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  1. Spike

    critique Leopold Augustus Bach

    And i have to pause to notice: dang, that's some fancy formatting--a visual representation of a state, a chain of different shades of thought and memory and feeling, a bit melancholy, trailing off, dimmer and dimmer, into infinity. :)
  2. Spike

    critique Leopold Augustus Bach

    Honestly, CR, that's enough for me. These excerpts are shared not just for critiques (although I certainly do appreciate any) but also because I hoped someone might enjoy them. As a would-be writer, I know I wouldn't be for everybody, but, to get any pages at all, I have to be able to imagine...
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    actors Jake from State Farm

    Or no one cares: Do i remember a joke, where somebody was reincarnated as the original Darren on Bewitched? Edit: actually, to say nobody cared is untrue and a bit cruel of me. Original Darren was a big part of the show's success, reportedly battled chronic pain for as long as he could...
  4. Spike

    actors Jake from State Farm

    Yup. New Jake kills it :)
  5. Spike

    campaign Help Us Bring "The Broken Pieces of Us to Life!" 🎬✨

    Cool. Thanks. 'The quality of what you've shown, the voice work and the concept art, is engaging.
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    actors Jake from State Farm

    This is kind of interesting. Back in the day, i remember, watching TV with friends and family, and every 10 minutes or so, just stoping for, often just staring through, a commercial. Then came TIVO, watching everything on delay, and fast forward through the commercials. Then the streamers. TV...
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    campaign Help Us Bring "The Broken Pieces of Us to Life!" 🎬✨

    Good luck. I hope you make it. The voice acting in the clip is strong. And I like the art. It looks like real human-created stuff. But my impression is that it is like a film of a graphic novel. Is this a thing? Maybe, in your campaign, a bit of clarification, here. And i admire, actually...
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    actors Jake from State Farm

    Bummer about Jake--classic show biz story of betrayal, lol. It's always struck me as odd, that some of the funniest things on the you tube are insurance company commercials. i still get a kick out of this one; (Ke-ah-no, lol) Then there's the surrealism of Emu and Doug. WTF? And...
  9. Spike

    hollywood Oscars 2024 Films

    Unlike years past, I guess I have to see these movies now, after the fact. Somehow I'm a little embarrassed about that, lol.
  10. Spike

    critique Scene for review.

    One more bit from the script about Kothen, that "little princely residential town, often mockingly dubbed 'Cow Cöthen,'" *, about Leopold, prince of Kothen, and about Leopold's musical director, his Kapellemeister, JS Bach, For me, just the act of getting a scene together, in order to post it...
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    music If ya got it flaunt it - 2025 Grammys

    "If ya got it flaunt it." "It" being an overwhelming supply of vulgarity.
  12. Spike

    movies Movies that aren't as good as you remember...

    Yup. What, for me, keeps the Godfather on this side of greatness, is that it feels written.
  13. Spike

    movies Movies that aren't as good as you remember...

    This one may be sacrilege, but...the Godfather? Every scene, one after the next after the next, exactly as you remember them. It feels a bit, now, episodic, as if the whole is less than the sum of its parts. And Michael's journey, once you know it's there, seems telegraphed, a bit plotty, kind...
  14. Spike

    news RIP Gene Hackman & Wife Betsy

    OMG. WTF. And the dog too? I almost just don't want to know. And Hoosiers--as good as it gets.
  15. Spike

    critique Leopold Augustus Bach

    And... Maybe one of the little kids, maybe both, can at this point make the sign of the cross, mistaking a curse for a prayer, before Sebastian ushers them away. This might be a memorable little comic moment. Edit: just realized I thought this was funny because i think Rod and Todd Flanders...
  16. Spike

    critique Leopold Augustus Bach

    Just changed "Another moan from the next room," to " A cry from the next room--Maria Barbara (O.S.): "Lord Jesus Christ!" Way better :)
  17. Spike

    critique Leopold Augustus Bach

    Thanks, sfoster, for reading and taking the time to leave a note. Yea, in writing about the 1720s I have had to learn a lot of stuff, little questions, here and there, like: What kind of hat would this person be wearing? Would little Carl Philippe Emanuel Bach have been called Carl, Philippe...
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    ai Pika Labs - Very useful AI tool

    Has old school CG just gone the way of the typewriter? Stop-motion?
  19. Spike

    critique Leopold Augustus Bach

    No sweat. (And sorry to whine, lol.) And don't knock yourself out. It just motivates me, a little, to think of something being read by someone other than Spike. Just a word, (something like "Masterful!") is fine. :)
  20. Spike

    critique Leopold Augustus Bach

    And here, the first minutes of the second scene, to "when he wills," at 4:45. (And if you watch, make sure the CC is on.) And guys, this, the NBS's beautiful production, makes me leak from my eyes. And if it doesn't make anyone else so leak, or at least lean toward such leakage . . . It is...
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