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Dope, Dogs & Greasers
Robert Downey, Jr., delivered his first spoken line in a feature-length motion picture at the age of five. He played a puppy in Pound, written and directed by Robert Downey, Sr.
Born Robert Elias in 1935, Downey Sr. was fifteen when he dropped out of the ninth grade and used his stepfatherâs surname to enlist in the army. During his time in uniform he reputedly managed to get himself thrown in the brig three times. Once was when he was stationed in Alaska, when he and a buddy, drunk at their radar scopes, faked a Soviet missile attack. By 1960 Downey was in Greenwich Village writing Off-Off Broadway plays. When he read a Village Voice column in which Jonas Mekas declared that anybody could be a filmmaker, he rented a camera and started making low-budget underground films. He hung out with Mekas and other filmmakers at the Charles Theater on Avenue B, where one night a week anyone could screen their work.
From the start he combined avant-garde technique and do-it-yourself impudence with a wacky sense of humor. In the 1964 Babo 73 he cast Taylor Mead as an addled President of the United States, with scenes shot guerrilla-style during a tour of the White House. The 1966 Chafed Elbows combines film and still photos in a way loopily reminiscent of La Jetee to tell the ludicrous tale of Walter Dinsmore, a young man who wanders aimlessly from the New School to the Hotel Dixie, a Times Square flophouse, like a Candide adrift in the Pop Art world. In one scene, a man on the street paints him with the initials AW, declares him a work of art, and escorts him at gunpoint to the Washington Square Gallery, where âyouâll be sold right away, because youâre very pretentious.â In another he records a gibberish pop song, âHey Hey Hey,â flip side to âYeah Yeah Yeah.â Tom O'Horgan, soon to be famous (or infamous) for Hair, did the music.
Downey fired Putney Swope, his first sort-of-commercial release, straight into the seething cauldron of American race relations in 1969. Itâs a sometimes scathing, often just wacky satire in which Swope, the token black man at a failing Madison Avenue ad agency, is suddenly elected chairman. He fires the honkies and renames the firm Truth and Soul, Inc. Charmed and cowed, white clients literally throw bags of money at his Panther-style staff, who crank out ridiculous commercials for Ethereal Cereal, Face Off zit cream (âMy man is out of sight, and so are his pimplesâ), Lucky Air Lines (male passengers get lucky with the stewardesses), and the Borman Six car. Thereâs a subplot involving the President of the United States, played by the dwarf Pepi Hermine, who played a similar role in an even stranger film released about the same time, Werner Herzogâs Even Dwarfs Started Small. Arnold Johnson, who would later play Hutch on Sanford and Son, plays Swope, but Downey dubbed all his lines in post-production using a gravelly pseudo-black voice; he claimed that Johnson had flubbed too many of them during filming. Mel Brooks and Allan Arbus have tiny roles as Mr. Forget It and Mr. Bad News.
Downey followed Swope with Pound, adapted from a play of his that he later said was âdone Off-off-off-off Broadway at a movie house at midnight.â Itâs about a bunch of stray dogs waiting to be adopted or put down, played by great character actors like Stanley Gottlieb, Don Calfa, Antonio Fargas and Charles Dierkop. A reporter for the magazine Show who spent time on the set during the filming noted a lot of pot smoking; Downey Jr., who was born in 1965 and grew up in the Village, has said that his problems with drugs go back to his childhood, when his father gave him his first puff on a joint. Juniorâs first recorded line of dialogue, addressed to Lawrence Wolf, the bald actor playing a Mexican Hairless, is the immortal, âHave any hair on your balls?â
Pound was rated X for its foul language, and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops denounced its âgross crudities played simply for irreverent and tasteless humor in a style that is more asinine than canine.â It premiered in New York City on a double bill with Felliniâs Satyricon and then vanished.
Downey followed it with the film that may be his magnum opus, the psychedelically weird Greaserâs Palace (1972). Allan Arbus plays a zoot-suited Jesus figure who drops into a Surrealist Wild West. Other characters include the eponymous Seaweedhead Greaser, his son Lamey Homo, the bearded prairie drag queen Spitunia, and a villain with possibly the most preposterous name in the history of filmmaking, Bingo Gas Station Motel Cheeseburger With A Side Of Airplane Noise And Youâll Be Gary Indiana. Reviewing it in the New York Times, Vincent Canby, whoâd been a fan of Swope, panned Greaserâs Palace as âa big-budget mistakeâ (it cost around a million dollars) and unfavorably compared it to Alejandro Jodorowskyâs El Topo, another psychedelic Western that had preceded it by a few years, which most critics also didnât get or like.
Meanwhile Downey was directing plays for Joe Pappâs Public Theater; when he directed David Rabeâs antiwar play Sticks and Bones for a planned CBS broadcast, the sponsors backed out at the last minute. Since then Downey has gone on to a fitful, iconoclastic Hollywood career that has included goofball stoner comedies like Rented Lips and the more seriously offbeat Hugo Pool. In recent years Mekasâ Anthology Film Archives has worked with Martin Scorseseâs Film Foundation to restore, screen and archive some of Downeyâs earliest underground films, which hadnât been seen for decades.
by John Strausbaugh
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Cost of Living
If you are having thoughts of moving to Long Beach, Washington, you must first take a look at the cost of living. The cost of living index is at 90 which is below the US average. Housing is again the biggest factor taking a lot of the budget for most individuals. However, this is 18% lower compared with the rest of the country. This means that your monthly allowance can go longer when you rent or buy a property in Long Beach. But similar with other places, the expenses of families or individuals will still depend on the lifestyle. Your money can either be more or less depending on your spending habits.
