| Author | Message | ||
     Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.249.146 |
To me and the fragrant Adriana... I'm 39 today, and feel nothing but a strange mute dread as death draws another year closer; these days I can almost see it peeking above the distant horizon. Adriana is a lot younger, and hoefully less depressed. Still, I got a Mighty Boosh T-shirt and fridge magnets. :-) | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.97.200.24 |
Happy birthday :-) | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.107.117 |
Happy Birthday to the both of you! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
Your life begins in exactly one year. What you've experienced up till now has been merely a wan version of the truth. Prepare to suffer. Oh, and happy birthday. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247 |
and feel nothing but a strange mute dread as death draws another year closer; Never mind a year closer - it's getting closer by the second... Still, Happy Birthday, eh! "Another year older and deeper in debt"! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.249.146 |
I feel really flat. I can't believe I'm almost 40. It's even taken the thrill away from my recent literary achievements. Maybe some cheap wine and pockmarked whores will take the pain away... ;-) | ||
| Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 121.219.185.44 |
All the best, Cheif! | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
I don't bathe, I just smear my crotch in Germolene once a week. Sorry! That was inappropiate. I mean, happy big cake and presents day, Zed. (STILL sounds too gay!) | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.249.146 |
Albs, in reality I'll bet you live in a large detached house in the country. You inherited a lordship title, smoke imported Cuban cigars, and run a chain of lapdancing bars in the Hull area. Your real name is Reginald Alibaster Desiree and you enjoy English Breakfast tea and battenburg. All your friends are molluscs. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.65.204 |
Happy birthday, Zed. You'll get used to the sense of futility: it comes with age. And no, cheap wine and pockmarked whores won't take the pain away – but they'll pass the time. Which, as Beckett observes, would have passed anyway. :-) | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
The true smell of my body can only be sensed in full by the minds of people dreaming. Like alien bananas. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.33.154 |
Happy birthday, Gary! Happy birthday Adriana! And don't worry - I passed 40 and survived... after a fashion. ;-) One of my best friends just died suddenly - he was only a couple of years older than me, in his mid-40s. Makes you realise how valuable and precarious life is. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
Happy bidet to the pair of you reprobates | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.253.75 |
... "hoefully"?... (Well, she has been spending time in Hollywood, I hear....)  HaPpY BiRtHdAy ZeD! (And A) | ||
| Grant (Grant) Username: Grant Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 131.156.226.96 |
Happy Birthday Zed and Adriana.Remember cake makes you younger I should know. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.227.250 |
39?! You're still a snot. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.161.253.183 |
HB, A&Z. 40? Wish I was 40. After that age, thankfully, the numbers become a sort of fug that don't mean anything anymore. The saddest thing is it becomes not only sad to ogle the armies of Agutter-esque schoolgirls in the shopping mall but something that teeters on paedophilic. | ||
| John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.208.48.112 |
Happy Birthday Zed! That strange dread you feel is actually the delicious prospect of committing nightmares to paper for many years to come. Happy birthday Adriana! I imagine you get prettier every year. Maybe one day I'll find out | ||
| Steven_pirie (Steven_pirie) Username: Steven_pirie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.133.168.17 |
Happy birthday... and it was my birthday yesterday... so there you go :-) | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Happy Birthday, Zed! Happy Birthday, Adriana! | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
"To me and the fragrant Adriana... I'm 39 today" YES! Adriana DOES look like Mary Archer!  "I feel really flat. ... It's even taken the thrill away from my recent literary achievements." "Maybe some cheap wine and pockmarked whores will take the pain away... " HAHAHA! YOU are Jeffrey Archer and I claim my five pounds. ;-) | ||
| Thomasb (Thomasb) Username: Thomasb Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 69.236.164.76 |
Happy B-day, Zed! | ||
| Darren O. Godfrey (Darren_o_godfrey) Username: Darren_o_godfrey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 207.200.116.133 |
Happy Birthday Zed and Adriana, you clever youngsters! | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Happy birhday, both. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.249.146 |
Thanks, everyone. | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 76.91.168.218 |
Thanks guys. | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 76.91.168.218 |
Today was such a fucked up day. I wrote in the afternoon, which was mostly good. Then I went to the Griffith Observatory, which was kinda a dream come true. There's no planetarium in Toronto, and for YEARS I've wanted to spend my birthday looking at the stars - so it finally happened which meant that I spent a solid 35 minutes in fucking heaven. We almost didn't get in (got there late and they wouldn't sell us tickets, but my co-writer convinced them.) But then went for dinner with my older sister and her stranger friends. And fought with her.  The meal cost more then a mortgage payment, and then I watched them all eat cake (which I couldn't eat due to my being DEATHLY allergic to dairy products.) All and all it was a weird night. Got home early and opened a bottle of wine to drink on my own, but was SO depressed that after one glass decided I better put it away. Found out yesterday that the funding for my draft isn't coming in, and am now scared to go home and face my life. And also, can't remember the last time I had sex. (I hope you had sex tonight, ZED!) Okay, I'm rambling. Again. See - this is why it's best for me to stay away. ;) I miss you guys though. I fucking do. Comrade, I lurve ya. Beeg whooog, and Happy Fucking Birthday! | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 76.91.168.218 |
