KPT Plugin Mystery Solved

I just happened upon a link to those free KPT plugins I was supposed to get with my purchase of Paint Shop Photo Pro X3.

Found here.
Subject: PSP X3: After reinstall KPT filters won't install
by df on Sat Nov 20, 2010 1:04 am

Direct Link to plugins:
KPT exe
They install in the default plugin folder here (Windows 7):
C:\Program Files (x86)\Corel\Corel PaintShop Photo Pro\X3\PSPClassic\Languages\EN\PlugIns\KPT
User Guide PDF files are there too:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Corel\Corel PaintShop Photo Pro\X3\PSPClassic\Languages\EN\PlugIns\KPT\metaos\User Guide

You get:
1. Equalizer (blur/sharpen)
2. Goo (warp brush)
3. LensFlare
4. Projector
It's like Mehdi Projection.
There's also MuRa Perspective Tiling.
Both are free plugins.

All in all, not real interesting.

Wiki has some info on the KPT plugins.
Not much info at Corel.

Eat Pray Love DVD

Eat Pray Love
I bought the DVD and watched the movie, then I read the book, and then I googled the topic.
So much has already been said, positive and negative, but I wanted to log my impressions and some good links on my blog for reference.

The movie is worth a watch, good even, but it felt lacking. Maybe because it's supposed to be this big inspirational movie and it wasn't that for me.

The book is laboriously verbose and I found myself skimming paragraphs to get to the point. I didn't start to like Liz until after reading India. Somehow her acknowledging and accepting her chatty side helped me to be more accepting of it in her writing. The India section in the book is better than the movie because it gives more context and information so it's more meaningful. Richard isn't as obnoxious in the book as he is in the movie. The confrontation between Felipe and Liz near the end of the movie did not happen in the book. So Felipe is better in the book too.

There are a lot of differences in the movie vs book, too numerous to mention all of them. A lot of times things said in the book are given a different speaker, context, setting.

One of my favorite scenes in the movie, where Giovanni talks about fear, did not happen in the book. Probably more of a minor character but I sure liked him for that scene.

"I thank God for fear because for the first time, I'm afraid the person next to me will be the one who wants to leave."
Awh...


Heart of Gold by Neil Young played during that scene.

That's Sofi with him in the photo. In the book Giovanni had a twin, Dario, and Dario was dating Sofie (with an e).

Another favorite in the movie was on the rooftop/tower scene, where Liz visualized a meeting with her ex-husband in a way that allowed her to let go of the guilt, etc. The visualization was different in the movie, but similar effect. It was the plumber not Richard who took Liz to the rooftop place.


Harvest Moon by Neil Young played during that scene.

Liz's ex is never mentioned by name in the book. His name is Stephen in the movie. In real life his name is Michael Cooper.

Italy was my favorite section of the movie. Didn't like India in the movie. Bali's Kutu and Waylan were interesting characters. Waylan was more complex in the book and not so nice. Kutu was funnier in the book.

The DVD has a Theatre version and a Director's Cut. It doesn't tell you that Director's Cut has about 5 minutes of extra scenes. Why not just have a deleted scenes feature and not make us watch the entire l-o-n-g 140-146 minutes movie twice?

I was hard pressed to find Felipe in the cast list at imdb or on the DVD credits. He's way down the list. He's actor, Javier Bardem. Married to Penélope Cruz (July 2010).
About 2 years younger than Julia Roberts in real life. 17 years older than Liz in the book. (J is H sound, HaviAIR BarDEM.)

Flight Attendant by Josh Rouse played during the bar scene with David and Liz.


Better Days by Eddie Vedder played at the end into the credits.


LINKS:

Movie vs Book

Theatrical vs Director's Cut

Letter To David
(Not exact, but close enough.)

Tons of big movie photos

Liz on Creativity
Video and Transcript. (also YouTube)
19 minutes - GOOD.
"Aren't you afraid that you're going to work your whole life at this craft and nothing's ever going to come of it and you're going to die on a scrap heap of broken dreams with your mouth filled with bitter ash of failure?"

barnesandnoble interview
"This is the secret reason I travel so much, and to such distant places. To get away from everyone I know."
"I believe that creativity is a living force that thrums wildly through this world and expresses itself through us."

