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Is there a particular term for the person who runs a winery or a vineyard?

A very long time ago, I remember a horror, possibly vampire related movie (I'm pretty sure it was a movie) on the SciFi channel. The only scene I can remember is this guy lying in bed, pulling what looked like black hairs out of his arm. The hairs wiggled and bled when he squished them.

Anyone know what I'm talking about?

    hi, first post, so sorry if I don't post properly, but I've got two things I just can't seem to remember.  The first is a movie that probably came out in the early 2000's or late 90's. It was about a man who was stranded on a deserted island and stuck there for a long time. In the end it turned out they were actually in a small island of New York or somewhere, and for some reason a big pond comes to mind, maybe it surrounded the island. I can't think of much else, so I hope that is enough. The next thing is a quote from either a movie or a book that must not be too old, maybe 2007? It's said by a girl who isn't too bright, and is something along the lines of 'I'm trying to read this book, but I have to look up every word in the dictionary, then I have to look up those words, and it takes an hour to read a page!'
    I hope that's enough! Thanks much in advance :)

Hope this is not too vague, but this was a woman artist whose medium
was vintage paper taken from old books? Or perhaps it was just vintage paper.
It was towards the front of the magazine.

Thank you!

Well I have two kids movies that my dad would show us..

One is as I remember, half animated and half live action with these two girls in the forest, or a jungle? I forget what mostly happens to them.


The second one is involving some older man named Snyder [I believe] and I remember a scene where the family is eating breakfast and the mother gives the kids a health shake or drink and the pour it into the plants. This one has a shoe before the movie stars, with the laces tied or something. There is also a chase involved I think? Snyder is after the kids. ---- It's called My Pet Monster

I think they might both be straight to video.


edit: I found the possible production company but it doesn't have any of the titles of the movies anything I recognize: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-Tops_Video

These are my feet. Upon those feet you will notice that there are sock. Over top of the socks are boots. Holding the boots together and my stocking shod feet inside of them are laces. On those laces are some freaky little metal things.

I do not know the name of these little metal thing let alone what you would call similar type of contraptions and/or accouterments. I did not purchase them and do not know where they came from as they "fell off a truck." In short, all I know is they make me look badassed enough to beat up 5 truckers hopped up on meth. The truckers are on meth. Not me.

They are made of a soft metal and vaguely x-shaped. The laces go through loops in the metal and they just kinda sit there and look awesome.

So tell me oh wise men and women of whatwasthatone, what the crap are these things and where can I get more?

I'm going crazy trying to remember this movie. It was capped in film_stills a long time ago. It was black and white and I'm pretty sure it wasn't in English (I wanna say it was Dutch, but that might be totally wrong.) There was one still of someone's legs and she had a small tattoo of the number 13 on the back of her thigh.

Originally I thought it was called 'Bastard Out of Carolina 2'. But there doesn't seem to exist a movie under that title and the first one is decidedly not the one I'm thinking of (but pretty good). In the one I speak of, you have a teenage or college age girl and her mother - the father, or step father comes home from prison. There was quite a dramatic scene in the beginning where it shows her as a child engaging in erotic knife play with the man. As the movie progressed from there, the daughter now older compulsively had sex with him after leading him up the stairs.

Later she went to the hospital and... I can't recall what she was doing there but someone told him assuming she had a pregnancy test done. This lead to a violent and degrading confrontation. In the end, her and her black boyfriend who he had a problem with for being black, killed him.

Anyone know the title?

In ancient Greek historical record there is an orator who was a famous (or infamous) Democrat. According to some accounts his wife was very outspoken and unusually for women debated among men in her home. By some accounts she was a courtesan. What was her name?

There's a British sci-fi novel in which clones of people would appear and attempt to kill them. They would grow out of other people. It was an alien plot to destroy the human species. This typically only happened once per person however the main character's persona spawned an army of clones including one alien 'leader'. What is the name and who is the author of this book?

ETA: Question has been answered. Thank you very much.

This week's rec is Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, an autobiographical graphic novel by Alison Bechdel, who is best known for her fantastic comic strip, Dykes to Watch Out For. I'm trying hard to think of how to best describe Fun Home without resorting to adjectives like "amazing" and "fantastic," but really, it's amazing and fantastic.

Fun Home is a story about Bechdel, but it is also a story about her father, a closeted gay man who worked as both an English teacher and the director of a funeral home. Bechdel contrasts her own coming out with her father's determination to conceal his sexual orientation, skillfully rendering remembered moments and exchanges, crafting them into a beautiful narrative that Bechdel describes as labyrinthine, "going over the same material, but starting from the outside and spiraling in to the center of the story."

There are so many things that I love about this book, I've read it over and over again and am always finding something new in either Bechdel's beautifully detailed illustrations or in the writing itself. Fun Home is literally overflowing with literary allusions (remember, her father was an English teacher) & if you're looking for a way to generate a summer reading list, a great thing to do is read Fun Home and jot down all of the books that are mentioned/drawn in the panels.

If you'd like to preview Fun Home, the first few pages are available on Amazon. I seriously cannot recommend this enough -- it is a book that has stayed with me since I first read it & I have never tired of rereading it!

If you read & enjoy Fun Home, you might be interested in checking out Bechdel's Dykes to Watch Out For, recently compiled in an essential anthology. Bechdel also has a blog where she occasionally discusses books. (Currently up for discussion is Sarah Waters' novel, The Little Stranger which was recently recommended here by flawoftheiris).

& speaking of recommendations, it's time for last week's recs!

homemadehuman recs Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
aetenae recs Coraline by Neil Gaimain

I have this vague memory of a scene in a movie where two people are either making out or about to make out, and someone--I want to say the girl, says, "Shut up, just shut up!" In my head it's kind of hurried and breathy, but I could be mistaken. And then they go at it. A co-worker also remembers that much but we can't figure out what it is. Does anyone know? Thanks so much for your help, everyone!

Edit: Thanks for the guesses so far; I checked them out and none of them are it, but I appreciate your feedback. I want to say that the people involved were already more worked up than in She's All That; it definitely wasn't Jerry Maguire, and I haven't seen the other two. I'm pretty sure it's something fairly mainstream.

Im looking for the title of a song.

Its a black guy singing about a girl I think. In the video the guy is singing outside a diner next to some other guys. And then he is in the diner sitting across from his friend and his friends girlfriend. And then later on the same guy who was singing is now shopping with that girl. And at one point he mentions his "anaconda"...

Anyone know what Im talking about? The song is less than a year old I think.

Found
Kardinal Offishall - Dangerous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbxvH-tBRwM