued: short infos about the linux file organisation / use of the main windows partition to save big files, so sounds etc / printer / internet connection / add keyboards for Xorg / add Wine / add OO2.0 / add icone for OO / add Rosengarten etc... you can contribute if you want! I have enough to do to translate it into two languages
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Posted: Sun 10 Dec 2006, 18:46
Post subject: major informations
we find in our forum a lot of major informations about puppy and linux as drops of knowledge without system in the forum.
it would really be better as barry did suggere it here
BarryK, Puppy Master, PostPosted: Sun May 29, 2005 11:36 am
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Bruce B,
That's great stuff!
This should go into the Wiki.
to introduce really such major articles into the wiki and make them
- accessible directly through the left margin major links
- extensible if with see new details or aspects of the question
- changeable through the release evolution of PUPPY
- and translatable in different languages!
I did make it in the last days with the topic "Boot Puppy directly from DOS"
you can see here
that I did
- create the left margin major link for "Boot With..."
- create a major left margin link for "Write self in the wiki"
- create the empty pages in 3 languages and a first hierarchy for the point
"Boot With..."
- translate the reference to the new forum divisions in foreign languages in the left margin in the French and in the German template (template = include)
- put 3 different forum messages into the point 3 of this hierarchy as page 1, page 2 and page 3 of point 3
- translate the first page into French.
I will suggere that more messages of the forum has to be copy into the wiki in this manner.
Suggestion of more urgent topics:
- Start from Floppy
- Start from USB-drive with an adequate BIOS
- Start from USB-drive with a non adequate BIOS
- Managing PUPDOT's and architecture of those archives
- Limits and differences of XVESA and XORG and managing (adaptation for the vision for example for old persons)
- Managing different mode of installation
- Managing family oder class room network and SAMBA
- Use and managing Quisp SQL Data base and example of applications
- Make you browser more performant, install plugin's, dictionary and use MPlayer for MS-Windows-mediaplayer in Linux
- find libraries required by different PUPGET's
Because of the really little number of pages in my mother tongue I see my function more translating such wiki pages as creating them because my time is also limited. So it would be necessary to find friends helping to look for old messages in the forum about above subjects and installing them as new wiki page!
Who is willing to help?
Who knows interesting / major messages of the forum about above subjects (or other) and recommend them and / or create the new wiki pages?
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BIOS bugs the cause of pendrive boot failures?
The object of this post is to share information that may help others avoid some of the issues I encountered trying to boot pendrives on which Linux distros had been installed in MS Windows.
I've had a lot of trouble getting supposedly bootable, live Linux distros that had been installed on pendrives (USB sticks, flash drives) to boot. One thing I discovered recently, and that could be partly responsible for these difficulties, is that there are two separate and apparently uncoordinated BIOS boot controllers on my netbook computer (an Asus EeePC 1000HA). I suspect that other computers may have the same built-in bug.
One of the two BIOS boot controllers on my netbook is called up by pressing the F2 function key during power-up. F2 brings up the full BIOS choices screen, on which there is a "Boot" tab where you can define the order in which the BIOS looks for bootable media, as well as certain other aspects of booting. The choices are 1st, 2nd, and 3rd boot device, and between Hard Disk Drive, CD-ROM, and Removable Media (e.g. pendrive). That is, you can stipulate to the BIOS which of these three devices it looks at first for a boot procedure, which it looks at second, and which third. The sequence can be saved once set and it doesn't change on re-boot.
This is what I did when I put my first Linux on a stick, Puppeee, a Puppy Linux derivative adapted to Asus EeePCs. I set Removable Media as the first choice in the F2 BIOS setup, saved it, and the Puppeee stick booted right up. It still boots, rather than Windows on the hard disk or any CD-ROM connected, every time I power on, so long as this stick is plugged into a USB slot and I haven't changed the boot sequence in the F2 BIOS setup.
When I installed Slitaz, Puppy, Eeebuntu, Tiny Core Linux, and some other distros on other USB sticks, they wouldn't boot the computer.
I learned subsequently that there are a number of reasons why an iso of a Linux distro might not boot a USB stick. The iso might not be hybrid (USB sticks require an iso slightly different from the iso files made to run from CD-ROMs; a hybrid iso is designed to boot from both CD-ROM and USB stick); the bootloader installed on the stick on top of the iso file by the USB installer program might not be compatible with that particular iso or with the computer's BIOS; the Master Boot Record (MBR) placed in front of the bootloader program by the USB installer might give the BIOS instructions it can't follow, or, if it does follow them, it might find a system block before getting to the bootloader program; et cetera, all of which have to do with how the Linux distro was installed on the USB stick. These are the problems that can occur when using one of the standard USB auto-installers - Unetbootin, Universal USB Installer, Live USB Install, LinuxLive, and the others - and are what make these installers so uncertain and unreliable.
I spent a lot of time looking at these issues with my Linux-installed sticks that wouldn't boot. I tried all the installers with all the distros I had iso files of. I tried installing the iso's "manually", that is, by installing bootloaders like syslinux and grub4dos on the sticks and running them on the iso's. I tried running isohybrid.exe on the iso's before installing them on a stick in case they weren't hybrid (hardly any Linux distro websites or download sites tell you which of their iso files are hybrid and which aren't, and there is, so far as I know, no Windows or Linux command or executable that will tell you this). I tried dd-ing the iso's onto the stick (raw data transfer) before and after extracting the iso files. I even tried adapting the Puppeee MBR loader, a bootinst.bat file written specially for Puppeee, for the other distros. None of this worked. I still couldn't boot the sticks, while at the same time Puppeee booted every time (as did also the Linux-based Kaspersky Rescue Disk, which I had installed on a stick using the proprietary installer written by Kaspersky.)