Liz on EPL
Video - Authors@Google: Elizabeth Gilbert
GOOD
30 minutes
Liz reads chapter 49 of EPL.
Italian made her feel more alive, mixed up the sentences, words too.
Eat, Pray, Love, "Repeat" would be the 4th verb or maybe "Remember" that would be good too.

Making the Movie - Julia Roberts
9 minutes
Julia says, not for everyone, that's what Gilbert did and does --travel.

Letterman and Roberts
David Letterman with Julie Roberts
Funny to watch those two banter back and forth.

Take A Picture - Filter

Take A Picture, by Filter.
I happened to hear this song playing in the background on an old rerun of Cold Case (Startup epi).
The song is ten years old! It surprises me how many popular songs I haven't heard before.
I tried some of their other songs. Don't like them.

wiki:
"Take a Picture" was the second single off Filter's Title of Record. The song became a major hit during the start of 2000.
It was the band's first departure from the industrial rock that they usually played, instead being soft and melodic.

...founding member Richard Patrick has said that the song is about him getting drunk on an airplane, taking off all of his clothes, and fighting with the flight attendants who tried to stop him. [1]
MTV: Do you have a favorite song from the new record?
RP: Actually, my favorite song is "Take A Picture." It brings up the happiest time in my life, I think. One time when I was just running around a plane naked. Ha! I had a lot of fun on that plane trip.

Richard Patrick (b. 10 May 1968) Needham, Massachusetts.

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Dug a Breakfast at Tiffany's DVD out of the bargain bin. No extra features. Just the movie and a trailer. I'd buy more oldies like that if I could find them. Like old Kathryn Hepburn movies. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is coming on TV, Mon. Dec. 13 9:00 PM on TCM. I'll record it.

This post contains spoilers, if you don't like that kind of thing. I wanted to jot down some of my thoughts about the movie vs book while they are fresh in my mind.

Stars:
Audrey Hepburn (b. 4 May 1929. - d. 20 Jan 1993)
George Peppard (b. 1 Oct 1928 - d. 8 May 1994)
Peppard looked better when he was older.
Patricia Neal (b. 20 Jan 1926 – d. 8 Aug 2010)
Buddy Ebsen (b 2 Apr 1908 – d. 6 Jul 2003)
Henry Mancini (b. 16 Apr 1924 - d. 14 Jun 1994) (Music)

I think the only main character still living is Mickey Rooney and his character was terrible.

I probably watched this movie before, but I don't remember it.
Holly was an interesting character to me. I didn't want that happy ending in the movie. It just didn't fit the story. There were no indications Holly had changed.

I decided to read the novella, by Truman Capote, the guy who wrote In Cold Blood. There are a lot of differences in the movie vs the book and I liked the book better.



Cigarettes looked really good in the movie. I wanted one and I don't smoke. She smoked Picayunes in the book.



Loved the clothes in the movie.
Especially that orange coat.



Favorite scenes:
Best line was at the end when Paul said Holly was already in a cage of her making.
Didn't happen in the novella.
AND
The scene where she said, "I love you, but I'm just not Lulamae anymore." (To Doc.)



That was a little different in the novella too. I liked the way it was done in the movie better. Gave a different impression of her.

Moon River is played too much.



I liked how the novella described the scene of her playing guitar in the window.

“On days when the sun was strong, she would wash her hair, and together with the cat, a red tiger-striped tom, sit out on the fire escape thumbing a guitar while her hair dried. Whenever I heard the music, I would go stand quietly by my window...

...there were moments when she played songs that made you wonder where she learned them, where indeed she came from. Harsh-tender wandering tunes with words that smacked of pineywoods or prairie. One went: Don't wanna sleep, Don't wanna die, Just wanna go a-travelin' through the pastures of the sky; and this one seemed to gratify her the most, for often she continued it long after her hair had dried, after the sun had gone and there were lighted windows in the dusk.”

Lulamae Barnes married Doc Golightly Dec 1938 when she was 14 and he was pushing 50.

