HA - I had to look from home tonight because I couldn't see where the banana hammock comment was coming from on my work computer. THAT is just funny as h'ell, ADA!!!

Cvl - I'm glad to see that you received the proper interventional treatment to heal so well following your confessed 80's affliction. I, myself, needed two bad post-Purple Rain albums in a row to recover from mine. Family - It is just soooo vitally important to receive their support when times are tough... just soooo vitally important *sigh*

^^

Ah shite - having just read a comment somewhere else re: The X-Files, I'm remembering that didn't Mulder disappear at some point and Scully didn't know where he was??? crap

Yup Naydi, also known as the beginning of the end for me as an X-files fan, because it was all written around Duchovny leaving/doing less episodes. But that`s besides the point, sorry! I need to read back to read the X-files comment .

Did I mention I love the way this thread has turned out .

Who says I recovered? When I'm not here or on the Reel, I'm on A-Team sites (yes, there is a twelve-step program, no I haven't gotten past step 1 ).




And failing that, there are always the other loonies on the boards

Not to mention the subject of at least 20 fanfics for [insert show name here].

Who's got time for fanfics when they're busy dissecting the real thing for their own personal, life-escaping enjoyment??!

I'd stopped watching X-Files waaay before then, but you've gotta love the moves made for TV big fishes with dreams of movie stardom!!

One thing that's always bothered me with that whole ego phenomenon, and the failure that goes along with it, is that David Caruso was mocked visciously for leaving NYPD Blue to "become a movie star". It's amazing how every single entertainment reporting outlet across the US decided to come together in faux amnesia blatantly ignoring the fact that the man started out in movies in the first d'amn place!!! I saw him in King of New York yeeeeaaaarrs before NYPD Blue was even on the air.

'course, none of any of this has dook to do with Vincent or LOCI, but I just thought I'd take this opportunity to put forth the rare 'public' comment defending David Caruso! gotta love your fellow man...

Hi-dee;

I just got a lovely PM, but I can't reply to the person who sent it because that part of my board access was the last to go and, apparently, will be the last to come back. ('skampyyyyy - Help! ) A very important question was raised within this private note, though, which shuddered me to my soul to not try to address immediately via the only method currently available:

No, my friend. I am not a David Caruso fan.

Ha - haaaaaaaaaaaa!! I did feel really bad for the guy for getting unfairly beat up by the media like that, though; especially behind such a convenient historical lie......

na

Oops.

And I am very very sorry of course...

As much fun as I'm having, we've got to get this thread back on Vincent at some point...

Okay, one more: Cvl, I'm here for you. I thought kicking Hasselhoff was a major step in and of itself, but I didn't know you had it so bad. Dirk Benedict. That, that's just a h'ell of a thing... Just remember, the first step is recognizing that you have a problem. It's all step by step, day by day, my friend. And just know that, yes, I did let the purple elf go, but, it was just as hard for me to turn away from the MacGyver MasterCard commercial as it was to not turn to USA for the reruns back in the day... I did it, though - You can too!!!

Yup, had the MacGyver thing goin' on too. But the A-Team issue is worse than you think. It wasn't Dirk Benedict...it was (and still is) Dwight Shultz.

Hey, at least he can act.

Okay, folks, we now return you to your regularly scheduled Vincent thread.

Since sometimes getting off topic is just impossible to prevent and I heard that we were allowed to start an off topic thread, I thought I`d kick off with this one .

Now, a major problem for an off topic thread is that the choice of subjects is only limited by the subject of the board, in this case LOCI, which leaves a rough estimation of 1000000000000000000 if not more subjects to talk about. Don`t get me wrong, I truly doubt it will be a problem for us here to fill up this precious part of the world wide web, but still, making a first post is really kind of hard . Sort of. A little. Not really acutally .