Maddening. I was starting to lose sleep.
I decided to start over. I re-formatted my sticks, chose the newest of them, and installed a version of Slitaz (Slitaz-3.0.iso) that I was assured was hybrid, using an auto-loader - Universal USB Installer - recommended by Ubuntu. This auto-loader prints the flow of the procedure it's using, and this procedure coincides with the best manual installation instructions I could find. I also ran the stick through testdisk, a terminal command that Puppeee has.
I plugged the stick into a USB slot and was about to power-up my computer when I remembered having read once in a forum post that some computers bring up a small window giving you a boot choice if you press the Escape key at power-on. All else having failed, I pressed Escape and, lo and behold, got the little boot choice window. I chose Removable Media (it only gives me a choice between that and the Hard Disk Drive), and Slitaz 3.0 booted right up!
Don't forget that the main BIOS had Removable Media selected as first boot choice all this time. I never changed it back to Hard Disk Drive, since Windows on the Hard Drive (second choice in the BIOS) boots anyway if the stick won't.
What does all this mean? Well, I still haven't figured out what's really going on, but one thing seems clear: there is no coordination between the Escape key-called BIOS boot routine and the main one called by F2. Some sticks will boot if the F2 BIOS process is set to Removable Media, some won't. Some will boot if Removable Media is selected in the Escape key-called boot choice routine, regardless of the selection in the main BIOS screen. There is no coordination between the two BIOS boot routines that I can see. A very bad bug if you're trying to boot from a USB stick. But a good thing to know about.
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hey mike
does your machine have an sd card reader
mine does but haven't booted from an sd card in ages so can't remember, maybe the 'removeable media' is pointing there?
also forgot to answer the 4g and scsi from the other thread
4g - 4gigs ram (the other option is PAE which is a workaround to the 32bit 3gb memory limit (PAE will see all the memory)
scsi - type of connection for hdd (a bit of a misnomer so just ignore it.....)
glad you resolved the boot issue - time to play now!
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Mike7: In some BIOSes, Removable Media does not apply to USB devices - it is meant for things like diskette drives. In these BIOSes, flash drives are treated as secondary hard drives. So you need to go into the Hard Drives section and move your flash drive to the top of the list.
Your BIOS also provides the ESC key as an on-the-fly way of changing the boot priority without having to enter the BIOS setup.
I don't think that the issue of hybrid ISOs has anything to do with your boot problems.
How does all of this affect your ISObooter project?
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Hi, rcrsn51.
In some BIOSes, Removable Media does not apply to USB devices
In both of my computer's BIOS routines (F2 and Esc), Removable Media applies to a pendrive, at least. I thought that was clear from my exposition above. To make it clearer, both F2 and Esc recognize not only that I have a USB flash drive plugged in, they name it.
you need to go into the Hard Drives section and move your flash drive to the top of the list.
There is no hard drives section in my BIOS. Only 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Boot Devices. I did permanently set Removable Media at the top of that list (see above).
Your BIOS also provides the ESC key as an on-the-fly way of changing the boot priority without having to enter the BIOS setup.
That's not the way it's working, though, as I said. The Escape key is giving me a choice that I've already made in the BIOS setup, which it shouldn't be doing. In fact, as above, the Puppeee pendrive isn't requiring the Escape key choice to boot, whereas other distros like Slitaz are. I'd call that uncoordinated BIOS routines. A BIOS bug.
I don't think that the issue of hybrid ISOs has anything to do with your boot problems.
I tend to agree with you there.
How does all of this affect your ISObooter project?
Getting back to trying Isobooter on other Puppy versions is my first priority, once I can get away from house repairs. My roof is leaking and my water heater blew up <grin>.
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I have the exact same machine. The menu presented by using the ESC key during BIOS-boot is dynamic. I'd have to check again to see exactly what happens when you try to use the fixed-menu approach with the full BIOS setup. But, I think what is ahhpening is that in the BIOS setup it is using an explicit definition of the drive so that only a hardware-identical drive would successfully boot. If you try to boot another type/brand of drive it doesn't match what the BIOS 'remembers'.
I did fool around with the BIOS setup with my drive -it may have been that the BIOS would remove the entry if you booted the machine without the removable drive present. I wanted to keep the Windows intact since I don't have any other copy of that crap around here... in case my son ever needs to use it for school stuff.
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amigo: Since you have the same machine as Mike, could you do a test of
for him? I think that would help to resolve his problem.
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The League of Women Voters for the Hilton Head Island and Bluffton area is hosting a Wednesday bus tour of lands preserved through bond referendums in support of a fresh round with November's election.
The bus tour includes stops at the Bluffton Oyster Co. and Widgeon Point on Lemon Island. Garrett Budds, conservation director for the Beaufort County Open Land Trust, will serve as guide.
"We're making sure it's strictly an informational tour, and that's part of our role - to provide public education on the program," he said.
About $90 million has been authorized for land preservation since 2002 through bond referendums, with about 20,400 acres bought up at an approximate value of $4,400 per acre, Budds said.
The Open Land trust is an independent nonprofit land conservation organization, the oldest in South Carolina. Beaufort County hired the group about three years ago to manage its rural and critical land program.
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Santa Barbara, Calif. - UC Santa Barbara kicked off the UCSB Classic with a sweep against the Westmont Warriors on Friday at the Recreation Center Courts.
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Minneapolis – Polaris Industries announced the company is defining an entirely new type of off-road vehicle with the introduction of the Sportsman ACE. The vehicle's architecture is completely new to the industry and features a revolutionary, sit-in chassis that is nimble and comfortable to operate. The design of the new Sportsman ACE provides a confidence-inspired ride, all while being trail-capable, offering an all-new off-road experience.