“Every day she'd walk a little further...One day she just kept on.”

Doc had been looking for her for 5 years (1943). When the narrator knew her she was two months shy of 19.
In the movie Holly says the marriage was annulled. In the novella, she insists it wasn't legal since she was only 14.
In the book there were two stepsisters and two stepbrothers and they were older than Lulamae (Holly). I think her brother, Fred, was older than her.
In the book it says that her mom and dad both died of TB and all the children were sent off to different mean people. And Holly mentions having other brothers. So there were more siblings than just Lulamae and Fred. What happened to them is an unknown.
Pregnant in the novella, not in movie.
Her relationship with Paul (movie) unnamed narrator (novella) remained platonic in the book.
In the book, Holly said she'd had eleven lovers not counting anything that happened before she was thirteen.
?
The book was like that a lot. Hints about an awful past, that made her who she was. I think that's what made the whole story so intriguing to me.

Loved seeing the library card catalog files. Ha!
In the movie she'd never been to the library before, gasp! Not in the novella, though.

The ring? Cracker Jacks? Nope, didn't happen in the novella.
Paul (movie) unnamed narrator (novella) bought her a St. Christopher medal from Tiffany's in the book.

Interesting read on the book:
critical analysis

Snow Scene

It snowed a lot and no wind.
So...
The outdoor thermometer has a cute snowcap on it.
The evergreens are heavy with snow.
Pretty.

Here's a cute little graphic I pulled out of my archives and edited.


It's either an old WordPerfect image or an old Microsoft Word image.
It's fun to fiddle with graphic images sometimes. See what I can do with them.

Real life winter photos here.
More.

Tommy Emmanuel

Tommy Emmanuel (b. 31 May 1955) Australian guitarist.
First guitar at the age of 4, taught to accompany his mother.
By the age of 9, he was a working professional musician.
They were poor. Lived in their car; on the road all the time.
His dad died in 1966 when Tommy was 11.

My fav song of his:
Morning Aire
Capo on 5th fret, close up of right and left hands, worn out guitar.

Morning Aire2 (Better sound.)

It's on his Endless Road album.
Also Today is Mine song on here.
I like the lyrics on this one. Nature makes me feel like that. (See image below.)
Written by Jerry Reed Hubbard (b. 30 Mar 1937 - d. 01 Sep 2008).
Reed's Version.
Penned in 1968.
It's on Reed's Alabama Wild Man album.

I also like Tommy's version of And So It Goes. (Billy Joel song.)
On Emmanuel's Mystery album.
Plays it in different keys and plays it differently. Search YouTube for more videos of the song. On this one Tommy gives an intro before he starts playing and also adds some stuff towards the end of the song.

And just for fun watch him play Classical Gas (Mason Williams song). You go, Tommy. lol



Image from morquefile.
Edits mine.

John Muir Quotes

I dug out the sources/references for the John Muir quotes I have on my blog.
Because it's fun digging around in old digitally archived books online.

First, a nice pic of John Muir:

Source
(Edits mine.)

QUOTE: “The mountains are calling and I must go.”

The writings of John Muir (1916) - Volume 9
(Page 384 and 385.)


(Images: snippets pieced together by me. Sig from wiki.)

QUOTE: “The power of imagination makes us infinite.”

The North American review (1821) - Volume 245
Page 24 (intro), page 43 and 44 (quote).



How did I find it?
Google it
(Sometimes that works. Sometimes it doesn't.)

QUOTE: “But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.”

From: My first summer in the Sierra (c. 1911), John Muir (pg 196)
google books
archive



QUOTE: “How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!”

The Writings of John Muir: The mountains of California By John Muir, Marion Randall Parsons, William Frederic Badè, Houghton Mifflin, 1916 - Travel (pg 68)



Also at:
The mountains of California By John Muir, The Century co., 1894 - Nature - 381 pages (pg58)
The writings of John Muir (1916) - Volume 4 (pg 68)

QUOTE: “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”

Steep trails By John Muir, Houghton, Mifflin, 1918 - 390 pages (Pg 128, same pg no. on all 3 links.)



