Let an EXCELSIOR be an EXCELSIOR, and let sleeping LOLS lie

boner kebab amirite?

Alan Cumming was in EWS? I don't remember that at all but I haven't seen it since it first came out. Really? He was?

he played Leelee Sobieski

― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Tuesday, March 27, 2012 3:53 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Pretty sure EWS was the first thing I ever saw Alan Cumming in. He made quite an impression. (Also, I may have mistaken him for Paul Reubens at the time.)

What, you never saw Goldeneye?

I've never seen a single Bond movie!

what in the...

say what now

Last one I saw was "The Living Daylights" but still.

Actually, it looks like I saw him in Emma and Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion before that, but he must not have registered. (Also, he was famous enough to have hosted SNL in 2000?)

how have you never seen a Bond movie

I started watching the Casino Royale remake and was like ZZZZZZZZZZZ. Pretty sure that's the totality of my Bond experience.

WRONG.

You gotta watch, like, Doctor No, or Octopussy! No sleeping. Only awesome hairy chests and ladies

let me help u

russia with love tbh

that too! so many good ones. What was the Roger Moore goes to Space one? Moonraker. that one is lolsy, but it's kinda bad.

The Connery ones are fun though.

'josie' is fun and all but it's no 'spice world.'

I've never seen either, but I tend to conflate the two in my head.

― Calvin Coolranch (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, March 27, 2012 6:52 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Josie and the SpiceCats

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, March 27, 2012 6:57 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

[...]

I was going to opt for Josie and the PussySpice but it all just seemed wrong and I'm so sorry

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, March 27, 2012 7:01 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think I owe you some kind of royalty fee for that one DJP, it was right in your wheelhouse :D

xpost -- Wait how is it DJP didn't make that comment.

(Oh right, he wouldn't've been sorry.)

haha Ned otm

I have taught you well, Young Grasshopper

my terrible inappropriateness finally has found a home, weee

yeah that train of thought just needed grasshopper wee added to it, otm

FYI, I'm not opposed to Bond or anything. Just haven't gotten around to watching literally any of them yet.

oh don't watch them literally they are complex metaphors

Start with Moonraker and work your way back tbh

with lots of booze

Hugo Drax 4-eva

I just realized Drax looks like Billy Mitchell from King of Kong

how have you never seen a Bond movie

The longest period between Bond movies (1989 to 1995) was also probably the time in my life when I would've been most likely to have seen one.

I just realized Judi Dench wasn't on my radar until Goldeneye

xp (i.e., I was a sheltered child and a pretentious teenager)

xpost not a merchant-ivory fan, I take it

never too late to start, Jaymc!

lol Judi Dench gives her best performance in Casino Royale but I doubt anyone will agree

no way she pwnd in pitch black 2

@ VG nope, never seen literally one

A gentle jest, sir :)

that entire thing might as well say:

I had strained peas for dinner. I never thought about growing old when I was younger and the indignities aging would visit upon my body; the infirmity visited upon my limbs, the rapid deterioration of my eyesight, the unpredictable and embarrassing episodes of incontinence. Even now I don't know that I can trust that my mind is formulating coherent thoughts and that the words I am using to express myself are lucid once they have been written down. And yet, amidst all of this, the largest indignity I suffer is eating. That, and I like an extraordinarily crappy Madonna album. A MINUS

― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 23:28 (Yesterday)

haha

That's kind of like what I imagine my writing is like in my nightmares.

Like, you know that dream everyone apparently has where they suddenly and belatedly realise they're naked in a public place? My equiv is a computer screen flashing up:

Julia Holter - Ekstasis
9/10
You don’t give yourself over to Ekstasis so much as inexorably lose yourself within its glistening contours and fleeting visions of potentially misremembered moments of interpersonal, emotional, and spiritual enlightenment. Forget about “finding yourself”; everything, it seems, is all around us, yet each grasp at concrete experience inevitably yields a recession into the shadows from whence these feelings came. But then we remember, as if awakening from a dream: this is not ekstasis, this is ecstasy. This is not the shackle of an ontological reality, but euphoric possibility perpetually drawing us on toward its horizon, like a lost memory that lives on as desire. With Julia Holter, with this profound and inexhaustibly gorgeous album, we can transcend our own transcendence and find the greatest bliss in the joyful renunciation of what makes us us. And all we have to do is go outside.
Review by Tim Finney

― Tim F, Wednesday, March 28, 2012 7:53 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ysi?

I'd like a ysi of Tim reading that blurb.

naah, I disagree with that - there are early TMBG demos that have the same sound as The Pod. it's more than "they're silly", because B&B is the only band I'd describe as "silly". Ween & TMBG - both have a 2-man core, both started very young, both recorded with drum machines, both hopped all over the place genre-wise, both later got a full band and "normalized" a bit, etc.

― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Monday, March 26, 2012 5:07 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://mrsgrapevine.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/krisskross2.jpg

― future worm food (n/a), Monday, March 26, 2012 5:17 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

xp i'm afraid that's what my writing is like irl :(

ilx: transcending its own transcendence

jaymc has to see silent films before 007s, btw

sometimes i call 911 when the cosby show comes on

― bnw, Wednesday, March 28, 2012 3:40 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hahahaha

omg bnw

"they always get away"