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April 16, 2008
The Lipscomb softball team made a strong statement for the top seed in the 2008 Atlantic Sun Tournament with two big shutouts over archrival Belmont at Aquinas Field Wednesday.
The Lady Bisons won the first game of the doubleheader 6-0 with senior Kim Jacobson in the circle. Jacobson only allowed four hits on the way to her second shutout of the season.
Lipscomb batters tallied nine hits in the game with senior first baseman Heather Collins, sophomore right fielder Kellie Sirus, and sophomore third baseman Christen Campbell getting two each.
Sophomore Abigail Craig started the scoring early for the Lady Bisons, pinch running for Collins in the second inning and scoring on an RBI single by senior catcher Jennifer Allsup.
Sirus added a home run over the left center fence in the third inning to make the score 2-0.
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Woolrich Woolen Mills F/W 2011 Preview
"When I started, I wanted to get as far away from the [well-known] outdoor aspect as possible, the hunting and fishing. Woolrich also has a long history of making for the U.S. military, and in the late fifties and early sixties, they had an Ivy League, preppy consumer collection, which not a lot of people know about. Basically, the collection that I did was a mishmash of classic U.S. navy garb and traditional Ivy League garb."
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Vancouver port truckers reach deal to end strike
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Striking truckers at Canada's largest port have a reached a deal to end a prolonged strike that officials said threatened the country's economy.
British Columbia Premier Christy Clark said Wednesday the port will be open for business Thursday.
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The world....is it as bad as the media makes it seem?
The world has always been more or less the same, there has always been war, plague, murder, famine, and so on happening every single day the only difference is the when and where.
It's not the media, it's the people. It's the people's fault why journalism has become a travesty.
World isn't as bad a place as you'd think. Experience it yourself, you be the judge.
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The world is much better than it used to be. Wars are safer for troops, violent crimes have been on the decline, detroit isn't a festering stink hole anymore (supposedly), etc etc.
The world will go on, much as it has over the past few thousand milenia, don't you worry. If it's gonna end, you'll never see it coming anyways.
WHAT MEDIA? I never watch it so therefore it doesn't exist!
I'm not a witch, just a really magical cat
The only reason the media and news reports on so much is because of the ability to report right then and there, whereas 70 years ago, you'd have to wait for the few reporters to get back to the local news station to report everything, which was usually only big things, not small accidents.
"The world....is it as bad as the media makes it seem?"
No, it's worse. The world is very cruel, unfair, and unforgiving.
They will have you believe they are pluralsit, that they give people what the people want. The funny thing they are the ones who tell people what they want. The reason for this is to keep people living in fear and there are several reasons why they want that, a couple are: people who are afraid are easier to control because they are more open to suggestion because when you are afraid you are unable to think rationally (people in general), people consume more when they are afraid because they want distractions from negative thoughts. The other ironic thing is that it actually does make the world worse because all this bad news that gets reported makes it seem normal for bad things to happen and plants ideas into peoples minds.
Nah, the media just shows the bad things cause that's what's the most interesting and the most contributing to ratings. The world ain't nearly as bad as it seems, but normal shit isn't cool enough to put on TV.
But when things go bad... now that's something to talk about.
Thinking of something cool to say...
First, bad news gets ratings, everyone knows that. Second, in a world of mass communication you know about that earthquake in the middle of china, or tidal wave in Sumatra, etc. within hours where as not many years ago the news would reach the masses(especially those in other countries) weeks, months, or even years after the event. Its not that things are getting worse, its just that now everyone knows about it all.
Humans just naturally care more about problems. My sister is happy with her marriage? Whatevs, good for her. My sister is unhappy with her marriage? Suddenly, the issue of her marriage is a lot more important to me. I want to know what's wrong and if she's going to need support.
Being geared more toward negative events has its good side and bad side.
All systems nominal.
It's probably worse.
After 4 years, I have returned at last
AruarianDance wrote:
This is so exact. The media do operate psychologically by making people fear constantly, even fears of not being fashionable or having the latest items. "fear makes the wolf look bigger" I think this fits perfectly for people's outlook in general... maybe not for the consumerism, but definitely for restricting them from taking action themselves when it comes to something happening, this way we're all confined to the corners of our house, filled with items and tv channels that have us believe we are well off or lucky to have access to when they're just useless attachments making you diverge from real importance and your real self. It also divides us greatly by turning us against each other in any way possible while the real enemy watches it happen. mainstream media is a puppet show, I don't need to be told what to think or how to behave, all I need is the truth.
exactly even things like racism were engineered by the people with power back in the day. The difficulty is that the media is almost impossible to escape unless you want to live like a hermit. so you just have to best choose what to believe and not.
Reality is worse than is being reported (but not in the ways that are being reported).
And it always has been.
Media doesn't reflect the world. At BEST it interprets it... giving you bits and pieces that someone else thinks is important/entertaining. At WORST it obscures it... giving you bits and pieces that someone else thinks will distract/manipulate.
You're better off picking up a non-fiction book on something--ANYTHING--that strikes you as interesting. Or a fiction book by an author who crafts seriously well-thought out characters.
You'll learn more about the world in the long run.
