That's pretty brilliant, aurelia. It's true too. Gave me a pang to think--can you really not buy the original version of the films anymore?
Ben: I didn't ask for any of this. I just want to be normal. Gronx: I wanted to be an underwear model. We play the hand we're dealt.
'Touched'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
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.
Burrell - Aug 06, 2012 8:14:59 pm PDT #17245 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
aurelia - Aug 06, 2012 8:50:05 pm PDT #17246 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I don't think so, Burrell. I shall cling to my VHS sets. One set is the original and the other is the digitally re-mastered THX. Although!... My DVDs are each 2 disc sets with the 2nd disc being the original theatrical release. I don't know if those are still available.
Burrell - Aug 06, 2012 8:58:28 pm PDT #17247 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Bummer.
NoiseDesign - Aug 06, 2012 9:00:54 pm PDT #17248 of 30001
Our wings are not tired
You can't get the originals in an unedited form any longer. I cling to the copy I have in widescreen on laserdisc.
Jessica - Aug 07, 2012 2:57:10 am PDT #17249 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
My DVDs are each 2 disc sets with the 2nd disc being the original theatrical release. I don't know if those are still available.
These are the ones I have. Unfortunately the original theatric release are actually letterboxed in a 4x3 frame, which means to get them to play properly in a widescreen TV you need to zoom in which makes them look even shittier than they already do. So it's a choice between crappy storytelling that looks pretty, or the original storytelling but blurry.
Jessica - Aug 07, 2012 2:59:10 am PDT #17250 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Sports is just narrative. Mostly guy-narrative. It's a big soap opera. It's passion plays and morality stories.
Except to someone who doesn't get sports, watching that narrative is like the Farside cartoon "how dogs hear." Blah blah blah blah A GUY THREW A BALL blah blah blah blah SOME OTHER GUY CAUGHT IT.
billytea - Aug 07, 2012 3:07:51 am PDT #17251 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Blah blah blah blah A GUY THREW A BALL blah blah blah blah SOME OTHER GUY CAUGHT IT.
He caught it?! WOOOOOOOO CATCHER GUY!!!
Jesse - Aug 07, 2012 3:57:37 am PDT #17252 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Here it is! Taxidermied bullfrog playing bass.
That is incredible.
Sports is just narrative.
From the outside, it really doesn't seem like narrative. I get that it is, but you have to actually follow it to experience the narrative. Even within a single game.
sumi - Aug 07, 2012 4:21:43 am PDT #17253 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
I have to say that I think all of the gymnasts who wear their hair in their super tight ponytails look uncomfortable. . . and the 5 million pins and clips etc that they add so that not a single hair goes astray only adds to the uncomfortable look.
But I still think that the bikini rule for beach volleyball is the most stupid.
Zenkitty - Aug 07, 2012 4:29:28 am PDT #17254 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I never had a garbage disposal before moving in here. I hate throwing food waste into the garbage, though, and I don't think I make enough of it to employ a composter, so... if I bow to the common wisdom and not use the disposal anymore, what to do with it? Feed it to the raccoons? (Note that I'm not actually against feeding it to the raccoons. I cannot however deal with the worms.) We have once-a-week trash pickup but I have my own outside bin, so I can take the trash out as needed; odor isn't a problem. We also have single-stream trash/recycling, which I think is great; they claim to recycle 96% of the waste, but I do wonder about how they do that and if I could make it easier for them to recycle mine.
Our pub quiz team name tonight is “7 Minutes of Terror”.
Excellent.
The white people I know who had been down that stressful hair-straightening path were all non-Jews.
I (white non-Jewish woman) have curly hair (spiral curls) and it tends to frizz and does what it wants to do. It frustrates me, but it doesn't feel like "me" when I straighten it. If I were part of a culture that insisted I must keep my hair straight, I would be absolutely miserable.
I do wish I could find someone who knows how to cut and care for non-black non-Jewish Irish-ancestors-type curly hair.
Here it is! Taxidermied bullfrog playing bass.
GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY. I would have named him Jeremiah.
From the outside, it really doesn't seem like narrative.
Not to me either. I've never gotten sports. It seems like an awful lot of importance and meaning placed upon how well dude/girl can throw/run/jump/whatever at this particular given moment. In the women's gymnastics in the Olympics (spoiler fonting just in case) everyone was all McKayla is the BEST! and she was fantastic - except then she fell flat on her butt. Sometimes it's just luck, bad or good. Even the best can have a bad run; even the worst can have a real good day. Bascially, I can't place that much weight on everything rides on this one moment. Because that seems nuts to me. McKayla is a fantastic gymnast; she's clearly one of the best in the world. Why do we have to have a BEST OF ALL? I don't get it.