Leaves of Grass the movie, if you are a grower and like Edward Norton, watch it

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  1. link420

    link420 Smokin' Fat Sticky Buds

    So i was browsing the store the other day and bought this new movie called Leaves of Grass with Edward Norton. Its a movie about a oklahoman, in-dept pot grower (edward norton), who lures his twin brother (also edward norton) back home to help him get an alibi for a crime. I don't wanna spoil anymore, but its got a great story, cast, and dialogue. Not to mention the most realistic grow room hollywood has ever filmed and a fair share of pot growing jargon, most of which is accurate. Its got a surprise and twist or too, a tiny bit of romance (no boobs, sorry), and pot smoking hill billys. sounds good? it is, so go rent it!


    here a trailer, although its not that good of a trailer:

     
  2. rasganjah

    rasganjah True Ganjaman

    Read an article about it last year in High Times magazine. It looked good, I'll have to check it out eventually. Ever seen "Homegrown"? it's the original Weed Growing Movie, full of big name stars, but flew low on the radar.
     
  3. CCrete

    CCrete Mr. Poopyfacepeepeehead

    Billy bobs the man!!!
     
  4. Mrgreengenes

    Mrgreengenes Administrator

    I'm getting both. Thanks guys! :thumbs-up:
     
  5. ResinRubber

    ResinRubber Civilly disobedient/Mod

    Thnx much...goin on the short list of what to rent next.
     
  6. TheCarpenter

    TheCarpenter member

  7. Hank Chinaski

    Hank Chinaski Ruminating

    Go Walt Whitman! :flyy:
     
  8. ResinRubber

    ResinRubber Civilly disobedient/Mod

    Went out and picked it up late last night. Not at all what I expected! Nice grow room tho.


    Hank- There's a couple cool references to Whitman's prose and tempo along with one or two really nice pieces of his work from the book.


    tC- You mean it's not all Billy followers or toothless meth heads? I know there's a few cowboys to round it out.


    cheers,
     
  9. mt.king

    mt.king mud drags champion

    okie from Muskogee or maybe Bugtussle

    Dude stop lying. My whole family are okie's. I lived and went to school in Stroud from second grade until junior high. then I went from bass ackwards to redneck relief ( no disrespect to are colored friends but if you're a black person back then it was on ur to say that where you're from) bigger town in OKC. That's where I learnd about reverse racism. Seeing out only 10 percent of school was white. Try going from a family of klansmen to that situation. You learn it goes both ways. That's why I am so against any kind of racism weather is the color or socialistic.


    P.S. yup they have plenty more scorpions chiggers centipedes a foot long and a doezen different kinds of poison snakes and spiders the can kill you. you can go to bed without shake out your blankets you can't put your shoes on without dumping them out to check for fiddle back spiders (for those of you who dont know its a brown recluse ) you don't go fishing without a shotgun(for snakes or wild boar)oh and dont forget TICKS.
     
  10. Hank Chinaski

    Hank Chinaski Ruminating

    Leaves of Grass is an awesome work. Soooo many good parts.


    "I have perceiv'd that to be with those I like is enough,


    To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough,



    To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough,



    To pass among them or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly



    round his or her neck for a moment, what is this then?



    I do not ask any more delight, I swim in it as in a sea.



    There is something in staying close to men and women and looking



    on them, and in the contact and odor of them, that pleases the soul well,



    All things please the soul, but these please the soul well."



     
  11. Hank Chinaski

    Hank Chinaski Ruminating

    Leaves of Grass is an awesome work. Soooo many good parts.


    Book 3 Song of Myself is my favorite part. Especially the first few parts.


    Song of Myself


    1


    I celebrate myself, and sing myself,


    And what I assume you shall assume,


    For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.


    I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.


    My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air,


    Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,


    I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,


    Hoping to cease not till death.


    Creeds and schools in abeyance,


    Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten,


    I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,


    Nature without check with original energy.


    2


    Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with perfumes,


    I breathe the fragrance myself and know it and like it,


    The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it.


    The atmosphere is not a perfume, it has no taste of the distillation, it is odorless,


    It is for my mouth forever,


    I am in love with it,


    I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked,


    I am mad for it to be in contact with me.


