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aruanWhich we did, just today.
Or should I say, Orlaaaandooo? Oh, Viggo. You girls kill me. Come on, Miranda, do your impression again!
She's gotta be so sick of us by now.
MegaCon is perhaps the most Diet Coke of conventions I've ever been to. Michael, however, was as handsome and charming as ever. It is entirely possible that his manager was wearing the same shirt he wore to WizardWorld in Chicago. We walked around, admired James the graphic artist, and made ourselves comfortable around the snazzy round-table seating in the back of the chartered shuttle bus. Rock star style, baby.
We killed some time wandering around an outlet mall. Walking arm-in-arm, we passed through Bass shoes, made gushy if slightly lamenting that they weren't men's flower-print pants at XOXO and braided my hair. We were more girly for those forty-five minutes than the year's total.
Ahem. Speaking of rock star style, our next stop was the Hard Rock Cafe at Universal Studios Citywalk. Our waiter, Vegas, was biker-cool and stoned guitarist-enthusiastic, and made Miranda stand on a podium-ledge with her sundae as the entire restaurant screamed Happy Birthday to her. She got the good one, too. We walked and danced and made merry there for a while before heading back home.
And then, we made the mistake of deconstructing the meaning of a pop song. *points at musical selection* Am firmly convinced that it's about a Slayer in a club swarming with vamps picking people off, and she comes in to get her Chosen One duties on in style. It might also have been a very long day.
It's murder on the dancefloor
But you better not kill the groove
There are people dropping out there, but seriously, my ass means business tonight, so don't flee those turntables if you know what's good for you.
DJ, gonna burn this goddamn house right down
An ill-timed metaphor.
Oh, I know I know I know I know I know I know
About your kind
This spawned the Slayer theory.
And so and so and so and so and so
I'll have to play
Well yeah, where else would the fun be?
If you think you're getting away
I will prove you wrong
I'll take you all the way
Boy, just come along
It sounds a little like she wants to make it good for them. They should (all) be so lucky. Heh.
Hear me when I say
Hey, It's murder on the dance floor
But you better not kill the groove
So long as we have our priorities straight.
It's murder on the dancefloor
But you better not steal the moves
Nobody likes a lemming. Get your own Dance. ;)
*nods* Yes.
Or should I say, Orlaaaandooo? Oh, Viggo. You girls kill me. Come on, Miranda, do your impression again!
She's gotta be so sick of us by now.
MegaCon is perhaps the most Diet Coke of conventions I've ever been to. Michael, however, was as handsome and charming as ever. It is entirely possible that his manager was wearing the same shirt he wore to WizardWorld in Chicago. We walked around, admired James the graphic artist, and made ourselves comfortable around the snazzy round-table seating in the back of the chartered shuttle bus. Rock star style, baby.
We killed some time wandering around an outlet mall. Walking arm-in-arm, we passed through Bass shoes, made gushy if slightly lamenting that they weren't men's flower-print pants at XOXO and braided my hair. We were more girly for those forty-five minutes than the year's total.
Ahem. Speaking of rock star style, our next stop was the Hard Rock Cafe at Universal Studios Citywalk. Our waiter, Vegas, was biker-cool and stoned guitarist-enthusiastic, and made Miranda stand on a podium-ledge with her sundae as the entire restaurant screamed Happy Birthday to her. She got the good one, too. We walked and danced and made merry there for a while before heading back home.
And then, we made the mistake of deconstructing the meaning of a pop song. *points at musical selection* Am firmly convinced that it's about a Slayer in a club swarming with vamps picking people off, and she comes in to get her Chosen One duties on in style. It might also have been a very long day.
It's murder on the dancefloor
But you better not kill the groove
There are people dropping out there, but seriously, my ass means business tonight, so don't flee those turntables if you know what's good for you.
DJ, gonna burn this goddamn house right down
An ill-timed metaphor.
Oh, I know I know I know I know I know I know
About your kind
This spawned the Slayer theory.
And so and so and so and so and so
I'll have to play
Well yeah, where else would the fun be?
If you think you're getting away
I will prove you wrong
I'll take you all the way
Boy, just come along
It sounds a little like she wants to make it good for them. They should (all) be so lucky. Heh.
Hear me when I say
Hey, It's murder on the dance floor
But you better not kill the groove
So long as we have our priorities straight.
It's murder on the dancefloor
But you better not steal the moves
Nobody likes a lemming. Get your own Dance. ;)
*nods* Yes.
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Date: March 5th, 2003 09:37 am (UTC)And by the way, I am so green with envy (like I'm ever going to be able to set foot in Orlando at all. Mph), I'm probably actually purple. lol.
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Date: March 5th, 2003 10:27 am (UTC)That's probably one of the top three in the way of Compliments That Make Me Giddy. *g* Thanks, because though I often amuse myself, those around me are just as frequently left more confused than bemused.
Orlando is mostly unremarkable and wholly innavigable. I just have a thing for tacky tourist traps and the theme park glitz. Magpie, table for one?
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Date: March 5th, 2003 10:33 am (UTC)I have a thing for things wholly Americans, and from what I heard, Orlando's something a bit like that. Then again, it's only second-hand. Plus yeah, the whole theme park glitz and the tackiness of tourist traps works for me too. Also, you know, Florida. Not like I'll ever be able to visit that part of the world anytime soon. Anything unattainable immediately takes on that special glow that makes it seem like the one thing one has to find a way of knowing.
