Celebrity you think you resemble

Vitriola · Post by **Vitriola** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 12:46 pm

That post made about as much sense as the casting decisions in today's comic book adaptations, but I was able to puzzle my way through it. Do I have a blockbuster card? A couple years ago that question would automatically disqualify you from any kind if intellectual discourse whatsoever about movies, but now they seem to have met current demand and have started stocking more than just the latest Jennifer Aniston vehicle. Anyway, no, I don't have a Blockbuster card, a slight which you can remedy in all of about 45 seconds by calling them and adding me to your acount.

I did have a Hollywood video card, but, this state is lame and has no such chain, and the only reason I had it anyway was because Blockbuster had 2 years to go before they started stocking anime.

I'm going to go ahead and play the 'I watch art films' card, because somebody has to do it, but hell, I did work at the UCI campus, and the theater was right there, and I even got to see 'Metropolis' one night. But in general, I'd rather watch a movie where I have this vague feeling of apprehension that I may not be able to figure out the ending of the movie from the preview, than to watch 95% of what the Longmont Super 6 thinks I reeally need to see.

Oh, in case you hadn't figured it out, you're on.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 1:16 pm

Say, denizens! Let's see if I can make it out of this wave of high maintenance pretension without my head exploding!

Vitriola wrote:A couple years ago that question would automatically disqualify you from any kind if intellectual discourse whatsoever about movies, but now they seem to have met current demand and have started stocking more than just the latest Jennifer Aniston vehicle.

...

... What part of them calling themselves "BLOCKBUSTER" made you think that they ought to specialize in art house fagfests, videos for Betamax players and films made by first year NYU students?

Anyway, no, I don't have a Blockbuster card, a slight which you can remedy in all of about 45 seconds by calling them and adding me to your acount.

I'd really rather prefer it if the sort of movies that you would indulge in would not appear on my renting records, actually.

I did have a Hollywood video card, but, this state is lame and has no such chain

Well, we also don't have the actual city of Hollywood. ADVANTAGE: CALIFORNIA! M-M-M-M-M-MONSTER KILL!!!

Look, I think we're all a little sick of hearing about how things are stronger, faster and better in that state which, oh by the way, is an UTTER DYSTOPIAN SHITHOLE and COMPLETE FUCKING CIRCUS in ALL FUCKING WAYS except for the fact that, OMG, it doesn't precipitate quite as often as it does in the other 49 states.

You're not even fucking from there. You're a goddamn transplant. It would be one thing if it were Adam Cadre or Richard Nixon or Gabriel Roussere or Robert Frost or someone who was actually born there waxing poetic endlessly about this -- seemingly -- Belinda Carisle lyric (Ooh, baby, do you know what that's worth, ooh Heaven is <strike>a place on earth</strike> CALLY, LOL!) but you? YOU?

Quit making us sick with bile, you past-deleting home poser.

And the only reason I had it anyway was because Blockbuster had 2 years to go before they started stocking anime.

Well, sure -- a video membership card that says "Hollywood" on it is so tacky! It would be something that the normals in the flyover states would wish to acquire! Only they couldn't! Ha ha ha... savages!

I'm going to go ahead and play the 'I watch art films' card

Because you think you're better than everyone else?

Because somebody has to do it

Dammit. You will see why down below, but for this sentence, let me say that I would much rather be in 'Cally!'

But hell, I did work at the UCI campus

Hey, it's my understanding that UCI is in California. Did I tell you that I would rather be in California lately? Within like the last four sentences...? YES!

And the theater was right there

Lucky that it was, after all, because public transportation would definitely have been able to help you get there.

And I even got to see 'Metropolis' one night.

Name dropping a movie from 1927? That is very out of place in this post!

By the way, the last good movie I saw was actually some home video that Thomas Edison put together before he had really finalized the film camera. What? Birth of a Nation? You've seen that? WHATever... Jesus, you fucking wannabees really make me, like, rilly rilly sick to my stomach! Gag me with a mixing spoon!