I know that being inundated with all the negativity in the media can make a person cynical. I know that I began to feel that way about people and the world when I started becoming aware and caring about the issues in the world around me. Calling the reporting done by your local tv station "news" is a bit of a stretch. The media, first and foremost, is a business for profit. They sensationalize everything because that is what makes them the most money. Local news is nothing but info-tainment. Seriously, how much information can you present in only 30 seconds? I don't know where you all are from, but recently my faith in people was greatly renewed. On December 14th, my parent's home burned to the ground and they lost everything they own. All of their neighbors and even many people across town who didn't even know my parents have come forward to help and support them. I can't tell you how much of a relief it has been. Within days my parents had all the necessities they needed: bags and bags of clothes a washer and dryer, refrigerator, furniture, even the little necessities you don't think about like toiletries and toilet-paper. One of the neighbors is even feeding and taking care of their dog. If you want to see and here the good "news" get out and talk to people or volunteer.
Actually it is worse!!!!
Money controlls the media, people with power decide what you get to watch on the news......
God knows how many rape, murder, mass-murder cases i've seen so far.... Now imagine how many of these cases actually gets to the media.
Bless be the Corruption, Hail Government.


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Women's golf results from HRGCC
Jo Smith fired the low gross score of 33 on July 22 at Hood River Golf and Country Club, leading a field of 19 ladies. Only scores of even-numbered holes were counted, with one-half of the player's handicap being used. Susan Gutzler was a distant second with a 49, while Carol Kuatt took third with a 51. Barb Zeller and Jean Puddefoot tied for fourth with a 52. Meanwhile, Carol Knowles and Linda Phillips tied for low net honors with a score of 37. Sunny Messenger was third with a 38, while Cynthia Brocklesby and Marjorie Rosemont tied for fourth with 39.
The monthly meeting will be held Aug. 5 at 8 a.m., followed by golf at 8:30 a.m. The club championship will be held Aug. 12 and 19, and members must sign up to be eligible.
Blake nails hole in one at Indian Creek
John Blake of Hood River accomplished a first in his 70-year golf career by nailing a hole-in-one Monday at Indian Creek. Blake, 82, scored the ace on the 121-yard hole No. 5 using a 9 wood.
Indian Creek women's golf roundup
Patsy Prideaux and Diana Mazeski each scored 20 points in a July 24 game of "Bingo, Bango, Bangle" at Indian Creek. Points were awarded for first on the green, closest to pin and first to the hole. Jo Smith and Cynthia Brocklesby tied for third with 18 points, while Jean Puddefoot and Darlene Roberts tied for fifth with 15 points apiece. Golfers are reminded to sign up for the Aug. 14-15 club championship. Sign-up sheets are in the Pro Shop.
Sports Medicine Symposium Aug. 1-2
Hood River Valley High School will host the first Sports Medicine Symposium this Friday and Saturday in the HRVHS Commons. Led by instructors Barb Hosford and Ed Medina, the symposium will also feature presentations by Brian Shortt, chiropractic neurologist Eric Voigt, exercise physiologist Jan Polychronis, and certified athletic trainer Lexi Hammel. Session I will be held Friday from 6-9 p.m., and will cover Red Cross certification for CPR and first aid. Cost is $11. Session II will be held Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and will cover current sports medical information and a taping lab. Cost is $45, or $50 for both sessions. For more, information call 386-7020.
Swim meet scheduled for Aug. 2-3
The Hood River Aquatic Center will be closed during the morning both days this weekend due to a youth swim meet. The Hood River Valley Swim Team will be hosting teams from around the state and spectators are welcome. Call 386-1303 with questions.
Junior Club Tournament set for Aug. 4
The Indian Creek Junior Club Championship will be held on Monday, Aug. 4, beginning at 12:30 p.m. Registration begins at noon and is open only to players who have been participating in this summer's junior program. Three divisions will be competing for the top prize (age 7, ages 8-11, and ages 12-17). For more information, contact Kevin Springer at 386-7770.
Hunter Education course Aug. 4 in HR
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will be hosting a hunter safety course on Monday, Aug. 4, at 6 p.m. at the Hood River Assembly of God Church. Preregistration is recommended. For more information, call Verlin at 387-3531 or Mark at 354-2157.
CGWA swap meet Sunday in HR
The Columbia Gorge Windsurfing Association has scheduled its second fundraising swap meet of the summer this Sunday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the paved lot west of the Hood River Expo Center. Organizers recommend bringing windsurfing, kiteboarding and kayaking gear, and sellers may arrive as early as 7 a.m. Cost for sellers is $10, and buyers are free of charge. For more information, visit www.cgwa.net or call 386-9225.
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Triumph of His Will
Only** Quentin Tarantino** could create 'Inglourious Basterds,' wherein Brad Pitt plays a redneck leading a band of tough Jews bent on going, well, medieval on Nazis. And that's just one part of his new movie. Alex Pappademas follows the most ambitious director of his generation from Berlin to Cannes to Los Angeles as he struggles to finish what he hopes will be his new masterpiece
quentin tarantino is at the hamburger hamlet on Sunset Boulevard. Back-corner booth, in the shadows of the Tap Room. His wallet's on the table. You know it's his wallet because it says bad motherfucker on it. (Seriously. It does.) He's wearing a half-zipped Nike warm-up jacket, no shirt. He's talking to Lay Lay.
A minute ago, Lay Lay came up to our booth and asked if she could buy Quentin a drink, "for all the years of wonderfulness." Lay Lay's got nice arms. Lay Lay's gushy/apologetic under a fringe of blond bangs. Quentin was chewing the second slider from a plate of four when she walked up, so he held his napkin over his face like a silent-movie bank robber. Quentin said, "Sure!"
Now she's back, proffering a fresh mint julep with a shot of hassle on the side: "Will you please get back to work for me?" she asks. "I'm missing you." Tarantino's expression doesn't change, but you can tell there's a mint leaf of annoyance garnishing his response: "August," he says. "My new movie comes out in August." (It's called Inglourious Basterds, and Brad Pitt's in it, kicking ass and collecting Nazi scalps, and it's only the movie Tarantino's been talking about making for, like, a hundred years, Lay Lay!)
