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Post by koolkat on Jul 20, 2004 17:36:27 GMT -5
OK, just finished watching Matchstick Men. Here's my thoughts on it.
Fun to watch but I had totally, TOTALLY figured out the ending, right up until the final scene.
I wish people wouldn't promote movies with the whole 'you'll never guess the ending' thing because it only gets you thinking of all kind of scenarios... which usually are the right ones.
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Post by alexiscarrington on Jul 20, 2004 20:23:04 GMT -5
Congrats Chrisfan. I've been on the opposite mission trying to add a few pounds to my figure. Not much luck at all. When I played the Guess My Weight game at the fair (which I have yet to ever lose) I was guessed at 120, so I thought the girl had me, but I came in at 126, but I'm guess I must've had something heavy on me because I'm not much bigger at all, but my clothes do fit a little better lately.
However, I've been on another shopping binge, my second one in the past two weeks, and I did buy many more shoes so I still haven't cured THAT problem...
BTW, there's this really hot life guard at the Y I work with. He's really tan, with these great blue eyes and gorgeous brown hair and his body is like so nice you just want to lick it to see if it tastes as good as it looks. All the girls in our camp call him Scotty Hottie, lol and today he came up and spoke to me and I couldn't even look at him. I had this unending desire to say "you are one hot bitch," but I thought he might find that offensive, or harrassing. But man, hot enough that I think I'd trade in all the shoes I bought last week to get my hands on that body... :-)
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Post by alexiscarrington on Jul 20, 2004 20:29:59 GMT -5
O I forgot, I read the book Ring by Koji Suzuki, which is the book that inspired the movies, OMIGOSH, the book was so good and it creeped me out really bad. My only complaint about it was that I didn't like how they made the curse in the book. The way it killed you is different than in the movies, it's a little too scientific for me. Instead of being a chain letter, it is a virus that kills you if you don't replicate it by copying the tape and sending it to someone else. While that is scary, a chain letter is more supernatural. When you mix horror and science like that it kind of takes away from it. The scariest things are things that can't be explained.
Another thing was that you died by seeing your reflection in the mirror that was really aged like you'd been dead hundreds of years as your heart was beating out of control until it stopped, instead of Sadako coming out of the TV. TV's weren't really involved at all, aside from the video. I think the screenwriters improved it by choosing that angle.
And lastly, Sadako was really a man. She had Testicular Feminization Syndrome, which basically meant she looked like a beautiful woman, and had a vagina and everything, but she had no uterus and a pair of testes, and therefore was a man. A guy found that out after he raped her. Freaking weird....
But it was a good fast read. I bought it yesterday at like 7 pm and finished it tonight at around 9. And it was an easy translation from Japanese too :-)
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Post by alexiscarrington on Jul 20, 2004 22:17:44 GMT -5
As far as girlie men, which I heard of from my reliable news source, Conan O'Brien after reading it here, I don't really think of it as sexist or offensive, though I could see how some people would, I just think it's a dumb thing for a politician to say.
Arnold's in government now, not one of his movies where a name like girlie man might actually be a cool line before he whips out whatever weapon of mass destruction he's using for that film and opens a can of whup ass. That and it's so childish to call people names like that. When I heard about it it took me back to my job and the kids stupid namecalling. I don't think it's offensive really, just that's it plain dumb and it makes him to me, look as stupid as one of his one dimensional characters in his last string of stinker movies. Funny how this guy used to be one of my favorite action movie stars as a kid, and now I am starting to grow annoyed with him...
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Post by alexiscarrington on Jul 20, 2004 22:21:56 GMT -5
We have those and I LOVE those things. My family makes fun of me because I use them even if the line run by people is running quickly. I really don't care for most employees working at the movie theater, especially not since the incident when a woman harrassed me a couple months before I turned 19 about going to see Freddy Vs Jason because she believed I was younger than 17 and was skeptical about my id, even though I presented a MI ID and a passport to her. For some reason she f*cking didn't want me to go in, and she finally made us leave with a satisfactory grin on her face after she found out my brother was 2 weeks from being 17. Of course after that I took the tickets back and got us a refund because of their shitty attitudes.
