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I know a guy who claims he taught Billy his first guitar cords on the Christmas morning he got his first guitar. Guy was the original bassist in Moving Sidewalks and also the earlier bands with Billy.
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Yall know mfbarnes?LHIOB said:Same guyMAROON said:
I know a guy who claims he taught Billy his first guitar cords on the Christmas morning he got his first guitar. Guy was the original bassist in Moving Sidewalks and also the earlier bands with Billy.
The original bassist...was that one of Barnes' claims?!Milwaukees Best Light said:Yall know mfbarnes?LHIOB said:Same guyMAROON said:
I know a guy who claims he taught Billy his first guitar cords on the Christmas morning he got his first guitar. Guy was the original bassist in Moving Sidewalks and also the earlier bands with Billy.
Lucky for him NASA grounds still look like the 1960's.
Exactly! No reach whatsoever nor imagination required. As you turn off NASA Rd 1, you enter into the time warp.
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Might be if your guy left the band to go to college and make his fortune in the oil and gas investment banking world.
I used to occasionally work with a guy that claims to have played with the moving sidewalks early on. He was younger than the rest of the guys in the band, and they dropped him once they started playing bars and nightclubs and he could not get in. More than one person attested to his story, so I believed him. He was definitely a good musician.
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Exactly! No reach whatsoever nor imagination required. As you turn off NASA Rd 1, you enter into the time warp.
I remember driving by a few years ago, and the grounds looked like they had not been maintained since the 1960s. Or at least since the early 1980s on field trips. I don't remember which side of the complex it was though.
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Anybody play pickup bball here? My grandmother lived in Nassau Bay and we would play pickup games down there. It was a fun court to play on as it was covered and kinda sunk in.... It was pretty much that and feed the ducks stale bread
Anybody play pickup bball here? My grandmother lived in Nassau Bay and we would play pickup games down there. It was a fun court to play on as it was covered and kinda sunk in.... It was pretty much that and feed the ducks stale bread
My mom will cry during this entire movie. She grew up in Clear Lake a few streets over from Timber Cove where a lot of the astronauts lived. My grandfather worked at NASA. Unfortunately most of his work-related memorabilia, videos, and pictures were confiscated after he died in 1966. Really wish they had been able to save some of his stuff, but family wasn't even allowed in the office and they were apparently forced to give them a few boxes of things he had at the house, too. We aren't even sure what his actual job was, but we are assuming something video production related based on a couple goofy photos we have of him holding cameras.
Probably helped fake the Moon landing. No way they were leaving that evidence in the family's hands.Quote:
We aren't even sure what his actual job was, but we are assuming something video production related based on a couple goofy photos we have of him holding cameras.
Was this one of his goofy photos?
Zach Levi having grey hair is tripping me out.
Interesting... I wonder if this is going to be in the same style as Waking Life, or a different kind of animation
Regardless, can't wait. And please make Glen Powell a star already.
Regardless, can't wait. And please make Glen Powell a star already.
Should I be high for the initial viewing or nah? Either way can't wait
Just watched Apollo 10 1/2. I went to Ed White in the mid 70's. I felt this movie was directed for me. Lots of good feelings and memories of growing up in the middle of the Clear lake/NASA community as a kid. I wonder how people outside of this bubble are reacting to the story?
My mom grew up in that era and this brought some of her stories to life. She worked at astroworld as a teenager. I loved the depictions of daily house life like fighting over the TV and all the kid games. All the homemade food. All the chores. Sound of music and the wizard of Oz. This was peak mono-culture. Yeah there were so many choices of tv shows throughout the week but that was literally the only choices and you had to fight control of the tv from your giant family crammed into a 3 bedroom house. Dad sitting in the big chair reading the paper and watching the news. Kids fighting over got to sit on the couch while someone always got stuck on the floor.
This movie made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced. Linklater has a way of doing that. He is hands down my favorite director.
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Watching this now. Reminding me of some things.
Excited to watch
Does the soundtrack include Fever Tree?
If not, then they failed at studying regional bands of the time and I will refuse to watch.
