TV's Frink said:
Also, your new avatar is your old avatar. Lame.
I can't keep up with you people. I was bearded Warbler for a while, but it was too wierd. I don't know who I am anymore!!!
Ripplin said:
I think it's safe to say we'd all like to see those two-tone tuxedo shoes! ;)
It's funny. I was SO totally into those shoes. Thought they were the bee's knees.
They're not visible in a single video or picture taken that day. They've been lost in time like tears in rain. :(
My favorite aspect of my wedding I wasn't there for.
The Mrs. and I did all the reception stuff, dances, toasts, throwing crap etc. Then we left. Many of our friends and families stayed and danced and drank until the building closed.
Twenty years from now, no one will remember how cool my two-tone tuxedo shoes looked or if the cake was good. But I hope people say, "I sure had a great time at Boost's wedding."
doubleofive said:
In that hour, I could fit my entire wedding from start to finish. How long was the ceremony itself?TheBoost said:
I'll stop here, but I could easily go on and on for an hour.
20 min or so. From the bride comming out to a trumpet fanfare to the quarter playing "Pachabel's Canon" for the 18th time as the newly wed couple exited.
zombie84 said:
Well, the title of his review says it all:
"Not the book I thought it would be,"
He thought it would be The Making of Star Wars, telling about the scoring, filming, effects, etc., so instead of purchasing the book with that very title he got this and found it focused on the storytelling aspect.
It wasn't the book I thought it would be either. With a title like "Secret History of Star Wars" I thought you had found archeological evidence that Star Wars was real and actaully happened 'a long time ago.'
But what you wrote was really good too. :)
EATING A CROCODILE!!!!! THAT'S HARDCORE!!!!!!!!!!
TheBoost said:
My wife's best-pal is getting married Tuesday. I genuinly believe that every single aspect of the entire wedding process, since the Engagement party six months ago, has been intentionally engineered to be unpleasant and inconvienient for all involved.
A few fun facts about the worst wedding ever.
-The wedding was out of town, about 90 min from where friends and family live.
-The invitation said the wedding was at 12:30 (on a Tuesday!). This was a deliberate lie. It was really scheduled at 1pm, but the bride didn't want anyone to be late. The wedding started late at 1:30.
-There was a string quartet. I figured if the wedding was late, at least I could enjoy lovely music. Well... they ran out of music and kept playing "Pachabel's Canon" from 1:00-1:30.
-The reception started at 4pm. So there was bit over 2 hours to kill. "Reception Starts" is a loaded term, because at 4pm there was a big room we could all sit in, but food, drinks, dancing, or the various events that make up a wedding reception weren't scheduled until 5:30 pm. The Bride arrived and dinner was finally served at 6:20pm.
-Between 1:50 when the ceremony ended, and 6:20 when the reception started my entire wedding- from "here comes the bride" to me and the Mrs. driving away after the reception- could have fit. There were several guests over 70, I can only imagine how hungry and uncomfortable everyone must have been.
-The groom actually said IN HIS VOWS, in front of friends and family, that he knows his wife's friends and family don't like him. Awkward.
I'll stop here, but I could easily go on and on for an hour.
TheBoost said:
::: shrug :::
Crap. Did I do that right?
::: shrug :::
You guys are all wierd.
At some point I lost the ability to enjoy something that's "so bad it's good."
I want to watch something good.
I used to get a kick out of "Zardoz" or "Xanadu" or direct-to-DVD sci-fi movies, but nowadays I just notice something is terrible, and stop it, hoping to find a diversion less terrible.
I got hippies, Hopis, and hypos.
I'm trying to capture the gestalt of HIPPO by staying at the edges of the word. I mean, aren't all things defined both by what they are, but also by what they are not. Without said seperation there is no distance between you and I, salads and hippos, The Rock and hard places. A hippo is as much formed by all the things that are NOT hippos as it is by its own inherent hipposity. If God Is what He Is, doesn't it follow that he, and hippos are well, are not what they are not? I might be on probation, but it logically leads to the truth that I could NOt be on probation, and the nature of probation itself is only possible if it is conceivable to both be and not be on a level where we seek to transcend the infinite, face the possible, trivialize the opposite, and ultimately both come to grips and release simultaneously the aspect of the very thing we're trying to define.
I mean, right?
Oh yeah, and
Ripplin said:
Pat Metheny drags Kenny G. through the mud: http://www.jazzoasis.com/methenyonkennyg.htm
I don't care for Kenny G, but I generally don't listen to a lot of jazz anyway.
