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Margaret,
I haven't got a copy of McCabe and Mrs Miller but everytime its been on tv the quality has not been first rate.. and I don't think it's the reception!
It'll be on again sometime. I'll look out for it.
I can imagine you watching the video and hearing;
"To boldy go ........" merging into "travelling lady stay a while........."
As long as you weren't expecting Spock to be beamed down during the film I'm sure you managed to enjoy the proceedings.
Maybe if Warren Beatty could have been beamed up as he lay bleeding in the snow?

I think I'd better stop now before I get carried away
Pete

John/Margaret/Pete ~

Can one of you pleeeease come over and help me hook up this VCR and DVD/VCR, so I can do videotaping~!?! I do have McCabe and Mrs. Miller and would be thrilled to copy it for you all! However, my electronics aren't allowing right now, and I haven't found time to get some know-withal in to help me do it! DAng...... Maybe I'll just have to make it my next life project.....even my cassette tape-to-tape isn't working right!!!

~ Lizzytysh

I'll catch the 11.27 am bus, Elizabeth

I have my screwdriver
Pete

lizzytysh
I'd love to give it a try but my technical knowledge is limited to taping from a tv chanel to a vhs tape. When doing a copying session for vhs videos I have to rely on number 2 son, Andrew to link his video to the family one with all the right wires, cables, scart sockets etc. He's given up trying to to instruct me , it just doesn't register with my non techno brain!
Pete
Hold that bus, maybe together we could manage something!

Dear Margaret and Pete ~

If you're not here by the weekend , there is one final option I'm willing to consider. If you, indeed, have quality taping machinations, I might just mail it to whichever of you have them, you can tape the h out of it, as many copies as you think you may want to utilize, and then mail it back.

Give it some thought and decide who would be the best recipient for such a project.

~ Elizabeth

Margaret/Pete/Lizzytysh

Thanks for the replies. My reason for asking is that McCabe and Mrs Miller is on Film 4 on Sunday 25th May at 3:10am and I am wondering if it worthwhile taping it (alas I do not yet have a DVD Writer ).

Lizzy - I don't think you can pick up Film 4 in the states (but I could be wrong) but I think you said you had the film anyway.

JTS

It's worse than that he's dead Jim!

Oh, the sisters of mercy they are not departed or gone

Tysh Darling i have never advocated any of the practices you mentioned. Believe it or not i find them as distasteful as you. Young girls of legal age (which is 16 here), in a consensual situation, is quite another matter. To condemn such behaviour will only make you seem a little ageist. I am sure you do not hold such old fashioned views, particularly as the advancing years overtake you.

George(s) baby thanks for the tip about the sweets. You mentioned it with the easy assurance of an old pro in such matters.

p.

No problem about the tip of the sweets, P
just make sure that they are mixed fruits....................
i would have thought that someone of your age messing about with 16 year olds would be put into another category( if you even ask the girls their age)...............thats another story
Best Regads, P....................Georges

Partisan ~

I really don't care how I'm perceived when it comes to matters such as this. If you're going to tread in these waters, be certain the water is transparent and not murky, with what you say and all that it implies.

If 16 is the age of consent and presumed maturity in the UK, a clearer way of expressing your penchant might be to use a term such as young [or younger] women vs. little girls.

~ Lizzytysh

p
The reason why there is such a response to your comment is that you phrased it as "little girls" and not young girls.
Pete

Thank you for that clarification, Pete. I didn't look back to get the exact wording before I wrote. The impression with his wording was, indeed, very young. I've never encountered the perception of the phrase "little girls" as being anything other than how I perceived it. I'm returning to correct my posting where I used "young." You're exactly right that his wording was the crux.

You're right, John, I do not get Film 4 on my TV . Even if I turned it on, I wouldn't . However, you can be included in the taping of the original copy of the film I have ~ regardless on which side of the water the taping takes place. I haven't heard from anyone on it, yet.

JTS,
regarding McCabe and Mrs Miller, from what I managed to see through the snowy reception when it was last broadcast, it seemed a pretty good film and well worth taping. The soundtrack of L C s songs worked particularly well with the desolate landscape and feeling of the film. If you can tape it I'd be interested in arranging to copy from it if you're willing. Film 4 is one of the pay chanels that I can't get. Looking forward to meeting you soon in South Wales

Elizabeth
Thank you for your kind offer but it might be a bit easier to try to get a copy from someone over here than to risk your tape crossing the Atlantic ocean twice and maybe getting lost or damaged en route. I hope you can find a way to get over your technical difficulties soon.

margaret

Yes, Margaret, you're welcome. I'll let you know if things get corrected in a timely manner. As to the snowy reception, it may have been the film itself ~ it has its fair share.

I, personally, had a different reaction to the music. Yes, it does "work well" with the story, yet it seemed very "contrived"[?] to me....not in the real sense of the music going well/not going well with the film, but only because my associations with the music were already so strong apart from the film. Had I been exposed to the music via the film first, I wouldn't have felt that way....but then, I'd have probably felt like I was listening to the soundtrack of the movie when I later listened to his albums. Oh well

Several times over the last few days I have been asked about the "Amontillado" references in my replies to our esteemed Partisan/Guerilla/Fortunato.

For all those who are not totally familiar with Poe's story: here's a hyperlink to the full text: http://www.literature.org/authors/poe-e ... llado.html

Have fun.

Tom