But in general, I'd rather watch a movie where I have this vague feeling of apprehension that I may not be able to figure out the ending of the movie from the preview, than to watch 95% of what the Longmont Super 6 thinks I reeally need to see.

It's funny, because Longmont is the only place in the country that will show the movies that you hate (which are all filmed, but worse, conceived in your precious California) and you happen to be stuck in Longmont. I have a joke! It is based off of the one on this page.

Robb's Big Black Book of Mental Torture: Robb, our scientists have discovered that Dayna can survive in Longmont, Colorado!

Robb: Huh?!?

Robb's Big Black Book of Mental Torture: But not for very long!!!

Robb: Oh, my, hahahahaha. Hahahahahahah!

Oh, in case you hadn't figured it out, you're on.

I just called them. They said that I have to be present and show an ID card to get you added to my account. So when I get home tonight I will bring you over there and take care of this matter.

And also -- my post that you said did not make any sense made perfect sense. It was just that the weeks of Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay pap that you have indulged in recently has caused you to lose your ability to read messages that even momentarily sidestep from normal, pedestrian formula.

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 1:53 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:
Vitriola wrote:And I even got to see 'Metropolis' one night.
Name dropping a movie from 1927? That is very out of place in this post!

By the way, the last good movie I saw was actually some home video that Thomas Edison put together before he had really finalized the film camera. What? Birth of a Nation? You've seen that? WHATever... Jesus, you fucking wannabees really make me, like, rilly rilly sick to my stomach! Gag me with a mixing spoon!

"She means the anime, teabag."
Was my original post ... though I really have no idea. I've got to get into films somehow again. Seriously, not shit like "Look who's talking now" and "Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde" oh, and not "Magnolia" ... just because Ben wants me to watch it.

Vitriola · Post by **Vitriola** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 2:35 pm

... What part of them calling themselves "BLOCKBUSTER" made you think that they ought to specialize in art house fagfests, videos for Betamax players and films made by first year NYU students?

The fact that, in most small towns that are still big enough that their movies aren't rented out of the general store/laundromat/bait and tackle/airstrip, that's really the only place you can go to to get any selection at all. Everybody knows that the only reason other film rental facilities exist is to stock porn. Blockbuster has systematically bought/sold/driven out of business alot of competing chains like Camelot that actually dared to supply movies that had content darker than a Sesame Street episode and more ambiguous in theme than a real estate agent's pitch.

I'd really rather prefer it if the sort of movies that you would indulge in would not appear on my renting records, actually.

Wow, from the place that doesn't even rent smut, and, until a year or so ago, wouldn't even put anything with a NC-17 or unrated sticker on their shelves? What are you afraid I'm going to do? Think you're going to feature on some hidden FBI database if I rent that Celene Dion's Live Feature Concert Extraordinary Triumphant Return Extravanagza of Celine Dion? What if I rent the VHS of 8 Mile and just play the part where they remake 'Sweet Home Alabama' over and over again so that the next person who rents it has it skip on that part, looks up the rental history and thinks you're one Pistons cap away from rollin' someone for their swank ride? What?

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I did have a Hollywood video card, but, this state is lame and has no such chain

Well, we also don't have the actual city of Hollywood. ADVANTAGE: CALIFORNIA! M-M-M-M-M-MONSTER KILL!!!

Look, I think we're all a little sick of hearing about how things are stronger, faster and better in that state which, oh by the way, is an UTTER DYSTOPIAN SHITHOLE and COMPLETE FUCKING CIRCUS in ALL FUCKING WAYS except for the fact that, OMG, it doesn't precipitate quite as often as it does in the other 49 states.

Hmmm, I mention Hollywood video, and immediately you assume that the rest of the country has completely forsworn the whole Hollywood concept, that the word Hollywood has never and will never be used as a generic movie house name that might make consumers think, Oh! I want a movie, I bet that big sign over that says 'Hollywood' on it in bright letters might carry what I'm looking for!, and that there are no Hollywood video stores anywhere else in the country except in California, including 2.29 miles away from my house in my hometown of Saratoga Springs, NY, and 11.6 miles away from your hometown in Asscrack, upstate-western-but-not-really-more-like-north, in Rochester? BTW, when was the last time you referred to your hometown as anything besides Rochester, you big-city urban sophisticate poseur wannabe? You're not from Rochester, and even if you were you still shouldn't brag about it.

