... and a bunch of other stuff happened too.. They Might Be Giants played a CD signing at the Borders at PP Mall.. free to anyone who might have been there, wasnt really hyped a lot. A calm, nice show with a lot of laughs and a signing session.
I didnt have the CD so i had them sign the only thing i had with me.. the DS9 Tech Manual.
crazy.
plus, i went with a girl and probably am going to be getting some play tomorrow, despite the fact that im trying to avoid it to be fair to Asia. decisions, decisions
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
You were supposed to buy No!. That's the whole point of an instore appearence.
And what do I get when I visit Borders? No Deltron 3030, that's for sure. And a clerk who suggests that if I like "books and things" I should come round to the gran' openin', ya hear? Am I a bad person? Is it my closet elitism? I would do penance! I would clean things!
Posted by The New CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
but i already had it..
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Well, uh...uh...you should have...
Monkeys behind you!
Posted by OnToMars (Member # 621) on :
So has anybody ever determined conclusively whether they were, in fact, giants?
Posted by The New CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
security asked me to put the yardstick away before i hurt someone
they looked pretty big though
[ June 21, 2002, 08:49: Message edited by: The New CaptainMike ]
Posted by The New CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
woo hoo! i told off a kid at michelle's party last night because he was the one who pissed me off by talking loud at the TMBG show! everybody was totally ready to kick his ass
Posted by The Same Ultra Magnus (Member # 239) on :
I trust he wasn't Particle Man. He won a lot, though.
Posted by Thoughtchopper (Member # 480) on :
Not to be confused with the Molecule Man, or the Atom. Or even Quark.
Cap: Don't feel too strange. I've got Quentin Tarantino's sig in my copy of MUCHO MOJO, by Joe R. Lansdale. It was the only thing I had handy.
On top of that it was a library copy, but you know...fuck them, I kept it. I told them I lost it, so Quentin ended up costing me about twenty bucks so I could keep my library card.
Strange, eh?
Posted by The Real Folk Blues (Member # 510) on :
you should have had him sign your library card.
Posted by Thoughtchopper (Member # 480) on :
That would have been genius, but, sadly I did not.
Posted by Nim Pim (Member # 205) on :
"I didnt have the CD so i had them sign the only thing i had with me.. the DS9 Tech Manual."
Never leave home without it!
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Yes, you never know when in-depth knowledge of the layout of the promenade might help you navigate the local shopping mall.
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Actually, if you ever go to the Bluewater mall in Kent, you may remember those words. . . The resemblance is uncanny.
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
What, it's a two-story circular mall with odd fish skeletons hanging off the ceiling and a three-story bar and casino in the middle?
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Fish skeletons?
Posted by Capped In Mic (Member # 709) on :
The Providence Place mall is a lot wierder than the Promenade.. built by a crooked mayor as part of the city's 'renaissance', its been the biggest improvement in Providence for years, along with the associated downtown rearrangement that has made this such an improved city. its also an overengineered, overcommercial, gaudy monstrosity with six levels and more confusion (and casualties) than most public buildings.
No Klingon restaurant though.. PetaQ!!!!
[ June 24, 2002, 02:03: Message edited by: Capped In Mic ]
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
quote:Fish skeletons?
Yes. You didn't see that ugly thing hanging on the Promenada? It was some sort of aquatic creature, even if it wasn't the traditional Earth definition of "fish" ...
Posted by Thoughtchopper (Member # 480) on :
Now I have a reason to await to the DS9 DVD sets.
Posted by Nim Pim (Member # 205) on :
Will they be Widescreen like Babsia?
[ June 25, 2002, 00:41: Message edited by: Nim Pim ]
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Call it "Babsy" again, and I will kill you.
DS9 wasn't shot in widescreen anyway (at least up to season 6). They did make sure that the shots would work with the tops and bottoms cut off, but there is no extra stuff at the side.
At least that's what I read.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
I never saw anything hanging from the ceiling of the Promenade, fish-like or otherwise...
Posted by Thoughtchopper (Member # 480) on :
Neither did I. But the DVDs will put this matter to rest. If they are ever made.
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
I saw it several times on the show, actually. There's a big picture of it in The Making of Star Trek Deep Space Nine Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
I'm warning you Nimmy...
Posted by Ultimate Magnus (Member # 239) on :
Vaz iz Babzia?
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Babylon 5, which is, I guess, in pseudo-widescreen, or something. They talk about it a lot in rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated, but it's a scary place.
Now then. Looks ok if you cut the tops and bottoms off? So as to pretend it is widescreen, when in fact it is letterboxed without any reason to letterbox? I AM ON TO YOU CLEVER HOLLYWOOD TYPES!!
Honestly, that is the worst crime ever.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Actually, I believe that B5 is shot in genuine widescreen, and then the sides are cut off for TV (as most current widescreen shows, such as Buffy, do). The title sequences are in widescreen, and apparently show the full picture, but I've never been arsed enough to check.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
I used to think that, too...until "Severed Dreams." Y'know how at the end of that episode, there's the big applause scene....& the camera zooms in on the ripped-down "TRAITORS CAN'T HIDE" poster? I was watching the so called "widescreen" version on Sci-Fi many eons ago & you couldn't see the poster very well because the words were obscured by the black bars at the top & bottom. So bogus widescreen it is.
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
I agree. They shot the titles equences in WS, but nothing else. As soon as they started churngin out WS stuff - the pilot or one of the movies was first, I think - the faking was obvious.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Shik: That episode was just shown on Monday. It was in widescreen, and the words on the poster weren't obscured, as far as I remember.
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