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Kim · Post by **Kim** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 8:03 pm

You may have read some of this, if not you should, if so maybe you should read it again.

http://members.iinet.com.au/~larkim/lar ... owcase.rtf

http://members.iinet.com.au/~larkim/lar ... owcase.rtf

http://members.iinet.com.au/~larkim/lar ... owcase.rtf

http://members.iinet.com.au/~larkim/lar ... owcase.rtf

http://members.iinet.com.au/~larkim/lar ... owcase.rtf

http://members.iinet.com.au/~larkim/lar ... ticles.rtf

Cheers

Kim

ozziebluesman · Post by **ozziebluesman** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 8:19 pm

Thanks Kim. Good information regard lutherie is always extremely useful to me!!

Cheers

Alan

Allen · Post by **Allen** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 9:29 pm

Ah, a little light reading, thanks Kim.

Bob Connor · Post by **Bob Connor** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:37 pm

They'll be going straight into the pool room.

sebastiaan56 · Post by **sebastiaan56** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 5:05 am

Good onya Kim,

Allen · Post by **Allen** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 6:26 am

bob wrote:They'll be going straight into the pool room.

Right over the Yank's heads Bob.

Lillian · Post by **Lillian** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 2:05 pm

Bob, would that be same room we Yanks refer to sometimes as the "library" especial when a male of the household grabs the paper and heads down the hall to do a bit of, ah, reading?

Bob Connor · Post by **Bob Connor** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 2:34 pm

Not exactly Lillian.

There was a movie made here called "The Castle". About a family of battlers whose home was to be compulsorily aquired and took it to the hight court to save their abode.

The father's favorite saying when anything valuable was aquired was "that's going straight in the pool room".

Very funny Australian movie, so you'd have to have seen it to appreciate the line.

I'll see if I can track it down and send you a copy.

Lillian · Post by **Lillian** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 2:46 pm

That would be sweet!

Allen · Post by **Allen** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 5:59 pm

The movie is bloody hilarious. A "must have", as a place to start appreciating Aussie humor.

Bob Connor · Post by **Bob Connor** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 8:14 am

Lillian

I've found you a copy of The Castle.

My only concern is that it may be an Australian region DVD and may not play on a USA region DVD player.

Does anyone know how all this works?

I'll have the DVD in a few days and I'll take a copy in case it doesn't work for you and I have to re-encode it as an .avi that I can send and you can watch on the 'puter.

graham mcdonald · Post by **graham mcdonald** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 8:50 am

There are several websites out there with instructions on how to convert region specific DVD players to region free status. It is usually a matter of hitting buttons on the remote in various combinations.

The Castle was released in the US a few years ago. I recommended it to a friend there and they found a copy. Mind you, I don't think they fully understood it

It is a particularly Australian humour

Tell him he's dreamin'

graham

Hesh1956 · Post by **Hesh1956** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 11:22 am

Lillian I think that you can rent it here in the states. I checked Netflix because I want to see it too and they have it if this is it:

When land surveyor K. (Ulrich MÃ¼he) arrives at a small village that houses a castle, local authorities refuse to allow him to enter. As he tries to convince the officials that they sent for him, they clamp down with increasingly complicated bureaucratic obstacles. Directed by renowned European filmmaker Michael Haneke, this visually stunning adaptation of Franz Kafka's absurdist novel first aired on Austrian television.

Bob Connor · Post by **Bob Connor** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 11:32 am

Doesn't sound like it Hesh.

The cover looks like this

Director:Rob Sitch

Writers:Santo Cilauro & Tom Gleisner

If you like I'll do a copy and send it through to you.

Bob Connor · Post by **Bob Connor** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 11:38 am

I just had a look on Netflix Hesh and it's there.

Here's the description from the page.

When plans for an airport expansion threaten the home of Darryl Kerrigan (Michael Caton) and his family, the patriarch refuses to move from his "castle" -- in actuality, a shabby suburban tract house. Darryl rallies the troops and takes his battle to the highest court in Australia. This irreverent, warm-hearted comedy is frequently compared to The Full Monty.

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:58 pm

I was listening to a US reviewer talk about the appallingly awful US remake of Kath and Kim the other day. He said that US networks think that seppos canâ€™t understand our accent so they feel compelled to do remakes.
He did say that what the US had done to Kath and Kim was so bad that it should lead us to sever all trade ties and offered the nation an apology for the abuse.
Letâ€™s hope they donâ€™t try to americanise â€˜The castleâ€™ eh.
Dom

Bob Connor · Post by **Bob Connor** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 1:25 pm

Speaking of great Ocker movies I just bought this

joel · Post by **joel** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 5:16 pm

Ahh... the serenity!

Allen · Post by **Allen** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 6:21 pm

If your on a Mac, then the program for ripping DVD's and removing the region code is called Mac The Ripper. Easy to find with a Google search. If you're on a PC, then the choice is much larger, but I don't work on one anymore, so I can't recommend a particular program.

Lillian · Post by **Lillian** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:46 pm

Thanks Allen. We were just talking about that. I found a few copies on Ebay, but they are all from Oz. So.... We may just do it after all. I have a few friends with Macs we should be able to change the region code.

matthew · Post by **matthew** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 11:39 pm

DVD Decrypter is easy to use on PC and will remove region encoding from a DVD.

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