AND:
The writings of John Muir Volume 8, Houghton Mifflin, 1918 - Travel
The writings of John Muir (1916) - Volume 8


Source
(Edits mine.)

Trivia: John Muir is on California's 2005 state quarter. (See wiki.)

Boyce Avenue

I love the Boyce Avenue version of this song:
Dynamite
Taio Cruz (original)
vs
Boyce Avenue (cover)
Three brothers make up the Boyce Avenue band: Daniel, Alejandro, and Fabian Manzano from Florida.
Puerto Rican ancestry.
I was curious about their family of origin because of producing three musicians, but didn't find much info on that.

In the above video, the screen is split into 4-5 different views with Alejandro (Ah-leh-HAN-droh, Spanish Alexander) playing guitar, piano, some kind of drum.
I LOVE this guy's voice.

MySpace image popups say Daniel's age is 30, Fabian 26, and Alejandro 24. Look at their favorite music artists and I'm right there.
They began posting videos on YouTube in 2007 (covers and originals). I think that's how they became known and popular. I never heard of them until now when I just happened upon one of their videos on YouTube (97 of them!).

Here are a few more videos that I especially like:
Teenage Dream (cover)
Plays Piano on this one. (Katy Perry song.)

Viva la Vida (cover)
Plays drum with foot and plays guitar and sings. (Coldplay song.)

Edge of Desire

Currently listening to:
Edge of Desire (Acoustic) by John Mayer.

Battle Studies Album Amazon

Songmeanings.net for lyrics and comments.
“So young and full of running, all the way to the edge of desire...”

Songfacts.com for some interesting tidbits on the album.
“I think when the music starts playing, you're not thinking about my life, you're thinking about yours.”

Edison and Cusack Look Alike

I thought this pic of Thomas Edison looked like John Cusack.



Thomas Edison
Wiki pic
vs
John Cusack
imdb pic

Thomas Edison (Character)

Longfellow, Tennyson, Browning

Here's another book I dug out of the online archives that I thought was worth a look.

Companion poets:
Illustrated. Longfellow's Household poems. Tennyson's Songs for all seasons. Browning's Lyrics of life.
J.R. Osgood and Company, 1871
("Companion poets" may be a series of them featuring different poets?)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(b. 27 Feb 1807 – d. 24 Mar 1882)
No pic in the book, but I really liked his big eyes on this photo at wiki (circa 1850). (I cropped, lightened and softened it.)


Here's a sample Longfellow poem and illustration from the book:


MORE NOTES:
(Some of the links are to poems, some are to information about the poems. Depends on what I wanted to document.)

Timeline
1831 - Married Mary Storer Potter
1835 - Mary died.
1836 - Meets Frances (Fanny) Appleton
1839 - A psalm of Life
1843 - Marries Fanny
1845 - The Evening Star (Hesperus) in reference to 2nd wife.)
1845 - Mezzo Cammin (Struggles in his middle years.)
1850 -The Open Window
1855 - Song of Hiawatha (Short extract title Hiawatha's Childhood)
1861 - Fanny died (burn accident)
1867 - Dante's Divine Comedy translation (gutenberg and google books)
1879 - The Cross of Snow (grief)

“'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
—Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam (Canto 27)

Alfred Tennyson
(6 Aug 1809 – 6 Oct 1892)

Nice pic of Tennyson from book:


1829 - Met Arthur Hallam
1833 - The Lady of Shalott First Version
1833 - Arthur Hallam died
1850 - In Memoriam (to the memory of Arthur Hallam)
1854 - Charge of the Light Brigade (YouTube)
1889 - Crossing the Bar (YouTube)

Tennyson's Handwriting

Robert Browning
(b. 7 May 1812 – d. 12 Dec 1889)

Pic from book:


About the most interesting thing about him was he married Elizabeth. :)
1846 - Married Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(b. 6 Mar 1806 – d. 29 Jun 1861)

He is best known for "The Ring and the Book" and 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' dramatic lyrics.

VIDEOS:
I got sidetracked...
Poetry Animations at YouTube.
These are interesting.
716 videos!
A lot of them were good. Some not so good.

