Unseen, unread, undoneFollow

Not even the ones with Chevy?

I've never seen Citizen Kane, Casablanca, It's a Wonderful Life, Gone with the Wind, or heck, just about any movie made prior to 1960 besides The Wizard of Oz. In 2009, however, I saw Avatar, Up in the Air, The Hurt Locker, Transformers 2, Where the Wild Things Are, Up, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Star Trek, The Watchmen, Extract, The Hangover, District 9, The Proposal, Zombieland, I Love You Man, Adventureland, Bruno, Funny People, Moon, Whatever Works, The Yes Men Fix the World, and Warren Miller's Dynasty all in theaters, so at least I'm up to date on current stuff.

Making that list just made me realize that maybe we should go out to the movies a little less often than we do now.

Nope. I've seen a scene here or there, but never one from start to finish.

I've still not seen Citizen Kane, but I've seen most of the rest of the "classics". I did finally see the Godfather all the way through semi-recently. I got one of those packs of Oscar Award films, and it was in the pack. Most of the classics, I haven't seen since I was a kid though, so I should probably watch them again sometime...

I have not read any of the Harry Potter or Twilight books, and don't really intend to. I have watched the HP films, and that's good enough for me, and I don't really care about Twilight at all. There are better vampire/werewolf stories out there IMO, and I *did* read a fair number of the Anne Rice books, and she basically wore the whole genre out.

I've never been anywhere near the East Coast of the US. Farthest East I've been is kind of a line running between like Oklahoma and Chicago. I have, however, spent a week in Mitchell South Dakota, home of the Corn Palace. Yes. I'm the only one...


I have bribed a Mexican police officer. And got change back!

Christmas Vacation rocks. And I've been re-reading a lot of Stephen King. Just finished Salem's Lot. I forgot how good it was. I'm about to start on The Dome now.

Movie: I've also never seen The Titanic. Have no desire to.

Read: I've missed a lot of the classics. I really want to read To Kill a Mockingbird.

Done: Nothing that can be considered "daredevil-ish" like skydiving, rock climbing, etc. I have motion sickness and I'm scared of heights. I'm so scared of heights that in games, I can't even jump off high places without my palms getting sweaty and feeling sick.

Never play Assassin's Creed.

I've never played WoW.

I haven't read the Koran, yet I have read the Bible (New & Old Testaments as well as the "New" new testament of the book of Mormon), The Buddha and His Dhamma, the Tao Te Ching, & the Tao of Poo (heh).

I haven't seen Apocalypse Now.

Shocked. On many levels. Also curious as to the conditional on drivers license.

Edited, Dec 29th 2009 1:37am by Tarub

I qualified for my Learner's licence but my parents broke up just at the age when most teenagers start having driving lessons with them, and were kinda unavailable, and I also moved far away on campus at uni in a small regional town/city. For several years I was a broke but happy uni student, and everything I needed was in short walking or bicycling distance. The brokeness meant I could pay my bills and food, but didn't stretch to driving lessons. No, I didn't drink any alcohol, there really wasn't any place I could squeeze paid lessons in. At the age where most of our friends group graduated and got jobs, several of us continued the work/shop/fraternise/go-out lifestyle without cars. We chose rental houses very close to shops, work, and each other. The ones with cars were more than happy to pick us up for longer distance visiting.

You may visualise me in hawt night-club clothes, stockings and make-up, putting my high high heels in a back-pack, putting a bike helmet and boots on and bicycling into town, chaining my bike up at the supermarket, disappearing the boots and helmet into my backpack, coming round and sashaying across the road to my favourite nightclub, cloaking the bag and having a glorious time dancing. My nightclub evenings cost me 3 dollars, for the cloakroom and one bottle of water. I'd go early before the entry fee kicked in, and start off the dance floor by myself.

I was pulled over by the cops one time at night on my bicycle, and was confused and stressed, not knowing what I had done wrong, until I finally got them to say they'd only pulled me over to chat with me. I also got catcalls from fellow uni students who recognised me on my bike coming home. However, since they had drunk all their taxi money and were walking the 30 minute walk home, and I was going to be there in 5, I was snickering at them.

One time I was picked up by a woman at a nightclub back down in Melbourne. She was an unbelievably good kisser, and I went back to her place. I would have just left my bike chained where it was and picked it up later, but she came by station-wagon herself, and she slung it in the back. The next morning she deposited me and my bicycle back at my Dad's where I was staying that weekend. We made out one last time before she left, and when I came up for air, I was shocked to see my Dad had come out to his car to leave for work. He didn't look at me, and I've never known if he saw me. He and I never brought up that I've seen women as well as men.

4th year of uni, I started getting sick. I plunged downhill physically. Ever since then, I'm often dizzy, and even more often my concentration is shot. I get occasionally get unexpected violent muscle spasms in my legs. If I'm walking, they fling me down flat on the footpath.* If I was driving, I imagine they would make me snap down on a pedal wherever my foot was. My eyesight tends to come and go, changing focus, and my body is weak, and spikes with pain, and goes more paralytic the more I do things. Basically, not only do I think that driving would be hell for me, it would be inexcusably irresponsible for me to do so. I hate not having ever qualified for my license though. A couple of boyfriends taught me to drive their manual gear cars when I was 15 and 17, just a little bit, around deserted car parks. But I never drove enough to know without doubt I could handle myself on the road and the freeways. I hate that, it makes me feel like a child in that area, and very dependant. Even if I am sick and don't drive day to day, if I'd learned properly I could at least drive a car in utter emergencies.



*The time one muscle spasm hit me when I was going down stairs was fun. It didn't make me fall down the stairs, it launched me out beyond the stairs and I split my leg horizontally open down to the bone when I hit the ground. 36 stitches. It's my favourite scar. I just found out recently my partner also likes the Frankenstein look of it. He says it makes my leg look assembled, with an encircling seam, and he can pretend I'm an android.

Movie: Never seen any of the Godfathers, nor any of the Man With No Name Trilogy. I just am never up to sitting down and spending 3 hours on it.

Books: Is there any book that really shocks people if you haven't read it? Probably would have to be an entire author or genre to be shocking, like the no Stephen King thing. I guess mine would be that I've never read a traditional fantasy novel.

Other: I have never shaved with a manual razor. Always used electric.

Movie: Never seen Goonies, The Outsiders, or most of the classic 80s flicks. Watched Ferris Bueller once on a dare. Didn't see WTF.

Books: Never read Tale of Two Cities or Animal Farm, not even in school.

Other stuff: Also, like Tare and Samira, have never been to Disneyland. I'm not sure it's worth it.

Disney World, not Disneyland here...it's worth it only:
- as a child
- with a child
- on some good drugs