And then, there's the fangirl in me who dragged everybody to James Dean's street when in New York, and wouldn't rest until she'd taken a picture of that particular parking corner at the Hollywood observatory. So you know, Orlando, *nsync... *wants*
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Date: March 5th, 2003 10:42 am (UTC)Wow, I know just what you mean. There is something about blatant excess, isn't there? *wink* I meant that sincerely though, there's definitely something about the magic of materialism that is self-consciously compelling.
And then, there's the fangirl in me who dragged everybody to James Dean's street when in New York, and wouldn't rest until she'd taken a picture of that particular parking corner at the Hollywood observatory.
Seriously, you sound like my dream travel companion. I'm always the one who wants to see landmarks like that - I'd find out which gas station a movie I loved was filmed at, or do one of those Stars' Homes tours in Los Angeles. *hides her face in shame* New York is just an amazing city, but really, who can go there without riding the subway, eating at the Life Cafe, or looking out from the top of the Empire State Building? Have wanted to do that since seeing Sleepless in Seattle. Remind me to look you up if I ever get around to that backpacking through Europe thing.
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Date: March 5th, 2003 10:53 am (UTC)Yes, I'm a very unhappy fangirl when it comes to travelling. None of my friends are as much into going out of one's way to see the kind of sights I always want to see. Not that I'm not into "proper" sight-seeing as well, but if I'm somewhere a movie I loved or a person I admire ever was located, I need to do a little pilgrimmage. lol. I mean... I went to DC, and I annoyed everybody because I wanted to take a picture of me in exactly the same spot as Jimmy Stewart when he goes to the Lincoln memorial...and yeah, have dozens of stories like that one, lol. My photo albums are full of fangirly references. So yes, do look me up if you ever come to Europe, I'd make sure to take you to... well, places where Hitchcock's "To catch a thief" is supposed to be taking place and such... ;-)
If I ever make it Florida and you're still there, I'll call on you to be my guide, lol.
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Date: March 5th, 2003 11:11 am (UTC)LOL. *g* It's totally cool and rare to meet someone who shares eccentricities like this. Seriously, feel free anytime.
*psst - whispers* I'm the girl who was eagerly willing to fly clear across the United States to another country simply because The X-Files were once shot in the township of Vancouver. Even when it was no longer being filmed there.
I've always wanted to go to France. Took four years of French in high school, most of which went the way of the dodo but easy enough to brush up on. The culture and old world mistique is all incredibly compelling. And please, anytime you get a taste for humidity and tacky tourist sightseeing, I'd be more than happy to take you across our great, mostly sunny state.
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Date: March 5th, 2003 11:19 am (UTC)And hey, I even tried to convince my parents to make a detour and visit Fairmount, Indiana, just because that's where James Dean grew up (and is buried, I think). Needless to say I did not win that one. lol. So yes, I think I'll definitely look you up if/when I make it to Florida.
As for France and French... well, you know, I'm French, I speak French on a daily basis so it doesn't hold much appeal to me, lol. Though I have to admire anybody who ever took French as a foreign language, because hey, I'm French and I still speak better English than French, so... lol. English is freakishly easy compared to the intricacies of the French language.
But if you ever want to brush up on your French, let me know. Je peux toujours faire un effort et parler Français, pour une fois... lol
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Date: March 5th, 2003 11:36 am (UTC)*Really?* That's the first time anyone's ever said that. All I've heard about in my Linguistics classes and have had demonstrated over and over in Grammar is how rule-breaking and renegade the English language is, that I'm lucky to speak if first-hand (well, technically second-hand, but I speak it much better than my native language of Hungarian now) because otherwise, there'd be no hope of getting it right.
Je peux toujours faire un effort et parler Français, pour une fois...
Is it pathetic that I'm proud of having understood that entire sentence? Much obliged for the offer.
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Date: March 5th, 2003 11:46 am (UTC)Well, sure... English is a rebellious language, and French is very much about rules and such. But the thing is... I have this theory that a language needs to be alive in order to be easy to learn. Meaning, English is a lot more about instincts and such. It's more flexible than French and hence, easier to learn and use. With French, if you don't understand the rules and make sure you know them, you can see your whole meaning anihilated. There's no such thing as understandable pidgin-French, whereas I've always felt that you could go far with only a few basis of English. Pidgin-English is a lovely thing for the language-impaired. French is a tyran.
But that's probably because I'm hopeless when it comes to learning rules and how to apply them and abide by them. Which is why I love English so much. You can bend English very far. English is a lovely limber lover, whereas French seems to me like more of the frigid type. lol.
It all depends on what your ways of assimilating something are. :-)
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Date: March 5th, 2003 12:06 pm (UTC)English is a lovely limber lover, whereas French seems to me like more of the frigid type.
LOL. Now *that* is something I never thought I'd hear. Great analogy though. French *is* pretty good about the rules, with few exceptions, whereas sometimes I'd sit in Language Arts and try to figure out why we even bothered to print textbooks because so much of English was situational, rhetorical tactic-al, and just otherwise whimsical.