He laughs so she knows it's okay. Lay Lay remembers now, about the new movie. She says listen—her band is playing down the street at the Roxy tonight. "It's three of us ladies," she says. "I play drums." Hence the arms. "So if you're looking for fun," she says, "come see us!" Quentin thanks her for the invite. He thanks her for the drink.
I've been warned that he's tired. He spent six hours at a photo shoot today. And he's still in shock over David Carradine, found dead in a Bangkok hotel yesterday morning. Last night, Quentin went on Larry King Live, looking like a traumatized superfan. He showed Larry his Kung Fu lunchbox, complete with thermos.
Then there's the movie. Basterds screened at Cannes in May. Variety said it was "never less than enjoyable." The Hollywood Reporter found it lacking in "those things we think of as being Tarantino-esque." The Guardian called it "an armor-plated turkey." This in turn has fed rumors that the Weinstein Company is nervous about the movie's two-and-a-half-hour running time, about the long stretches of dialogue in subtitled French and German. A few days after we meet in L.A., a few Hollywood gossip sites float the rumor that Quentin has been asked to cut forty minutes out of the movie.
Tarantino says he's not worried about the way Basterds was received at Cannes. The "bona fide literary film critics"—the ones he respects, as opposed to Internet mole people and "celebrity journalists"—mostly dug the movie. And when the studio screened it this week in L.A., it went over huge. If not for Carradine's death, he says, "I'd be happy as a fucking clam."
He seems less happy than a clam tonight, though. He seems tense. He's sweating despite the air-conditioning. Banging those tasty beverages. There's a defensive edge to his trademark know-it-all answers.
"I respect criticism," he says. (He's been working on a movie-review book, on and off, for a few years.) "But I know more about film than most of the people writing about me. Not only that, I'm a better writer than most of the people writing about me. And I can write film criticism better than most of the people writing about me.
"Look," Tarantino says, "if you're a nice-guy artist, all you have to worry about is becoming boring at some point. But I'm not a nice-guy artist. When my movies come out, they draw a line in the sand."
Back in January, Tarantino was at Studio Babelsberg, eighteen or so glum gray miles outside Berlin. He was in his element. Shooting on the soundstage where Fritz Lang made Metropolis, where Josef von Sternberg directed Marlene Dietrich in The Blue Angel, and where Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels played movie mogul after the Nazis took over—which is funny, because Goebbels's quest to be the David O. Selznick of the Third Reich is a major plot point in Basterds. Tarantino was grooving on the meta-movieness of it all. He was racing, too—come hell or high water, they were going to have this movie done in time for Cannes. But he was in a good mood. "Compared to Kill Bill, this is a spa," he said, grinning. "It's a facial. A salt rub. A Thai massage!"
He was on an elaborate movie-theater set, under opera bos draped with Nazi flags. The theater was full of German extras, done up for the premiere of a fictional Goebbels movie called Nation's Pride—silk gowns, opera gloves, S.S. dress uniforms.
Quentin fed them their motivation. "You guys are filled with the pride of a victorious Reich at this moment," he said, and then an AD relayed this to them in German.
Eli Roth, horror-movie auteur and Tarantino confrere, shot the Nation's Pride footage we see in Basterds. Roth was in Germany anyway; he plays Donny Donowitz, a bat-wielding soldier known to terrified Germans as "the Bear Jew." He was on-set today, in a tux and white gloves, ready to mingle with the crème de la crème of Nazi society."Quentin got the Jewish director to do the Nazi propaganda film," he says, grinning. "I thought I'd never do anything more disgusting than Hostel II!"
Quentin took a break around ten thirty that night. We sat next to each other in the back of his fake movie house, talked about the script. He was supposedly working on it, or not working on it, during the six-year gap between Jackie Brown and Kill Bill. Myths accrued. It was a 600-page screenplay. It was his magnum opus. He wanted Stallone and Willis and Eddie Murphy for the leads. He wanted Tim Roth and Michael Madsen. He wanted Adam Sandler. He was staying up all night, smoking more dope than Widespread Panic's road crew and watching D-grade flicks Joe Bob Briggs wouldn't use to prop up a wobbly table. He'd become a pure pop-cultural swamp thing, freed by success to sleep and root in the primordial muck that birthed him. In Down and Dirty Pictures, Peter Biskind's 2004 book about the House of Weinstein and the rocky interfaith marriage between art-house and multiplex that Tarantino's success helped Bob and Harvey engineer, Tarantino is last glimpsed circa 2000, "lost in his labyrinthine World War II script."
Quentin told me that all that fog-of-war-movie stuff was exaggerated. He wasn't lost. He just couldn't stop writing. He'd produced more story than a movie could hold. He thought about turning it into a novel. He came close to writing it up as a twelve-episode mini-series—his own gonzo Band of Brothers. He says director Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita) talked him out of that. "You're one of the only guys whose movies make me want to go out to a theater," Besson told him one night over drinks. This stuck with Quentin. In January 2008, he took one more shot at chopping his monster down to movie size.
He cut one major plotline—a story about a group of AWOL black soldiers making their way across occupied France, which he might turn into a Basterds sequel if this one does well. He focused in on the Basterds, a unit of Jewish American commandos using terrorist tactics against the Third Reich, and Shosanna Dreyfus, a French farm girl who flees to Paris and becomes the proprietress of a movie house after the Nazis murder her family. He wrote a new third act, bringing these two stories together, to bloody and historically inaccurate effect, at the gala premiere of ein film von Joseph Goebbels. He'd write all day; at night he'd listen to records or float in his pool, ruminating. He feels that the movie was really written between January and July of last year. "I've never written such a big thing so fast before," he says. "It just came tumbling out of me."
