Grizzly Man

"Every spring here in the Sonoran desert [AZ], some yahoo thinks that he's the "Crock Hunter" and ends up getting bitten while trying to handle a rattlesnake! The rattlers come out after a winter's hibernation...so do the two-legged idiots! Sometimes, they are even running a camcorder, documenting their stupidity!"
-Fatparrot

You don't suppose they're trying out for "America's Funniest Home Videos," do you?

A friend of mine told me that someone in Africa was inspired by the likes of Jane Goodall and the other woman who lived with primates, except that this person thought he'd try it with LIONS. He was smart enough to have had a vehicle nearby, and is said to have beaten a "hasty retreat" at least once. Unreal.

A strongman from about 100-120 years ago decided to put on a show and punch out a lion. He had the animal (a male) leather wrapped about all four paws and also a heavy muzzle placed over the head. The strongman walked into the cage, said something dramatic like "Put up yer dukes!". Whereupon the big cat took one swipe of a padded paw and hit the strongman in the head - promtly breaking the fool's neck. He died. The lion didn't even know he'd been in a fight. I read this is a muscle mag over 34 years ago.

Tomryan, I haven't laughed out loud at an Audiogon post in quite some time. Thanks for the anecdote!

TVAD: I couldn't agree with you more re. your sentiments about hearing the tape. The easy thing to do would have been for Herzog to play it (and in this day and age where everything goes..it was reaffirming to see just once some restraint from an artist).

Just joined this forum. Hi all. TGYETI, "Richard Thompson is a gifted man" is understated but perhaps in that understatement we give him the greatest praise, although hyperbole is virtually impossible with someone of his talent. I've been singing his praises for thirty years now and I have to say that no other artist I know so consistently advances his art as a guitar player. The recordings of his live playing are a study of endless inventiveness and risk-taking. He must have more riffs than any three other players combined---I know that sounds absurd, but you have to have the experience of hearing him live over and over and over again; it's mind boggling.

Of course, he tends to be known for his songwriting, which I find amazingly eloquent; it's compact literature--the four minute novel. He's brilliant; that's all I can say. (But I still don't have Grizzly Man!)