On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 16:29:06 -0700 (PDT), dsi1
> wrote:

>On Sunday, March 21, 2021 at 1:22:02 PM UTC-10, Boron Elgar wrote:
>> On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 14:19:58 -0700 (PDT), dsi1
>> > wrote:
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>> >On Sunday, March 21, 2021 at 10:50:41 AM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
>> >> On 2021-03-21 11:17 a.m., Graham wrote:
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>> >> >> I won't watch that movie again because HAL is the creepiest. That
>> >> >> voice - shudder.
>> >> >> Janet US
>> >> >>
>> >> > I saw that movie when it first came out. I still regret spending that
>> >> > admission money. What a lousy, over-rated film!
>> >> My uncle took my cousin and me to see it at a theatre in Toronto that
>> >> that the cinemascope or whatever the format was that made it special.
>> >> About half way through the movie the power went out because of a fire at
>> >> a nearby lumber yard, so we got rainchecks to come back and see it the
>> >> next night.
>> >
>> >The same exact thing happened to me. It wasn't a movie but it was Jimi Hendrix. The power didn't go out but his amps was humming too much so he walked off stage. I did see him the next night too.
>> >You probably saw it on a Cinerama format/screen. It a process of filming with 3 cameras and 3 synchronized projectors projecting on a wide, curved, screen. It's kind kind of a goofy format. It's kind of disorienting if you get too close to what you're filming around the edges.
>> >I have seen a Blu-ray disk copy of 2001 on a HD TV. It's like seeing the movie for the first time. Stanley Kubrick was a technical perfectionist and the images he captured in his camera was still startling half a century later.
>> >
>> >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e360zRfLKQ
>> To have seen Hendrix live must be a great memory. DH saw him, too and
>> loved it. "Beyond expectation" was how he described the concert.
>
>I disobeyed my parents to see Hendrix on a Sunday night. I always listened to my parents except for this one time. I thought I was going to catch hell. My parents never said a word. I've always wondered about that. It took me many decades to figure out what happened. It was because they supported me in my learning to play the guitar - they always did. That was an awesome thing to realize.

It is good to feel that way about parents.

My dad helped me and my sister get tickets for the first Beatles
concert we saw. Granted, it was one of the few nice things he did, but
I still think fondly of it.