Because you think you're better than everyone else?

No, but If I keep up on the current-as-of-4-minutes-ago baseball scores, get 899 channels on my satellite dish and download the Half-Life II source code before anyone else does, I might be.

Hey, it's my understanding that UCI is in California. Did I tell you that I would rather be in California lately? Within like the last four sentences...? YES!

As we've already ascertained that just about ANY state in this union is better than Colorado (it doesn't have a Trader Joe's or even a fucking Jack In The Box), I'll ignore your continued misconception that I spend my days in a botox and E induced trance, listening to The Waves On The Shore In Malibu While Whales Sing And Caper Off In The Shimmering Distance noise MP3s that I download off usenet every morning. But, isn't it funny that the same person who regards listening to Pop Music and the ultimate in reverse backlash backlash nouveau neoretro hipster trendsetting would be the first one to jump on the I Hate California bandwagon? Yeah, it's real hard to sit there with your friend Pinner and hate on Cali when you could be thinking about what makes people like it there enough that property values are about triple what they are in the rets of the country to begin with. The fact that you would defend to the death your right to enjoy Signs but harsh someone who dares utter a worthy opinion of 3rd largest fucking state in the goddamn country is just laughable, and the fact that you think you have leverage just because some washed-up burnout creates a whole webspace to agree with you is about as befitting to someone with your pastoral (read: hick) upbringing as hairgel and heroin are to those losers who you still insist 'create' their own 'music'. Oh! There's a beach in driving distance that actually let's you stay on it after sundown where you can cuddle with a loved one while drinking cheap and delicious red wine you bought within 2 miles of your home! Horrible! Laws, there's a Thai restaurant on every street corner! The agony! Lo! The traffic moves slow enough at all hours of the day that you can actually enjoy your surroundings for hours at a time, instead of whizzing by it all to get somewhere near an even less interesting plowed cornfield than the place you were just at! The suffering!

Name dropping a movie from 1927? That is very out of place in this post

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You knew what I was talking about, and it wasn't the anime, so bugger off, oh Ye Who Watched the Director's Commentary To The Clerks Animated series.

And also -- my post that you said did not make any sense made perfect sense. It was just that the weeks of Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay pap that you have indulged in recently has caused you to lose your ability to read messages that even momentarily sidestep from normal, pedestrian formula.

Good thing I have you around to keep me aware of which Superhero was in the insipidly stupid movie with the bad acting and which was in the putridly awful one with the bad actors.

Lex · Post by **Lex** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 2:50 pm

You said rets.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 3:07 pm

Vitriola wrote:
... What part of them calling themselves "BLOCKBUSTER" made you think that they ought to specialize in art house fagfests, videos for Betamax players and films made by first year NYU students?
The fact that, in most small towns that are still big enough that their movies aren't rented out of the general store/laundromat/bait and tackle/airstrip, that's really the only place you can go to to get any selection at all. Everybody knows that the only reason other film rental facilities exist is to stock porn. Blockbuster has systematically bought/sold/driven out of business alot of competing chains like Camelot that actually dared to supply movies that had content darker than a Sesame Street episode and more ambiguous in theme than a real estate agent's pitch.

I'd really rather prefer it if the sort of movies that you would indulge in would not appear on my renting records, actually.
Wow, from the place that doesn't even rent smut, and, until a year or so ago, wouldn't even put anything with a NC-17 or unrated sticker on their shelves? What are you afraid I'm going to do? Think you're going to feature on some hidden FBI database if I rent that Celene Dion's Live Feature Concert Extraordinary Triumphant Return Extravanagza of Celine Dion? What if I rent the VHS of 8 Mile and just play the part where they remake 'Sweet Home Alabama' over and over again so that the next person who rents it has it skip on that part, looks up the rental history and thinks you're one Pistons cap away from rollin' someone for their swank ride? What?

