Fringey's taut-abbed painter

[Dualit]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
On a related topic, I wish Houston would pick a season and stay there. Today high of 78. Hard freeze predicted for Thursday.

NYC isn't much better. We're headed for 60-degree weather later this week. On Sunday I was chipping ice off the cover of my hot tub.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Indeed.

Anyway, apropos of Randy Johnson (query: will he be able to keep his 'stache as a Yank?):

Better question is will he be able to keep the mullet?

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Dualit
NYC isn't much better. We're headed for 60-degree weather later this week. On Sunday I was chipping ice off the cover of my hot tub.

Hot tub? Just what kind of apartment do you have and where?

TM

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Hot tub? Just what kind of apartment do you have and where?

TM

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Y'all keep thinking this. Brady will just keep making the right decisions, managing the game, and winning at the highest percentage rate in NFL history (haven't looked this up, but I assume it has to be . . . except I guess for Roethlisberger, who is what, 13-0?)

I only watch pro football for gambling purposes, so I don't know why I'm arguing. The NFL sucks. My emotions are in college ball.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Good for him. If a cameraman is close enough to be shoved, then tough shit. I would shove some asshole with a camera all up in my face too. Take a few steps back and use the damn zoom.

TM

Or the lens cap, more likely.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
why?

Because lewd public statements by a politico's spouse can be used against the politico, and it's not nice to hurt your loved one's career. There may be an exception for soon-to-be-ex-spouses, however....

[Seasonal Sock]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Now, fisting Mickey... that would be a concept... My guess is it would be a lot easier than it should be, both physically and from an "eagerness of participant" perspective.

I would fist Mickey. In fact, I will fist anyone, at any time, in any orifice, with either, or both, of my fists. If you are not the fistee, what's the big fucking deal? SD. I fist you. I fist you.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Sebby: your shit is more tolerable when it's on topics about which you know something.

I always wonder who goes to see Jerry Bruckheimer films. This post has shed light on that mystery. A movie can do so much more re-hash the hero/quest archetype. If a movie can capture with authenticity what it feels like to be in a certain place, whether geographical (Lost in Translation, Sideways, Singles), emotional (Garden State, Lost in Translation, Sideways) or simply what it's like to be at a certain point in one's life (Dazed and Confused, Reality Bites, the sublime and underappreciated Ghost World), well why is that navel gazing? I think that's more than a valid use of the medium, it's art. I'd take any of the movies I've named here over movies about impossible people doing impossible things.
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Stick to starfucking.

I LOVED Dazed and Confused. I liked Singles. Both were good because they didn't have self-indulgent jackass protagonists. LIT and Garden State were both hero/quest flicks. The only difference between them and, say "National treasure", was that in one flick, the main character seeks a treasure, while in the other he obsesses about himself and seeks some elusive higher meaning in his life. I spend enough time wondering about my own life choices. The LAST thing I want to see at the theatre is a dirge about someone else's inner quest.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof told you more about the inner demons of its characters in fifteen minutes that LIT or Garden State could do in two hours. I don't think watching Bill Murray brood in front of the Tokyo sky line is brilliant. I think its lazy writing. "Bill sits now, staring through the open window, wondering why his life is so meaningless. Fade. Scarlett does the same. Fade." Besides, Murray was just phoning in a rehash of his much better turn in Rushmore. There, his brooding was part of an entertaining script. That made Rushmore a classic, and LIT a classic only amongst self-indulgent types who actively engage in therapy on a regular basis.

Originally posted by Anne Elk
Kinda like Magnum's?


Wasn't he Robin Masters' kept man?

Wow, you got a shot of Shafter, slave, TM and Not Bob at the South Beach Circuit Pa? Word.

edited to invert slave and shafty. obvious reasons

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
The only difference between them and, say "National treasure", was that in one flick, the main character seeks a treasure, while in the other he obsesses about himself and seeks some elusive higher meaning in his life.

Snort.

Is it totally shallow of me that I still want to see National Treasure? If only to see how whack-a-doo the templar conspiracy theorist they got to consult was?

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
Man, those three were so much more sexy than the 2000's version. Drew Barrymore?!?!? Please...

Kate Jackson. Not sexy. But perfectly cast as the wife who is left by her gay husband in "Making Love".

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Stick to starfucking.

I LOVED Dazed and Confused. I liked Singles. Both were good because they didn't have self-indulgent jackass protagonists. LIT and Garden State were both hero/quest flicks. The only difference between them and, say "National treasure", was that in one flick, the main character seeks a treasure, while in the other he obsesses about himself and seeks some elusive higher meaning in his life. I spend enough time wondering about my own life choices. The LAST thing I want to see at the theatre is a dirge about someone else's inner quest.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof told you more about the inner demons of its characters in fifteen minutes that LIT or Garden State could do in two hours. I don't think watching Bill Murray brood in front of the Tokyo sky line is brilliant. I think its lazy writing. "Bill sits now, staring through the open window, wondering why his life is so meaningless. Fade. Scarlett does the same. Fade." Besides, Murray was just phoning in a rehash of his much better turn in Rushmore. There, his brooding was part of an entertaining script. That made Rushmore a classic, and LIT a classic only amongst self-indulgent types who actively engage in therapy on a regular basis.

I gotta agree with Sebby on this. I fucking fell asleep watching Lost in Translation. What the fuck was that? I was bored out of my mind. I know I'm not very deep. Perhaps there weren't enough boobs or explosions in it. But there weren't any boobs in Rushmore (but there were a few explosions), and I really thought that was entertaining.

I did take enough film study courses to appreciate subtext and all that artsy farty stuff, but bottom line, a film has to have some entertainment value as well. Just because Un Chien Andalou is a perennial artiste fave film, doesn't mean I want to watch it. Yech. Although it did insire a great Pixies song.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Kate Jackson. Not sexy. But perfectly cast as the wife who is left by her gay husband in "Making Love".

This is so wrong. I would have fucked Sabrina Duncan, and I would have fucked Mrs. King, the original Desperate Housewife. I probably would have passed on her during the Lifetime Movie of the Week era, but that's equally true of a lot of formerly bangable women. See, e.g., Meredith Baxter, Debra Winger, Natasha Henstridge. Stalk a woman and/or take her baby, and all of a sudden she loses her sex appeal.

The Lifetime Movie Title Generator.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
This is so wrong. I would have fucked Sabrina Duncan, and I would have fucked Mrs. King, the original Desperate Housewife. I probably would have passed on her during the Lifetime Movie of the Week era, but that's equally true of a lot of formerly bangable women. See, e.g., Meredith Baxter, Debra Winger, Natasha Henstridge. Stalk a woman and/or take her baby, and all of a sudden she loses her sex appeal.

The Lifetime Movie Title Generator.

Apparently Frank Bonner appeared not just in WKRP, but in Scarecrow and Mrs. King as well. I really wish I had watched more Scarecrow and Mrs. King.