Sunday, December 7, 2008

The Precise Moment You Become A Grown Up

People say it's when you turn 18 and can vote and sign legally binding documents. Others 21, when you can legally drink. Still more, when you get married. And then there's a select few who say when you become a parent.

They're all wrong.

The precise moment you become a grown up is when you stop referring to running as playing and start referring to it as exercise.

You Think Up The Questions - 4

How It Works

There's nothing to admit.
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Yes, but remember there was a full moon out that night.
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And you're insinuating what?
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Anyway I answer that will be taken the wrong way.
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I did do certain favors for them, but never that.

You Think Up The Questions - 3

How This Works


I think I would have remembered that.
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I definitely would have remembered that. I had sobered up by then.
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I wouldn't swear on a stack of bibles, no.
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I don't know why. I've just always loved doing that in elevators.
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You make everything sound so bad.

You Think Up The Questions - 2

How This Works

I wasn't the only one doing it.
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I was under a lot of pressure at the time.
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Okay, fine. It was three times, but...you do that three times and you're labeled?
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I thought we were off the record.
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Next question.

You think Up The Question - 1

How This Works

No more than twice, I swear. But, I was in college. That doesn't count.
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Well, that depends on your definition.
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I never said I enjoyed it.
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It was a really long line.
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You have pictures of what? No, you don't.

You Think Up The Questions - How It Works

I supply a statement.

You then have free reign to decide what question was asked. Roam wild, dirty to innocent, to everything in between. It's your mind...

...kind of a verbal Rorschach Test

Quote from "Spinal Tap"

INTERVIEWER:

Then there’s your album “Shark Sandwich." Just a two word review: Shit Sandwich.

Quotes From "Airplane"

Two kids, a boy and girl - who act like very proper adults, VERY proper, are on board. The boy brings a tray of coffee over and sits.

BOY: Would you like some cream?

GIRL: No, thank you. I take it black…like my men.

Quote from "Jaws"

Chief Brody wants to alert people of the danger

MAYOR:

Hold on. You go around saying, Barracuda, people go, Huh? Wha…?…But, you say shark…

Quote from "When Harry Met Sally..."

Many couples are playing visual charades…Harry and Sally each with people other than each other, of course. Sally’s drawing something no one can get. As time’s running out, Jess, Harry’s best friend pleads…

JESS : Draw something resembling anything.

Quotes from "Heist"

THE GENE HACKMAN CHARACTER:

You shouldn’t point a gun at someone unless you plan on using it. It’s insincere.

--ANOTHER SCENE--

ONE OF HACKMAN'S GANG, talking about Hackman:

My man’s so cool, sheep count him when they want to go to sleep

Quotes From "Arthur"

A blindingly drunk Arthur (is there a time he isn’t) has his driver pull his limo over to a prostitute...

ARTHUR: How much?

PROSTITUTE: $100

ARTHUR: Oh yeah, what time do you get off work?

---THEN LATER AT A RESTAURANT---

ARTHUR: Why did you…?

PROSTITUTE: Become a prostitute?

ARTHUR: Jesus, are you a prostitute? I thought I was just getting off great with you. .Sorry. Go on.

PROSTITUTE: My mother died when I was 6.

ARTHUR: Son of a bitch! Don’t they know what that does to a kid?

PROSTITUTE: My father raped me when I was 12.

ARTHUR: So, you had 6 relatively good years.

Movie And TV Quotes - How It Works

I'm mainly writing from memory, so I hope the jist is there.

If you know the actual lines or feel like commenting on the scene, movie or leave your own movie quotes...

...I'd love to hear from you.

Recipe For Stress Release

And since there's no money changing hands I'll go ahead and guarantee the money you're not paying be back
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Ready? It's easy. It's a sound.

Laughing children? Screw that. Cooing lovers? Not a chance. Twitter morning songbirds. Please.

No, the sound - my favorite in the whole world - the CRINKLING sound the computer Recycle Bin makes when you delete a file from it. I make up Word documents just so I can delete them and hear that CRINKLE sound...and I'm cool like the Dalai Lama.

Try it sometime when the world’s got you overwhelmed. Put the computer volume at just the right level, make up a Word document in it (anything quick is fine), immediately place it in the Recycle bin, sit back in a comfortable position, hit Delete and just listen to that CRINKLE as if real paper’s being balled up and thrown away.

CRINKLE. CRINKLE. You can almost see the hand crumpling it.

Then, simply, repeat until stress-free.

!!!And don't forget my not-giving-back-the-money-you-never-paid-me guarantee!!

CRINKLE. CRINKLE. You can almost see an actual hand crumpling it up.

I guarantee all refunds for this free advise.

Man In The Moon (1991)

Directed by: Robert Mulligan Written by: Jenny Wingfield

It’s 1957 in Louisiana and there’s innocence, Elvis and The Man In The Moon to tell your problems to and who’ll fix them by morning…at least according to Dani (Danielle) and Maureen’s mother (Tess Harper). Innocence, by the end of this particular summer, will be a thing of the past (as always happens in life), for Maureen but especially 14-year-old-gum-snapping Dani (Reece Witherspoon in her first role) changing quickly from tomboy to young lady.

Change arrives in their sleepy little town in the form of returning neighbors whose sun has grown into a handsome 17-year-old who Dani develops a crush on. As much as he likes Dani, his eyes are for Maureen. So now, this sister who Dani always wished she could be becomes her mortal enemy. How many different emotions this young girl must deal with? Thankfully there’s her mother and father (Sam Waterston) to turn to…or be forced to turn to against her will so they can help her.

Then a tiny, careless act is committed while daydreaming and tragedy strikes, a tragedy that makes a person want to question what can offer no answer…and Dani and her sister are thrust straight into adulthood, and the adults thrust deeper into their adulthoods as lost innocence, this type of lost innocence, will do.

And, in the end? There is each other, there is Elvis, and there is The Man In The Moon willing to listen to your problems, and maybe, just maybe, if you believe enough as you drift off to sleep, have them fixed come morning.

Wishlist - Pearl Jam (words by Eddie Vedder)

I wish I was a neutron bomb, for once I could go off
I wish I was a sacrifice but somehow still lived on
I wish I was a sentimental ornament you hung on
The Christmas tree, I wish I was the star that went on top

I wish I was the evidence, I wish I was the grounds
For 50 million hands upraised and open toward the sky
I wish I was a sailor with someone who waited for me
I wish I was as fortunate, as fortunate as me

I wish I was a messenger and all the news was good
I wish I was the full moon shining off a Camaro's hood
I wish I was an alien at home behind the sun
I wish I was the souvenir you kept your house key on

I wish I was the pedal brake that you depended on
I wish I was the verb to trust and never let you down
I wish I was a radio song, the one that you turned up
I wish...I wish...

...I wish...

Strawberry Fields Forever (words by John Lennon)

Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see
It's getting hard to be someone
But it all works out
It doesn't matter much to me

No one I think is in my tree
I mean, it must be high or low.
That is, you can't you know tune in
But it's all right
That is I think it's not too bad.

Always, no sometimes think it's me,
but you know I know when it's a dream
I think, er No, I mean, er, Yes
But it's all wrong
That is I think I disagree

Let me take you down
'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about

Strawberry Fields forever.

I Still Haven't Said Why I Like The Lyrics

I know. I forgot. But I will remedy this shortly...

...Guess it's lucky for me no one reads this.