Fashion Board 3-5-04 to 4-6-04

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Jack Manfred
Where would you go to get a particular bottle of cologne that is not stocked in most American stores?

I've already tried googling the brand, but all I get are European stores...

You cannot order it directly from the manufacturer over the internet.

Try Harrods.com.

Or Ashford.com.

Or find a friend who is going to Eurpoe and ask them to bring you a boatload.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Try Harrods.com.

Or Ashford.com.

Or find a friend who is going to Eurpoe and ask them to bring you a boatload.

ebay, if you're willing to run the risk of possibly buying counterfeit.

[ABBAKiss]

I finally saw this last night. What's the big deal? I thought the movie really sucked. I hated all of the characters (except for maybe Giovanni Ribisi, but I like him for other reasons entirely and not solely based on this movie). Why did this movie earn such acclaim?

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
I am the main character in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow.

• Slothrop has taken to marking his sexual conquests on a map of London. Oddly, the marked points on the map happen to coincide identically with V-2 rocket impact sites...This discovery will set Slothrop on a journey across war-torn Europe...

From that description, you could also be Rochelle, Rochelle.*

TM

* The tale of a young girl's strange erotic journey from Milan to Minsk.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Dave
Not that it has anything to do with anything, but watching the NCAA tournament means watching dozens, nay, hundreds of beer commercials.

The Miller Lite spoof of Viagra ads is funny. "Whoa, you going commando?" is the new best line in advertising.

On the other hand, the MGD ads with the people trying to break the news to bottles of Bud are just painful.

The Bud Lite institute ads are OK, but will be forgettable in about no time flat.

The Labatt's ads are still the best.

I still like the pick-up truck commercial where the guy sitting bitch in the back seat sings "man, I feel like a woman." Good stuff.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by lookingformarket
Anyone else surprised that it wasn't "Paris Hilton Thrown From Under Horse"?

"Paris Hilton Blows Horse" wouldn't have been surprising.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I still like the pick-up truck commercial where the guy sitting bitch in the back seat sings "man, I feel like a woman." Good stuff.

Speaking of advertising, I have a poll -- squickiest commercial. This morning I saw an ad for toenail fungus. Ugh. Luckily I was able to make it to the remote and get the channel changed before vomiting.

Edited to change "pool" to "poll" -- apparently I'm looking forward to summer and engaging in some wishful thinking.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
"Paris Hilton Blows Horse" wouldn't have been surprising.

I watched Wonderland this weekend and found Paris convincing in her (somewhat limited) role.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

So I went to a sports bar this friday where they had an all-you-can-drink beer special from 11 AM to 6 PM for $30. And free pizza. Are they trying to fucking kill me? 11 to 6?

Oh, and $2 shots. You call it.

March Madness brings out the college in all of us, but I remember being much better at this part.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Speaking of advertising, I have a poll -- squickiest commercial. This morning I saw an ad for toenail fungus. Ugh. Luckily I was able to make it to the remote and get the channel changed before vomiting.

Edited to change "pool" to "poll" -- apparently I'm looking forward to summer and engaging in some wishful thinking.

The awful Budweiser commercial with the horse farting on the woman in the carriage. While I think i have a healthy appreciation of toilet humor, that was just gross. It failed to straddle the gross/funny line and just ended up on the gross side.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
I finally saw this last night. What's the big deal? I thought the movie really sucked. I hated all of the characters (except for maybe Giovanni Ribisi, but I like him for other reasons entirely and not solely based on this movie). Why did this movie earn such acclaim?

I too, saw it this weekend and loved it. Although, since the movie was essentially a character study, if you didn't like the characters, you probably wouldn't have liked the movie. I've been in that boat before. Personally, I liked them a lot. I found a lot of things in both the Bill Murray and the Scarlett Johanssen characters to identify with. I also developed a major crush on Scarlett Johanssen. She isn't drop-dead gorgeous in a traditional way, but she has an incredibly interesting face and her expressiveness was most intriguing.

I also really liked her ass and would crushed to be told that they used a body double on the opening shot. But I begin to digress...

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by taxwonk
I too, saw it this weekend and loved it. Although, since the movie was essentially a character study, if you didn't like the characters, you probably wouldn't have liked the movie. I've been in that boat before. Personally, I liked them a lot. I found a lot of things in both the Bill Murray and the Scarlett Johanssen characters to identify with. I also developed a major crush on Scarlett Johanssen. She isn't drop-dead gorgeous in a traditional way, but she has an incredibly interesting face and her expressiveness was most intriguing.

I also really liked her ass and would crushed to be told that they used a body double on the opening shot. But I begin to digress...

I think one of the major qualities of that movie is that many people, including me, could identify with BOTH Murray's character and Scarlett's character.

[dtb]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
I finally saw this last night. What's the big deal? I thought the movie really sucked. I hated all of the characters (except for maybe Giovanni Ribisi, but I like him for other reasons entirely and not solely based on this movie). Why did this movie earn such acclaim?

I sort of agree with you -- the movie's not really about much, but I did find myself still thinking about it several days later, so it must have made some kind of impression on me.

But in other movie news, I watched "Love Actually" on an airplane several times yesterday (it was a long flight...) and, though not a very good movie, there is an impossibly hot guy in it -- the one who Laura Linney's character has a crush on. Whoa! That dude is sa-mokin'. While watching, I thought, "there's no way that guy is British" -- and, of course, he's not. He's Brazilian. That's probably why they kept his lines to a minimum. The whole story line involving him was rather depressing, I thought.

I'll try to find a picture to post here, after I catch my breath...


OK, here he is:

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by dtb
I sort of agree with you -- the movie's not really about much, but I did find myself still thinking about it several days later, so it must have made some kind of impression on me.

But in other movie news, I watched "Love Actually" on an airplane several times yesterday (it was a long flight...) and, though not a very good movie, there is an impossibly hot guy in it -- the one who Laura Linney's character has a crush on. Whoa! That dude is sa-mokin'. While watching, I thought, "there's no way that guy is British" -- and, of course, he's not. He's Brazilian. That's probably why they kept his lines to a minimum. The whole story line involving him was rather depressing, I thought.

I'll try to find a picture to post here, after I catch my breath...


OK, here he is:

Why are you outing me?

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Why are you outing me?

Yummy! Come to Texas!

Oh wait, you're already here.