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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 31, 2017 - 11:28am PT
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Such a great actor. Rest in Peace, Sam.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Jul 31, 2017 - 11:43am PT
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See Blackthorne.
Shephard as an aging Butch Cassidy in South America. Awesome scenery too.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Jul 31, 2017 - 12:01pm PT
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So, so great.
Everything was good, but I especially loved Blackthorne.
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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Jul 31, 2017 - 03:32pm PT
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What a talented man. Too young to go. RIP
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Avery
climber
New Zealand
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Jul 31, 2017 - 10:31pm PT
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Sad loss.
Paris Texas is a wonderful film.
He was great in 'Voyager' (AKA 'Homo Faber'). One of his very few roles as a leading man.
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MikeL
Social climber
Southern Arizona
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I'll miss more work from him.
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plund
Social climber
OD, MN
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Sat elbow-to-elbow with him at several different bars in downtown StilH2O BITD...he was a man not afraid to take a drop of liquor & seemed to pursue it seriously, as so many brilliant writer-types have. He was always personable, but just wanted to concentrate on his drinking so never had much to say (to me, anyhow). However, toward closing time, look out bar-betties!
Tons of insight in his writings with a refreshing brevity that will be missed...his 'Yeager' portrayal in The Right Stuff is one for the ages...one American icon portraying another.
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MikeL
Social climber
Southern Arizona
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Plund: . . . he was a man not afraid to take a drop of liquor & seemed to pursue it seriously, as so many brilliant writer-types have.
Yes.
Ecstasy is means to connect to the unconsciousness. In South America they often use drugs. In North America, shamans more often use various forms of duress (sweat lodges, silent or dark retreats, challenging rites of initiation (physically and / or mentally), etc. Even a good hangover can produce alternative mind states that connect to the creative unconscious. I can say that it happens for me. The trick is to stay aware in these states to what is being presented to you. It’s relatively easy to fall into (and become) the experience. The experience can “dictate” creative forms for one to record, but that does not often allow for any transcendence. One is just simply drunk.
Be well.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 15, 2017 - 06:22pm PT
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In Dubious Battle, filmed in 2016 and released earlier this year.
Mr. Anderson was Shepard's penultimate movie role.
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Loved this film and Shepard's acting.
It's on Netflix.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Based on Avery's post up thread, just watched Voyager.
He was great in 'Voyager' (AKA 'Homo Faber'). One of his very few roles as a leading man. Well worth it! Julie Delpy also very good in this, if not the centerpiece against the complex and semiarid backdrop which is Sam's character.
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There's a salutary reference to Sam Shepard in Lou Reed's Doing the Things That We Want to:
The other night, I went to see Sam's play, doin' the things that we want to. I'll miss them both, Sam and Lou, to be sure.
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 That picture of Sam Shepard with Patti Smith which zBrown put up is really something!
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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At least in the end he got acquitted after 10 years in prison.
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