Who wouldn't be flummoxed by a plane-watcher who stops by your desk with a wheeze preventing inhaler and then wants a hug because Kill Bill was so awful?
(Okay. Pretend you're me. Now answer that question.)
Posted by Ida at October 10, 2003 06:39 PMIt's no use. I started out by pretending I was you but before I could even consider the question I was driving down Aurora listening to Van Halen and enjoying myself too much to care.
This is fun!
Posted by: flamingbanjo at October 11, 2003 10:14 AMIsn't it?
Posted by: Ida at October 11, 2003 09:47 PMDude. Kill Bill was a lot of things, but it wasn't "so awful".
And I'll defend that.
Posted by: benlau at October 13, 2003 09:32 AMWelp, if needed, I'll set up the panel of folk who saw it and y'all can debate each other.
As I've not seen it, I can remain in my established role of Hugging the Wounded.
Posted by: Ida at October 13, 2003 10:18 AMAlthough I wasn't pretending to be you, I didn't leave the house at all yesterday anyway.
I have to go with benlau on the Kill Bill thing, and we were several seats away for the whole show.
Posted by: sgnp at October 13, 2003 10:48 AMSeveral seats away from what?
Posted by: Ida at October 13, 2003 11:16 AMEach other.
I stopped pretending to be you when I got a girlfriend. It seemed like... I don't know: cheating.
Kill Bill was excellent, by the way. Mr. Plane is wrong wrong wrong. As wrong as if he was trying to land mainly in Spain and ended up somewhere in Peru.
Posted by: Joshua at October 13, 2003 12:46 PMHmmm, cheating on your girlfriend by pretending to be me...is this part of your whole "I'd better go to retreat so Ida and the Girl don't share a bed" scenario?
Mr. Plane's reaction was more of "that movie hurt my feelings" rather than "that movie was a piece of crap."* I had a smililar reaction to Happiness. I just wanted to punch that Todd Solondz, but other of my friends thought it was the best thing ever.
*(That was a big simplification--and he probably wouldn't have described it that way--so don't go dissin' on Mr. Plane until I give you a really good reason to do so...like if I needed you to punch him in the stomach for some reason, which I'm hoping to avoid because I know you can hit really hard.)
I didn't dis him. I just said he was wrong.
I had the same reaction to Happiness.
I was pre-empting a dis because of the wimpy-sounding "hurt feelings" explanation. You can say wrong whenever you like.
Man, Happiness was,like, 5-years-ago and it still makes me sick to my stomach and want to put myself as a barrier between kids and everyone (realtrue and dramatrue).
Posted by: Ida at October 13, 2003 03:26 PMI done dis you all. Kill Bill was the WORST movie I've ever seen in my life along with Bambi and The Undercover Boys.
And I would have said, "(Could you hold please?) Get the fuck out of my office! (now, if your school...)"
Posted by: ian at October 13, 2003 06:35 PMand that's what you should have said
okay, now I'm just having fun at your expense