I want to have a guy-movie doubleheader of Eastern Promises and 3:10 to Yuma, then go out and shoot a bunch of guns.
Dude, I am so in. Not even joking. I should see if Cam wants to do this.
― Jordan, Friday, 14 September 2007 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link
Eastern Promises, 3:10 to Yuma, and then some comedy.
The Century Evanston is really good for the double and triple features. I've only done it once: United 93 to Mission Impossible 3 and then I ducked out before my friends made Friends with Money the trifecta.
― Eazy, Friday, 14 September 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link
nick, we're going to the om show tonight...
― colette, Friday, 14 September 2007 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link
I wasn't sure Kr would want to see Eastern Promises, so I tried to get her interested by saying that it was by the screenwriter of Dirty Pretty Things, which I know she liked (I never saw it).
― jaymc, Friday, 14 September 2007 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link
The Century is good if you're seeing two indie films, or two big studio films, because you can't cross from one side to the other. The River East is easier.
― kenan, Friday, 14 September 2007 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm just excited that movie season has begun.
Cool, I might see you there. I kind of doubt Sarah wants to go though.
― n/a, Friday, 14 September 2007 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link
Anyone up for dinner and a movie tonight or dinner and a sketch comedy show? I'm up for being social, but not going to a bar or hearing loud music. We could go to one of these places we've been talking about, like Andies??
― KitCat, Friday, 14 September 2007 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link
that was to colette obv.
― n/a, Friday, 14 September 2007 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link
"It's got the gaffer from The Libertine, honey."
Heh, I read that thinking it was to your wife and thinking "Dis!"
― Eazy, Friday, 14 September 2007 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh, wait, I thought it was Sarah saying "But we're got that om show..." My head's racing.
― Eazy, Friday, 14 September 2007 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link
And I think I've only sneaked into a movie without paying once, when I was 15. Forrest Gump was sold out so my friends and I saw The Shadow (Alec Baldwin!), which was so terrible that we felt we owed it to ourselves to sneak into something else, which ended up being the next screening of Forrest Gump.
― jaymc, Friday, 14 September 2007 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Deep breaths, EZ.
― KitCat, Friday, 14 September 2007 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link
Sneaking into a movie is one of those silly little things I doubt I could do. I would feel too guilty and scared.
Dirty Pretty Things is good.
Eastern Promises -> 3:10 to Yuma -> http://farm1.static.flickr.com/142/358825702_3d861853dc.jpg
― Jordan, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link
"But we've got that show tonight..." "OK FELLAS WHAT TIME'S THE MOVIE?"
I had a clear conscience sneaking into Mission Impossible 3 after buying a United 93 ticket.
― Eazy, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link
It always seems like a good idea, but you've definitely got to plan ahead. I never think about it until I'm actually at the theater.
― jaymc, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm in Michigan this weekend tonight and tomorrow, btw, so I can't hang out with any of you chumps.
I would feel too guilty and scared.
I feel like I've said this before somewhere... but the absolute worst thing that can happen to you is that they kick you out of the theater, and you are forced to have only seen the movie you paid for. I have never seen or heard of this actually happening.
― kenan, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link
people have really low expectations about temps, don't they? i'm working at a magazine today and until tuesday. i was 'trained' yesterday, most of which involved me watching the girl i'm replacing packing and re-packing her ziploc bag for her flight.
so the only person that's here at work has sent me a couple things to work on. they're basically proposals to advertisers, and she wants me to fill in 'what i can'. she printed an email with much of the info, and i've found other stuff. under 1 page of information total, really about 20 items. i kind of got the impression that this might take all morning, but obviously it took 10 minutes. do i send it to her and therefore raise expectations? wait until she asks for it?
― colette, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link
I've found it's best not to blow their minds too much because they'll just expect more from you and pay you the same. ha But seriously, when I started here (not a temp job), this one woman actually asked me if I was good with letters. What do you mean? You know, can you alphabetize things?
― KitCat, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Hang out reading ILX and wait. This is the whole point of temping.
― Jordan, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link
xp Should have said "you mean like calligraphy?"
― dan m, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link
ha, that's funny, sarah! you should have started singing the alphabet song, or something from sesame street.
yeah, i figure if she hasn't asked for it in a half hour i'll give it to her, and meanwhile do the rest of the stuff i'm supposed to do today, just in case something big comes along. i'm all about managing expectations...
xp
― colette, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link
I once got let go from a temp-to-perm job because I was too efficient and went above and beyond my job duty. When they caught me organizing the file room (which it REALLY needed!) they decided there was no need for me because I obviously didn't have enough work to do. Meanwhile, I had felt like such a good worker bee always asking everyone if they needed help and keeping on top of my tasks.
― KitCat, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link
Everyone needs to go vote in Nick's poll. It's important.
― KitCat, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link
What song is that?
― dan m, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link
Is it ... Serge Gainsbourg?
― jaymc, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Plastic Bertrand
― KitCat, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link
But you probably know that and you're just yanking chains.
No, I didn't know that. It appears there is a Plastic Bertrand song on my iPod, though, which I am listening to right now. ("Le Petit Tortillard.") I think it's from a mix that Sc0tt Mass0n made me a couple years ago.
― jaymc, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link
He has good taste then. We have a (the?) PB record.
― KitCat, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link
HOW CAN YOU GUYS NOT KNOW "CA PLANE POUR MOI"?!?!?!?
― n/a, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PITnJAnmjqw
― n/a, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link
Sorry for my indignation, but it's basically the best song ever.
Eh. It's more interesting than if it weren't in French, but it's not really doing much for me.
― jaymc, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't listen to French music.
― Jordan, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link
http://digilander.libero.it/oge/Musica/Galleria_musica/images/Daft%20Punk.jpg
― n/a, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link
Daft Punk doesn't know what to do with you.
― n/a, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh wait, it's THAT song. I guess I do know it. :>
― Jordan, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link
sorry nick, I slept on Plastic Bertrand. :(
Are we still friends?
― kenan, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link
How would *I* know Plastic Bertrand?
(Whenever I actually say "how would *I* know" these days, it's an impression of Jesse's impression of me.)
Most of what I've learned about old-school music-geek stuff comes from either the SPIN Alternative Record Guide that I got for Christmas 1995 or random threads on ILM in the last four years.
― jaymc, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link
I just looked it up on YouTube. No, I've never heard it. But I like it!
― kenan, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm not really indignant, I just thought it was one of those songs everyone knew. It's in a Pepsi commercial right now, albeit in a weak cover version.
― n/a, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link
Soooo hooky and P!O!P!
― Laurel, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link
I never had the Spin guide! I had the Rolling Stone Album Guide, which was instrumental in my classic rock education. (But not of much use apart from that.)
― kenan, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Everyone knows Belgian punk songs from 1978?
― jaymc, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, I've never heard it.
― dan m, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Monotonously chanting over '50s-style rock-and-roll blues progressions = hooky?
― jaymc, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link
http://blog.apocalypse.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/picture-4-4.png
― kenan, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link