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I did have a Hollywood video card, but, this state is lame and has no such chain

Well, we also don't have the actual city of Hollywood. ADVANTAGE: CALIFORNIA! M-M-M-M-M-MONSTER KILL!!!

Look, I think we're all a little sick of hearing about how things are stronger, faster and better in that state which, oh by the way, is an UTTER DYSTOPIAN SHITHOLE and COMPLETE FUCKING CIRCUS in ALL FUCKING WAYS except for the fact that, OMG, it doesn't precipitate quite as often as it does in the other 49 states.
Hmmm, I mention Hollywood video, and immediately you assume that the rest of the country has completely forsworn the whole Hollywood concept, that the word Hollywood has never and will never be used as a generic movie house name that might make consumers think, Oh! I want a movie, I bet that big sign over that says 'Hollywood' on it in bright letters might carry what I'm looking for!, and that there are no Hollywood video stores anywhere else in the country except in California, including 2.29 miles away from my house in my hometown of Saratoga Springs, NY, and 11.6 miles away from your hometown in Asscrack, upstate-western-but-not-really-more-like-north, in Rochester? BTW, when was the last time you referred to your hometown as anything besides Rochester, you big-city urban sophisticate poseur wannabe? You're not from Rochester, and even if you were you still shouldn't brag about it.

Because you think you're better than everyone else?
No, but If I keep up on the current-as-of-4-minutes-ago baseball scores, get 899 channels on my satellite dish and download the Half-Life II source code before anyone else does, I might be.

Hey, it's my understanding that UCI is in California. Did I tell you that I would rather be in California lately? Within like the last four sentences...? YES!
As we've already ascertained that just about ANY state in this union is better than Colorado (it doesn't have a Trader Joe's or even a fucking Jack In The Box), I'll ignore your continued misconception that I spend my days in a botox and E induced trance, listening to The Waves On The Shore In Malibu While Whales Sing And Caper Off In The Shimmering Distance noise MP3s that I download off usenet every morning. But, isn't it funny that the same person who regards listening to Pop Music and the ultimate in reverse backlash backlash nouveau neoretro hipster trendsetting would be the first one to jump on the I Hate California bandwagon? Yeah, it's real hard to sit there with your friend Pinner and hate on Cali when you could be thinking about what makes people like it there enough that property values are about triple what they are in the rets of the country to begin with. The fact that you would defend to the death your right to enjoy Signs but harsh someone who dares utter a worthy opinion of 3rd largest fucking state in the goddamn country is just laughable, and the fact that you think you have leverage just because some washed-up burnout creates a whole webspace to agree with you is about as befitting to someone with your pastoral (read: hick) upbringing as hairgel and heroin are to those losers who you still insist 'create' their own 'music'. Oh! There's a beach in driving distance that actually let's you stay on it after sundown where you can cuddle with a loved one while drinking cheap and delicious red wine you bought within 2 miles of your home! Horrible! Laws, there's a Thai restaurant on every street corner! The agony! Lo! The traffic moves slow enough at all hours of the day that you can actually enjoy your surroundings for hours at a time, instead of whizzing by it all to get somewhere near an even less interesting plowed cornfield than the place you were just at! The suffering!

Name dropping a movie from 1927? That is very out of place in this post
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You knew what I was talking about, and it wasn't the anime, so bugger off, oh Ye Who Watched the Director's Commentary To The Clerks Animated series.

And also -- my post that you said did not make any sense made perfect sense. It was just that the weeks of Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay pap that you have indulged in recently has caused you to lose your ability to read messages that even momentarily sidestep from normal, pedestrian formula.
Good thing I have you around to keep me aware of which Superhero was in the insipidly stupid movie with the bad acting and which was in the putridly awful one with the bad actors.

oh

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 3:14 pm

wait i had 1 other thing to add

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 3:22 pm

Vitriola wrote:
I'd really rather prefer it if the sort of movies that you would indulge in would not appear on my renting records, actually.
Wow, from the place that doesn't even rent smut, and, until a year or so ago, wouldn't even put anything with a NC-17 or unrated sticker on their shelves? What are you afraid I'm going to do?