To just jump into an off topic discussion somewhere on this board about kicking the habit of Dirk Benedict/Dwight Shultz/David Hasselhoff....mine was David Duchovny/X-files. DD I was over pretty quickly, but the X-files, I still have to force myself to not watch when I find it`s on tv (which is always at the most impossible time of the evening, also known as my bed time ). And I miss the online community...

And, because I really don`t want this to be a coherent post, I thought it`d be interesting to do a little round of a/s/l (age/sex/location)? Obviously asking those questions makes me obligated to go first so: 21/female/the Netherlands.

Let`s get off topic people !

<heh heh>

35/female/Wincester, MA (suburb just outside of Boston)

What?!? Was the online community built not stronger than the faux life of the show? ****, there's another board I frequent where the band hasn't put out anything in over two years and the nuts couldn't care less... That's the bad thing about strictly limiting discussion just to the entertainment/er, it/themself. There's multiples of hundreds of posts per day in this board's general discussion section, some of it pretty interesting, pertinent, and/or breaking news. I'd been studying in silence so deeply that particular exam day, that it wasn't until taking a mental break to send an email to my boss (asking for the next day off, too, for a written assignment from the weekend's clinical time that there was no possible way of doing for the next class lest I learned to break the laws of time and space... waaaaaay too much going on this month... i'm convinced the school is trying to kill us) that I found out about the Corey Lidle plane crash in NYC. I'd just happened to swing by the board to be nosy for a second. Reading about the whole thing shocked the h'll out of me, because just what was happening was still unknown. But anyway, what the h'll is my point??? I'ono... I don't even think X-Files is replayed up here anymore, unless it's on Sci Fi. Loved that channel when it came out. Then it went from have "real" movies and TV shows to playing bad, made for sci fi junk and stuff like Stargate and such, so I just lost all interest. But, X-Files; I can't even remember when or why I got to the point of -oookay, I'm done... Might have had something to do with all the bees or something, or was that in the X-Files movie that I never actually saw? More than likely what killed it for me was the hype. I hate hype. I hate being told what I should and shouldn't enjoy. It's just so intrusively annoying to me. The Matrix got me because I saw it by accident during a period where I was consciously ignoring all media outlets. A cleansing period, if you will. A friend asked me to go to the movies, I said sure, she picked the movie, I left saying D'AMN! Had I actually been paying attention to the media at the time, I wouldn't have gone to see it. So, I think that's it. I more than likely got sick of hearing everybody and their mother talking about the X-Files to the point that it lost all appeal to me.

Do you remember American Gothic?? Gary Cole was the man for a hot second.



Even after he went and lost his **** mind....



But he has recovered quite nicely....



Read something about Vincent actually considering playing Fred Flinstone for a second. Glad the effect of the mind control drugs slipped into his Folgers before the death-defying escape from the guerillas or whatever massive blow to the head he must have suffered around that the time wore off when it did... There'd have been NO recovering from that sh't!!!! Just none

.

I LOVED that show AND Gary!
This was before TiVO and since I live in the "sticks", my brother would tape the shows for me. Just this past Christmas he gave me the DVD set.

Mo - 40/Female/Bois D'arc, Texas

^
I haven't seen an episode in yeeeeaaaars.... hmmm, going to have to check out Netflix to see if they've got it... Now, THERE'S a show that should be playing on the Sci Fi... I'd watch it. Think it's related to NBC somehow maybe via the Universal or General Electric (or Westinghouse?) parent company thingie. Pass it on - if anyone reading is someone who might care!!!

You know, I really don't watch much TV beyond LOCI, Discovery, Animal Planet, Science Channel, Bravo and the like. Did just add TBS to the DVR mix though, after finding out one early that one of "my show"s is on the air over there. Anyone who can tell me what it is gets a nice, fresh-baked, warm and chocolately cookie...*






*fees, taxes, and fabrication of all prizes to be the be the sole responsibility of the winning contestant

Scrubs? No wait, that's Comedy Central. Sex and the City's been on there for a while. I know they just added King of Queens...oh crap. How did I get to know so much about syndicated tv when I work 120 hours a week?

btw, so many of my posts are OT that my rare on-topic posts should probably be posted here. But anyone who's been here longer than 10 minutes knows that I always feel free to act as the peanut gallery.

