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lol, that's awesome. Mine was "Every Breath you Take" by The Police - aww man, that's a creepy song!

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Nooo I loved that album! Synchronicity, right? I still have it ~~and still listen to it~~.

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Best police album EVER. One of the first pop music LPs I ever purchased. (My born-again-christian aunt burned my cousin's copy because the skeletons on the cover made her believe it was satanic. Ya... the police were always inspiring devil fingers. *sigh* Silly religious people. No wonder my cousin is strange).

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Hahahahaha :P Yeah, that Sting, he's such a satanic figure!

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can i borrow the cd?

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It's in the computer room in my CD stash. :)

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I like that song too! It's just ... creepy if you listen to the lyrics :) People think it's romantic, but ...

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DUDE!!! You can not have the police. No one should be young enough to have that song. It just makes me too damned old. I loved that song. LOVED Sting. (It is good creepy). But it is far, far too new. Pick something else. Like "I'm a Believer." That is old enough to be a birthday song. No more 80s for you. We're officially changing your age to keep me from depression. Consol yourself with the fact that people are going to say you look reaaaaallly young for your age (this song choice makes you 43, btw).

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helliongoddess.livejournal.com

Hee hee...reading all these posts, I just remembered something... When I got divorced one of my acts of liberation was to put a copy of the picture of Sting from Dune, in only the codpiece and a smile, on the bulletin board over my desk so I could admire it. I probably still have it tucked away somewhere. ^_________^ Feyd... lovely, lovely Feyd.

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That was the ONLY time I have found Sting hot! And that was the only reason to watch that movie, IMHO. ;)

(I was always a fan of Stewart and Andy, as far as crushes go.)

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He was uber hot in The Bride too.. and a really odd movie called Brimstone and Treacle, which I loved (he did the soundtrack too. I owned it and had the movie on, of all things, video disk).
When I broke up with my last boyfriend, Jedishampoo taped together a photo of Sean Bean that he had ripped to pieces in a fit of irrational jealousy. It is still on our fridge!! (FREEEEDOM!!) He isn't in a codpiece however. Alas.

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helliongoddess.livejournal.com

I had the B&T soundtrack, too. Pretty good. I wasn't that crazy about The Bride, though... maybe if I saw it again now, I'd like it more.

Stewart Copeland is a cool guy, from what I can tell, and cute too, still. He's a homeboy, from right near Kansouame. Andy is an asshole, from all signs and reports I have ever seen - ego the size of a Macy's Thanksgiving float, with not all that much to base it on. I watched a long documentary about their reunion tour (which sadly came nowhere near here) and he did not come across well.

Dune... *sigh* The epic that wasn't. I had such high hopes, because it's one of my all-time favorite books, and has the potential to be such a great movie if done right. Lucas ripped off so much from Dune for Star Wars, but he did it right (at least in the first three, I haven't seen the newer ones.) Instead of dealing with all the great environmental and cerebral themes, they gored it up, and dumbed it down, and still managed to spend a shitload of money. I will say that visually it was stunning, and many things did look much like I had pictured them. And, without it we wouldn't have had Kyle McLachlan, so no Twin Peaks... so it's not a total loss.

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Andy has also aged the least gracefully. Sting is still smokin', Stewart looks just about how he always did (not my type) and Andy looks puffy and old.

The Bride would have been good if Jennifer Beals could act. Also had Clancy Brown in it, who I quite like, but really it was all about Sting in those boots. In fairness, even though I recently picked it up on DVD for cheap, I haven't seen it since I was about 16 years old, so it could really suck.
The Sci Fi mini series of Dune and Children of Dune are quite good. There was simply too much stuff, even in just the first book, to cram into one film. I did actually like the movie though. It looked really good. Great uniforms, attractive men, Brad Dourif, Sting... Problem is, if you haven't read the books, you don't know what is going on and if you have, you're pissed cause they've changed them. Catch-22. Still pretteh though. But if you haven't, I suggest you check out the mini-series versions. Quite good.
(K.M.: True... forgot Dune was his first film.)

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helliongoddess.livejournal.com

Do you mean a completely different miniseries of Dune? How did I miss that? Must've been in the lost years (mine) when I was getting one surgery after another... I see from wikipedia there was something in 2000 called "Frank Herbert's Dune" - if you say that is worth it, I will rent it from Netflix sometime. I did see the "Alan Smithee" version of the Lynch & DeLaurentis' version, with extra narrations, minus a lot of the extraneous (and non-canon) gorey shit, and thought it was a vast improvement over the original.

I am with you 100% on your assessment: as far as uniforms, sets, costumes, pretty people (or ugly when need be, although they went WAAAY too far with poor Kenny McMillan), all were generally quite good. It just was all sizzle, but they forgot to add the steak, dammit. It really should have been a series of movies, like the Jedi movies. But even within the limits of doing it the way they did, I think they could have been done better - I think perhaps Lynch & DeLaurentis were not quite the right director/producer pair for the project- their styles run more towards the grotesque and florid than the profound and moving. As I remember Frank Herbert was not totally pleased with the final product, either.

Looks like someone else is going to give it a go - maybe even in 3D?- for release sometime in 2012. It has already had one director change, and now is in the hands of the guy who did "From Paris, with Love" and "Taken" (no idea about either of those.) We shall see.

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Hehe :) When I was a little kid, my dad used to blast music on sundays (while my mom was at church and we were sleeping in) to wake us up. One of the albums he used to play was "Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984-1994" so whenever I hear the song "Fields of Gold" I get really sleepy :)

Edited Date: 2010-02-06 07:25 pm (UTC)

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lawless523.livejournal.com

The lyrics are creepy.

I liked "Roxanne" (their first hit, from an earlier album) better.

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Hmm... whoring or stalking? All fun subjects. Still, Sting has a very pure voice. All of the Police albums were good, IMHO, and I had all of them.
(I like the Moulin Rouge version of Roxanne a lot as well.)

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lawless523.livejournal.com

I could be picky and point out that in "Every Breath You Take" it's the singer who's the stalker, and in "Roxanne", it's the object of the singer's affection who's the whore, but I won't.

Whoops, I just did, didn't I?

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Does it matter? It's prolly the same guy. He got her off the streets with his love and affection (he wouldn't, at that point, talk down to her, though his grammar was fairly crappy) and then she became a famous super model and rejected him and he was forced to stalk her while improving his verbiage at night school... Many years later, after becoming a professor (with a class full of lolitas) he built a fortress around his heart, surrounded it with fences and barbed wire and hoped the Russians loved their children too. Then he took up tantric yoga.

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That's after he became the sorceror's apprentice, right?

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When he was living in that house next door to Scylla... with Charybdis on the other side? Yeah... That was while he was in school. Sorcerer was his greek prof. He sort of took over his position after some fairly funny business involving a ring.

Edited Date: 2010-02-04 08:51 pm (UTC)

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sharpeslass.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-02-08 12:04 am (UTC) - Expand

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There's not much from the Police that I don't like. "De Doo Doo Doo, De Da Da Da" and "Message in a Bottle" and "Spirits in the Material World" and yeah... I had ~~have~~ a thing for the Police... Actually, if I ever have a son he'll be named Stewart (for Stewart Townsend, don'tcha know).

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lawless523.livejournal.com

I knew there was another song of theirs I liked a lot: "Spirits in the Material World". (Couldn't think of the name of it.)

At the time, I was more into New Wave, particularly the Cars, and starting to get into David Bowie's stuff.

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