He finished the script on July 2 and sent it to his longtime producing partner, Lawrence Bender, the next day, telling him he wanted to shoot it in time for Cannes. "I was like, Wow—really? You finished it? Shit!' " Bender says. "That was a wild moment." Tarantino flew to France to persuade Brad Pitt to play Lieutenant Aldo Raine, the leader of the Basterds. ("We talked about movies into the wee hours of the night," Pitt told reporters in May. "When I got up the next morning, I saw five empty bottles of wine lying on the floor—five!—and something that resembled a smoking apparatus.… And apparently I'd agreed to do the movie." When I ask Tarantino who supplied this apparatus, he says, "That was Brad. He did the fabrication. He can take a Coke can and make it—functional.")
When I ask Harvey Weinstein why Tarantino decided to make the movie on this scramble-the-fighters timetable, he brings up Grindhouse, the double-feature slasher-film tribute Tarantino co-directed with Robert Rodriguez in 2007. Weinstein doesn't believe that Grindhouse's poor box-office performance had anything to do with Quentin's decision to get moving on Basterds but believes Tarantino "wanted to get back in the saddle. He did his B movie, and I think it was time for him to go back and make his Quentin Tarantino movie."
Tarantino has a simpler explanation.
"I just like Cannes," Tarantino told me. "It's like the whole planet is checking your movie out—boom!—at one time, and—bam!—it either works or it doesn't. And especially when I'm there—it's the closest thing to Muhammad Ali having a championship fight. It's just—bam! You're throwing it down."
Tarantino became the Cassius Clay of the Croisette back in 1994, when Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or. Clint Eastwood read the good news. He'd gone to France as a Sundance wunderkind; he came back as the biggest auteur-celebrity since Orson Welles.
They still love him in France. When he hits Cannes—boom!—in May, with Basterds, autograph hounds waving Tarantino posters in protective plastic sheeting jockey for position at the barricades with tudoed paparazzi. On the red carpet, he boogies to Dick Dale's "Misirlou," the opening-credits song from Pulp Fiction. He grabs Mélanie Laurent, who plays Shosanna in Basterds. She's all in white, he's all in black. They cut that red rug. They do the swim. They do the sailor's hornpipe. They do the twist, just like John Travolta and Uma Thurman. Quentin air-guitars down the red carpet—ten feet, twenty feet—and back up. It goes over huge. Everybody screams louder a couple of minutes later when Brad rolls up with Angelina. But next to Quentin's display of irrational exuberance, Brad and Angelina look like a couple of s.
The movie plays. When it's over, Tarantino gets a standing ovation. It lasts eleven minutes. A cameraman finds Quentin in the crowd, puts his face up on that big Palais des Festivals screen. He's hugging Mélanie. He's holding Brad's fist in the air, like the ref in a prizefight. He's smiling a cryptic smile.
"I felt like that ovation was a review," Harvey Weinstein tells me later, when I ask him about the post-Cannes reviews. "I think they would have stayed and cheered longer."Weinstein also denies that Quentin's been asked to trim the movie.
"Those stories are all untrue. There's no fucking way. Here, read my lips: That is nuts. Please don't even write that, it's insanity. There's not even a question of that. Whatever you're reading, it's like some insane blogger. He's not gonna cut. What he's doing is just reorganizing some scenes. I mean, the guy had six weeks to cut his movie [for Cannes]; most guys take six months. Most guys take a year. When I worked with Martin [Scorsese], we'd do eighteen months in postproduction. Quentin Tarantino cuts a movie in six weeks? Come on! There's shit on that cutting-room floor that'll blow your brains out. I was telling Quentin the opposite—You should put that shit back in the movie'—'cause it's un-fucking-believably great."
After the Cannes screening, there's a party, down on the beach. Big party tent, French ingenues lighting cigarettes off tiki torches, a DJ—flown in, somebody tells me, from "one of the hottest clubs in St-Tropez"—spiking his set with QT soundtrack cuts like "Son of a Preacher Man." Brad and Angelina float by; I try to stand within range of Angelina's healing radiance, in case I have an undiagnosed case of leprosy that needs curing.
Tarantino sips Heinekens. He talks to ladies—first to ladies he knows, then to ladies who look like they want to know him because he's Quentin Tarantino. After about an hour, he opens the velvet rope around his banquette. A security guy clears a path for him through the crowd. He makes his way out of the tent. Shakes a few hands en route. Disappears ninja-like through the black curtain separating the party from the rest of the beach. The DJ plays Chuck Berry's "You Never Can Tell," the twist song from Pulp Fiction, but he's not there to hear it.
Later, I ask Tarantino what he was thinking that night as the applause went on and on. "I wanted to get the biggest standing ovation of the festival, and I got it," he says. "They counted it. But I wanted to be inscrutable. That was my cool moment, and I was gonna be cool. Sometimes it's your time to be Elvis, and that was my time."
life gives you only so many Elvis moments, and Tarantino's had a few. Real triumphs—the kind that involve The Man with No Name presenting you with some hardware at a film festival just a few short years after you quit your dead-end job at the video store to make movies or die trying, yeah, but also the artistic kind. Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, sure. But watch both the Kill Bill movies back-to-back and tell me they don't add up to another Pulp-grade masterpiece—Tarantino not just synthesizing but trumping his influences, in a movie that happens to be about getting revenge on your mentor
If it's harder now to see him as a game changer, it's partly because he's made maybe a little too much of his cool moments over the years, saying yes to judging American Idol, acting on Broadway, and playing himself in a Wizard of Oz adaptation starring the Muppets. But it's also because of how thoroughly he's changed the game. He's partially responsible for hollow, hyperstylized post-Pulp crime movies from Romeo Is Bleeding all the way up to Smokin' Aces. But some of the best movies of the past two decades feel deeply post-Quentin, too, from the deadpan brutality of Fight Club to the pop-referential ball-breaking of the Apatow gang. The nonlinear storytelling of Pulp Fiction filters down through Memento all the way to How I Met Your Mother. The mainstreaming of QT's trashatarian taste made your local art house—where classy Brit fluff like Enchanted April used to rule—safe for unabashed exploitation flicks from foreign lands, like Korea's Oldboy and Sweden's Let the Right One In.