31/f/South Suburbs, Chicago IL

This is easy. It's "NewsRadio." :-)

Ah d.amn! The picture didn`t work on my own computer! I would have known that! I love Newsradio! In high school some others and I were totally addicted...my nickname was Smaz for a while. Realizing now that Maura Tierney was my favorite actress for a long time and that I`ve totally lost touch with what she`s doing right now (don`t watch ER anymore). But that`s off topic...oh right....

I think I have a more 'on topic' reply in my head, but it`s dinnertime here.

Ah, Newsradio, good memories....

well, so much for the attempt at quoting....

For Peachy:



-----
as far as high school years....




..think again!!!

^^^
Looking back, that last post wasn't exactly clear... Anyone have any guesses as to the show above?


(let your first guess go...)

Got fresh new fodder coming at 9p tomorrow! Hopefully, it'll all be positive analysis come Wednesday morning... Hope still lives hooked up to a PEEP vent...


...please don't let me down people!

Standing by with 1 mg each of epi and atropine...now somebody just shove a writer's arm in front of me

I'll hold 'em down... Seraph, you get busy running to VDO's dressing room with our freshly jacked, fall-collection of Hugo Boss ties!!!




and don't worry about the dogs...frothing means they're friendly

Uhm, I couldn`t find his dressing room...

...or actually I`m afraid of the big dogs .

And d*mn you two! Everytime I think I can try for the title Queen of Off Topic-ness, there you are!

*sulks in corner listening to emo-music*
Where`s my my eye-liner? Naydi, get some eye-liner out of KE`s dressing room while you`re at it, will ya honey

Someone's at the door..... Naydi darlin', I just KNEW you were a Lucasfan. You SOUND more Gothnik than LOCI. (which is to say you are a wit)



By the way, I just dropped your name over at the Criminal Intent US board re the insightful diagnostic you ran on D'Onofrio at the Reel. Convoluted sentence, but you know what I'm talking about. - bwalter, aka elizabethbay

Well, what'd you do with the sacrifice chiuhuahua Cvl set you up with??? Maaaaaaannnn! *sigh* I know you'll come through on the next op, though, girl.

I'd found a tasty shirtless Morrissey pic, but my choking back sick gave a clue that that'd be going too far... Will you just settle on clicking 'thom yorke' as newly linked yesterday into my sig below? Far less pretentious than My Chemical Romance, but it should hit the right spot...

Whichever you decide, all I know is that you best appreciate the a**kicking I just outran for you!!!



didn't go for the treasure trove of an emo wardrobe, though... little lady is fast and I'm not all too keen on committing suicide!!!!







anymore

(guess I'm going to have to just accept the fact that I'm the only loser who remembers The Tracey Ullman Show on FOX..... *whimper*)


Alternating in the top spot with Miss Tina Turner as my True Greatest Hero to this day:






HA - that's awesome on the name drop!! Of course, that was the pre-cardiology semester student-guestimation w/some science... Could throw out all kinds of a lot more scary sh*& now!! Hope there's nobody over there who's thinking that the man went down just last week, as I've seen in a few posts sprinkled about here and on the LOCI contest page? There's nooooo need to go sifting through the stack of saved up Hallmarks or contemplate parting with your most favorite cherished Build-A-Bear, folks!!



(wait, are Build a Bear workshops just something that we've got up here in New England?)

You know what is really scary? That my emo-music remark actually came from me listening to My Chemical Romance . I`m not kidding, I repeat not kidding. Just discovered that I really really like their latest album. Or did I just forget I mentioned that somewhere on this board?

No, emo-music is not generally my thing. I like lots of music. Just so you guys know.

Anyway, I`m over it, and I don`t want the eye-liner anymore.