But statements like how Kenny G isn't actually skilled (compared to Metheny)...
But he did show a knack for connecting to the basest impulses of the large crowd (empahsis mine)
strikes me as a little sour grapes.
"I'm better than Kenny G. but he just dumbly connects to dumb people who aren't smart enough to like me becasue they're dumb and so is Kenny G.."
That he ends his blog with complaining that a clip of him on youtube is out of context, and he's shocked because "Polish people used to be cool. What happened man?" leaves me thinking Metheny is more of a tool than affecting my opinion of Kenny G at all.
Hippo salad anyone?
Emperor Theodosius himself might have enjoyed a salad while watching the chariot races at the HIPPODROME!
How do you guys even GET eachother's old avatars?
I'm sure the clip is awesome, and thanks for posting it, but I'm gonna pass.
There's no doubt in my mind the whole project is going to look brilliant, so I'm gonna wait for the eventual grand release and let it blow my mind and surprise me on the big screen.
Thanks again for all your amazing work Ady.
Gaffer Tape said:
And what does this have to do with salad, pray tell....?
Have you ever been on a cruise ship that doesn't have a huge salad bar? I thought it was implied.
TV's Frink said:
TheBoost said:
TV's Frink said:
^REJECTED!!!
Thread remains about SALAD until I'm back from vacation.
Doesn't rejecting a topic kinda mean you're back?
But I'm still on vacation.
"How can he be on an intergalactic cruise in his office??"
I for one dont like the idea of people changing avatars all the time.
To me the point of an avatar is
When they're always changing it seems counter productive to the purpose of the avatar.
This is of course just my opinion.
My pal always wanted to make a Star Wars fan-film, (I even got my wife to sew a Jedi robe for one false-start) but those are lots of work. After a lengthy bull session at the pub he decided he wants to make an audio-drama, and he wants my help (aka me doing it) to write it. He's to handle the rest of production, which is fine with me.
I said I'd give it a shot provided it wouldn't be about Jedi. We hashed out a very rough premise, which I've rounded into the following 'pitch' set five years after the birth of the Empire.
"You know those battles where droids fought clones and no one got hurt? That wasn't where I fought"
Brett Thousand was a wealthy merchant who lost it all when he fought for the Seperatists in the Clone Wars. Now Thousand is reduced to drinking too much and running a refueling space-station in orbit around a blackhole in the middle of nowhere. He's joined by Shaeka, the perpetually gruff assistant manager, and her twin sister Siria, the engineer who keeps the aging station running.
Across the station (gravity flips) is a semi-legal casino/vice-den run by Lady Kat, an alien of some sort, and her majordomo/bodyguard Alpha-D, a converted 8 foot tall labor-droid.
Rounding out the cast is the outrageously corrupt and lazy, but overwhelingly polite Imperial Section Overseer Geval, who's only goals in life are to avoid attention from his superiors and enjoy the occasional bribe.
The main premise would revolve around Brett trying not to get involved when trouble comes his way. Episode ideas include:
- A ship of battle-droids that have been lost in deep space without hyperdrive for 8 years show up and don't know the war is over.
- The station, unbeknownst to Brett, is being used as a hub by a pair of smugglers engaged in the highly illegal new market of Jedi paraphenalia.
- The old drunk in the casino who seems to always win just enough to pay for his lodging turns out to be an important Republic Senator on the run for speaking out against Palpatine.
- A big game hunter starts searching the nearby planets for the dreaded, perhaps mythical Tarsabeast... or is he after something more sinister
- Religious zealots from Lady Kat's homeworld come to arrest her for some theological violation, but Brett can't afford to keep the station running without her. And perhaps he has personal reasons for not wanting to lose his partner.
We're supposed to meet up Sunday for dinner and put some more work into it. I'd be curious what anyone thinks of the basic pitch and concepts behind it. Ideas? Questions? Concerns? Insults?
Also, I want the title to be "SOMETHING: A Star Wars Tale" with SOMETHING being the name of the Space-station. I haven't for the life of me been able to think of a single decent possible name. Any ideas would be appreciated.
My wife's best-pal is getting married Tuesday. I genuinly believe that every single aspect of the entire wedding process, since the Engagement party six months ago, has been intentionally engineered to be unpleasant and inconvienient for all involved. I started taking notes in case I want to write a book about it, it's all so ludicrously crummy.
I'm prepared for the ceremony to suck and be no fun at all. But I'm at my breaking point. If it sucks ONE IOTA more than I'm prepared for, I may just strangle her with her own veil.