Long Beach Police Blotter
At 6 p.m. on the Sid Snyder approach, a report of a disturbance was received from several people. The arriving officer made contact with one individual who was fighting with others. The man was very combative. One person in the group he was with admitted they had all taken LSD. After finally getting him to the ground, he was sedated by medical personnel and transported to the hospital for evaluation. Read more here..
Long Beach, Washington
While Long Beach, Washington is considered to be a relatively safe place in the country, it receives a lot of police blotters. The list can be as trivial as a case of neighbors fighting over some petty things to serious crimes like murder. Others do not find it important to report to the police some cases that they think can be handled in amicable way. While that can be good, it also has its downside. Legally speaking, police blotters leave a record of the incident and this record can be used for future reference should the same thing happen again. But since the whole process can at times become tedious, some just opt to keep it to themselves.
Cape Disappointment in Long Beach, WA
Cape Disappointment Park is formerly called as the Fort Canby State Park. This is one of the most favorite parks of many residents because of its breathtaking view and the wide array of activities that one can do during the visit. The park lies on the Long Beach Peninsula facing the Pacific Ocean. It also gives a great view of the Columbia River. Facilities include a wide camping area, hiking trail, picnic areas, lake for boating and fishing. Visitors can also do bird watching, beach exploration, clamming, and crabbing. If you have time, you can also visit the two lighthouses for a minimal fee.
Discover Recovery in Long Beach
When looking for a substance rehabilitation center, you may be faced with a long list of treatment facilities. While you may be in hurry to find hope, you should not just settle on a mediocre center. You have to make a research about the program they offer, the qualifications of their staffs, the facilities available, and of course, the reviews from previous clients. The rehabilitation center can be your savior in bringing your life back to normal. Thus, choosing the right one is very important. Discover Recovery in Long Beach, Washington is a highly recommended center that offers a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary approach to substance addiction recovery. Check out their reviews and see how Discover Recovery can help open new doors of hope for you.
Link to maps
Cape Disappointment State Park 244 Robert Gray Dr, Ilwaco, WA 98624, United States Head east on N Head Rd toward Willows Rd 75 ft Turn left onto Willows Rd 0.9 mi Turn right onto 30th St 0.1 mi Turn left onto US-101 N 0.5 mi Continue onto WA-103 N/Pacific Ave 1.0 mi Turn right onto 10th St S/Sid Snyder Dr 0.1 mi Turn left onto S Washington Ave Destination will be on the right 0.7 mi
Discover Recovery 800 Washington Ave N, Long Beach, WA 98631, United States
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For the ask game 4, 25, 25, and 38
4. Worst season?
So many to count I hated 9,15,16,18,19,20, and 21 some of the seasons have their high points and they very much have their low points I hate them for different reasons whether it is the racism the homophobia or just horrible gameplay these are bad in my opinion.
25. How would you handle bigotry in the house?
I have trouble holding my tongue so I would probably call them out but Iâm also considered a fairly calm person so I probably explain to them why what theyâre saying Canby and is offensive to a lot of people and more or less try to educate them and then if they just continue to be ignorant I would be calling them out on it all the time in front of as many people as possible I donât care if it gets me out of the game thereâs no amount of money that is worth sacrificing my morals as a person.
38. Whatâs your favourite color?
I love the colour blue and is so beautiful I either like really dark rich blue or very light baby blue Iâm kind of weird that way.
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Nothing can prepare you
Nothing that Oliver Stone has done before - including ''Midnight Express,'' for which he wrote the screenplay, and ''Salvador,'' which he wrote and directed - is preparation for the singular achievement of his latest film, ''Platoon,'' which is possibly the best work of any kind about the Vietnam War since Michael Herr's vigorous and hallucinatory book ''Dispatches.''
For that matter, ''Platoonâ is not like any other Vietnam film that's yet been made - certainly not like those revisionist comic strips ''Rambo'' and ''Missing in Action.'' Nor does it have much in common with either Francis Coppola's epic ''Apocalypse Now,'' which ultimately turns into a romantic meditation on a mythical war, or Michael Cimino's ''Deer Hunter,'' which is more about the mind of the America that fought the war than the Vietnam War itself.
Much like Mr. Herr's ''Dispatches,'' this vivid, terse, exceptionally moving new film deals with the immediate experience of the fighting - that is, with the life of the infantryman, endured at ground level, in heat and muck, with fatigue and ants and with fear as a constant, even during the druggy hours back in the comparative safety of the base.
Life becomes very simple in such circumstances: ''we'' are ''grunts'' and ''they'' are ''gooks.'' That's reason enough to kill or be killed. However, since the announced enemy remains invisible most of the time or, when visible, without particular character, an entire hierarchy of other, more comprehensible enemies emerges from the ranks of one's comrades. Sanity is not a state of mind but a pair of dry socks. Objectives don't have names. They're numbered coordinates, drawn on a very small map from which the rest of the world has vanished.
Mr. Stone, himself a Vietnam vet, observes the war through the short focus of a single infantry platoon, fighting somewhere near the Cambodian border in 1967. It's meant as praise to say the film appears to express itself with the same sort of economy that used to be employed in old, studio-made action movies -B-pictures in which characters are largely defined through what they do rather than what they say.
That's only the impression, since the grunts in ''Platoon'' do talk quite a lot, though for the most part, they don't get too literary, nor do they explain too much. They are so exceedingly ordinary that they sometimes jump off the screen as if they were the originals for all the cliched types that have accumulated in all earlier war movies.
