Blue Saturday

My Sharona!

have never watched or really wanted to watch it even tho the principle cast are all beautiful obv

oh guys the twilight's coming and i can see the near-full moon out of my back window thru the blinds and it's very wabi-sabi, espesh given a Country soundtrack

I still proper fancy Winona

She’s gorgeous in this and I have always thought this (what an uncommon view I know!) “I ride my own melt” made me giggle

Janeane tho

forever

sorry 4 heteronormativity

When she popped up in some so so HBO series a few years back I was thinking wowswers .. she's still got it and more! apologies!

Janeane tho

forever

Got me thinking though how many films there are where, no matter how big or wide or ambitious the theme or plot is, it often comes down to two guys knocking lumps out of each other at the end.

JJ Abrams is fucking rotten for this - Spock and Khan in the second Star Wars, and also Mission Impossible III - which fair enough you'd expect some of it, but it's between Tom Cruise and Philip Seymour Hoffman!

I keep meaning to rewatch A Scanner Darkly, relevant for presence of Winona and surprising absence of Ethan Hawke (and unsurprising absence of knock-down drag-out fight at the end).

Spock and Khan in the second Star Wars

everybody knows the first rule of big screenwriting is the world hangs on how hard two cis white dudes can punch each other

End of John Wick 1 also particularly pointless example

Rocky IV is the Cold War one, III is mr t and the hulkster

I know - I used Rocky 3 then added Drago for the next Ryan film.

I get it was strained to begin with. Should have gone with Apollo and built up from there.

Yeah don’t start with lang. I had the Rocky game for the master system so I know what I’m talking about

Working on my first
Happy Friday everyone

happy Friday cals

enjoy that first and its brethren

No doubt bro

I am too many beers deep. Working hard to maintain the distance even though I want to hold my friends close.

I love the language of old friends. How we all interrupt and laugh before we get near the end of a story we all know.

Good to feel normal. Tomorrow will hurt but today is good.

Keep it together, stay afloat

^^^

Cullercoats and Whitley Bay.

This thread is good.

it is

I've had a really shit day that was an endurance test to say the least and came quite close to committing abh on my garbage neighbour who was shouting violent threats through the wall at my partner, who has bruises on her arm after my son attacked her whilst having a noisy meltdown while I was out for 10 minutes. That kind of shit day. But I do actually quite enjoy life, even the kind of reduced one I currently live and don't really suffer from clinical depression tbh and in some ways I live quite a charmed existence compared to some. But I did shout some violent threats back at the cunt that I will break his legs with my lump hammer if he ever pisses me off again, which is not behaviour that is conducive to a general feeling of happiness tbqh! Just an approximate fuck all of humanity blues is what I'm feeling today. But I do feel much better now.

i'm glad you got it out of your system

here's a long stupid blogpost about whether "Kieth" is a slur

https://www.thesocialreview.co.uk/2020/12/01/call-me-by-your-name-keith/

omg that really is becoming a thing

it's a playground smash

Hope you and the family stay safe from neighbourly threats calz

That stuff would really worry me as I've never really grown out of ESCALATION in those situations

I know it's very hard to be calm and reasoned sometimes, even when you know you should rise above the situation and you are clever enough to know nothing good will come from acting acting as bad as the dickheads you are dealing with.

Counting wasted time this morning. Like I shouldn't regret a minute of GTA in my whole life because I love it but it's a lot of fucking minutes and I think I spent a fair few of them looking for pigeons.

I'm going to count all that I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here time as quality time binding with the children.

Watching Gordon Ramsay bullying bad chefs into worse chefs I need to write off.

So many shite books.

what else is time for but wasting?

Oh I know just kinda wish I was a bit more selective sometimes

You and me both pal

I'm sweating the small stuff again.
Why do I do that?

I have actually fucking big stuff here I should be paying attention to.

Fight problems with bigger problems

Sometimes boredom is just a nice soothing balm. Today was a good nothing day of not much before my nerves start ramping up before my surgery on Thursday.

I got to wave to my wife who was standing next to some bins against a distant hospital wall. This is how we cope and connect in 2020.

I am listening to Low. Secret Name. Nice old Low before the ambition outweighed the melody.

My only experience of anything approaching your current situation was getting my broken ankle screwed back together and I was very scared in the build up to that little minor procedure and when I came around Saddam Hussein was getting executed on one channel and on another was a very lame Four Feathers remake with that twat from the BT advert and Heath Ledger. Sorry I know none of this is helpful, but I'm rooting for you pal.

lol calz. i had a massive lung tumour (“about the size of a small football” was what my south african do doctor amusingly said), which for a couple of weeks they thought was *possibly* malignant and therefore i might die. then an MRI scan showed it to be a benign nerve tumour inside my rib cage. still needed to be removed. had eight hour surgery, and woke up in ICU next to a v old dude, similarly full of tubes and wires. it was the 2008 olympics and as they started helping us to get up and walk me and old fella re-enacted the 100m sprint across the icu floor. it wasn’t 100m and it took about ten minutes and we both had to rest for about ten hours after.

still that two weeks was *weird* to say the least.

i’ve been thinking about you, and wishing you the best onimo. best of luck.

I am blessed with a very visual memory. I can usually instantly "see" the face of anyone I know.
I can also dip in an out of photographic memories and times on demand like a slide sorter.
I can even do all this to music in my head like a crappy online movie maker.

I've never thought of this as something of note or something that should have a name but tonight it is known as "Gerry's life repeatedly flashing before his eyes!"

Some great photos though...

onimo, i have been thinking of you very much and i wish you the absolute best for your surgery. you’ve been a hugely likeable and valuable presence on ilx for many years and even though i don’t know you in person i have a great affection for you

otm

thank you estala

I think my ilx life has been fairly vanilla in lots of ways as my work has kind of steered me away from being overly controversial politically. I'm often surprised people even notice me.

I try not be nasty and I really value the people here. It's a nice little corner of the internet to hide in.

I try not be nasty and I really value the people here

Words to ILX by. I salute you, onimo.

Echoing all thew above; rooting hard for you man, stay strong.

Onimo you are a gem (and one of only two people on here my husband has had a go at me for being mean to)! I wished you luck in the cancer thread but just generally wanted to say here, it’s a really nice little corner of the internet despite my occasional misgivings and you are a very welcome and lovely presence around the place.

Wishing you all the very best for your surgery today, onimo! Hope all goes well and best wishes for a swift recovery.

("onimo you are a gem" and "it's a nice little corner of the internet to hide in" both very otm)

Wishing you all the very best for your surgery today, onimo! Hope all goes well and best wishes for a swift recovery.

("onimo you are a gem" and "it's a nice little corner of the internet to hide in" both very otm)

Warm wishes onimo, bathe in the healing powers of ilx