Invitation - Sin City

[jack]

To celebrate not having exams a couple of us are going to see Sin City tomorrow. Does anyone else want to come?

We'll probably have food first, and then go to the 9.10 showing.

Comments

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

That can actually be more fun[1], clubs can suck sometimes. It also depends, male friends or female friends :)

[1] Have you read Ben Elton's Dead Famous?

[nakedtoes.livejournal.com]

No, never clubbing - the option I threw up was a bar.

And yes I have, though I fail to see how it relates to the rest of your comment :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I meant club or bar, bars with cocktails often seem clubbier.

See below.

[atreic.livejournal.com]

Yes, but I don't get the reference, and I thought I had that book memorised...

[mair_in_grenderich]

I read it all through my final exams. Er, I mean, in my breaks from revising. But I don't get it either :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Er, I mean, in my breaks from revising.

LOL.

It's funny how many of us *have* seized on that book.

[mair_in_grenderich]

well, I didn't want to give the impression I sat through the actual exams reading Elton :-)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

LOL. It'd beat my infamous walking with a book. And even the girl I saw walking along an Underground platform reading.

OTOH, if, hypothetically, one was in an exam easy enough you finished before the end and weren't allowed to read it would actually make sense.

[mair_in_grenderich]

I was brought up to re-check if I finished before the end. And then check again. And again...

My sister used to read books and play the piano at the same time.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I did say hypothetically, I don't think I've ever actually stopped more than 30 sec before the end. In fact, I remember feeling inadequate insome school exams because I was writing furiously up until the end whereas some people finished half an hour before. But then I got 98% and they got 60, so my frantic rechecking obviously works after all.

But if an exam is simple *enough*[1] it becomes counterproductive because you start getting too clever and outguessing yourself.

[]1 I'm reminded of the urban legend of a $foo engineer who was a foremost expert but now beurocratically required for have $bar qualification, and before the exam asked "Are you related to the $foo who weote the textbook we're using" and he replied "I *am* that $foo."

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

My sister used to read books and play the piano at the same time.

Mwa? How??

[mair_in_grenderich]

She put the book on the music-standy bit.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

After a minute of thinking I figured out that that would be possible physically. I'm still confounded that anyone can manage it coordinationwise.

[mair_in_grenderich]

she was playing tunes she knew?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Well, I would hope so! But not being a musician I assumed even a simple tune would require enough coordination to rule it out.

I suppose you can *talk* while playing, and if you can play blind and fix your eyes on the book it should be ok, but it just sounded 'umglehowhow?' :)

[fluffle.livejournal.com]

it was only awkward when I wanted to turn pages. There are some songs I can play blindfold, literally, I've played them so much...

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. I'm still amazed, though I've never tried so I don't know how hard it really is.

[nakedtoes.livejournal.com]

I used to try that, but it was never particularly successful and my mother used to go mental when she caught me.

Cello finger exercises and reading worked better :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

It's my favorite Elton; I didn't really go for any of the others, but did like his style, and this quote jumped to mind.

I was thinking of when they were discussing how ice-cream's changed since they were kids, and then in the editing booth Bitchwoman thinks that when she gave them ice-cream she hoped they'd eat it off each other's naked bodies, not talk about it.

Did I get the wrong book?

[atreic.livejournal.com]

That's the right book. However, out of the many scenes that stick in my mind, that's not one of them :-)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I thought you had that book memorised :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I just thought it was particularly amusing somehow. I'm sure the naked licking is coincidental :)

[mair_in_grenderich]

no, that's the one.

[atreic.livejournal.com]

Oh, now I remember! About how starbursts arn't opal fruits, and how everything comes with a brand name!

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

And wasn't there Jazz's description of David's toothbrush, how a traditional toothbrush is actually a fasion statement now because you have to go out of your way to find one, bought only by people who want to make a point that they're not swayed by fasion, not the actually agnostic? That described me too well.

[mair_in_grenderich]

you have a traditional toothbrush?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I couldn't describe it offhand, I genuinely don't care enough. But I would always buy the plainest looking one.

And when intimidated by choices can sometimes be found getting the cheapest because I can rationalise that decision, even if its not really cheap enough to be worth it.

So in fact, I'm like very non-rational, but so is everyone else :) and that's why stores that look like warehouses work :)

[mair_in_grenderich]

I bought some cheap toothbrushes once, but they feel rubbish, so I went out a couple of days later and bought some more expensive ones.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Well, it's got a non-straight neck and sculptured bristles, but was the *most* matt and uniform one iirc.