There's the fellow who says with cheerful reason that, if you're going to get killed in Vietnam, it's better to get killed in the first couple of weeks. Otherwise, you just waste time worrying about it. There's also the young, out-of-his-depth officer who does the best he can to talk his men's language but, when he leaves their recreation hut, must say, as if exiting from the frat house, ''I gotta run. I'll catch you guys later.''
At the center of the film is Chris Taylor, a new arrival who dropped out of college to enlist, a fact that strikes the rest of the platoon as profoundly comically irrational. Chris, beautifully played by Charlie Sheen, is about as close as ''Platoon'' ever gets to a literary mouthpiece - he writes letters home to his grandmother, which we hear on the soundtrack, and in which he always - politely - sends regards to his mother and father.
Chris is idealized but without sentimentality. Part of him remains unknown and private, at least until the final minutes of the film, when Mr. Stone unfortunately feels called upon to have Chris say what has been far more effectively left unsaid.
The platoon's most important figures are two NCO's, each an exhausted, self-aware veteran of earlier Vietnam tours: the facially scarred Sergeant Barnes (Tom Berenger), who has somehow become committed to the war, which is all he has left, and Sergeant Elias (Willem Dafoe), whom the war has made as eerily gentle as Barnes is brutal. The two men, longtime friends, loathe each other.
Throughout the action of the film, the sergeants are fighting their own war for the loyalty of the men. It's a measure of how well both roles are written and played that one comes to understand even the astonishing cruelty of Barnes and the almost saintly goodness of Elias. Each has gone over the edge.
Another measure of the film is the successful way Mr. Stone has managed to create narrative order in a film that, at heart, is a dramatization of mental, physical and moral chaos. ''Platoon'' gives the impression at first of being only a little less aimless than the men, whose only interest is staying alive or, as Chris Taylor puts it, of remaining ''anonymous,'' meaning safe.
Yet the tension builds and never lets up (until the anti-climactic final moments). Somewhere in the second half of the film, there's a sequence of astonishing, harrowing impact that sort of ambles into a contemplation of how a My Lai massacre could have happened. It's not easy to sit through, not only because it's grisly but also because, all things considered, it's so inevitable.
Mr. Stone's control over his own screenplay is such that ''Platoon'' seems to slide into and out of crucial scenes without ever losing its distant cool. He doesn't telegraph emotions, nor does he stomp on them. The movie is a succession of found moments. It's less like a work that's been written than one that has been discovered, though, as we all probably know, screenplays aren't delivered by storks. This one is a major piece of work, as full of passion as it is of redeeming, scary irony.
The members of the supporting cast are no less fine than the principal players, and no less effective, often, for being almost anonymous. Two particular standouts are Kevin Dillon, Matt's younger brother, who has the flashy role of a certifiable, homicidal maniac with a baby face, and Keith David, who plays Mr. Sheen's best friend, a black soldier who may be the only sane man in the platoon.
''Platoon'' is a Vietnam film that honors its uneasy, complex, still haunted subject.
-Vincent Canbyâs original review of âPlatoon,â The New York Times, Dec 19 1986 [x]
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Mrs. Beck, a âlady of culture and refinementâ with a âkeen discrimination in matters of tradeâ
This is the second post from a talk I gave December 16 for the Willamette Heritage Center as part of their âZooming Back to Historyâ series.
Read the first post âWhat do we do with data?â
Read all my posts about Margaret Beck.
This post is the brief-ish story of the Capital Brewery, which Margaret Beck ran between 1901 and 1903.
Letâs start with more information about Margaret herself. There were several books written at the beginning of the 20th century about well-known citizens in the state, including the 1903 book Portrait and biographical record of the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Unsurprisingly, these books mainly include information about men and their accomplishments, but this book included a biography of Margaret and I want to read you a section: âThe business interests of Salem find a worthy representative in Mrs. Marguerite Beck, who was for some time the owner of the Capital Brewery.â âAfter her husbandâs death she assumed the management of his business affairs, and, in 1901, got out the interest of Mr. Klingerâs heirs and was the sole owner of the Capital Brewery until 1903, when she sold out. She remodeled the entire plant, and new machinery of the most modern kind and improvements was installed. In this connection she also operated an ice plant, engaged in the manufacture of pure ice, besides operating an extensive malt plant.â She was called âa lady of culture and refinement, who possesses marked business ability and keen discrimination in matters of trade.â So, she did a lot in a short amount of time.
Margaret was born in Wisconsin in 1860 to Anna and Paulus Neibirt, who were born and married in Germany. They immigrated to the United States soon after their marriage, and settled in New Holstein, Wisconsin, where Paulus was a farmer. She attended German schools in Wisconsin, and there is evidence that her father was successful at his work from a monetary standpoint.
The Neibirts moved to Oregon in 1871, first to Benton County and then the next year to Sublimity, where they purchased a farm. The Neibirts had seven children, four of whom were alive at the time Margaretâs biography was written in 1903. Her brother, Conrad, was murdered while defending his saloon in Canby during a robbery.
Margaret married Seraphin Beck January 20, 1880 in Marion County at Samuel Adolphâs house â Adolph was Seraphinâs boss in the brewing business. The 1880 census recorded the Becks living at 73 Commercial Street with two boarders: Virginia (born 1852 in what was then considered Germany) and Maurice Klinger (a brewer born 1844 in Germany).
The Becks had three kids: Joseph Seirphein, Mary Leona, and Louis Conrad, who died in 1891, when he was 10, of heart disease and spinal meningitis.