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| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 76.91.168.218 |
I put a fake tattoo on for my b-day - a pinup girl (why am I so into pinup girls these days?) but you can't reall see it. And also it sucks. | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 76.91.168.218 |
Who is Mary Archer? | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 76.91.168.218 |
Better not be that old chick | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.161.253.183 |
A - because you are a pin up girl! You're looking great. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247 |
Indeedy - great pic A.! | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
Yeah, she sure, sure looks...looks... My zip has bust. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
"And also, can't remember the last time I had sex." I'll remember for you. In detail. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Mary Archer is Jeffrey Archer's wife. The whole "fragrant" thing, which I think Zed was alluding to is probably on Wiki. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
You look like an elf! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
No, I often use fragrant as a compliment to beautiful women. The word amuses me, and it's flattering. Basically, I'ma flirt. :-) | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.23.225.121 |
Griff - don't you know? Haven't you heard? | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
What?! | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.161.253.183 |
She is an elf. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Sprinkle me with your elf dust! | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 76.91.168.218 |
you're thinking of PIXIES! Sheesh. ;) | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 76.91.168.218 |
Albie, feel free to send me those details. I can hardly remember... well... certain things. ;) Sigh. But seriously, pinup girls are so sexy. I could look at them all day... | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Hope you're looking after yourself, A! I'm in the same position as you, which is why I'm heading back to University. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.109.177.51 |
Many happy belated ones, you two. | ||
| Tom English (Deadletterpress) Username: Deadletterpress Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 216.54.92.149 |
Gary, I know I got you yesterday at Shocklines, but Happy B-day (belated) again. And Happy Birthday, Adriana! Gary, Gary, Gary! You're still young! Me, I turn 50 in November, but I don't plan to be old until I'm 80. (Actually, that's just when I'll start thinking about it.) | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 64.228.136.34 |
Happy birthday to you both! Gary: Don't feel bad about aging, brother. Just remember that life is pointless, brutal and short; so get out there and follow your bliss 'cause all our days are numbered. And on that uplifting note... Adriana: The pin-up tattoo would look great, but this lick-and-stick stuff is for kids. Blow the image up to two or three times its original size and go get it inked on your shoulder for real! That would be a great birthday present to yourself! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.17.161.147 |
A - that really sucks about the day you had, and your script/Hollywood woes. Are you getting screwed by someone who promised to pay you for something you were writing, or did some funding not come through for the project that you're doing? Something else? You can tell me, I feel like I've been through it all. You have to be stoic, take it all with a steel jaw, or you'll go crazy-psycho. People really do lie to your face as easy as saying hello here - "Hello," he lied, as Linda Obst (I think it was) once put it (I used to think this level of flakey lying was exaggeration, but it's really not!). Drink the wine if you have to, and start over again tomorrow. Don't worry about going away, even back to Canada: one of my writing partners did, a few years back, with much sadness... and now she's getting more opportunities than she ever did being out here. See the movie THE HORSE'S MOUTH (1958), directed by Ronald Neame, with Alec Guiness. A great light-yet-deep comical look at the torment of art, and the artist.... Or do what I do, to get through some shit - make a mental rue-the-day list: people who will one day, some day, "rue the day." There's a LOT of people on MY rue-the-day list....  | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
@ Craig That last sentence and emoticon had me rolling. Lol! | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
@ A Yes, get a BIG FAT tatoo, you'll look like Amy Winehouse! | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 76.91.168.218 |
Griff, that's SO insulting. You think I look like a revolting junky? thanks. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247 |
Ah, but a revolting junkie who's recorded two great albums! Inside every cloud... | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 76.91.168.218 |
whatever... | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 76.91.168.218 |
Craig- it's not for sure yet, but basically the Canadian Funding agency seems to want us to change the ending. Essentially write a totally different film if we want the scrip financing. Something we're not prepared to do - which means bye bye financial support. We have a meeting to confirm all this in 2 weeks though. Basically to hear in person just how much they DON'T get the film. This is all based on our treatment though, and frankly the script that were halfway through writing anyway (on spec) is something that I have faith we can make. So who knows, maybe when the draft is complete, we can find funds elsewhere (not Canada). | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 76.91.168.218 |
