I was taking a nap once when a burglar broke into my house. I would have had time to set myself up "Blue Velvet style" with a gun, but instead decide to scare him off with a machete. I also didn't have a shirt on. I think it worked better than shooting him. The weirdest thing was when I told the cops what I did, they told me I should have chased him down the street.

It's funny how we can take something so "industrial", overworked and watered down and lay it on velvet and treat it like something so amazing - I'd rather have the pure 100% peices they started with at the beginning before they added the copper and other metals.

Horror is my least favorite genre.

I wouldn't count Alien II or Jacob's Ladder; that was kind of sci-fi to me.

I'm one of those people with a turbo-charged imagination and I literally get wigged out for a few days after seeing a really scary flick.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre did a real number on me, in part because I was living out in the boonies at the time and there were actually dead bodies popping up hither and yon in the fields where I used to live.

One day, when I missed the bus, they found the naked body of a dead woman lying in a ditch maybe three miles from where I lived. Another time, a buddy and I were hunting rabbits, and we smelled this sickly sweet smell by the railroad tracks, and it turned out to be some chick buried there a few weeks before.

Can't do it. No horror.

(Four Flies on Gray Velvet)

Really nice video I like the way she looks.

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By the way, I'm quite sure you'll definitely like http://www.videosift.com/video/Velvet-Assassin-HD-Cinematic-Trailer-1-23 since the protagonist was specifically designed to have that vintage burlesque aura about her that I know you love

By the way, I'm quite sure you'll definitely like http://www.videosift.com/video/Velvet-Assassin-HD-Cinematic-Trailer-1-23 since the protagonist was specifically designed to have that vintage burlesque aura about her that I know you love

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I saw you with Mr. Goodmorning,
some velvet rope on the curb
he gave me a wink for a warning
I saw "do not disturb me."

don't try reading my mind,
isn't gonna get you anywhere
going by, just between us
I won't cry I wasn't even there.

I made the interior landscape
where he's been dancing with you
fell in like a leaf on the water
nowhere that I'm going to now.

don't try reading my mind,
it isn't gonna get you anywhere
going by, just between us
I won't cry i wasn't even there.

what you could do but you won't.
I want a future and you don't.
guess I care about you after now
('cos I care enough about you now - 5-8-00 version)

I saw you with Mr. Goodmorning
there's been some others before
and when you've decided he's boring
that's when he'll think he adores you.

don't try reading my mind,
it isn't gonna get you anywhere
going by, just between us
I won't cry I wasn't even there

Heh, I love the Acid Velvet Christ song that uses this line from the movie.

Looking forward to in Q1-2 of 2009 (PC): Prototype, Braid, Velvet Assassin, Aliens: Colonial Marines, Trine, Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, Splinter Cell: Conviction, Burnout Paradise, Borderlands, Bionic Commando, Dragon Age: Origins, Tom Clancy's HAWX.
The better part of these really ought to arrive in 2009, even if delayed. Some have solid release dates set for Feb, as far as I can remember.

hey! lets have a music in history thread inspired by how terrible this was
ill start:
after museful consideration i have to say that i agree with homer simpsons assertion that rock attained perfection in 1974 and anything that i can think of is either 1)directly and obviously influenced by something from this era or 2) influenced by something influenced from this era
in 1974 you have: lou reed and the velvet underground, the ny dolls, the kinks, stevie wonder, jackson 5, the rolling stones, frank zappa, patti smith, aretha franklin, david bowie, eric clapton, rod stewart, led zepplin, johnny cash, paul simon, neil young, bob dylan, and the waning days of the beatles... sure really really good things came before, but 74 seems like the perfect blending point of old and new. where the forces that were powerhouses and founding fathers of rock n roll met and mingled with the new wave and poof...

your turn go!

If you get around to watching it, lemme know what'cha think. You may get a kick out of Jullianne Moore's role.

Sam Rockwell is the shit! Anyone that plays Zaphod Beeblebrox is cool in my book. Though my favorite role of his has gotta be Chuck Barris in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind -- Love that movie sooo much. Which brings to mind a genius writer (Charlie Kaufman) and an actor/director who is both over and underrated: George Clooney. I love half of his work (inevitably the underrated stuff) and the other half I could do without.

Diane Keaton, Nicholas Cage, Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks, etc. etc. Don't do it for me either. Though Cage Occasionally gets it right. (Or maybe it's the writers.) Mel, Mel, Mel -- what scares me about him is that his true personality may be Martin Riggs, but with a touch of the religious zealot. Definitely not a good combination. I would be careful not to harm his dog.