Thanks to the Oregon State Library for this photo!
Hereâs a brief break to introduce Seraphin, who was born in 1851 in Alsace-Lorraine. He came to the United States when he was in his late teens or early twenties, and lived in Chicago for eighteen months, where he learned the brewing business. He lived in Denver for two years before moving to Salem. Exactly when he arrived is unclear, but around 1875.
There is an interesting kernel in Margaretâs biography in the Portrait and biographical record of the Willamette Valley Iâve yet to confirm and feel skeptical about: that Seraphin moved to Portland to be a head brewer for Henry Weinhard, a position he held until he became too ill to continue, when he returned to Salem. There was a Seraphin Klinger, Maurice didnât have a son named Seraphin, who was listed in the city directories as a brewer at the Gambrinus Brewery in Portland from 1894 to 1901.
Weird.
Most of the 1890 federal census was destroyed by fire, but certain counties or towns conducted their own mid-decade census. We are lucky this was the case with Salem because the 1895 census has interesting demographic information, namely a physical description of the family members. Margaret was a 35-year-old housekeeper, who was 5'5" and 115 pounds, she had dark hair and was a Catholic. Seraphin was 44 years old, a brewer born in Germany, 5'8" tall and 235 pounds with dark hair. 12-year-old son Joseph was 4'2" and 82 pounds with dark hair and a student. Daughter Leone was 3 years old, 2'8", 35 pounds, with dark hair.
Seraphin died on April 25, 1899 and was buried in the Catholic cemetery. Some contradictory information here too: one obituary called him a âfull partner in the Salem brewing firm of Klinger & Beck,â while another said he was a "junior member of the Salem brewing firm of Klinger and Beck.â One obituary reported heâd been âmore or less incapacitated for transaction of business for several years,â while another said heâd been ill with Bright's disease for six months. Contrary to the dates on their marriage record, both obituaries said he married Miss Maggie Neibirt in 1878.
Nonetheless, he was remembered as a successful business man with many friends, âof a quiet and unassuming disposition,â and a âman of exceptional integrity.â It was reported the saloons of the city would be closed the day of the funeral. He was buried near other brewers and purveyors of alcohol, including Mrs. Mary Eckerlen, wife of Virginia Klingerâs brother Eugene, who owned Eckerlen Saloon.
In 1906, 46-year-old Margaret married Joseph Thiel, a 55-year-old farmer who had immigrated from Germany in 1896. I may be reading into things, but this quote from the newspaper makes me feel like it was with some haste? âAlthough yesterday was a holiday County Clerk Allen was summoned to his office to accommodate a couple matrimonially inclined. The contracting parties, who will become man and wife today, are Mrs. Margarite Beck of this city and Mr. Joseph Thiel of Polk County.â
In the 1910 census, Margaret lived in Eola, with husband Joseph and son Joseph, a wage earner on a farm, and daughter Leona. That same year, Leona married Frank Domogalla. By the 1920 census, Leona was divorced, and once again living with Margaret and Joseph with her 5-year-old son Harold at 742 State Street. They all lived together in the 1930 census as well, in a rented house at 248 South Church Street.
Joseph died in 1933 and 4 years later Margaret died at aged 77 at her home at 1443 Saginaw Street. At the time of her death, her two children were still living, as well as her three grandchildren â grandson Harold and granddaughters Marguerite and Theo, who all lived in Salem. Her sister, Mary, also lived in Salem. Margaretâs estate was initially valued at $25,000; and in her will son Joseph was left a 200-acre farm, $100 went to each of her grandchildren, and the rest was left to Leona. Her final estate was valued at $43,000, nearly $800,000 in 2021 money.
Stay tuned for the next post, which narrows in on the years Margaret ran the brewery.
Resources used for this post:
Google Books
Historic Oregon Newspapers
Ancestry.com
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8.15
Woke up to plumbing issues - slow morning, made a yummy scramble- took Râs dad to his friends house in Canby, saw & pet lots of alpacas - waded in very shallow & warm knights bridge river, refreshing - shopped - got nachos & drinks for lunch - made love - relaxed & read - made pesto from our own garden basil & pesto tortellini pasta for dinner - got weed delivery - studied outside - watched a show & bed
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DEATH IN THE GARDEN (â56) by Nathaniel Thompson
âI donât direct film on subjects of my own choosing; among several that may be proposed I select the one that convinces me and that I can rework. Conceivably, I may introduce some irrational elements â under cover of a dream â but never anything symbolic.â
Director Luis Buñuel wasnât referring to any particular project when he made that statement in a 1955 interview with François Truffaut, but itâs a fascinating comment when you bear in mind he was about to undertake DEATH IN THE GARDEN (â56, originally released as LA MORT EN CE JARDIN from the eponymous novel by JosĂ©-AndrĂ© Lacour). Once thought a dangerous and rebellious artistic presence by the powers that be in France, Buñuel returned to the country in 1956 and, in typical whirlwind fashion, made this film back to back with the lesser-seen THAT IS THE DAWN, or CELA SâAPPELLE LâAURORE, the same year. A Mexican co-production shot in areas around Mexico City, DEATH IN THE GARDEN was heavily rewritten before it went before the cameras due to the extreme hands-on approach by its multiple French producers who called the shots on casting and budget choices.