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Post by Shamon_Lebon on Jul 21, 2004 7:44:09 GMT -5
 TEXTMedúllaTHE NEW ALBUM BY BJORK ------------------------------------------------------------------------ + collaborators . beats - Rahzel, Shlomo and Dokaka . vocals - Björk, Mike Patton, Robert Wyatt, Gregory Purnhagen, Tagaq, Icelandic + London choirs . songwriters - Björk, Sjón, Olivier Alary, Tagaq, Jórunn Vidar & Jakobína Sigurdardóttir, E.E. Cummings . programming - Valgeir Sigursson, Mark Bell, Little Miss Specta, Matmos, Jake Davies, Olivier Alary, Björk + tracklist 01____________Pleasure Is All Mine 02____________Show Me Forgiveness 03____________Where Is The Line? 04____________Vökuró 05____________Öll Birtan 06____________Who Is It 07____________Oceania 08____________Submarine 09____________Sonnets / Unrealities XI 10____________Desired Constellation 11____________Ancestors 12____________Mouth's Cradle 13____________Mi›vikudags 14____________Triumph Of A Heart + facts . a limited edition of "Medúlla" will have expanded artwork and a 16-panel poster. . the Japanese release will feature a bonus track. . Öll Birtan means 'All the light', Vökuró means 'Vigil'. . Sonnets / Unrealities XI is based on a poem by E.E. Cummings. . a special is on the way! |
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Post by Shamon_Lebon on Jul 21, 2004 7:47:31 GMT -5
"I just got really bored with instruments. I started doing everything with my voice. Then suddenly I didn't want to work with any musicians, which is a bit weird. I only wanted to work with vocalists." She was inspired, she says, by paganism, and the rather esoteric idea of returning to a universe that is entirely human -- without tools or religion or nationalities. "I wanted the record to be like muscle, blood, flesh," she says, pumping her fist. "We could be in a cave somewhere and one person would start singing, and another person would sing a beat and then the next person sing a melody, and you could just kind of be really happy in your cave. It's quite rootsy," she adds, rolling the "r" for emphasis in her native fashion.
Bjork.com
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Post by GoinGoinGone2Hell on Jul 21, 2004 8:56:51 GMT -5
Oh, wonderful. Just what I've been waiting for. A new Bjork CD. Yippee.  ;D  |
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Post by koolkat on Jul 21, 2004 9:03:19 GMT -5
Holy Shit! A friend of mine just emailed me that he's coming for the Games and has also invited himself to stay over at my place during the entire duration! We're not even close. We speak maybe 2-3 times a year.
Whatever happened to asking first? Stupid freeloaders.
I'm in no fucking mood for visitors at this point and I have got to come up with a good excuse pronto!
Any ideas... anybody?
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Post by koolkat on Jul 21, 2004 9:04:37 GMT -5
IMO, Bjork hasn't made an entire fantastic record since 'Post'. I don't think I'm gonna bother with this one either.
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Post by Shamon_Lebon on Jul 21, 2004 10:15:03 GMT -5
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Post by Shamon_Lebon on Jul 21, 2004 10:17:32 GMT -5
Kool,
I hate that freeloader stuff also. I even hate when friends stop by unannounced. I usually don't answer the door even though they see my car outside. I think it is sooooo rude. I once had a friend pop into town and think he was going to stay with me for the weekend. I called motel 6 and made him a reservation and gave him the directions when he got here. ;D
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Post by koolkat on Jul 21, 2004 10:24:12 GMT -5
I totally agree with you there Shammy. Even if I were to visit a neighbour I'd call first and usually wait to be invited. I expect the same in return.
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Post by GoinGoinGone2Hell on Jul 21, 2004 10:32:40 GMT -5
ummmm... fuck off bastards. ;D    Was that for the cracks about Bjork, or were you giving Kool a suggestion on what to tell his freeloading friend? |
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Post by Shamon_Lebon on Jul 21, 2004 11:22:28 GMT -5
Was that for the cracks about Bjork, or were you giving Kool a suggestion on what to tell his freeloading friend? both! Believe me... I know that Bjork is one of those love or loathe artists. I was just passing along info... just in case. I totally understand when people don't like her, I just happen to like her... a lot.  |
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