UPDATE 11Jan13
Poetry Animations
is now
Poetry Reincarnations.

Dead Links, but wanted to keep the list. Probably at the new user's site.

Here's specific ones to try:
Longfellow - Tide Rises
Longfellow - The Day Is Done
Poe - The Raven
Emerson - Goodbye
Dickinson - Great Pain
Keats - Fears
Keats Love Letter

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Digging around in old books online.
This info is on Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
(b. 29 Aug 1809 – d. 7 Oct 7 1894)
American physician, professor, lecturer, poet and author.
In 1884, Holmes published a book dedicated to the life and works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882).

I found a lot of poor quality Holmes books in online archives.
The following are the best quality I could find.



The complete poetical works of Oliver Wendell Holmes
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895 - Poetry - 352 pages

Book on Ralph Waldo Emerson
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Houghton Mifflin, 1884 - 441 pages
This one looks okay, not the newest though.
1885 versions seemed worse quality.

Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes (1878)
Nice illustrations in this one.
No illustrator credits.
Illustrations are different from the other one (below link).
Samples:
Here's a handsome fellow at the bookstore:
Your choice - A Dime


Excerpt of relevant text:


Nice dedication to Mama, what a guy:


A reddening rose in bud:

She turned, a reddening rose in bud,
Its calyx half withdrawn,
Her cheek on fire with damasked blood
Of girlhood's glowing dawn!

From: Songs In Many Keys
I. 1846 -1856.
Agnes
Part Second
The Maiden

Illustrated poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes (1885)
Illustrator credits - several.
Haven't gone thru this one yet.
Shorter - only 114 pages.

Never found this quote in O. W. Holmes works, although it is attributed to him.

The best of a book is
not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells
not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.

(Also sometimes attributed to John Greenleaf Whittier.)

I did find the quote in a quotations book dated 1891, so it dates back that far.



A dictionary of thoughts:
being a cyclopedia of laconic quotations from the best authors, both ancient and modern
Cassell publishing company, 1891 - Reference - 644 pages
By Tryon Edwards, D.D.
No sources, just names given for the quotes.
Fun to look thru.
Can search it at google.

Trivia:
Edgar Allan Poe (died 1849) and Oliver Wendell Homes, Sr. (died 1894) were born in the same year, 1809.

John Greenleaf Whittier

I've been digging around in old books online.
Man, that's fun.
Whittier is one poet I pulled out of the archives.

“For all sad words of tongue or pen,
the saddest are these: ‘It might have been’”
— John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier
(b. 17 Dec 1807 – d. 7 Sep 1892)
Quaker and bachelor.
Elizabeth Whittier mentioned in his works is his sister.

(NOTE: I think the "best of a book " quote at wiki belongs to Oliver Wendell Holmes, not Whittier. I'm digging up stuff on Holmes too.)

The above Whittier quote is from the poem:
Maud Muller
There are illustrated versions available online.

1869 version (Has an epub.)
NOTE: Scroll down at google books for more versions of the "same" book.
Sometimes they are different, sometimes not.
I look at them all.

Maud got significantly homelier one year and was looking in the wrong direction (1869).


But by 1879, she was back to her normal self (1866).


Another quote I like:

“The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.”
— John Greenleaf Whittier

That comes from the poem:
My Psalm

The poems are very long, so I'm not going to post them here.
I then found the COMPLETE works of Whittier online.
That has everything, including My Psalm and Maud Muller.

Just paging thru documents, I liked "Red Riding Hood."
Here's just a snippet of it.



Complete Works 1894
The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
Houghton, Mifflin company, 1894 - American poetry - 542 pages
Best version as far as the text goes.
Elizabeth's poems are in here.
Even the library date stamps are interesting to me.



Complete Works 1895
1895 but still 542 pages.
This one has a portrait of Whittier and a different house image.



There is an illustrated volume (less pages).
Poetical Works Illustrated 1885
The poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
Houghton, Mifflin, 1885 - 336 pages



(NOTE: I put poem together with image using Paint Shop Pro.)

A few more illustrations that caught my attention as I was looking thru the document.