One positive concession that came out of the process was the casting of the great Michel Piccoli as Father Lizardi, the most Buñuelian character in the film. An underrated character actor able to project wry wit, perversity or intense tragedy with a simple glance, Piccoli was the secret weapon of many directors including Marco Ferreri, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Demy and Louis Malle among others, but Buñuel really brought something extra special out of him. Piccoli is the one you remember here, and the director must have been impressed since they would continue to work together all the way through Buñuelâs twilight years, including the classic episodic trilogy of THE MILKY WAY (â69), THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (â72) and THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY (â74). However, the Buñuel film that most closely resembles this one in its use of Piccoli may be BELLE DE JOUR (â67), in which he plays the particularly savvy best friend who figures out Catherine Deneuveâs secret afternoon vocation before anyone else and isnât above playing silly lunch games under the table.
Despite its partially French origins and the directorâs pedigree, DEATH IN THE GARDEN initially ran only in Spanish-language theaters in much of the United States. It made little impact at the time, but it was submitted for Oscar consideration under the title GINA, a more accessible name given to the character Djin played by Simone Signoret. Normally a film starring the legendary French thespian would be given a splashy welcome in art houses, especially given the fact that DIABOLIQUE had just caused a splash in late 1955 in American cinemas, but this film didnât have a particular hook that could lure in more than the die-hard cineastes in larger urban areas. Since then itâs remained more of a footnote in Buñuelâs career and barely earns a mention (if itâs even referenced at all) in the numerous biographies and critical surveys that have appeared over the years. Even the few reviewers who have tackled it on its handful of repertory screenings have been somewhat indifferent; for example, former New York Times critic Vincent Canby called it âa kind of halfway house for the film genius, made when he had yet to receive the acclaim that would give him full control of his movies but after he had been taken seriously enough by the money men to be entrusted with an expansive movie with big stars.â
Donât be deceived though. This may be minor Buñuel, inarguably so, but itâs a sneaky and rewarding one. Itâs an early example of the âone thing after anotherâ approach you can find in some of Buñuelâs most famous films, with characters repeatedly butting against irrational or at least improbable obstacles that seem designed by a particularly prankish deity. Thatâs here in spades in the adventures of our protagonist, Chark (Georges Marchal), or âSharkâ in some prints, who ends up tromping through the jungle after a string of betrayals and romantic twists that get him labeled as a dangerous revolutionary. The act of violent anarchy he commits is also akin to the random bouts of terrorist anarchy that would randomly punctuate the narratives of later Buñuel films, while the jungle trek that forms the main body of the film racks up a higher body count than you would normally expect from either the director or this particular vintage.
If you look closely, youâll also notice that this is a real Tower of Babel of a film. Some of the Mexican supporting actors and extras appear to be phonetically speaking lines written in French which were then dubbed in later by others; the principals are speaking French with their own voices, and a handful... well, Iâm not sure what they were speaking, but it has nothing to do with the words coming out of their mouths. Itâs a dislocation far more common to Italian films than French or Spanish ones, though it isnât unheard of; you can find a similar effect in Buñuelâs TRISTANA (â70), which features Fernando Rey visibly slipping between French and Spanish throughout while his voice sticks with one depending on the version you watch.
Finally, itâs fascinating to see how much more overtly violent DEATH IN THE GARDEN is than the filmmakerâs usual approach, which tends to feature quick, isolated moments of grotesque imagery. Here we see lots of people being gunned down at regular intervals, and the sense of sweaty suffering becomes truly palpable in the last 40 minutes or so. Whether characters are being nipped by bugs or twisting ankles, you feel the pain and struggle here in a way thatâs more sharply drawn than you might expect. The fact that itâs shot in vivid, blazing Eastmancolor makes the unsparing nature of the subject matter even more jarring: thereâs something almost queasy and overripe about the way Buñuel used color in the â50s, such as his garish and borderline hallucinatory ROBINSON CRUSOE (â54). I wouldnât say this is necessarily the best film to start with if youâre new to Buñuel, but if youâd like to see how he could take a preexisting property and give it his own unique spin, this one is just the ticket.
#FilmStruck#Luis Buñuel#Death In The Garden#Simone Signoret#Georges Marchal#StreamLine Blog#Nathaniel Thompson
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The Cannabis Green Rush has minted many new millionaires. The global Cannabis market is expected to reach USD $146.4 billion in the next 6 years there are a lot more profits to be made. The U.S. legal marijuana market size was estimated to be over USD $10 billion last year and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 24.9% up until 2025.
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C21 Investments inc.
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 Market Cap: $148 million
 Revenue: $32 million
 Shares Issued: 62 million
 C21 Investments is a vertically integrated cannabis corporation that processes, manufactures, and distributes cannabis within the United States with operations in Oregon and Nevada. The companyâs strategy is to purchase 100% interests in licensed,operating, revenue producing businesses that operate cultivation, processing, production, and retail operations.
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C21 Investments is a vertically integrated cannabis corporation that processes, manufactures, and distributes cannabis within the United States with operations in Oregon and Nevada. The companyâs strategy is to purchase 100% interests in licensed,operating, revenue producing businesses that operate cultivation, processing, production, and retail operations.
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 Silver State Relief -Nevada
C21 Investments has a 155,000 square foot cultivation and processing facility and a 8,000 square foot retail dispensary. This established and profitable business serves 36,000 customers and generated $25million in the last 12 months.
 Eco Firma Farms â Oregon, USA
C21 Investments operates a 23,000 square foot, state-of-the-art facility, on 20 acres south of Canby, Oregon. They are the a founding member of the Oregon Cannabis Association and are establishing significant cultivation capacity.
 Pure Green â Oregon, USA
Pure Green is a 3,000 square foot retail dispensary that has been operating since January 2014 as a local retailer for both medical and recreational products. The dispensary is located in the Hollywood Neighbourhood, on Portlandâs âGreen Mileâ and in a building that once housed Portlandâs first post-prohibition liquor store.