Favorite actors... Oh my, where to begin. So many decades of cinema to recall! To avoid a carbon copy of your list -- all noteworthy thesbians -- I'll fill in some of the missing pieces: The Marx Brothers (I love them all equally), Hepburn's flame, Spencer Tracy, the other Hepburn, Audrey (mostly because of those eyes), Cary Grant, Humprey Bogart (Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon are films that I can watch from any point and be satisfied completely for every second the films goes by), Lauren Bacall (Ze Big Sleep; dear lordy, more top ten material), Clark Gable, Gary Oldman (You said it, but he's too good and far too underappreciated to not mention), Helena Bonham Carter (another one I CANNOT avoid mentioning -- a dark favorite of mine: Morgan le Fay, Elizabeth Frankenstein, Ophelia, Anne Boleyn -- dear GOD, she's a even a freakin' death eater. She has to be a reader.), Elliot Gould (More noir favorites), Michael Gambon (brilliant), Alan Rickman, Edward Norton, Tim Roth, Brad Pitt, lil' Dakota Fanning, Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, and Dennis Hopper -- I think that's the cast of Blue Velvet, another potential top ten movie with top ten actors lol. Maybe we should make lists of the people we DON'T like... on second thought... (Sorry, this got long.)

Yes! Mothersbaugh, of course. Wes Anderson's pocket composer and devolution advocate. Don't forget Sigur Ros, either. That's the part of the movie where yer supposed to cry. I heart those Icelanders. A Bowie fan too. David Bowie is my best friend's father.

Make up a top 5 real quick. (No pressure.)

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You're right. I have about 15 or so that are floating around in my favorites list. My top movies are not neccesarily the best ones I've seen. Like you said, they are the ones that I have an emotional connection to.

Wes Anderson is awesome but I haven't seen all of his films yet. My favorite so far is also The Life Aquatic. I love those covers. The Mark Mothersbaugh numbers are awesome, too. The scene where Steve introduces his boat and crew, accompanied by Mothersbaugh's "Let Me Tell You About My Boat" is one of my favorite scenes. I also really liked The Royal Tenenbaums.

Oh, underappreciated and overrated actors. It is relatively easy for me to rattle off some of my favorite actors. Paul Newman, Marlon Brando, and Ingrid Bergman are definitely in the top 5. Other actors I love off of the top of my head: Gary Oldman, Anjelica Huston, Gregory Peck, Katharine Hepburn, Bruce Willis (most people love him for the wrong reasons), Bill Murray, Charlie Chaplin, Helena Bonham Carter (I love how much her older stuff contrasts with her more recent roles. She's great.), John Goodman (I have always had a thing for this guy. He is a pleasure to watch.), James Stewart, Topol (I've only seen him in Fiddler but it is one of my favorite performances EVAR), Henry Fonda, Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Oliver Reed. This list was about 5 times as long before I cut it down. You're welcome.

I'm sure you're the same way that I am with actors. Sometimes I love them because they are truly great actors and sometimes I love them because they are good actors and you just enjoy watching them for whatever reason. I admit that one of the reasons that I love Newman, Brando, and Bergman is because they are all incredibly sexy. They also happen to be exceptional actors. Who are your favorites?

Severely overrated: Meg Ryan, Diane Keaton (used to be okay, now I can't stand her), Nicolas Cage (liked him in Matchstick Men...which reminds me that I love Sam Rockwell), Keira Knightly, and there is something about Mel Gibson's acting that seems...is it insincere? Affected? All I know is that something is off with him and I'm not a fan.

I'll rent The Big Lebowski one of these days.

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also included is a *McCain action figure. Complete with, white velvet skin loosely draped over brittle chalk skeletal structure.



*limbs do not bend or move, some assembly may be required, dentures not included

Why is everyone standing somberly in a circle with purple velvet robes on?

Oh! Oh.. My goodness. That is quite a large variety of marital aids gathered around that spit roast.. I'm, going.. Over to another town now.

You're welcome! And thank you too!

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thank you, kronos. (For giving my velvet hammer vid that last winning vote...)
you rule!!
(get it, refering to your new shiny crown, Mr. #2 in the whole wide world to ever do that???)

thank you, kronos. (For giving my velvet hammer vid that last winning vote...)
you rule!!
(get it, refering to your new shiny crown, Mr. #2 in the whole wide world to ever do that???)