Er... rent Ghost World and films with Antonio Banderas. I didn't have a bit there, I was attempting to clarify, not imply.

... And that there are no Hollywood video stores anywhere else in the country except in California, including 2.29 miles away from my house in my hometown of Saratoga Springs, NY, and 11.6 miles away from your hometown in Asscrack, upstate-western-but-not-really-more-like-north, in Rochester?

Ha, heh, ha.

I have never once in my life expressed to anyone how proud I am that I came from "Rochester, NY." I mean, never. I can take ribbing on it just fine, and even dish out such things on Jeff's board, where they are all still here.

But you actually do get indignant about Saratoga Springs and believe it to be a thriving, non-anime, Metropolis.

That's so cute.

BTW, when was the last time you referred to your hometown as anything besides Rochester, you big-city urban sophisticate poseur wannabe? You're not from Rochester, and even if you were you still shouldn't brag about it.

I was born there, in an actual hospital, and did in fact live there when Jeff and I had a place together. What the hell else do I have to do to call it the city I am from, swing from the rooftops on weeknights and defend it from muggers and crime?

Because you think you're better than everyone else?
No, but If I keep up on the current-as-of-4-minutes-ago baseball scores, get 899 channels on my satellite dish and download the Half-Life II source code before anyone else does, I might be.

The dish brings you Bills games, and the subscription to Ultrafeed brings you metal MP3s. Those services are friends of yours. Why would you diss your friends, Dayna? Perhaps if you didn't disrespect them so often, you might keep them longer.

As we've already ascertained that just about ANY state in this union is better than Colorado (it doesn't have a Trader Joe's or even a fucking Jack In The Box)

We are free from the poisons of the west. And east.

I can't believe you're upset because you can't get cheap wine in COLORADO for Christ's sake.

Yeah, it's real hard to sit there with your friend Pinner and hate on Cali when you could be thinking about what makes people like it there enough that property values are about triple what they are in the rets of the country

Because people are pussies and fags when it comes to there being a little bit of snow and rain out? Because some of the people that are there desperately want to convince themselves that they made the best decision any human could make by going there and then desperately -- again -- try to convince everyone they know that they made the right decision in all their dealings with them, because if they didn't, not only did they not make such a great decision after all, and not only are they soul-crushingly disappointed, but they might then have to deal with the fact that they are empty, vapid people who confused a change in geography with an automatic level-up-ing of happiness?

The fact that you would defend to the death your right to enjoy Signs but harsh someone who dares utter a worthy opinion of 3rd largest fucking state in the goddamn country is just laughable

But the movie "Signs" is much better than the state "California."

And the fact that you think you have leverage just because some washed-up burnout creates a whole webspace to agree with you

What? I don't understand this reference.

Iis about as befitting to someone with your pastoral (read: hick) upbringing

I got spanked once for backtalk when I was little.

Afterwards, suitably impressed by how urbane we were all being, my mother, father and I all had wine and caviar as we discussed the begonias and whether or not we would be able to evict the negroes that were stopping the construction of holes 16 and 17 on the new golf course. I stated that I wished the three of us could do that all the time because it felt so superbly sophisticated, but my dad said that it would have to be a rare thing, as he needed his hands in proper form to go work the slaving lathe and couldn't properly beat me with them.

We then laughed and enjoyed each other's company without irony. Oh! Wait. "Laughing" and "Genuinely enjoying each other's company" is sometimes what hick families do together when they are out in the pastures waiting for the block of time between 3:00pm and 7:00pm when the streets are rolled back down and we can all get drunk on discount wheat lager to come 'round.

Oh! There's a beach in driving distance that actually let's you stay on it after sundown where you can cuddle with a loved one while drinking cheap and delicious red wine you bought within 2 miles of your home! Horrible!