 Phantom Farms- Oregon, USA
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 Swell Companies Ltd. â Oregon, USA  ( Pending )
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      Finance team with executives coming from Royal Bank and Morgan Stanley
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Total Recall: 10 Best Oliver Stone films
Heâs won 10 Golden Globes, nine Oscars, and four BAFTAs during his long and illustrious career â but Oliver Stone has somehow never been the focus of his own Total Recall, so we decided to change that in honor of this weekendâs Savages, an intriguingly cast drug drama based on the Don Winslow novel about a pair of pot farmers racing to free the woman they love from a Mexican drug cartel. Given his lengthy filmography, you know Stoneâs got some good stuff in his filmography â and the cream of the crop is right here in this weekâs list.
10. W.
The most recent chapter of Stoneâs presidential trilogy, W. served George W. Bush â who was wrapping up his second term while it was filmed â with a somewhat muted, surprisingly sympathetic biopic that traced his occasionally haphazard rise from political scion to oil baron and back again. While Josh Brolin earned near-universal praise for his work in the title role, critics found W. as a whole a little harder to take, citing its laconic pace and insufficiently hard-hitting approach as particularly troublesome flaws. For others, however, it proved a warm, fairly witty farewell for the GWB years; as the Chicago Tribuneâs Michael Phillips put it, âThe film may be ill-timed, arguably unnecessary and no more psychologically probing than any other Stone movie. But much of it works as deft, brisk, slyly engaging docudrama.â
9. COMANDANTE
For a lot of Americans â especially those who grew up during the early years of the Cold War â Fidel Castro is less a world leader than a shadowy boogeyman whose thirst for brinkmanship nearly triggered World War III. But whatever his sins, Castro remains a longtime veteran of international politics and a subject worthy of investigation â hence Oliver Stoneâs Comandante, a 93-minute distillation of the three days he spent filming the Cuban leader in 2002. While a sizable number of critics chafed at Stoneâs aggressively friendly attitude toward his subject, others saw something of significant, albeit flawed, value; as Alan Morrison argued for Empire, it is âAn opportunity frustratingly squandered, but one which still makes for fascinating viewing thanks to Castroâs natural charisma. Errol Morris would have nailed it.â
8. WORLD TRADE CENTER
Oliver Stone is known for his willingness to entertain conspiracy theories, his leftist political leanings, and his fondness for lurid cinematic violence, so when word got out he was planning to direct a movie about the September 11 attacks, some people were understandably nervous. But like any other director worth his title, Stone understands his role as a storyteller, and World Trade Center â starring Nicolas Cage and Michael Peña as a pair of real-life police officers who were caught in the wreckage after the buildings fell â has no room for politics or conspiracies. Its clear-eyed dedication to the people first affected by the attacks â and the selfless bravery of the men and women who worked to rescue the living â was appreciated by critics like David Denby of the New Yorker, who wrote, âThe world may not make sense anymore, but Oliver Stone, a warrior still, celebrating courage and endurance, has, in his own way, come home.â
7. NIXON
In the years immediately following JFK, Stone took detours into war epic territory (Heaven & Earth) and social commentary (Natural Born Killers), but he wasnât finished with the White House yet. With 1995âs ambitious Nixon, Stone gave us Anthony Hopkins as the disgraced former president and Joan Allen as his wife Pat â and while the 192-minute political epic failed to generate much heat at the box office, both Hopkins and Allen received Oscar nominations for their work in the film, which follows a non-linear path through Nixonâs life and career, taking viewers from his California youth through his resignation. âWhat it finally adds up to,â argued Janet Maslin of the New York Times, âis a huge mixed bag of waxworks and daring, a film that is furiously ambitious even when it goes flat, and startling even when it settles for eerie, movie-of-the-week mimicry.â
6. WALL STREET
Smart, sleek, and eminently quotable, Stoneâs yuppie jeremiad Wall Street gifted Michael Douglas with what arguably became the most iconic role of his career: He was simply perfect as the oily, morally adrift Gordon Gekko, and although Gekkoâs signature proclamation that âgreed is goodâ would go on to haunt Douglas, he was an emblematic character for an era in American history when it became acceptable to not only dedicate your life to the naked pursuit of wealth, but to attain it by any means necessary. Stone, who co-wrote the screenplay, based the character on a number of stockbrokers â including his own father â and Douglas embodied Gekko so well that he ended up winning an Oscar for his work. âLike the rest of Stoneâs oeuvre, itâs about as subtle as a sledgehammer,â wrote Christopher Lloyd of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. âBut his filmmaking style is like heavy metal: When he hits the right chords, nobody plays with as much power or brash energy.â
5. TALK RADIO
A rare starring vehicle for monologist/playwright/character actor/cult hero Eric Bogosian, Talk Radio found Stone behind the cameras for a loose adaptation of Bogosianâs play of the same name. Inspired by the real-life assassination of Denver DJ Alan Berg, Radio centers around Dallas radio personality Barry Champlain, whose deliberately provocative style (and decidedly non-Red State political views) make him a target of hate mail and bomb threats even as his show is poised to achieve national syndication. Saying it âhas the loony intensity of those impassioned conspiracy theorists who look out at the world and see patterns of corruption spreading in all directions,â the Washington Postâs Hal Hinson declared, âitâs another of Stoneâs wake-up calls to America.â
4. JFK
