Awesome review... as others have said, the fact that it leaves me wanting to watch the darn thing again RIGHT NOW suggests you've really nailed it with this one.
Interestingly by coincidence, someone on BTX has posted that Western Stars has been removed from Netflix here in Australia. Ah well, it's back to the Standard Definition DVD (which is the only physical release we got here Down Under) instead of the HD stream by the looks of it...
Loved it! Thank you for compiling all (or not?) spoken vignettes, that's such a lovely and fitting term. I was, again, so moved by Bruce's wise words and by the relevance of your review.
Glad you enjoyed it. It's almost all of the monologues, as I had no clue how to fit the "Barn" reading in. I still wrote it out though.
"The Barn. We've got a hundred-year-old barn on our property. Built in the late 1800s, and the hayloft is simply a spiritual space. It has a high cathedral ceiling, that used to be packed with enough winter hay, to reach from the floor to the roof. Since we've had the place, we've held barn dances, weddings, harvest parties up there, so it's a space filled with the best kind of ghosts and spirits. When we knew we were going to film Western Stars, due to the instrumentation I knew we'd need some place that could fit a thirty-piece orchestra. Our barn is a structure that speaks to you, its natural beauty, the artistry of its construction, the aged wood, it's like a fine instrumental itself. It sounds good. It's just got soul. So for a few days, we got to play for a few friends and entertain the horses down below, so come on in, 'cause we're about to start our tale with the man who's just standing by the roadside."
I'll read it a bit later also when I have the time to give it the focus it no doubt deserves. At the moment I'm a bit flustered by the tease this thread gave me this morning... when I saw that the thread count in the main forum had increased from 215 to 216 overnight, I was hoping for the newest Nugs Release Appreciation topic to have been posted. Alas...
I was going to make a snarky comment about you being so late and how this isn't what we pay you the big bucks for and all that...but then I read the review. Hokey smokes, what a fantastic piece.
Awesome review... as others have said, the fact that it leaves me wanting to watch the darn thing again RIGHT NOW suggests you've really nailed it with this one.
Interestingly by coincidence, someone on BTX has posted that Western Stars has been removed from Netflix here in Australia. Ah well, it's back to the Standard Definition DVD (which is the only physical release we got here Down Under) instead of the HD stream by the looks of it...
Does anyone perhaps have an audio rip from the DVD?
Loved it! Thank you for compiling all (or not?) spoken vignettes, that's such a lovely and fitting term. I was, again, so moved by Bruce's wise words and by the relevance of your review.
One of your best pieces. It will be on my mind while I'm in the high desert tomorrow.
Superb K. Just superb. I have to pull out the DVD and watch it again tonight, thank you.
I'll read this tonight with the soundtrack playing.
I'll read it a bit later also when I have the time to give it the focus it no doubt deserves. At the moment I'm a bit flustered by the tease this thread gave me this morning... when I saw that the thread count in the main forum had increased from 215 to 216 overnight, I was hoping for the newest Nugs Release Appreciation topic to have been posted. Alas...
I'll read it in the morning, as the substitute for the archive review. 🙂
What a brilliant read, thanks for writing and sharing.
I was going to make a snarky comment about you being so late and how this isn't what we pay you the big bucks for and all that...but then I read the review. Hokey smokes, what a fantastic piece.