Jesus Christ. This isn't even fucking funny any longer. You've been here two weeks and you're stating that there's no place to get drunk for cheap and hang about nature in FUCKING COLORADO?

What fucking dimension are you fucking living in?

The traffic moves slow enough at all hours of the day that you can actually enjoy your surroundings for hours at a time

That should be part of the DOT's new advertising campaign in large cities like the ones you have out there. "Shut your fucking face. You're not moving for hours at a time in traffic out here, but at least it looks nice. If, you know, you are wearing glasses with a yellow filter or whatever the fuck color our smog happens to be today."

You knew what I was talking about, and it wasn't the anime, so bugger off, oh Ye Who Watched the Director's Commentary To The Clerks Animated series.

We have to watch the director's commentaries for DVDs out here because we don't have beaches.

Good thing I have you around to keep me aware of which Superhero was in the insipidly stupid movie with the bad acting and which was in the putridly awful one with the bad actors.

I know. =( That was from before, though, when you told me that you dug geeks, which I misinterpretred as "I like geeks," when in fact you were telling me -- by not telling me! -- that you dig jerks, just like everybody else.

LG to lazy to log in · Sun Oct 12, 2003 10:51 pm

WAIT I finally figured out my celebrity look alike, though the thought somewhat disturbs me... Molly Ringwald.

Jethro Q. Walrustitty · Mon Oct 13, 2003 8:29 am

LG: Actually, you look very little like Molly Ringwald, I think. I can't think of a "celebrity look-alike" for you, but the woman who hosts "Great Hotels" on the Travel Channel reminds me of you, though she doesn't really look like you.

As for the rest of this addled mess:

Jonsey: Read this if you insist on defending a turd like Signs.

Vitre-cola: If you don't like CO, why did you drive ~1,000 miles to get there? Is RobB really so appealing and Matredire (or whoever it is who you hung with in CA) so repulsive, enough to overcome your love for CA and your distaste for CO?

Jonsey: There is a Hollywood Video in Rochester, so directing attacks at the chain just because they have "Hollywood" in the title is rather misplaced. Also, since Hollywood is often the home of the worst movies made.

Both of you: I thought the plan was for V to stay with ICJ just long enough to get a job and get her own place. But, she's asking to be put on him Blockbuster card? He's calling to see if he can? Why not end this fiction right now?

Oh, and for God's sake, dump Blockbuster. If you insist on spending a bunch of money on rentals (as you no doubt do if you step into that hovel), just get a NetFlix membership and be done with it, and you'll have your pick of pretty much any movie available on DVD, and not have to worry about your "card" or them being out of the latest bad childish superhero movie.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 9:05 am

Jethro Q. Walrustitty wrote:LG: Actually, you look very little like Molly Ringwald, I think. I can't think of a "celebrity look-alike" for you, but the woman who hosts "Great Hotels" on the Travel Channel reminds me of you, though she doesn't really look like you.

I've seen people who look a little like Loafergirl in regular, non-famous life, but not really anyone well-known.

Maybe her -- http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0507852/ . But no picture is there for her. Argh! The redhead from NewsRadio is who I am speaking of.

Jonsey: Read this if you insist on defending a turd like Signs.

I'll read that when I get out of work tonight. But you do realize that nothing will change the fact that I really liked the movie, right? I saw it with Monahan and my mother. Right there, that's a three-star experience even if the rest of it was crap.

Vitre-cola: If you don't like CO, why did you drive ~1,000 miles to get there? Is RobB really so appealing

I think you nailed it, Jethro. Ah! Ah! Ah!

Both of you: I thought the plan was for V to stay with ICJ just long enough to get a job and get her own place. But, she's asking to be put on him Blockbuster card? He's calling to see if he can? Why not end this fiction right now?

What fiction? Living with Vitriola has been ridiculously pleasant. She got me before I was living on my own so long that I became odd, stilted and queer in my ways. (Not that kind of queer, you asswags.) She can stay with me as long as she likes, and if things were perfect and she waits until she can grab the apartment above me, you know what that means: SPEAKERS ON THE FLOOR, SPEAKERS ON THE ROOF!