A two-time Oscar winner and controversial, career-rejuvenating smash hit for Stone, JFK reconstructs John F. Kennedyâs assassination and then spends most of its epic 189-minute length sifting through the wreckage, treating the killing as a murder mystery that New Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) doggedly attempts to solve at any cost. With an impeccable supporting cast that included Sissy Spacek, Kevin Bacon, Tommy Lee Jones, and Gary Oldman, as well as a screenplay that challenged long-held assumptions about Kennedyâs death, JFK reignited interest in the assassination, eventually leading to new legislation that ordered a reinvestigation and promised that all documents related to the killing would be made public by 2017. And while many critics agreed that the movie could have benefited from a more rigorous approach to the facts, it remains, in the words of the Washington Postâs Desson Thomson, âA riveting marriage of fact and fiction.â
3. PLATOON
The first installment in Stoneâs so-called Vietnam trilogy, 1986âs Platoon took a hard look at American involvement in the Vietnam War â and earned Stone Best Picture and Best Director at the Oscars and the Golden Globes in the bargain. Taking a gruntâs-eye view of the war, it puts a human face on the conflict, pitting Willem Dafoe (as Sergeant Elias, mentor to Chris, the young soldier played by Charlie Sheen) against a fellow sergeant (played by Tom Berenger) in a dreadful battle for the platoon. It is, as Roger Ebert wrote, âA film that saysâŠthat before you can make any vast, sweeping statements about Vietnam, you have to begin by understanding the bottom line, which is that a lot of people went over there.â
2. BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY
He earned positive reviews for his role in Rain Man, but to many scribes, the Tom Cruise of the late 1980s was little more than the pretty face out in front of critically savaged hits like Cocktail â likable under the right circumstances, but lacking real depth. Oliver Stone saw something different, trusting Cruise with 1989âs Born on the Fourth of July â and Cruise repaid him by delivering the most harrowing performance to that point in his career, committing so deeply to his portrayal of paralyzed Vietnam vet Ron Kovic that, according to Stone, he came close to injecting himself with a solution that would have incurred temporary paralysis. Not all critics loved Fourth of July, but even those who had issues with the film were forced to take notice of Cruiseâs performance â and for Vincent Canby of the New York Times, the end result was âthe most ambitious nondocumentary film yet made about the entire Vietnam experience.â
1. SALVADOR
Stoneâs films have received a combined 31 Academy Award nominations (and counting), but he picked up his first for his co-writing credit on the screenplay for Salvador, a 1986 war drama about a rather unlikable American journalist (James Woods, also nominated for an Oscar) whoâs burned so many bridges that his only professional recourse is to head to El Salvador with his unemployed DJ buddy (Jim Belushi) to try and find stories in what they initially regard as a relatively inconsequential war. Like a lot of films that try and shine a light on war while shots are still being fired, Salvador bombed at the box office â but it found an appreciative audience with writers like Rob Gonsalves of eFilmCritic, who called it âOne of Oliver Stoneâs best films, and absolutely James Woodsâ best performance.â
-Jeff Giles, Rotten Tomatoes, Jul 5 2012 [x]
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How to prepare for a natural disaster
My world is on fire.
As you may have heard, much of Oregon is burning right now. Thanks to a âonce in a lifetimeâ combination of weather and climate variables â a long, dry summer leading to high temps and low humidity, then a freak windstorm from the east â much of the state turned to tinder earlier this week. And then the tinder ignited.
At this very moment, our neighborhood is cloaked in smoke.
I am sitting in my writing shed looking out at a beige veil clinging to the trees and nearby homes. The scent of the smoke is intense. My eyes are burning. After everything else that's happened this year, this feels like yet one more step toward apocalypse. So crazy!
Fortunately, Kim and I (and the pets) are relatively safe. We're worried, sure, but not too worried. Our lizard brains make us want to flee. (âFight or flightâ and all that.) But our rational brains know that unless a new fire starts somewhere nearby, we should be safe.
Here's a current map of the fire situation in our county. (Click the image to open a larger version in a new window.)
The areas in red are under mandatory evacuation orders. (And the red dots are areas that have burned, I think. They added the dots to the map this morning.) Residents of areas shaded in yellow need to be prepped to leave at a moment's notice. And the areas in green are simply on alert.
See that town called Molalla? That's where my mother and one of my brothers live. My mother's assisted-living facility was evacuated to a city twenty miles away. My brother and his family voluntarily moved from their home to our family's box factory. But even that doesn't feel 100% safe. (The box factory is located just to the left of that cluster of red dots at the top tip of the yellow area around Molalla.)
Kim and I live near the âeâ in Wilsonville. We're more than twenty miles from the nearest active fire. We should be safe. But, as a I say, we're worried. So, I spent much of yesterday prepping for possible evacuation.
Update! Barely three hours later, things have changed. Now Molalla is under a mandatory evacuation order. My brother can't go back to get anything. He didn't film his house and belongings, so he simply has to hope for the best. Meanwhile, the level two alert has been shifted to cover more of the county, including the town where I grew up (Canby) and the surrounding areas. The caution zone ends at the Willamette River, which is maybe four miles from us. Kim and I are on edge. Here's the latest update to the evacuation mapâŠ
The scariest part of all this? The main fire that's threatening these communities is zero percent contained. Zero
Natural Disasters
We Oregonians don't have a protocol for emergency evacuations. It's not something that really crosses our minds.
While the Pacific Northwest does have volcanoes, eruptions are rare enough that we never think about them. And yes, earthquakes happen. Eventually we'll have âthe Big Oneâ that devastates the region, but again there's no way to predict that and it's not something we build our lives around. (Well, many people have been adding earthquake reinforcement to their homes, but that's about it.)