    The smoke of my own breath,


    Echoes, ripples, buzz'd whispers, love-root, silk-thread, crotch and vine,


    My respiration and inspiration, the beating of my heart, the passing of blood and air through my lungs,


    The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore and dark-color'd sea-rocks, and of hay in the barn,


    The sound of the belch'd words of my voice loos'd to the eddies of the wind,


    A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms,


    The play of shine and shade on the trees as the supple boughs wag,


    The delight alone or in the rush of the streets, or along the fields and hill-sides,


    The feeling of health, the full-noon trill, the song of me rising from bed and meeting the sun.


    Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much?


    Have you practis'd so long to learn to read?


    Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?


    Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,


    You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,)


    You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books,


    You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,


    You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.


    3


    I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end,


    But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.


    There was never any more inception than there is now,


    Nor any more youth or age than there is now,


    And will never be any more perfection than there is now,


    Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.


    Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world.


    Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always substance and increase, always sex,


    Always a knit of identity, always distinction, always a breed of life.


    To elaborate is no avail, learn'd and unlearn'd feel that it is so.





    Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams,


    Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical,


    I and this mystery here we stand.


    Clear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.


    Lack one lacks both, and the unseen is proved by the seen, Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn.


    Showing the best and dividing it from the worst age vexes age,


    Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself.
     
  12. ResinRubber

    ResinRubber Civilly disobedient/Mod

    Two books that I've alway felt should be read back to back are "A Sand County Almanac" by Aldo Leopold and Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" collection.


    The first embodies a man as he relates to nature as an environmentalist and what he can learn from it. The second as he relates in spirit as a natural being.
     
  13. Hank Chinaski

    Hank Chinaski Ruminating

    I just read A Sand County Almanac this year for the first time. It's really awesome. Leopold wrote very poetically. I had an English friend of mine read it also and he like fell in love with the book. I especially enjoyed that it was from very close to home. I have a very strong emotional connection to that part of the world.


    There was one part in the beginning where he said the straightness of some skunk tracks he was following were as if a driver had "hitched his wagon to a star and dropped the reins". Beautiful lines. I will definitely reread it some day.


    As for Leaves of Grass. Yeah, it's gold. It's a masterpiece, in my opinion. I did a paper in Uni comparing various themes in it to similiar ones in several Eastern religious philosophies.
     
  14. ResinRubber

    ResinRubber Civilly disobedient/Mod

    While hunting a nearby duck pond I actually went to the farm in Baraboo Leopold lived on while writing the Almanac. It's a rather unremarkable place for the setting of such a remarkable work.


    My favorite piece is when he discusses the impact and tale the breaking of a candle on pine tree can tell. How a simple act can be read for seasons to come in pattern of growth.
     
  15. Hank Chinaski

    Hank Chinaski Ruminating

    That's almost to be expected, though isn't it?


    Like people that go to Walden Pond and think "this is it?"


    The magic there was in the combination of the writer's depth and breadth of both knowledge and experience and the ability to convey those in a way meaningful to others.


    :alienwink:
     
  16. big t double

    big t double i finally changed this

    do you two belong to some sort of book club?? did i miss the sign up, and if not should i where a bowtie?? :mashed:
     
  17. Hank Chinaski

    Hank Chinaski Ruminating

    That's not a bad idea. I should start a book club thread.


    :alienwink:


    This is a totally unrelated Calvin and Hobbes cartoon.


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    Wow, bummer. The pic won't post for me, only the link. :(
     
  18. ResinRubber

    ResinRubber Civilly disobedient/Mod

    Big T- Some chicks dig guys that can read. Besides, those librarian types do things you wouldn't believe once the door closes.
     
  19. link420

    link420 Smokin' Fat Sticky Buds

    librarians and nuns, what a naughty bunch!
     
  20. SteelCity Smoker

    SteelCity Smoker To Be Continued

    Interesting... In homegrown John Lithgow played a dead twin and live twin. Now Edward plays twins C O N spiracy. I always wanted to bone blonde petite nice little sporty titted with the baby bubble donk Reese Witherspoon in her prime so I kind of admire Ryan Phillippe...Steelcity
     

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