A Smile Sadder than Tears:
(Poem: The Witch's Daughter)



The Cloud of Her Soul Was Lifted:
(Poem: The Changeling)



Writings of - 1888
The Writings of John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier, Elizabeth Hussey Whittier
Houghton, Mifflin, 1888
This one has some info on his sister.

The Works of - Vol. I
The works of John Greenleaf Whittier ([c1892])
I think it is Vol. I of 7 but it is 490-4 pages.
Not very good quality, but there is a sample of Whittier's writing.

Trivia:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (died 1882) and John Greenleaf Whittier (died 1892) were born in the same year, 1807.

Robert Frost

“The best way out is always through.”
—Robert Frost

The way out is through.
A familiar phrase to me.
I found out Robert Frost said something very similar, so I hunted down the reference.

It's from A Servant to Servants.

Archive.org:
The Poems of Robert Frost
Specific Page

The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost poetry
Biographical Preface
Running commentary by Louis Untermeyer
(b 1 October 1885 – d. 18 Dec 1977)
Illustrations by John O'Hara Cosgrave II
(b. 10 Oct 1908 - d. 11 May 1968)

I'm not sure about the copyright on these, but I like how it's presented in book form online and you can turn the pages and zoom in as desired.
There are plenty of other places on the Net that have Robert Frost poems as well.

Here's a story about Frost that I found interesting. He sent some of his poems to The Atlantic and was turned down.
Details of this in Atlantic article.
I found places online that I suspect spun the story into more than it was, and I could not verify, but this much of the story is straight from the source.

Found this photo of Frost when googling:



Frost on Cover of Life Magazine
Dated March 30, 1962

I liked this portrait of Frost so much I hunted it down.

Life Mag
Portrait Of Robert Frost
Portrait of smiling American poet Robert Frost, 1962.
A cropped version of this photograph was used on the cover of the March 30, 1962, issue of Life magazine.
Photo: Dmitri Kessel/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Jan 01, 1962

The photographer (Kessel) is deceased.
Dmitri Kessel Obituary
Published: March 30, 1995

So Frost was almost 88 years old on that picture.
Notice Frost died about a year later.
Robert Frost at wiki
(b 26 Mar 1874 – d. 29 Jan 1963)

Frost spoke and read some poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy on 20 Jan 1961.
In 1962, he went to Russia.
Boy, he sure got around for someone who was in his late 80's.

Search for Robert Frost at Life Mag to find a JFK and Frost photo.
Also google for Robert Frost images at jfklibrary.org.

I blogged a Frost poem, Acquainted With The Night, earlier.
Here
The video is still at YouTube.
Ron Perlman's voice (Beauty and The Beast).
(I still really like this video - imagery/sound/reading/voice.)

Thoreau Quote

I decided to blog the reference for that Thoreau quote I use on my blog (right column).

The quote:

“To perceive freshly, with fresh senses is to be inspired.” —Henry David Thoreau

In this Journal:


By this handsome guy:

Henry David Thoreau
(b. 12 Jul 1817 - d. 6 May 1862)

Journal available at:

archive.org
google books
Volume VIII

Thank you to this blogger for giving me the reference.
Dated Sat, 11 Dec 2004
Thoreau's Journal: 11-Dec-1855

more quotes with references
mis-quotes

Backyard Visitor

Strolling thru the backyard...



Grab the camera and run out the door.
Not a very good pic, but happy to get something rather than nothing.
Almost looks like a dog, doesn't it.
The bushy tail gives it away (white tip not seen on photo).

Red Fox Vulpes vulpes (Vulpes fulva)

enature
"Even when fairly common, it may be difficult to observe, as it is shy, nervous, and primarily nocturnal (though it may be abroad near dawn or dusk or on dark days)."

This was about 10 am. So maybe a little unusual to be out at that time? He did not look shy or nervous to me. Looked right at me and just kept moving as usual. Maybe intent on some possible food?

npwrc nd mammals
previously

Some of the regular visitors right now are a blue jay, which I hear screech but don't see, a magpie, which I do usually see, and still some hearty robins hanging around in cool November.