» Blood

bitey is awesome
never tried this myself but...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAaD-nZSMIE

short & sweet, you know you secretly like it like that...
(Thu 14th Aug 2008, 9:51, More)

» Best Films Ever

Dinner for One
"The best films are the ones you used to play OVER & OVER & OVER again when you were a kiddo."

I would also add that the best films are those that you quote on a regular basis in everyday life too...

Okay, under this rule my favourite films would have to be:

1. Top Gun: This was the first proper film I ever owned - back in the olden days when we had VHS videos. For you kids, that's kind of a small box thing with a reel-to-reel tape... never mind.... I actually got the soundtrack CD before I got the movie. I had to get a CD player to play that too since it was my first CD too... For a teenager who loved aeroplanes, this was by far the best movie around - far better than Iron Eagle (which was one of the first films I saw in the cinema)

Maverick:"Because I was inverted"
Iceman:"*COUGHbullshit*"
How many times have I used that when disagreeing with a mate who was full of $h!t.

And really, who wouldn’t want Meg Ryan to say to them:
“Take me to bed or lose me forever.”

2. The Gods Must Be Crazy: The original, south african version - not the silly american dubbed version. It frustrates me that american distributors have to over-dub an ENGLISH film (ie spoken in english albeit with an accent) with american voice actors because they think that the bulk of american viewers can't understand other english accents.... and another thing - the second one (TGMBC 2) was absolutely sh!te but probably because I only ever saw an american over-dubbed version /rant.

We taped the original off the TV in south africa sometime back in the 80's & watched it MANY, MANY times as we grew up.

"coming to give you morrtal supporrt" (going to talk to his lady friend)
"what the hell you do thet for? huh??" (after he winched the anticrist up the tree)

3. The Hunt for Red October: I never saw this one until after I met Mrs GMRage. It was her favourite movie, and I quickly grew to love it too, because there is no gratuity in it - no drug use, no sex, and no unnecessary violence. The coarsest language in it is "God dam".

"Give me a ping Vasily. One ping only please" Useful quote whenever I ask someone to pass me something. As in: "give me a _____ Vasily. One _____ only please"

I also enjoyed “Unbreakable”, “the Usual Suspects”, and “the Interview” with Hugo Weaving. I love the twists at the end of these. They all left me breathless… wondering… how did I miss the signs? … just very well told stories.
(Wed 23rd Jul 2008, 10:17, More)

» Tales of the Unexplained

also heard about
this street where sausages suddenly started appearing overnight in peoples letter boxes, on their front lawns, on their roofs...

Always cooked...

For weeks on end...

No-one could explain it...

Some sort of nightly spectral infestation? or maybe a mean jest..

Creepy?

I heard they were thick and long...
(Wed 9th Jul 2008, 6:27, More)

» Tales of the Unexplained

at last I know I'm not the only one...
"i found myself in the really weird position of having seen it all before. not sure how that could happen - but i was really dis-orientated as it was such a perfect replica of my dreams, or my dreams were of such perfect form of the reality - bazza van der trance"

It was kinda spooky reading that... I don't know how many times I have had seemingly innocuous dreams of simple, everyday situations that then occur weeks or months later.

I have mentioned it to my wife & brother at times & had those dreams dismissed as just 'similar' to expected, normal situations.

But here's the crux: How can my brain POSSIBLY imagine/construct being somewhere I have never seen before?

example: We moved into a new rental place 8 months ago. A few weeks ago I was sitting at the dining room table with my young kids when I get the feeling I have been there before... I remembered seeing that EXACT situation (where I was sitting, where the kids were sitting, how old they were, etc) in a dream I had BEFORE we even moved from our old house...

So how could I know:
1) what the new house would look like?
2) what age my kids would be in that situation?
3) where we would all be seated?

Oh, and it's not just the look of the scenario that I dream about - I also know how I'm feeling & what I'm thinking about in these dreamed situations.

I have these dreams often enough that I'm not afraid of them, but invariably as soon as I get that feeling of 'this is familiar', I start really paying attention to where I am & what's happening around me.

These dreams are always in the 1st person, so it's only ever situations that I will find myself in later. & it's completely involuntary.

strange? spooky?

Sorry for length - first time & all that.

Would have been longer if the missus had showed up..
(Wed 9th Jul 2008, 6:09, More)