If not, then they failed at studying regional bands of the time and I will refuse to watch.
This was not on my radar. Will watch tonight!
No mention of Fever Tree. Nor Red Crayola!
My uncle and his wife both worked at NASA starting in the mid 60's as mathematicians.
Watching now. So dumb question, is this "filmed" then edited in post to get the animation or is it simply an animated film? I wouldn't typically ask this question except that I believe it was stated that Richard Linklater was on location filming...
I was a wee lad and was living in Cocoa, Florida at the time. It was crazy. Watched the rocket take off from my front yard.
Watching it now and really liking it so far. Grew up in the 80's but this brings to life a lot of the stories my parents and grandparents used to tell me. We were an Exxon family growing up in Baytown. Not the appeal that nasa had obviously but similar community back then.
1st half of this movie is a pure nostalgia fest. Interesting to see the things that I heard about from my parents along with the things that stayed true through the 90s when I grew up.
It looks like what they used to call "rotoscope", where animators would trace directly over a projected film. i assume it is a digital equivalent. I bet there is software which can automate much of the process frame-by-frame.jetescamilla said:
Watching now. So dumb question, is this "filmed" then edited in post to get the animation or is it simply an animated film? I wouldn't typically ask this question except that I believe it was stated that Richard Linklater was on location filming...
That was creepy how much it portrayed my childhood. I had quite a few classmates who's fathers were astronauts so we always followed the launches closely.
I was really hoping he would show the drive in theater on 225 that showed porn, and you could catch a glimpse as you drove by. Or the drag races in Dickinson.
I was really hoping he would show the drive in theater on 225 that showed porn, and you could catch a glimpse as you drove by. Or the drag races in Dickinson.
- CCISD seems to have had plans for one elementary school and repeated it everywhere
- Baskin Robbins is still in the same location
- My parents had the same Herb Albert album, but so did all parents I guess
- Baskin Robbins is still in the same location
- My parents had the same Herb Albert album, but so did all parents I guess
Red Bluff. I've heard about that so many times over the years that I think I may have invented a memory of seeing boobies off in the distance from the car window. It was demolished when I was a toddler, but I do remember being able to see drive-in screens once in a while on car trips.Quote:
the drive in theater on 225 that showed porn
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It's probably digitized now but I think it's still technically rotoscoping. Linklater used it for A Scanner Darkly and his first time using it was for his film Waking Life back in 2001.torrid said:It looks like what they used to call "rotoscope", where animators would trace directly over a projected film. i assume it is a digital equivalent. I bet there is software which can automate much of the process frame-by-frame.jetescamilla said:
Watching now. So dumb question, is this "filmed" then edited in post to get the animation or is it simply an animated film? I wouldn't typically ask this question except that I believe it was stated that Richard Linklater was on location filming...
Fun fact (for me at least) my sister appeared in Waking Life, she was the cellist in the quartet (Tosca) who also provided the soundtrack. She had long purplish red hair, what can I say, she went to tu (they had and still have a helluva music department, can't blame her). Anyway, at the wrap party one of the animators came up to her and said "do you know how many ****ing hours I spent redrawing your hair? I'm starting to get a hand cramp just thinking about it." Apparently it was said in a half joking half serious tone and my sister didn't know how to react except to shrug and say "I'm sorry."
She said Linklater was cool as ****, which didn't surprise me.
I grew up there too. My dad graduated class of 1965, took his last final and then was an engineer at NASA for 32 years and my mom taught at Ed White in the 60's
Loved this. I didn't grow up in Clear Lake, but I did grow up in the Houston suburbs around that time, and this was spot on in so many ways. The Astroworld sequence was awesome. Would have been nice if they had stopped for one of those little Mrs. Baird's bread loafs.
Maybe I'm overthinking it, but the premise confused me a bit. Was Stan's trip to the moon all a dream he had when he fell asleep watching the actual thing?
Maybe I'm overthinking it, but the premise confused me a bit. Was Stan's trip to the moon all a dream he had when he fell asleep watching the actual thing?
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