I'm watching Vin Diesel on Leno right now.
What I completely don't get is the lummox thing. It's a perfectly well-spoken interview. People are weird.
Jayne: Well... I don't like the idea of someone hearin' what I'm thinkin'. Inara: No one likes the idea of hearing what you're thinking.
'Objects In Space'
Natter 33 1/3
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Feb 24, 2005 4:25:05 am PST #724 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jesse - Feb 24, 2005 4:35:57 am PST #725 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ack, Laura, what a situation. Poor son!
Um, Nutty, a phone meeting? You couldn't have done it from home? Just a thought....
I feel very fancy that I keep getting overnight packages for work. I'm also glad I woke up early, so I was awake, if wet and naked, when the UPS guy came.
Scrappy - Feb 24, 2005 4:39:26 am PST #726 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Awake, wet and naked--isn't that like a UPS guy's DREAM?
Jesse - Feb 24, 2005 4:41:43 am PST #727 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, I don't know why he didn't come in. Possibly the terrycloth robe/towel on head look was not quite as alluring as one might have hoped.
Nutty - Feb 24, 2005 4:43:34 am PST #728 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Phone meeting was a conference call, and long-distance. I don't do either of those things on my home phone bill (and anyway, don't think I can do the conference thingie).
What I completely don't get is the lummox thing. It's a perfectly well-spoken interview.
Sometimes it takes in-depth conversation to suss out a true level of speaking ability. I can name you a couple of local celebrities who talk all the time, and are quite quotable, and whom most people would call articulate; but in in-depth interview they may repeat phrases and fumble with sentence-fragments, clearly intent on transmitting an idea, but unable to communicate except in sound-bite. I'm sure the opposite is true as well.
Jesse - Feb 24, 2005 4:45:23 am PST #729 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Phone meeting was a conference call, and long-distance. I don't do either of those things on my home phone bill (and anyway, don't think I can do the conference thingie).
Ah, a little more ad-hoc than I was thinking -- not the kind of conference call where everyone gets an 800 number to call in on.
§ ita § - Feb 24, 2005 4:51:46 am PST #730 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sometimes it takes in-depth conversation to suss out a true level of speaking ability.
I guess, if you're going to go ahead and assume someone's an idiot you may need more effort to shake that perception.
But I've never heard him give a lummoxy interview. I keep thinking the next one might be the one where he lives down to that facet of public perception.
It disappoints me that I am provided the incentive to bother.
I feel like hell. I barely slept and just feel generally wrecked.
Jesse - Feb 24, 2005 4:55:11 am PST #731 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I feel like hell. I barely slept and just feel generally wrecked.
Clearly, you should not be aggravating yourself by trying to understand the Public. Honestly, with Vin I think it's about how he looks and sounds, not about what he says. He doesn't talk fast, he's got that voice, etc. The Rock (for example) just has a way about him that indicates "clever," regardless of what he's actually saying.
Lee - Feb 24, 2005 4:57:37 am PST #732 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
ita, can you stay home today, by any chance?
Jesse - Feb 24, 2005 4:59:25 am PST #733 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I swear, half of what I'm trying to get at is about the shape of his jaw.