Speaking of pot....

(no, not really)

Has anyone seen Naopleon Dynamite, and if so, what did you think?

I liked White Castle when I ate them, but I was 10 or something...I expect my palette's evolved. But I do like to eat junk, so maybe not.

It feels bourgeois to admit, but I like booze better

Ah, well, see, my problem is, I'm a bit TOO much fun when drinking. Man, I wanna be a stoner again. Sadly, my contacts are not what they once were...

Hmm, topictopictopic.... Aha! Entertainment Weekly has a list of top 10 stoner movies! The Dude is listed as the best movies stoner ever.

I love The Dude.

Do you mean a gyro?

That'd be it ... though we include lettuce with the tomato and lamb. Is "gyro" just a bastardization of "yiros", or is there another reason it's called that in the US?

OT: they won't let you eat a yiros in the cinema. Bastards!

That's just how it's spelled here. Dunno why.

I can accept lettuce on my gyro, but I went to one place one time where they put pickles on it. Almost made me throw up.

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From Wikipedia:

Gyros (also spelled gyro or yeeros, Greek γῡρός 'round') is a sandwich usually made of a pita, tomatoes, tzatziki sauce and minced meat. The meat is usually a mixture of lamb and pork, roasted on a rotating spit. Gyros is a Greek food but similar to the Turkish-German Döner kebab. The pronunciation of gyros is widely debated with one linguist noting 5 pronunciations just in Greece. yiro(s) ("yee-ros") is one of the leading pronunciations.

Gyros and souvlaki are sometimes used as interchangeable terms in Greece although they refer to two different dishes.

If you have not seen the Korean action flick Tube you don't really know how over the top a movie can get. It takes a bit of the Speed concept, throws in a little Apollo 13, and concocts something gloriously outrageous and yet all its own. It's a lot of fun.

(But I'm SO boring when I'm high -- I go into the corner, stare at the ceiling, and giggle at random intervals. It feels bourgeois to admit, but I like booze better.)

Lyra is me, but I don't even giggle. I just get slack jawed. I got the nickname "Still Waters" from an actor I was working with because of that.

Greasy diner breakfasts are my favourite hangover food.

Has anyone seen Naopleon Dynamite, and if so, what did you think?

OMG, SO BAD. And painfully so, because it's trying so hard. It's one of those movies about high school where you just know the director is giving interviews where he says "Nobody makes movies about the kids *I* knew in high school, so I decided I had to make one myself." Only it turns out that he went to the most cliche-ridden high school in the country, just like everyone else who ever decided to make an indie film about the real people they knew in high school.

(And, yes, this is an pet peeve of mine, so it's possible I'm being crueller than the film deserves. But not by much.)

I just stayed up late when I've got to open the store tommorrow because I went to see The Village. I didn't know a movie could make me so mad. I'm steaming right now. I'm spoiler-fonting the rest:

I was in absolute love of the first three quarters of the movie- I was completely engrossed (although my friends found it slow), there was a love story that I was completely invested in and touched by, I was scared as hell by the "monster" (and how cool would it have been if there was no twist- that the monsters were real and that was it?) and then BOOM- my darling movie was stolen away from me. And honestly? If someone had just handed me that script, I would have thought that the original premise was interesting as hell. But the fiction of the movie was, for me, done too well. I was invested, I cared, I was touched, and then he pulled away the curtain and the Wizard of Oz was just a goofy ass old man. I would have come away liking this movie more if it was worse. I know that makes no sense at all, but frankly, I'm tired and I need to sleep now. More enlightened thoughts will follow later.

But, GRR! t End sleepy rant.