Plus, apparently our current neighbors to the positive z-axis enjoy throwing things off their porch, which we see (as we're on the second floor). Crackers and lumber, so far. Are they trying to get my special needs kitty to jump off the ledge and grab the cracker? I do not know! But such tactics will not work. My special needs kitty can barely get up on the porch railing to see.

Oh, and for God's sake, dump Blockbuster. If you insist on spending a bunch of money on rentals (as you no doubt do if you step into that hovel), just get a NetFlix membership and be done with it.

Yeah, when there is a Netflix center across the street from me, then we'll talk.

It's already bad enough that I do not like Papa "Mafioso" John's wares. The wine store across the street is sort of creepy and overpriced. Safeway I will love until the day I die, but I have questions about the hair salon out there as well. How many businesses do I have to shun, Walrustitty? HOW MANY?

Can't a guy enjoy his Blockbuster in peace?

... and not have to worry about your "card" or them being out of the latest bad childish superhero movie.

Hey! Fuck you. (Not elegant, but it needed to be said.)

Jack Straw · Post by **Jack Straw** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 9:27 am

Jethro Q. Walrustitty wrote:Oh, and for God's sake, dump Blockbuster. If you insist on spending a bunch of money on rentals (as you no doubt do if you step into that hovel), just get a NetFlix membership and be done with it, and you'll have your pick of pretty much any movie available on DVD, and not have to worry about your "card" or them being out of the latest bad childish superhero movie.

Yeah, except the only time I go to Blockbuster is an impulse situation. A Netflix sub would go wasted...

Jethro Q. Walrustitty · Mon Oct 13, 2003 11:41 am

Impulse stuff is what grocery-store and pizza-store rentals are for. Blockbuster is pure, concentrated evil, rather like that found in the toaster oven in "Time Bandits".

Of course, considering that I have a to-watch list that it is three printed pages long, I really don't have to worry actually going out to see something that I haven't seen before. Especially for the outrageously thick, heavy coin that Mr Blockbuster demands.

Jack Straw · Post by **Jack Straw** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 2:53 pm

You DO know you can get passes for BB that will allow you to rent unlimited movies, so many out at a time? Or that they have the same thing for games? It was called "Gamers Pass" last time they did it.

You should, Mr. DVD Burner. You should.

LG... · Post by **LG...** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 3:19 pm

So basically, I look like me. OKay.

And I liked Signs. I thought it was interesting and twistedly amusing.

Jethro Q. Walrustitty · Tue Oct 14, 2003 7:29 am

I hate Blockbuster, and prefer to never set foot in there.

I am, though, highly gratified that even Blockbuster - the chain known for modifying movies to put BB "product placement" in them, for not carrying anything stronger than an R rating, and for buying only fullscreen DVDs - even they, the Great Satan, have seen the light and are buying widescreen DVDs now. (Actually, I think I read that they're buying widescreen (or rather, original aspect ratio) exclusively, but I can't believe that they'd be that sensible.)

Straw, I have too much to watch already, and I don't want to copy a DVD if I have to downsample it, which removes the majority of the movies that are high on my list. And, bizarrely enough, I like having the "real" DVD. Weird, eh? (And if I was after doing that, NetFlix would make much more sense, given my eclectic taste in movies.)

teenage edinburgh girl · Thu Dec 11, 2003 6:20 am

according to my boyfs mates, me and my boyf look like mortisha and gomez! lol, how funny....

Jerry Springer · Post by **Jerry Springer** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 8:56 am

This topic makes me happy.

:)

teenage edinburgh girl · Fri Dec 12, 2003 6:13 am

This topic makes me happy[quote]
lol, this topic makes me happy too, lol, my three best mates - beyonce, avril lavigne and amy lee lookalikes. stunning. so jealous. me? id say personally, wednesday from the addam's family or buffy from scary movie x

Lex · Post by **Lex** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 6:30 am

Good lord.

I look like that kid in Necrotic Drift.

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