He can't light a fire under modern cinema every time, though. Basterds lacks the Swiss-watch craftsmanship of Pulp Fiction. It feels like Tarantino skimmed his behemoth of a rough draft and hammered together whatever worked, sometimes at the expense of clarity. That said, much of what he kept ranks with the best stuff he's produced in all his years of wonderfulness. A tense twenty-five-minute bar scene that unfolds like a one-act play; a montage of Laurent getting dressed to kill, set to David Bowie's "Cat People (Putting Out the Fire)," that out-DePalmas Brian DePalma; the performances of Laurent and Christoph Waltz, who won best actor at Cannes for his turn as the affably despicable Nazi commandant Hans Landa.
The minute we see Laurent's character passing an afternoon in a café with a cigarette, a glass of vin rouge, and a paperback of Leslie Charteris's The Saint in New York, we get it—she's a QT dream girl, and the movie is his dream. It's a big, sprawling period piece in a time-honored, respectable genre, but he's completely uninterested in demonstrating that he can play by that genre's rules. All that classical war-movie stuff—the big-battle set piece, the ragtag crew storming the castle with knives between their teeth—takes a backseat to Quentin's own obsessions. Language. Restaurants. Women's feet. Other people's movies—pre-World War II German cinema, spaghetti Westerns, Heaven's Gate—and the moviegoing experience itself. Even the soundtrack is all borrowed score—a little Elmer Bernstein, a lot of Morricone, even a Billy Preston cut from the 1972 Jim Brown vehicle Slaughter.
Tarantino's critics dismiss him as a mixtape filmmaker, furnishing halls of mirrors with references and trivia. Basterds won't shut them up. Tarantino doesn't care.
"I've had people write that I've seen too many movies," he's saying at the Hamlet, sometime around mint julep number three. "In what other art form would being an expert be considered a negative? If I were a poet, would I be criticized for knowing too much about Sappho? Or Aristotle?"
Another common knock on Tarantino: He set out in a more mature, meditative direction with Jackie Brown, then wimped out, opting for flashy pastiche over human-scale drama. He begs—big surprise—to differ.
"I didn't go in that direction," he says. "I arrived at my destination with Jackie Brown. I did it! I don't have to prove that I can do it again. I can do it again if I wanna do it again, but even if I go off and do Friday the 13th part nine, that doesn't change Jackie Brown. That's still a mature piece of work. Made when I wasn't even that mature."
That's the weird part—you made your getting-older movie when you were only 34. (He's 46 now.)
"Yeah. And it's as much of an old-man movie as I ever wanna make."
He's said this sort of thing before. That he has no desire to be a "geriatric" filmmaker.
"You can lie about a lot of things," he says, "but your filmography doesn't lie. It's right there. And it doesn't give a shit about why you did it. It doesn't give a shit about what was happening that year in your life, or that gal you were married to. Ten years after the fact, your movies are all created fuckin' equal. And if you go through their filmographies, directors don't get better. Especially when they've had a serious twenty- or thirty-year career. It's not like they're waiting for their last five years to make that out-and-out masterpiece. They get worse."
(I ask him to expand. I say he doesn't have to mention names. He says he wasn't going to. You can probably fill them in yourself: Francis Ford Coppola, puttering about the vineyards of diminished expectation. Eastwood, endlessly rephrasing what Unforgiven had to say about Dirty Harry types in the winter of their badassedness. Scorsese, maybe, though it would probably hurt Tarantino to say that out loud.)
"I imagine this is partly just what happens to you when you're in your sixties," he says. "And for other filmmakers, well, maybe that's fine. But if you're a rock 'n' roll artist, and then at some point you start singing big-band tunes—you can do it, and you can be really happy, but there's a difference in your career.
"People change," he says, setting his mint julep down next to his water glass.
"There's the rock 'n' roll time"—he points at the drink—"and there's the big-band time," he says, pointing at the water. "I don't want that. Where I'm coming from, I'm thinking about when I'm dead and gone, and some kid—who's maybe not even born yet—sees one of my movies and digs it. And he says, This guy's fucking got it going on. I want to see something else by this guy.' But he doesn't know who the fuck I am, so he doesn't know to go to Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs. He's just gonna pick the easiest one he can get his hands on. And if that's one of the ones I make during my old-man years—well, I've lost him right then and there."
It's like when you're in high school, I say, and you decide you're going to check out Bob Dylan, but because you don't know any better, you end up buying one of the weird Christian records. Or Knocked Out Loaded. You're saying you don't ever want to make your Knocked Out Loaded.
"Yeah," Tarantino says. (Then he says "Yeah" about eighteen more times.) "Even though I do really love the Sam Shepard song on Knocked Out Loaded. That's an epic song—Brownsville Girl.' But that's what I mean. People are gonna be rummaging in the grab bag of Quentin Tarantino's work, and I want it all to be fucking kick-ass. I want the first film to be as strong as the last film. I want that kid to get his little dick hard about every single one of 'em."
A lot of the directors you're alluding to, I point out, would probably say they're doing the best work of their careers.
