Everything's coming up lateshift!

01:24 / 07.09.04

Sally, have you been watching Serial Mom? That movie rocks. And the juror deserved to die.

01:29 / 07.09.04

Nope, but I currently live near a lot of golf courses, and I grew up in Connecticut.

01:34 / 07.09.04

Ah, Connecticut ... my favourite state name, ever since I was a nipper. Although Massachusetts sounds quite cool, too. Sorry if I sparked off any internecine rivalry there by mentioning it!

the cat's iao

01:56 / 07.09.04

What's all that about anyway? How doea this fashion meme fit into the picture?

iconoplast

02:01 / 07.09.04

Not wearing white pants after labor day is the kind of thing people who frequent golf courses think about. Most of those people live, or would like to live, in Connecticut.

02:05 / 07.09.04

Yup. I was from a middle class town in the bitchiest, snootiest county in the whole state. Man, I could tell you some ugly fucking mansion stories, assaults against architecture. I figure by 2007 they'll have just paved the whole state and made it a commuter parking lot for New York.

02:05 / 07.09.04

And are secretly serial killers.

02:13 / 07.09.04

Lately I've been encouraging all my friends and family to move out of the state. I really think we should just abandon it, salt the earth, the whole nine. Wretched place. No one knows how to drive.

the cat's iao

02:13 / 07.09.04

What a segue!

I was thinking about Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer earlier today. I don't know why, haven't seen the film in years.

02:24 / 07.09.04

I've never seen it, you lucky thing. It's one of the many that this guy I used to listen to on the radio would recommend as a cult classic. I just ... never got round to it. Oh well, it's only a couple of years ago I got to see Casablanca, what a wet-behind-the-ears newbie I am.

iconoplast

02:29 / 07.09.04

I'd make fun of Connecticut more, but the north shore of Long Island is just minor league Connecticut anyway.

And apparently the "new" Tarantino-produced Hero has been out for years in China, so everyone I know apparently saw it ages ago, and nobody wants to pay to go see it again. Where was I when the bootlegged chinese copies were flying around?

02:30 / 07.09.04

I need to put more effort into my movie viewing. I rented Shanghai Knights a couple weeks ago and spent the entire movie trying to smother myself with a couch cushion. Really awful.

I've never seen Casablanca either, but that's mostly because my fiance has and isn't much for old movies, so I've yet to rent it properly.

02:35 / 07.09.04

Well Sally me dear, it just so happens that it really is a very good film. Pretty much lives up to its daunting reputation, IMHO.

Anyway everyone, I have to go finish work and get the fuck out and go home (well not home, my holidaying friends' house where I'm looking after Archie the dog and Alfie and Mini the pussycats. See you later ...

02:39 / 07.09.04

Kisses sweetie, take care.

Nightnight

See ya' MGB!

Aw c'mon, Shanghai Knights isn't that awful. You want really bad, rent Bad Boys 2. Yeah, those boys were real *bad*.

03:26 / 07.09.04

Shanghai Knights was awful. It was approaching Batman and Robin awful. For a while, I wasn't sure if I'd ever be able to laugh again.

flufeemunk effluvia

20:23 / 07.09.04

Sally... Yes.

Jackie Chan must be loved for his cheesiness. You can't see a Jackie Chan movie and expect Citizen Kane! It doesnt happen!

20:30 / 07.09.04

Just check out the end credits outtakes bits. Those are the best bits of any Jackie Chan movie. Well, that and the fights, which I personally like mainly because Jackie never starts them, he's always just defending himself from a bunch of twats who think that cos he's so small and cute they can 'ave 'im.

Sorry, I'm a Pisces, I can't help rooting for the underdog.

Sekhmet

20:34 / 07.09.04

Huh. I thought the no-white-after-Labor-Day rule only applied to shoes.

I bet Hero will be better on a big screen than as a bootleg video anyway. It's the spectacle we're on about, not the plot.

Sekhmet

20:37 / 07.09.04

... She said, long after the subject had changed. Sorry.

21:54 / 07.09.04

That's all right Sekhmet, you talk about whatever you want. It's Conversation after all!

How is everyone tonight, by the way?

22:41 / 07.09.04

I’ve just been given half a watermelon. I’ve never in my life seen such a huge melon as this one was, and I’ve just arrived home to discover that my half won’t fit in my fridge. So I think I’m going to have to just sit here and eat it all right now.

Which is to say, I’m fine, and how are you? Has everyone left the building?

22:46 / 07.09.04

No, I'm here! And if you need help with that watermelon let me know. I'm a big fat pig who likes to finish other people's dinner for them because he "hates waste".

23:02 / 07.09.04

Exactly. I’m about to make myself sick rather than let this damn thing go to waste. And, lamenting the fact that I don’t have in my kitchen a bowl large enough to serve as a spittoon. I’d like something I can sit on the other side of the room, but I'll need something big enough for me to be reasonably sure of hitting it. So instead I’m having to make do with a paper napkin, which may well be a neat and gentlemanly way of getting rid of the seeds, but is completely lacking in the satisfying ptangg! noise department.

Perhaps I should eat this thing outside. Launch the pips off my balcony into the dark.

23:06 / 07.09.04

That shouldn't sound cool and romantic, but somehow you just made it sound so!

And you have a balcony, you lucky thing. Mind you, I shouldn't complain. My flat has huge windows and I'm on the first floor, so my watermelon-based spitting opportunities are hardly limited.

23:37 / 07.09.04

Dude, I’d probably find it completely impossible to be either cool or romantic with watermelon all round my mouth and juice dribbling down my chin. Anyone would, it’s not a cool kind of food. Probably far better suited for eating while being sticky and/or filthy. Hypothetically speaking, of course.

But then, hypothetically speaking, I could do with a bigger balcony. One with a better view.

23:49 / 07.09.04

'lo. I let almost an entire watermelon go to waste because I was too slack to go do my cleaning job/pick it up. I still feel bad.

how is everyone?

23:51 / 07.09.04

*reads last coupla posts*

would you rather I left you boys ... alone?

23:59 / 07.09.04

Wouldn’t you rather just join us? I’m all sticky and MGB’s all dreamy-eyed. Perfect timing on your part.

Er, anyway, how are you, BiP? Long time no shifty. Or something.

00:03 / 08.09.04

Yeah piss off BiP, I'm trying to pull here!

Not really me darlin! How are you these days? Been a long time since Stoatie's manacling - er sorry, wedding hasn't it?

00:04 / 08.09.04

Naaaa, I prefer to facilitate the boy-love.

I'm good, have had evening of wonderful cocktails, which compensates slightly for loss of melon. You?

00:06 / 08.09.04

Very well thanks, apart from being at work and stuff. But I've been away camping and being outside and drinking rum and stuff the last couple of weeks. I even got a tan which for an irreversible old Celt like me is a minor miracle.
What cocktails did u have? My favourite's White Russian but then I'm a sucker for voddy.

00:11 / 08.09.04

White Russian is the one with milk in it, isn’t it? Bleeaaggh. Milky vodka. I ask you.