I'm fucking hungover. Or more just tired. Spent the night out at an after hours Raggae party. I didn't want to go but my co-writer kept yelling at me that I was "no fun." So I gave in. Spent until 6am dancing with sleazy men. Which wouldn't have bothered me if they'd at least been cute. ;) Guys are a funny breed. I can't believe some of the things they say. On the plus side, the music was great. They locked us in though - the whole thing was behind a fake wall and to get out a guy had to unlock two chains. Weird... | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 172.142.59.129 |
Amy Winehouse was arrested in the early hours after headbutting a man, after a night drinking.  | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 172.142.59.129 |
You don't look like Amy Winehouse, A! Lol! | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247 |
Indeed you don't, A. - plus you didn't spend last night in a police cell so you don't act like her either... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.254.93 |
I'm not familiar dealing with the Canadian funding arm of getting films made, A. My (sometimes) writing partner on a script is seeking, on another script, to extract funds from the Canadian government for a script she wrote; she's having to rewrite it to suit the producer she got "attached" to on the project... same demands, changing endings and other things to satisfy others, and not herself... writing is whoredom, to a certain extent, I gather, if one aspires to "make it"... probably in any field.... How I stay sane now, is to disbelieve everything everyone says in this town: disbelieve what they say, what their plans are, what they will do, what they can do, what they want, etc. Absolutely everything. If they say it's sunny outside, go buy an umbrella. This is why God invented lawyers and contracts. Because people can't be trusted in any capacity whatsoever. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
"Albie, feel free to send me those details. I can hardly remember... well... certain things. ;) Sigh. But seriously, pinup girls are so sexy. I could look at them all day..." A doll's house on fire. Taped screams, slowed down, playing in the background. Someone smashing bottles outside in the street. The garden of the doll's house made from hairy meat. A pair of corduroy trousers floating through the wall. Star Wars playing in reverse in your mind. Scary pamphlets piling up on the mat. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Thank you, Albie. A doll's house on fire. Taped screams, slowed down, playing in the background. Someone smashing bottles outside in the street. The garden of the doll's house made from hairy meat. A pair of corduroy trousers floating through the wall. Star Wars playing in reverse in your mind. Scary pamphlets piling up on the mat. These affected me in different ways. Some can be grouped and used together to create atmosphere. However, some of them although individually good don't go together, e.g. The garden of the doll's house made from hairy meat. AND Scary pamphlets piling up on the mat. Others do though: Taped screams, slowed down, playing in the background. Someone smashing bottles outside in the street. Scary pamphlets piling up on the mat. Those create an atmosphere of alienation and extreme loneliness touching the edges of madness. Some of the others are simply through the looking glass as reality melts. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
Blame Adriana. It was her conceptual orgy. I keep telling her not to mix her styles. Last week it was: mime artist trapped in a real box, really trapped and really looking for a way out...then Carry on Camping upside down projected onto the skin of a white rhino as a candle painted to look like Ronald Reagen is eaten by squirrels in a little red plastic net. I keep telling her. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Any chance of a story out of you, Albie? Also what do you do with your day? What's happening in your flat, are the neighbours still acting up? | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
But then she did spend a fortnight wandering the elf paths between here and there, and back again. We had to show her snuff movies non stop for a week to get her anywhere near normal. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Do you have a homepage? | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
"Any chance of a story out of you, Albie? Also what do you do with your day? What's happening in your flat, are the neighbours still acting up?" ARRRRGGGHHGHGHGHGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You mean you want MORE stories? I did write a couple last night. I should upload them somewhere. Nope i don't have a homepage. Just my blog and a story warehouse. I wake up, watch Fraiser, go out, use the internet at the library use the internet at the BBC building. Go back to the library and read the papers, check out the books for new stuff, go home, watch TV, maybe write or read. Go to sleep in my chair, wake up to Fraiser... Boring or what? I've been doing this for several years. Although before it included booze and dope. I bet you hang glide all day over volcanoes. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
 You have talent. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.113.65 |
http://www.knibbworld.com/campbelldiscuss/messages/1/173.html?1208944695 Did you not see this thread? Which leads to a story of mine that Ramsey called pretty nightmarish? The Move is the one. I'm just going to add a couple more I wrote last night. Be frank, if they don't work. Because they made me feel weird. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.113.65 |
Two new ones up. http://my.opera.com/Albie/blog/2008/04/28/someday-soon http://my.opera.com/Albie/blog/2008/04/28/i-remember Sci fi horror or just a pile of cliche crap? You decide. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.241.214 |
