am originally from the deep south.
Does that mean Mississippi or Invercargill?
And I myself will be wearing pink taffeta as chenille would not go with my complexion.
Giles ,'Touched'
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Jon B. - Jun 15, 2003 9:34:23 pm PDT #5081 of 9843
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Daisy Jane - Jun 15, 2003 9:36:30 pm PDT #5082 of 9843
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Now I prefer depressing American country music (yay, Gillian Welch -- she's my tagline).
Insert squeeling noise. I was listening to her all day Friday when I was depressed over the job I don't have. Barroom Girls helped me wallow.
Kassto - Jun 15, 2003 9:40:18 pm PDT #5083 of 9843
`He combed his hair, Put on a shirt that his mother made, And he went on the air...'
Very cool, Jon B! I wish! No it would have been far too hot for me in the Deep South. I'm a cold weather girl.
Went to boarding school in Invercargill -- actually lived on a farm way out in the sticks, to the southwest.
Leigh - Jun 15, 2003 10:30:18 pm PDT #5084 of 9843
Nobody
I don't have any grand analytical theories for this -- I only know it felt like it was cutting really close to the bone with me.
As much as I love them on a meta-level, grand analytical theories are overated. Everyone has different critical opinions because everyone reacts to things on a gut level individually. I mean, I think all my SFU critical theories are valid blah blah wanker-cakes, but they're all based on my gut reaction which has been an unqualified "Eh, whatever. Oh, and SHUT UP, you simpering twits." Which is all to say, people should agree to disagree and dance in a field of posies holding hands, but we won't because arguing is too much fun.
I, uh, don't think this post makes much sense. And it's point seems to be something along the lines of PretentiousMeta&Me4Eva!11!!!!1. Don't mind me folks, I just over-caffinated and rambling.
Angus G - Jun 15, 2003 10:32:22 pm PDT #5085 of 9843
Roguish Laird
Makes perfect sense to me Leigh. And I will say that plenty of people whose opinions I respect and value like 6FU (and West Wing, another show I can't stand.)
And, obviously, don't even get me started on music...
P.M. Marc - Jun 15, 2003 10:38:47 pm PDT #5086 of 9843
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
(Starting to suspect I may spend part of my time as Angus.)
(This is either scary or cool.)
Am-Chau Yarkona - Jun 15, 2003 10:40:05 pm PDT #5087 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
I will say that plenty of people whose opinions I respect and value like 6FU (and West Wing, another show I can't stand.)
I tend to put all those strange people who don't like the things I do (for example, say, Lord of the Rings-- nothing personal, Angus-- or the music I like, or whatever) under my grandmother's overarching phrase there's no accounting for folks.
It's at once accepting and dismissive. And it's almost impossible to argue with.
Angus G - Jun 15, 2003 10:44:29 pm PDT #5088 of 9843
Roguish Laird
Scary for you, cool for me, I'd say, Ple.
Am-Chau, yes, although for obvious reasons I prefer the phrase "there's nowt so queer as folk".
Leigh - Jun 15, 2003 11:30:50 pm PDT #5089 of 9843
Nobody
and West Wing, another show I can't stand.
It's makes me sad that the overall tone of the show is so idealistic and fantastical that my ability to suspend disbelief is completely shattered most of the time. Because there's a lot of intelligent humour and I like Aaron Sorkin's way of writing dialogue (apart from his thing with women, I don't know what's up with that), but actually watching an episode is rather gag-inducing esp. in the later seasons.
Kassto - Jun 15, 2003 11:35:35 pm PDT #5090 of 9843
`He combed his hair, Put on a shirt that his mother made, And he went on the air...'
Now, West Wing -- that started off so well. Never forget that opening episode where El Presidente didn't appear till right at the end, and he entered quoting the Bible while his staffers (Jewish) and the Christian Fundies (Anti-Semites) were having a huge stoush. Was all down hill from there. Can't think why Joss regards it so highly.