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hardtack

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    9 hours ago, Macca said:

    Sorry to hear about your health, hardtack

    Thoughts and prayers are with you

    And I must take a look at Eggers's other movies.  Have heard that the 3 you mentioned are all good

    His films are so visceral… I feel clammy just watching them. Lighthouse is an amazing piece of art with a plot that is mind bending! Willem Dafoe is his usual brilliant self… he has become possibly my favourite actor now, if not for all time.

    And yeah, my health is not great, but in Nield speak, it is what it is. I go back into chemotherapy on the 29th, so I’m enjoying my current toxin free state as much as possible before they hook me up again 😁

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    15 hours ago, Macca said:

    Newly released Nosferatu is quite superb and must be seen on the big screen for the cinematography alone.  A full remake of the 1922 classic

    A Classic horror gothic tale but mysterious, dark & quite dramatic.  Some have described the movie as a bit slow but there was something happening in each scene

    Here's the 1922 version, out in the public domain

    Unfortunately, with my current state of health, I’m unable to get out to the cinema, but it is one film I will definitely be getting on Blu Ray the day it’s released… I’m a big fan of director Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Northmen and Lighthouse). I already have the original Friedrich Murnau 1922 release and the Werner Herzog versions of Nosferatu, so apart from the fact it is an Eggers film, as a completionist, I am compelled to add it to my collection!

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    27 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

    We didn't make the finals during Hardeman's time, unfortunately.

    I had a chance meeting with Gary some years ago and I was surprised that he wasn't much taller than me.  I'm your standard six-footer or 183 cm and he was listed at 187cm.  

    His high marking was a standout feature of his game and he was clearly blessed with a natural big leap.

     

    12 minutes ago, bush demon said:

    Don't think Gary Hardeman ever played in a final...

    Yes, you’re both correct… perhaps it was a game we were playing that could have secured us a place in the finals? Or perhaps I’ve just lost the plot, along with my memory.

    With regards to his height, I noticed that of the entire list back then, our two tallest, and only players above 187cm, were just 193cm.

    i wonder where all of the high 190’s and over 200’s, were hiding back then.

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    17 hours ago, chook fowler said:

    After Hassa my heroes were Tassie Johnston, Donny Williams, Barry Bourke and then Ross Dillon. Later came the one and only Tulip.

    Yeah, mine were Tassie as well as Townsend and Stan Alves, and then along came Greg Parke, Max Walker, Greg Wells and Gary Hardeman; all favourites of mine from that post premiership era. I have a vague memory of Hardeman being knocked out early in a final (can’t recall who the culprit was), something that pretty much knocked us out of the running.

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    1 hour ago, Demonstone said:

    Thanks for that!  There's not enough footage of the great Hassa, unfortunately.

    He was my childhood Demons idol and I proudly sported his number 29 on my first Melbourne footy jumper.

    Same! (outranked even Brian Dixon who was our local hero, and was just up the North Croydon end of Dorset Rd, where I was growing up at the time)

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    5 hours ago, Gorgoroth said:

    I mean did you see it...

    His bride looked a million bucks and he looked like a 90's chav from manchester

    I thought he was doing an ‘homage’ to Peter Allen.

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    21 hours ago, Roger Mellie said:

    Bronze medal for Axis of Bob 🥉

    Good show!

    Hey, nothing against AoB, but I thought my comment above was good enough to get the Bronze (based on the fact that Tim’s Silver resulted from a comment) 🤣

    Thanks matey… I look forward to the training reports to follow in the weeks ahead. I’d love to get down to attend a session or two with my son, but that’s looking unlikely now.

    Happy New Year to one and all and thanks Andy, for providing and maintaining this platform for so long… you’re an absolute marvel!!

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    Ok, a few relatively recent acquisitions on disc (I’m a mad collector):

    Classics:

    In the Heat Of the Night

    To Sir With Love

    The Great Dictator 

    The Seventh Seal

    Stalker

    Godzilla - the Showa Era Films

    Tampopo 

    The Funeral

    Kurosawa’s Dreams

    Ikiru

    Nightmare Alley

    Alice’s Restaurant 

    Easy Rider

    Paris Texas

    Grand Prix

    Le Mans

    Red Sun

    Jacques Tati Essential Collection

    Recent:

    Godzilla Minus One

    The Boy and the Heron

    Bong Joon Ho Collection

    Loving Vincent

    Furiosa

    Monster

    One Cut of the Dead

    Oppenheimer 

    Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda

    Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus

     

     

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    On 18/12/2024 at 09:29, rjay said:

    Mindfulness is good, I'm a bit wary of guru's in this space though.

    The first thing that springs to mind for me when I think of such occupations, is Patrick Swayze as Jim Cunningham, the motivational speaker, in the film Donnie Darko.

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    2 hours ago, djr said:

    You raise an interesting question, primarily about whether other clubs have track watchers who post on their social media pages. I looked at several clubs, including the three you named, and I could not find any supporter forums similar to Demonland, let alone track watchers covering training. There is very little out there. 

    It appears we are unique and blessed to have a platform like this and how it is set up, where information can be shared so readily.

    off topic, but with a profile name of ‘djr’, could you possibly be the drone operator at training? (don’t mind me, I have far too much time on my hands, and I love a bit of intrigue)

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    18 hours ago, picket fence said:

    and has already been reported by other posters turnovers were more pronounced this session compared to others

    Isn’t there a positive to be taken from these turnovers, in that the players applying the pressure that leads to said turnovers, are doing their job extremely well?
     

    So, what we have are players learning what is required to retain possession of the ball or successfully get it to (or be in position to receive it from) a teammate, while at the same time, we have players applying the kind of pressure that is required to create turnovers.

    (maybe I’m just a guy whose glass is overflowing, because I was too busy looking at the tap and not at the glass.)

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    Unfortunately I’m going to be jumping back on board the ‘Chemo Bus’ in January due to my test results showing that my health has been heading south over the last three months.  As a result of that news, I stacked our final two gigs with as many guests I could find who were willing to join in with our band.

    No doubt you won’t be familiar with some or all of them, but on the Saturday we had among others, Richard Burgman (Saints and Sunnyboys), Marcus Phelan (Brave New Works, The Numbers and Western Distributors), and Jonny Gretsch (Wasted Ones).  It was a fantastic afternoon, the joint was packed, and I couldn’t have asked for any more… at least so I thought.

    On Sunday we played a friend's xmas lane party he holds every year for the residents in the street (we were neighbours until I moved). As usual I had applied my scatter gun approach to inviting musicians to join in, working on the theory that maybe half would front up… how wrong was I.  Most did front which left me with the dilemma of trying to fit them all in somehow.

    There were Mick Daley (The Remains and Corporate Raiders), Terry Serio (The Elks and acting in various TV productions), Murray Cook (The Wiggles), Richard Burgman again (Saints and Sunnyboys), Dom Turner (Backsliders and The Rural Blues Project) and Bob Spencer (The Angels and Skyhooks).  The accompanying vids were taken by a friend and I ran them through iMovie. The sound is not a great representation of what it was like actually being there, but it does at least give you a taste. These are the first time that Bob and Dom have played together, and they’re accompanied on bass by our guy Frank Grubisa (a brilliant luthier by the way), and on drums by our guy Joe Breen and his occasional sub in our band, Luke Robinson.

    Oh, and if anyone is interested, I’m selling t-shirts I’ve designed for my band; all the info can be found here:

    https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1WgnFDSy1m/

     

     

     

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