Huh, back when Hanson actually popular, I had never even heard of them. I was a little ten-year-old who thought any non-classical music was 'bad' music. And I would have probably thrown up at the sight of them, what with that hair and all.
You might want to tell your brother that guess what? Hanson is grown up now (one of them is married and has a son!), and do indeed sound like men (but this time with no electrical tampering needed)! Their latest album is extremely good; they write their own songs and play their own instruments and everything. You just might want to check it out. It's called 'Underneath' and is probably still on the 'new music' racks in the stores.
I know what you mean about mostly only seeing TV at grandparents' houses! At my house, we live way out in the country (dare I say the 'middle of nowhere'?) and the only time we watch actual television (and not videos) is when the Olympics come on. We have to lug the TV monitor up to the master bedroom and do a rain dance before the channel even thinks about coming in properly.
So most of hte time, we only get to see real television when we go to our grandparents' house, or whenever we stay at a hotel, and then I and my sister/best friend mostly watch all the programs we haven't seen in months and months (like one of my favourite guiltly pleasures 'That Seventies Show' the one and only Laughing Show that I find to be actually funny). Once we even stayed up until midnight to watch the X-Files marathon (boy, were we tired the next morning!).
You saw the Luke Wilson vampire episode? That's one of my favourites as well! It's called 'Bad Blood', just for the record. You are right, it is truly hilarious watching the two agents' separate takes on the events, and then when the sheriff turns out to be a vampire is the BEST.
Actually, that's second best. The real best part is when, in Scully's narrative, Mulder is half-conscious and starts singing the 'Shaft' theme, and it cuts back to Mulder's office where he indignantly denies doing any such thing.
I"m not yet afraid of staple removers (probably because I haven't seen the episode you mentioned. I'll have to find out which one that is!) but I do NOT like bees! Every chance I get I tell my mom that bees carry either smallpox or an alien virus.
Did you see the episode with the guy who can stretch himself through the tiny spaces, and leaves elongated fingerprints? That's one of my favourite ones.
David Ducovney (okay, I know I REALLY butchered that spelling!!!)
ACtually, you did quite well. THere's supposed to be an H in front of the C, but I think that's it.
"Hello, Bill."
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AnneofGreenGables83
20 years ago
How did I miss your last post for a month and a half??? I'm crazy.
Haha...yes, the rain dance....my version was sticking my leg up in the air at various angles to help with the signal. (I was on my mom's bed) I finally figured out that if I put away the ironing board everything got a lot clearer, hehe. I had to give up on my Olympic watching this year...sigh...I CANNOT figure out the new 'tivo' (its not that brand, but its that type of thing) system. So I only caught a bit of the Games, and only the stuff my bro helped me with. But on a positive note...I bought for 2 bucks a guide to the Sydney Olympics!!! My library is moving back to its original location (they built a new library, and temporarily moved to a warehouse) and are selling off lots of books from their bookshop. Now I have a guide to go with all the video tapes I made in 2000! I have a guide to the Atlanta Games, and one to oh, what is it...the '92 winter games (I bought that for .20, so I didn't care that I didn't even watch but like 2 minutes of those games, as the reception was REALLY bad) I'm actually terribly afraid of bees without any help from the X-Files, hehe. I can't stand hearing them buzz around my head, and I'll scream and run around if they do. (I think the Bore Bee in my neighbor's shed scarred me for life. Whenever I would get too close to the shed while I hung laundry to dry, it would dive bomb my head and chase me around the yard. Nobody believed me, until my bro got dive bombed too, when he was talking to me while I was doing my chore.)I also have belonephobia (spelling...)a fear of sharp pointed objects, especially needles, as my dictionary put it. It gave a word to describe my irrational fear of hypodermic needles. Any time I see one in a movie, I have to close my eyes, or else I'll go into muscle spasms (I'm so weird!!!) No, I don't think I've seen the episode with elongated fingerprints. But I'm sure since we have the tivo thing, I'll get shown a lot more episodes.
"Excuse me while I remove this distracting bowling ball from my pocket..." ~me
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Pandoraa
20 years ago
Well, I haven't exactly been getting on with any regularity, either, so you are forgiven. [magnanimously]
I completely missed the Olympics airing on television, but a friend made tapes, so the option is at least there. I like the womens' gymnastics, anything with ribbon-twirling, or jumps, especially with musical accompaniment. The mens' gymnastics I have not historically cared much for, but it has been several years, so maybe i'll find my opinion has changed (although i highly doubt it...they're all so annoyingly musclebound).
The Winter Olympics are my favourite, without a doubt. Figure-skating, and when that's not on, skiing (especially ski-jumping), sledding, all that other stuff.
My sister says the episode with the staple remover is called 'Signs and Wonders' and it's one of the episodes with woo-woo religious fanatics in it.
"Hello, Bill."
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