I think I've seen them all, but I find "Frasier" too tedious now to stomach.... | ||
| Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.249.106.58 |
Happy (belated) Birthday (sorry I'm so late with it) to both of you. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.147.50.90 |
Yes! When I see Frasier I sort of hear that teacher's voice from Charlie Brown going 'wa wa wa wah, Wah wah wa wa wah' etc. It literally fails to sink into my skull. I did TRY to like it. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Fraser is smug and self-congratulatory. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.147.50.90 |
Like that movie, Ratatouille. The shortest poem in the world there. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.65.204 |
Tony, perhaps the shortest poem on record came from Bob Marley: Me? We. | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 76.91.168.218 |
It's true. Go ahead and blame me. But what Albie left out was that I AM THAT MIME stuck in a box, looking for a way out. In fact, I'm STILL in that box. looking for way out. | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 76.91.168.218 |
please turn OFF that cassette, Albie. Don't you think I know that it's my own screams you've tapped and are playing back to me - and not just so s l o o o o w l y. And not just in the background but also stop it. Please asaelp .ti pots No! STOP! oooooooon ooooooooooooooon oooooooooooooon !POTS Allbbbbbiiiiiiiieeeee, I beg you... eeeeeiiiiiiiibbbbbbbllllA | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.110.27.213 |
One syllable, sounds like . . . | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 76.91.168.218 |
Have just had such a shitty day. Being in Albie's box seems like an improvement. FUCK. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.147.50.90 |
Why, A? | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
She loves my box...  | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
That looks so shit now. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.227.250 |
Looks a bit like the thingy in "Down There". | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
Doesn't it always? | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
A, you rock! | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
Making your own smilies (is that a smiley?) is the new way sideways. It's that large shopping centre you never go to. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Large out of town shopping centres, especially with fake lakes, alarm me. There's one in Aberdare nestled next to an enormous swamp with gently undulating reeds. Miles of them. It's very creepy when the sun is setting. It's as if somethings in there waiting and watching for kids to take a short cut. Brrr. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.147.50.90 |
Me too. For some reason new places can feel just as ghostly as old ones. Have I mentioned the kids play area in our local shopping centre? It's indoors, you leave your kids there while you have a drink or some such. It's quite dark in there. One day my son says 'I don't like it in there - it feels creepy.' I tell a member of staff and she gives me a funny look; 'A woman who claimed to be psychic came in one day and told us there was a presence here,' she said, 'a little girl'. The place is actually closed now; I see it when I go to work, all dark and shadowy. Do ghosts hang about in empty places? Do they go nuts in there? | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
They probably see ghost furniture and make weird landscapes out of ectoplasm...and make friends to play with. Shop window dummies strung up with ectoplasmic tendons jerking about. I keep getting this image of a shopping centre in a part of town that is notably chavvy. I haven't been there since I was a kid. Don't know why it keeps coming up. I have an aunt who lives out there who said to me that she keeps thinking about me. Maybe every time she shops there she sends a mental postcard of the place. Maybe I remind her of dark, damp passages closed off to the public. Or maybe dope fried my neurons.  | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
I messed that one up during animation! | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.23.225.121 |
Is your aunt nice? Is she the scone-and-tea type aunt? I've just tried to find a cafe to write in. All full. The church hall, too. Took a picture in the loo as it was sort of creepy. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
"Fraser is smug and self-congratulatory." Isn't that like saying "Laurel and Hardy. They're a bit bumbling." Or "Monty Python? They don't make sense." | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.23.225.121 |
Maybe he means the show. I actually laugh at it, but then get that old telly programme feeling, that it's ancient, like Golden Girls. Can you not mention Laural and hardy? They're in my current coincidence flow, and whenever there's another mention it just gets creepier. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
Well, the show is the jokes. They make fun of the smug self-congratulatory-ness all the time. That's the point of the show. It's like "Cheers? What's with the bar all the time?" | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
I WON'T STAND FOR THIS! I've put in hours of viewing when I could have been earning an honest wage. There's no appreciation! I'm reading Philip K Dick's UBIK btw. Apparently he DIDN'T write Stig of The Dump. I mean, Stig of The Dump. It was a bit Time travelling cave man-ish for me. It detracted from the whole point of the book, which was a boy playing in a dump on his own, doing not much of anything. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.23.225.121 |
I've read Ubik! It's quite fun, but you will groan at the end. Maybe he should write Stig, Maybe JG Ballard should write the tie in of Creature From the Black Lagoon, too. Honest. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