Naydi, honey, I said BIG dogs, afraid of the BIG dogs. I don`t know where you`d classify the chiuhuahua, but eh..... Actually I`m not afraid of dogs and I was just lazy. Sorry . Or actually I did go to his dressing room, but I was sort of, distracted.


*pets chiuhuahua*

Sorry, it`s just so hard not to get attached. Even though he`s one ugly sob.

^^
Noooooo - the chiuhuahua was to be fed to the big dogs!!! It's no wonder the mission failed... We've got to fo-CUS, people!!!


*huuuuh*


s'what I get from recruiting henchwomen from a PETA protest...

Tracey Ullman, rock pic, Build-a-Bear, Gary Cole, Vincent D'Onofrio = madhouse. I am so confused.
I will say that we do not have Build a Bear in Australia. We leave that sort of thing to Indonesian sweatshops.

HA HAAA - Children should be made to work to earn their toys.... Teaches them that there are no free rides to be had on this earth!


you didn't mention Siouxsie Sioux by name? so soon she is forgotten.... 'tis a shame


Well, the attempt to change to the Pink Floyd marching hammers or dangling teacher failed miserably due to the lack of anime for the avatars here - perhaps I'll give her a tribute instead..


EDIT: Ha - just went in search of the term Gothnik sensing a slight misinterpretation on my part. You know, that one isn't even in Wikipedia yet! Suffice it to say, guess I'm not a Gothnik considering I'd never heard of the movement.. I can only handle membership into so many sites at once - one that'd give me a label: Naaaaah... Odd thing, though, seems one or two folks on Google used the word in the way I'd assumed it was meant.. As far as the others, bless their little AG-loving hearts, I don't see them succeeding in bringing the show back anytime soon!

Chihuahuas can be big...all depends on how tall you are.



Well, keep the d@mn chihuahua away from his ankles! Toes? How far up does a chihuahua reach when you're six-four? Somebody call Taco Bell!

She was focusing. Can't blame her if the focus was not on the chihuahua at that time...

Dammit, y'all, quit havin' fun while I'm at work! I hate playin' catch-up!

Um, some of these kids might not be old enough, darlin'. We're creeping up there.
Either that, or there is a very limited number of other idiots reading this thread




If it's what I think it is, they have something similar in L.A. ("not that LA, the L.A.!")

Hrmmph! Like-ta see somebody reference that quote!

You could always just post a nice big swastika on your sig. After all, there might be one or two people here you haven't p!ssed off yet

shackled with a peeping PETA-phile and a nymph..oh nooo, everything will be fiiiiine...what could possibly go wrong??

*smack off own forehead* DUMB a**!!!


Um, Cvl, I think I'm scared a little sh*tless by your version of revolution!!! You know. Just the tiniest bit. Along with the visions of Hostel dancing in my head - I'm thinking this might end up being pretty painful...



just the 1 case should be enough for now

That'll be me once I'm on the floors - there will be no computer play throughout the day....

HA - I was thinking about that after the fact!! If folks haven't picked up on my fetish for strong and/or communicative visuals just yet, well, then p!ssed off they'd have been! Seriously, though, given that, in the context of the movie, it's a satirization of the whole mindset used to show the depths of insanity that Pink sunk down into, the whole possibility of it being misunderstood as promoting the Nazis didn't even come close to my mind during the mad search!! Having let it go (and having failed to be able to link up Not Now John given the multiple friggin 'your signature's too looooong' rejections), I've moved on to looking for a shot of Home Base from The X's...

Think there'll be any hardcore HAL fans ready to beef if that one goes up!!??!?





EDIT: Yes, I'm aware it's Stephen Root's voice... love how everything ties in nicely, don't you??

Oh thank you, a peeping PETA-phile? I thought you knew me better than that already! I`m sorry I have to do it this way Naydi, it`s not really my style, but....I`m breaking up with you...Geez, and to think I hate chihuahua`s (chihuahua`s, btw, are not big dogs to me, even though I`m tiny).

*cries*



And it will be me from January onwards...well sort of...

