Mine was Eastern Promises, what about you?
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dColo — 11 years ago(March 24, 2015 03:05 PM)
Can't remember my second. In any case, I think The Fly's the perfect starting point if you're just getting into his work, purely Cronenbergian but with a mainstream appeal you don't see in something like Videodrome (though that's still my favourite of his)
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deRider84 — 11 years ago(March 24, 2015 01:27 PM)
Probably The Fly too. Then The Brood. I stole a vhs copy of the latter from some market. I don't really know why. Probably to impress a girlfriend with my daring. I didn't even know who the director was, and the tape only would have cost me like 5 bucks. Anyway, I really liked the movie. One of the creepiest I'd ever seen. Made me a confirmed Cronenberg fan.
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franzkabuki — 11 years ago(March 24, 2015 05:06 PM)
"I stole a VHS copy/-/"
Gee, what intellectual interests lol. Me, I used to focus my shoplifting on the more immediately satisfying objects - like beer, wine or smoked chicken legs.
We're not just violent alcoholics, you know, but also well, I never lifted anything when sober (once I did an idiotic thing, pocketed an apricote when hung over and got caught. F-cking moron). And rarely when alone. One night, me and my friend brought out 4 bottles of the rather expensive Georgian Kinzhmarauli wine holidays and salad days and days of mouldy mayonnaise
Bus rides are cool. However, today is not really the day when I'd fancy boarding an aircraft. On this medicine, it's too palpable, too real anyway - the thought that there still always is the possibility I'll be cashing the wrong check sitting on that one flight in a million, in ten million Lufthansa last had a casualty 21 years ago if I recall correctly (IF it counts as a Lufthansa flight, strictly speaking).
Thanks for bothering with the cricket manual btw. Musta taken forever to type out well, I'll do my best to apply the limited brainpower. Tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow.
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deRider84 — 11 years ago(March 25, 2015 01:36 AM)
The first thing I ever stole (other than some money from my parents here and there) was an Ultimate Spiderman comic book on my last day in America. It looked so good that I just had to have it, and it was some fancy edition I had no chance of paying for with my meagre allowance. It gave me quite a kick. In Australia, I used to steal chocolates and books quite a bit as a teen. Lots of chocolates from a supermarket and Stephen King novels from the book shops. Oh yeah, once I tried to steal a mango from a fruit shop just for the hell of it but got caught. That was pretty scary. This Arab dude took me to a store room and held me there for like half an ho7ecur while discussing my fate with another guy in some exotic language. Then they just let me go. Anyway, re: The Brood, it looked like something we might enjoy watching, so I just swiped it from this big table they had all the VHS tapes on. I'm sure lots of people saw me too. My girlfriend said it was pathetically obvious, but no one said anything. Luckily, I grew out of my shoplifting phase soon after. Now I only steal movies online
The trip was just a 6 and a half hour bus ride from Split to Sarajevo. No flights this time. It was nicely scenic. Makes me realise it's a region of quite breathtaking views that I've always taken for granted. As for flying, you have to start realising that nothing will ever happen to any flight you're on. You're simply not that lucky. I flew Lufthansa this time within Europe (London - Munich, Munich - Sarajevo). Pretty sure it wasn't Germanwings, though I think they do operate flights to Sarajevo I quite like those short-haul flights. Anything but the torture of an Australia-Europe trip. Those things are despicable, not because of any fear I might crash, but because they're never-ending and grossly uncomfortable. I'll really have to get some Valium or something for the return trip
The manual didn't take that long at all actually. It's ultimately a pretty simple game, so it was surprisingly straightforward, plus I had a bit of dead time between getting ready and my bus leaving. Also, editing it gave me something to do on the bus. I'm getting pretty good at using my phone to post things. -
franzkabuki — 11 years ago(March 26, 2015 02:19 PM)
I gave up the "sport" (that's how I generally regarded it never occurred to me to feel guilty about it. Different story with stealing from an individual - which, I guess, is why I never did that) of shoplifting about a dozen years ago - around the same time I gave up gambling. Now THAT was a serious problem - whenever I got some money, the first priority was a trip to casino, usually with decidedly negative results - and even when I won initially, I'd often wind up getting drunk and going back and losing all winnings + more. Which is why one of the cardinal rules is never to gamble with alcohol - makes you emotional and you'll never be able to confine yourself to the amount of money you'd decided to "invest" in that damned slot machine prior to going in (machine poker was my poison). Fortunately, one day I just got fed up with it and quit. No real reason, it just wasn't fun anymore - I guess the way I played, with small bets, contributed there because it meant that I could never hope for a really big win while the losses were frequently comparatively large.
I'm still not sure how much of an aviophobe I am. That last time on EasyJet was, well, easier than I expected though - was only nervous upon takeoff and even then not overly so. It was a great feeling actually when I realized, walking around the terminal before boarding, stuffing my face with cheese, sausage and bread drinking cawfee liqueur, that I could probably handle it all well enough. And indeed the prevalent emotion during the flight was boredom. Consequences of the years-long obsession with the minutiae of plane crashes weren't quite 'that' drastic - especially as that obsession led to a wider aviophilia of sorts and a better understanding just how astonishingly safe flying is this day and age, how greatly things have improved (reading the columns of that Patrick Smith fella of Ask The Pilot fame was also very effective in making it all seem quite unthreatening). As that same Mr Smith once noted, since most mechanical/design/etc problems have been engineered out, today's crashes tend to be more complex and mysterious - or feature an unforeseeable human element like some bastard deciding the best way to end his life is to fly an A320 full of passengers into the mountain (pretty obvious that the Malaysian that's been MIA for over a year now, didn't experience any mechanical/electronic malfunction, either).
Valium's a sedative, right? Never took it, but I think I have some brief experience with Diazepam; not sure if they're 'exactly' the same.
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bradwbaumann — 10 years ago(May 24, 2015 09:05 AM)
The Brood.
I was 6. My mom rented it for her and my dad and told me to head to bed, it was for adults only, she said.
Secretly, I watched from the top of the staircase.
I didn't sleep for weeks.
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johnwills3 — 10 years ago(July 12, 2015 10:14 PM)
The Fly but weirdly I had a poster for Rabid before seeing The Fly at a very young age on First Run.
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