And Fraiser could be in it too. Never turning his head, just all stiff and baggy throated. He could. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
"I've read Ubik! It's quite fun, but you will groan at the end." Oh, I didn't realise it was a sex book! | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.149.129.211 |
'Frasier' always seemed to depend on characters other than Frasier for most of its humour. Niles was a scream. And the Star Trek obsessive on Frasier's team was great: "Yes, Dr Crane, you SHALL see me tomorrow... and you shall PAY!" Having said that, my favourite moment from the show was Frasier trying to timeshare two girlfriends and being found out when they meet: "Please give me another chance.... either of you..." | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
I gave up on UBIK after about 100 pages... | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.192.196 |
I've not seen Frasier, is it any good? I'm a Seinfeld guy myself (as, I believe, is Zed). | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.251.78 |
There's just something forced, strained, uncomfortable, about "Frasier," that I can't put my finger on. Too much like playwrights trying to craft sitcom-comedy, struggling to keep up with current styles/trends, while trapped in old "templates." The show feels slow, ponderously so.... "Will & Grace," however, was a great sitcom that gets better every time you re-watch it. It existed in a crazy world with crazy people - the characters are askew from reality, big cartoons. It had great writing and a wild energy and a zany self-deflating-ness that really worked (except the series finale, which was pretty bad). One of the best episodes was wherein Madonna plays a desperately too-old-to-be-the-center-of-attention single working girl, bunking with the decadently-corrupt but worldly-naive Karen... a classic. W&G was consistently able to extract hilarious performances from its (maybe overall too many) star cameos: Michael Douglas, John Cleese, and Glen Close were particular stand-outs.... | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.149.129.211 |
Don't forget Kevin Bacon! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.17.13.206 |
Kevin Bacon, of course.... And then Alec Baldwin and Woody Harrelson had extended appearances, that were wonderful (Baldwin's character should have spun off into his own show!). Not so good appearances, imho?... Alan Arkin, Demi Moore, Beau Bridges... but that's quibbiling.... | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
"I gave up on UBIK after about 100 pages..." The talking door who wanted to a sue a guy sort of put me off a bit. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.147.50.90 |
It's a bit comedic, isn't it? I actually have a problem with funny books; they feel sort of unecessary. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
Well he was a maniac. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
To be honest, I found it a bit tiresome. Loved the first few chapters, then it sort of got stuck ina groove and didn't want to come out. I prefer PKD's short work, I think. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
That's what I'm prying into now. I read The Golden Man. Not bad. Hundreds more to go.  Is there anyone weirder than Dick? | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
"I'm going to taste you" That's very disturbing, Albie. Reminds me of the caller to Ian Collins and the Creatures of the Night who'd only say "eat me" in a very menacing voice. When the younger assistant tried to engage him he'd only reply in an even creepier voice "treat me". Wasn't you was it, Albie? | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
I'm more a James Whale kind of guy. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
What you like making black and white horror films, and have a taste for young men? | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
Ok, yeah. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
I wish I could keep you in the attic. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
I shall come to stow away in your dreams. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
I felt a rash of discomfort sweep over me reading that. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
HAHAH! | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
I meant it. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
Darn. I thought I'd invented the notion of stowing away in dreams. But someone called CJ Pumpkin already wrote a book! http://www.cjpumpkinsworld.com/press_kit.html | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
I saw Kelsey Grammer (sp) in LA. He smiled at me. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.48.60 |
He smiled at me. Who wouldn't, A.? You're very smile-at-able, in the nicest way. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Yep. You shine, A. | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
You haven't met me, Griff! | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
shucks thanks though. Mick - you've got me wondering. What are the not so nice ways? ;) | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 99.225.111.224 |
The ways I smile at you, naturally. | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
You don't smile at me, Simon. You grin. And wink. It's endearing really - though those grins are always just a manifestation of self-appreciation (your pleasure with how charming and nuts you are). That's okay. I'm pleased and charmed by your nutty self too. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
You have a way with words! | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
I wish. Sigh. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
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| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
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| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
You're the ginchiest! | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
OH! I like Kelsey Grandma! I never see anyone super famous. Is Norman Collier super famous? |