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   From: lbullock@mcn.org   
      
   I watched it and loved it. It was funny. Great songs.  Just my two cents   
   worth.   
      
   If you didn't like it, so be it. It's a big world. We'll all fit.   
      
   Lawrence Bullock   
      
      
   "Andrew Gabb"  wrote in message   
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   > sirblob1@hotmail.com wrote:   
   > > and thou it was fairly amoosing at time overall rather dreary   
   > >   
   > > and surely it's not really connected to real life. i mean i know folk   
   > > music is all wishy washy nippy snippy crappy dippy family friendly   
   > > traditional bollocks, but surely these people arent based in real life?   
   > > i mean you're not telling me that parker posey is the equivalent of   
   > > rosanne cash and catherine o hara some cross between a joan baez and a   
   > > joni mitchell, or whatever the hell is folk cuz i no longer seem to   
   > > know now do i.   
   >   
   > To get a kick out of this movie you need (a) a sense of humour, (b)   
   > an irony implant for those whose national humour lacks this   
   > important facet of humour, and (c) a deep understanding of the folk   
   > movement and music in the 60s. Even so it's not much more than   
   > several chuckles and a giggle or two, but definitely worth watching   
   > given the above. It's just so *serious*!   
   >   
   > As soon as you mentioned Roseanne Cash, I could see you were on the   
   > wrong track. This is about *folk*, not Country (or Western). This   
   > was the time when they wouldn't have Emmy Lou on the GOO, coz she   
   > was too 'folky', and most of the folkies wouldn't have thought of   
   > watching the GOO either - too many electric guitars and drums.   
   >   
   > Believe it or not the folkies of this period took themselves very,   
   > very seriously, even more seriously than today. So seriously that   
   > they really believed that the future depended on them. That's where   
   > a lot of the humour comes from.   
   >   
   > Andrew   
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   > Andrew Gabb   
   > email: agabb@tpgi.com.au       Adelaide, South Australia   
   > phone: +61 8 8342-1021   
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