"They might very well think that." Tarantino says. "And that's why I don't want to be making movies at that point.
"There are directors," Tarantino says, "who don't know how to stop working. Maybe they thought of themselves as artists at one time, but now they're just directors, and they're going out and getting a job. And they live beyond their fuckin' means, anyway, so they can't stop working."
I imagine that kicks in for a lot of people, I say. Even if you don't live beyond your means—at some point, if you've got a wife and kids and a mortgage, that has to affect the choices you make.
"That's living beyond your means!" Tarantino says, laughing. "When you gotta go out and make a movie to pay for the kid's private school and for the three ex-wives, don't talk to me about your artistry. It's their job. It's not my job. It's my calling."
He says he's going to hang up his megaphone when he's 60. He'll write books, maybe judge a few film festivals. Grace the occasional Tarantino retrospective with his presence. "I'll be the grand old man," he says. "Like what Sam Fuller did the last twenty years of his life. That looked pretty groovy to me. And when I'm sitting there in my retrospective, I don't want to have to watch the movie I made to pay for my pool."
I ask if that's why he takes so much time off—if he's trying to conserve that young-director energy.
"Let me answer this in a few different ways," he says, then stops. "Actually, give me a second—I'm gonna run to the restroom."
When he comes back he's winded, as if the restroom he ran to was a few blocks away.
"Here's the thing," he says. "When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way. The whole fucking world can go to hell and burst into flames. I don't care. This is my life. It's Mount Everest. If you're climbing Mount Everest, you're not doing anything else. All your concerns, all the mundane things, family, any of that, it just—pfft—disappears. Goes away. It's mist. It's just nothing but the mountain, every single solitary day. I'm not saying that I'll never get married or have a kid before I'm 60. But I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies."
He grabs my napkin off the seat, uses it to mop his brow. He says there was a moment, a couple of years ago. A relationship, one that might have led to marriage. "But if that had happened," he says, "I wouldn't have made Inglourious Basterds. Or I might have eventually, but I wouldn't have made it with the same intensity. And it wouldn't be finished now. Some people will like Inglourious Basterds. Some people won't. But it was made with all the passion I've made everything with—except maybe my first film, which was probably made with more passion than I'll ever have again. I'm doing exactly what I need to be doing." He taps out punctuation on the table. "I'm right where I need to be."*
it's like he's giving us the speech Ving Rhames gives Bruce Willis in Pulp Fiction, when he tells Bruce to throw the fight: "This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic motherfuckers. Motherfuckers who thought their ass would age like wine. If you mean it turns to vinegar, it does."
And he's not wrong. Maybe a little presumptuous, a little too positive that there'll be Tarantino retrospectives by the time he enters the Lifetime Achievement age bracket, but not wrong. Still, it's a little weird that—at 46!—he can't see any middle ground between forswearing all worldly attachments in the name of art and making movies to pay for your pool. That he doesn't perceive any upside, for an artist, of spending time outside worlds of your own making.
The thing about hanging out in those worlds, of course, is that you get to be God. Which means you get weird. Which is maybe why the night ends the way it does. Here's what happens. We talk a little longer, and then the waitress comes over. Not the one who took our orders before. A new girl. Asian. She asks if we want another drink. Quentin says he's up for one more, then asks what time it is. It's ten thirty-five. He takes this news badly.
"You were supposed to bring our check over at nine o'clock," he says.
"I did," the waitress says, confused.
"No, you didn't," Quentin says firmly.
"Yeah, I…," the waitress starts to say.
"Well," Quentin says, "you didn't tell us, This is your check.' "
"Oh," the waitress says. "I'm sorry." She seems sorry. Quentin won't let it go.
"You were supposed to let me know that it was nine," he says. "That was why you were bringing the check over!"
The waitress doesn't know what to say. She's suddenly being directed by Quentin Tarantino, and he has some issues with her performance.
"I asked if you wanted anything else," the waitress says, "and—"
"That's just what a normal waitress does," Quentin says. "You were supposed to come over and say, Here's your check,' because that was my cue, to know when it was time to go. You did it just like a normal person would do it." He laughs. It's like I'm sitting here with Mr. Pink all of a sudden. Or like all the stress of the night—talking about the movie, defending himself, maybe the whole sad David Carradine thing, too—is coming out. The waitress apologizes again.
There was an arrangement, it seems. We were supposed to talk for two hours and then the waitress was supposed to bring the check at nine, as a signal, so Tarantino knew when to excuse himself. The subterfuge makes no sense. It's the kind of plan only a guy who's seen too many movies would make. The waitress looks flustered. The waitress looks humiliated.
The waitress says, "My apologies. So you don't want another round?"
"No," Quentin says. "We're gonna take off. I have to—yeah," he says. "I gotta take off."
I ask if we can talk again. He says yeah—yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah—we can grab another hour on the phone. Absolutely. (A few days later, his publicist calls to walk back this promise. We never talk again.) He grabs bad motherfucker, gets up, and leaves. He practically leaves a Quentin-shaped hole in the wall, he's out of there so fast. Maybe he drops by the Roxy, checks out Lay Lay's band. Who knows. I sign the check, overtip guiltily. Waitressing is the number-one occupation for female non–college graduates in this country. I think I heard somebody say that in a movie once.
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When You're About To Fly, Who Do You Fear More: Al Qaeda... Or The TSA?
from the you're-doing-it-wrong dept
TSA. You are supposed to be protecting us, but at this point you are... terrorizing us.But I think the even better quote comes from Julian Sanchez, discussing these same two articles:
At this point, is the average person boarding a plane more fearful of Al Qaeda or TSA?It's a damn good question, though I think we all know the answer.