In the past fifty or sixty years, the Portland area has experienced four other natural disasters.
My father used to talk about the Columbus Day Storm of 1962, a cyclone that blew through area when he was in high school.
On 18 May 1980, Mount St. Helens blew its top. There was plenty of warning before the eruption, though, so most everyone had cleared away from the peak.
On the morning of 25 March 1993, we had the âSpring Break quakeâ, an earthquake of magnitude 5.6. (This was also my 24th birthday, so I personally call it my âbirthquakeâ.)
The Willamette Valley flood of 1996 was pretty spectacular.
Now, in 2020, we're experiencing the worst wildfires the state has ever seen. That's roughly one disaster every ten or fifteen years, and it's the first one during my 51 years on Earth that's made me think about the need for evacuation preparedness.
Kim and I have been asking ourselves lots of questions.
If we were to evacuate, where would we go? What route would we take? What would we carry with us? How would we prep our home to increase the odds that it would survive potential fire?
Let me share what we've decided and what we've learned. (And please, share what you know about emergency preparedness, won't you?)
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Evacuation Preparedness
The first thing we did was brainstorm a list of things that were important to us. Without reference to experts, what is it that we would want to do and/or take with us, if we were to evacuate.
Our animals (and animal supplies).
Phones, computers, and charging cords.
Important documents from our fire safe.
A bag for each of us containing clothes and toiletries.
Sleeping bags and pillows.
Sentimental items. (We have no âvaluableâ.)
Create a video tour of the house for insurance purposes (be sure to highlight valuable items).
Move combustible items away from the house.
After creating our own list, we consulted the experts.
In this case, we looked at websites for communities in California. California copes with wildfires constantly. (And, in fact, Kim's brother and his family recently had to help evacuate their town due to wildfires!) For no particular reason, I chose to follow the guidelines put out by Marin County, California. I figured they know what they're talking about!
The FIRESafe MARIN website has a bunch of great resources dedicated to wildfire planning and preparedness. I particularly like their evacuation checklist. While this form is wildfire specific, it could be easily adapted for other uses, such as hurricane preparedness or earthquake preparedness.
The ready.gov website is an excellent resource for disaster preparedness. It contains lots of info about prepping for problems of all sorts. You should check it out.
Creating a Go Kit
FIRESafe MARIN and other groups recommend putting together an emergency supply kit well in advance of possible problems. Each person should have her own Go Kit, and each should be stored in a backpack. (In our case, I have several cheap backpacks that I've purchased while traveling abroad. These are perfect for Go Kits.)
What should you keep in a Go Kit? It depends where you live, of course, and what sorts of disasters your area is susceptible to. But generally speaking, you might want your kits to contain:
A bandana and/or an N95 mask or respirator.
A change of clothing.
A flashlight or headlamp with spare batteries.
Extra car keys and some cash.
A map marked with evacuation routes and a designated meeting point.
Prescription medications.
A basic first aid kit.
Photocopies of important documents.
Digital backup of important files.
Pet supplies.
Water bottle and snacks.
Spare chargers for your electronic equipment.
That seems like a lot of stuff, but it's not. These things should fit easily into a small pack. Each Go Kit should be stores somewhere easy to access. Kim and I don't have Go Kits yet, but we'll create them soon. We intend to store them in the front coat closet.
Writing this article reminds me of one of the first posts I shared after re-purchasing Get Rich Slowly. Almost three years ago, I wrote about how to get what you deserve when filing an insurance claim. This info from a former insurance employee is very helpful (and interesting).
Final Thoughts
I spent much of yesterday prepping for possible evacuation. This isn't so much out of panic as it is out of trying to take sensible precautions. I gathered things and put them in the living room so that we can be ready to leave, if needed. If authorities were to upgrade us from level one to level two status, I'd move this stuff to my car.
Also as a precaution, I moved stuff away from the house and thoroughly watered the entire yard. (Not sure that'd make much difference, but hey, it can't hurt.) I created a video tour of the house that highlights anything we have of value. And so on. This took most of the afternoon.
This morning, I can see that the neighbors are doing something similar. We're all trying to exercise caution, I think.
Kim and I will almost surely be fine. Although the smoke is thick here at the moment â it's like a brownish fog, and it's even clouding my view of the neighbor's house! â there aren't any fires super close to us. And barring mistakes or stupidity, there won't be any threat to our home.
Still, it's good for us to take precautionary measures, both now and for the future. And it's probably smart for you to take some small steps today in case disaster strikes tomorrow.
Updates!
The situation here in Oregon is evolving rapidly. I'm going to use the space at the end of this post to post updates. These will be fragmentary thoughts, for the most part â not coherent paragraphs.
Here is a terrific Reddit post about what one person wishes they'd known when evacuating for wildfire.
Last night, it became clear that the family box factory really could be in harm's way. We're worried. We're not freaking out yet â it's a good distance from the fires and it's located in a âprairieâ â but the workers there are trying to formulate some sort of plan for if things do go bad.
There are crazy rumors floating around that the fires were started by far-left political operatives. This is blatant bullshit and it pisses me off that (a) anyone would believe this idiocy and (b) spread the (unsubstantiated) rumors. It's causing actual issues as armed vigilantes are threatening people now because they're worried they're liberal firestarters. Simply insane.
Kim and I intend to spend most of today (Friday, September 11th) prepping the house as if it were indeed going to get hit. We realize that it probably won't, but better safe than sorry.
That's it for now. More later.
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