Question of the Day

I want to throw out Alfonso Mucha for artist. I just figured out who he was this week, and he's quite amazing.

Here's a question, born from my term abroad: what the farthest from "home" you've ever been?
 
Italy and Greece on high school field trips. I'm aiming for London for my honeymoon. The British Museum is calling my name.
 
London? How romantic. :p

*looks into crystal ball of swirling futures*

It's going to be rainy, and grey, and there will be these British guys who stand side by side and talk in a thick british accent, making fun of you with British humor and slang. Nothing will make sense to you anymore after this. You will then stay there permanently and become obsessed with the royal family. You will channel the spirit of Princess Di and join the stage. There you will have success, though. You will also convert to the Jedi religion, and there will be turf wars against rival gangs like in A Clockwork Orange, but the gangs are the Jedi versus the Trekkies. Jedi mind tricks versus Klingon fervor and epithets. It will be very real to you in the heat of the battle, but a documentary will be made of these turf wars and you will see it, realizing how silly it all is. Then you come back to a war-torn America, Hollywood versus The Military.

And the crystal ball gets foggy...
 
Hmmmm...when I was there the happy hours were a pound for a pint of Boddington's and you didn't have to tip the bartender. Also, there's a statue of Abraham Lincoln not far from Parliament, which is a bit strange. I don't remember Jedi being there, but there were plenty of chip shops and docile pigeons at Trafalgar.
 
So none of the British guys try and pick me up with their super sexy accents? Bummer.

The rest doesn't sound so bad. I've always wanted to become entangled in a nerdy gang war.

I assume there will be drive by hackings?
 
kwilson said:
So none of the British guys try and pick me up with their super sexy accents? Bummer.

The rest doesn't sound so bad. I've always wanted to become entangled in a nerdy gang war.

I assume there will be drive by hackings?

Actually, I was there for the Millenium Ball for the 2000 New Year. I was hanging out with my friend and his fiancee who were living in London at the time. My friend got separated from us in the crowd and we lost him for a while. On the long walk out of the more crowded areas after midnight, some guy who looked like a slightly skinnier version of Vinnie Jones (Bullet Tooth Tony in the movie Snatch) and some guys in football kits (soccer uniforms) ran into us. "Vinnie" tried to grab my friend's fiancee's arm and made some incomprehensible remark (although he was smirking). I scooted in between him and his intended mark and calmly said, "Sorry, excuse me. Coming through." His glare nearly made me bolt and his burly soccer buddies were looking none too friendly. Luckily the continual flow of the crowd separated us from the hoodlum with scars on his shaved scalp.

I held my breath until they were completely out of sight, however.
 
Bloody droogs.

Yeah, drive-by hackings, using the latest in pringles-can technology.

Wait, something's coming across the crystal ball-o-vision, kwillz...

I see you standing atop the ruins of a civilization, literally standing on piles of everything from vehicles to bodies. The sky is cast in oranges and browns, and viking metal glares triumphantly as lightning bolts extend from Valhalla as if guided by the whim of THOR HIMSELF, dancing around your rebellious fist raised on high!
 
Question of the Day:

What are your Thanksgiving plans?

We're heading down to Philly for Thansgiving with my fiancee's family. I'll be there until Tuesday.

PS - Sweet Vision, Roach!
 
When I think of Philly, I can never picture the sun shining there. I picture it gray and cold. :p

This is based on the movie Unbreakable and how muted the tone and the cinematography was, based on parts of the Rocky movies, and based on the director David Lynch calling that place out as being a depressing place, an industrial landscape that resulted in the movie Eraserhead. He said that in some of the places he lived in, some neighborhoods were so close to abandoned factories and the like, it was if they were nested inside the factory's premises.

Oh yeah, Thanksgiving plans. Gotta stay on topic here.

I remember you asking this question last year. And I'll respond similarly: eating all kinds of different food is my plan! I also remember the year that Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time came out. I remember I was playing that on Thanksgiving. I was in the dungeon inside the well in Kakariko Village. It's too bad I don't have a Wii and Twilight Princess this Thanksgiving. :/ That's what I want to be doing.
 
Question of the Day:

Have you seen Casino Royale yet?

I have. The new Bond is super hot. Very yummy. Loved the movie.
 
I've heard similar comments from all other women who've seen the new Bond. Being resistant to such diversion, I was bothered by his lack of sarcasm, though this sort of reset, a Batman Begins effect where the whole series is made null by restarting the character, may justify his lack of the usual silliness.

I missed the gadgets... but in the end it was pretty great besides, if a little long.
 
Question of the Day:

What movie do you most want to see?

I want to see Happy Feet (now that I've already seen Casino Royale). Nothing quite like dancing, animated penguins to entertain me.
 
Hands down Spiderman 3, I can care less for everthing else. Unless I make the movie. But since it's not coming for a while, I'll go see CR and Deja Vu at Franklin Mills mall for $4 a pop. $4 Tuesdays is great.