CvlSrvnt, isn`t playing catch-up better than no activity on this board whatsoever?




Thanks, I just re-watched Saw and watched Saw II so that puts a pretty good image in my head. Thanks. Really. Since it`s bed time here. jk

Ehm, what revolution are we afraid of exactly?

*grins*

I need to go to bed because I can`t even make a funny post

For fullscreen Halloween viewing;

the scariest song and video ever made...









yes - they are what's wrong me starting in 79....

What are talking? Unceremoniously dumping my trivlin' a** in 'public' was pretty funny, I thought... Or, at least, that's what my therapist told me when the flood subsided just enough for me to be able to see to read the note to her over the phone at the suggestion of the nice fireman who talked me back in from the edge of my balcony... He was so nice in his plastic hat and rubber boots... He says that my hair should grow back all pretty and that I shouldn't worry about the shattered sliding door because they can always put more glass in and it's supposed to be warm tonight anyway... He was a lovely fireman... I want one of them now... But my apartment's too far up from the basement... Building a really good collection is so much easier when you only have on two floors... Haven't you found? I miss my old house... I think I'm supposed to lay down now...

*sigh*

Girl, you have some serious issues.

I knew I liked you for a reason.

Even scarier when you're tripping.

Ahem.

Or so I've heard.

And I scare you?

Don't worry hon, at least I'm not gonna dump you. I will continue to talk to you from between the plastic sheets in my rubber room. Or is that the rubber sheets in my plastic bubble? Which one are you into now?

<heh heh>

Seraph'll come crawling back...





.....I baited the trap with Nutella






pleeease?

Though you didn't ask - it started i 1979, when I was 8.. Maxie, my mother's second cousin's 17 or 18-yr old foster son (i don't know how these things work) had The Wall album... Roger Waters' voice scared the h'ell out of me, but I still loved Another Brick in The Wall anyway; for the music even more than the words - i actually liked school then... The drawings from Gerald Scarfe on the fold out double-album cover? Scared the living bejeezuz out of me beyond the point of words, but I couldn't help but keep staring at them whenever I could - each and every time that I could... It was around the same time that I kept seeing those freaky-a@@ Funkadelic album covers during the holidays at my grandmothers... Um hummm - you know which ones I'm talking about... Then, come 80-whenever when the commercial for The Wall movie was on TV? The baseline, the darkness of all the shots and that part where he's standing in the tunnel and the train went by and everyone had on were wearing those blank "Pink" face masks? Scarred for life, I was...



ba&tard geniuses...





...someone please hold me


EDIT: Oh - if you're wondering just what in the H'ELL I'm doing here in the 9o'clock hour... I'm not used to being home on Tuesdays... Gotten rather comfortable watching LOCI with the ability to scan through the commercials!! I'll be burning CD's til 10...

That's right, Ipods - You go to h'll; you go to h'll and you die!

Is this Tull of whom you speak the same Jethro Tull who STOLE Metallica's grammy?

Spent 9th grade math writing down all the lyrics from The Wall, Dark Side, and Wish from memory (along with some Tull). Got my uncle to sneak me into a midnite showing of the film at the Senator theater in Baltimore when they first put in THX. Went to the laser show at the planetarium as one my first junior-high dates. Had the 4'x4' glow-in-the-dark banner on the ceiling above my bed. And saw them at the Rosebowl in college.

See? It's not our fault we're such messed up people.

(though I hate to end it here - oh, it'll come back... don't you fret none..)



And the Winner of best line from today's series of sick and twisted story-telling:



^ To this, I must pause and bow down...

Hum? I know, where did everybody go? I'm not hearing sirens or anything... Hey, Seraph!! Come. Join us.

You won't feel a thing.



(on a side note: I've still managed not to have anyone come strolling through my railway car of an office space at the wrong time during uncut plays of Thom Yorke's Black Swan or Tool's Aenema... they've already blocked on online radio... now i'd like to see all our CD drives systematically ripped out!)