More dinner conversations.

[xyzzysqrl]

Actually, there wasn't much of note this time, as we mostly discussed LA Noire (we like it).

But at other tables, interesting things were going on.

Passionate Guy: "Yeah, so the novel's about bees, except they have a human society, except it'll be totally true to the actual biology of honey bees. Bees are awesome. My virgin queen bee, you know, bee queens are born... they're actually born SCREAMING, in this kind of SOLDIERS TO ME way, it's fucking metal, because that's how awesome bees are, and this virgin queen... it's not gonna be like, y'know, Ferngully, this is totally true to bee biology..."

Eventually I tuned him out and had a listen to one of the other tables.

Older woman: "And he had -eyes-. Big staring creepy eyes. Reminded me of that actor, Boris Lugosi?"

Great golden-age actor. Sucked his own... nevermind. Anyway, eventually we got to eat and shop and leave.

On the way home, we discussed time travel movies. I dropped the bomb on the BF that there would be a new Bill and Ted film.

Woof: "Oh god. You know, the Timerangers (sentai team we've been watching) would totally put a stop to that."
Sqrl, mishearing: "Timecop? What, Jean Claude Van Damme?"
Woof: "NO. Timecop was at best b-grade Cinemax filler."
Sqrl: "And yet they thought it would do well at the box office. At least it wasn't, y'know. Freejack."
Woof: "Freejack?"
Sqrl: "Oh. God, of course you haven't seen it, you watch GOOD movies. Uh. It's about... the plot went..."
*long, long awkward silence*
*woof starts laughing*
Sqrl: "I'm just trying to remember! Okay, there's a race car driver. And I think he travels through time. And at one point he's... chased by Mick Jagger in a tank? I think?"
Woof: "Wow."
Sqrl: "It may be two or three different movies I'm confusing here, my brain keeps swapping between Mick Jagger and Tim Curry."
Woof: "That, speaking of movie meta-memes, is something I'd like to see. New Bill and Ted except instead of Keanu and that other guy, they're played by Mick Jagger and Tim Curry."
Sqrl: "!!!!!!"
Woof: "I dunno how it would WORK b--"
Sqrl: "MY LOVE, MY ANGER AND -ALL- OF MY MONEY! FUND IT!"

So things went well today. More gaming now.

Comments

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

I want to read about those bees.

[xyzzysqrl]

I wanna see some Boris Lugosi movies.

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

Him with his funny high collared cape and the bolts in his neck and bad accent and tiny vocabulary.

[kiruppert.livejournal.com]

I kinda like Lon Karloff myself. But if you really want a scary movie, you should track down some Bela Chaney.

[kiruppert.livejournal.com]

The idea that I heard floated has potental. Basically, that Bill and Ted are just sitting around, a couple of middle-aged schmucks who do the local club circuit on the weekends with their band, and they're trying to figure out why none of their songs have saved the world yet (Because their songs were to have saved the world, y'remember)

But I'm automatically down on this movie anyway because George Carlin is dead, and without Rufus, who's going to give them the phone booth?

[mocha-mephooki.livejournal.com]

... and yes, Mick Jagger does chase Emilio in a tank... well, sort of... its more of a souped up HummVee/APC thingie than a tank, but it works.

I LOVE Freejack.

[patcat.livejournal.com]

Truth
Doubt
Lie
There's no way a movie like Freejack could ever exist. Mick Jagger in a tank?! C'mon!

[xyzzysqrl]

Oh it exists. And it was -fantasticly- entertaining. We watched it last night.

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