h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've never actually talked to you directly, which I am sorry for, so I thought I'd say hi.
So, hello! Can I ask you a bit about yourself?
Will you let me be nosey, as I am a friend already...?

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Don't be sorry! You're here now aren't you?

You can ask anything you want about me. But you must ask specific questions otherwise I'm bound to go on and on about all sorts of things and you'll never be able to get me to stop. (Kind of like that guy {I've forgotten his name} from HHGTTG who told the whole truth, the one who couldn't stop laughing if Arthur was in the room. )

So, feel free to nose around, as you are a friend.

Okay, well, what about basics like:
Real Name
Where you're from and are,
What you do, hobbies and job.
And I don't mind rambling - honest!

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You'd better not, since I do it all the time.

OK, my real name is Robyn. I'll put that on my page when I figure out exactly what else I want to say. (OOOH, I already made a lot of changes, what do you think?, btw, I think your page is rad!)

Where I'm from and am. I was born and raised in Moore, Oklahoma, USA. Moore is a suburb of Oklahoma City, which is the capital. I still live here. Someday I hope to move away (I don't care where, just away ), but OK has this stange tractor beam that keeps drawing people back. I don't think that there's anyone I know who moved away and stayed away.

What I do, hobbies, and job. Well, I haven't been doing much at the moment, just going to school. And h2g2 is one of my main hobbies
I also like (LOVE) to watch movies and I go out dancing every week. I don't have a job right now, because if I did I would slack off in school. (I'm lazy, I admit it.) The last job I had was running the snack bar at a roller skating rink. I got fired for calling in ONCE! But, I'm not really upset about it, I worked there, so I wouldn't have to worry if I got fired, so I could do whatever I wanted and work on my terms. If I could work anywhere I wanted I would probably work in a clothing store, preferably vintage.

I would ask something about you, but I've been to your homepage, and can't think of anything that wasn't on there. But, I'm sure I will. But, feel free to ask me anything else, I'm an open book.

GR

Hi GreyRose my rambling friend.
I've never been to Oklahoma, sorry. I once went to Boston when I was a child, but that doesn't really help. America is BIG.
So, what are your favourite films? If you've been to my page then you know what my favourites are, but I don't know yours yet. So please, reveal all.

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Oh man, I'm going to have to think about that.

I've never been to Boston, but there are some good punk bands there.

I expect there are, but when I was 8-9ish when I went, I wasn't really old enough to appreciate that. Not that I'm a punk fan now, to tell the truth.
And feel free to ramble on about any number of films you like. Tell me, have you seen/liked Dune, Yellow Submarine, 2001: A Space Odyssey and of course, Star Wars?

I know what kind of music that you like. Have you heard about the book that the remaining Beatles are putting out?

I haven't seen Dune, but I want to someday. I haven't seen Yellow Submarine because I'm kinda scared by the animation. But, I really liked Hard Day's Night and Help. 2001 is a great film, but my favortie Kubrick movie will always be Dr Strangelove. And of course I've seen Star Wars, and of course I love it.

Yes, I've heard about the book, but at £35 it's out of my price range.
I'm glad you liked "Help!" and "A Hard Day's Night", but scared by animation? Why? How? Please tell - it's not a scary film!

Ah, "Dr Strangelove" - now you obviously have good taste. My second favourite Kubrick film after "2001", and of course it stars Peter Sellers, Peter Sellers and Peter Sellers, and Peter Sellers was of course Bluebottle. One of the greatest films in all history.
And what did you think of "The Phantom Menace"?

I just think it looks creepy and have always been freaked out by it. I don't know why.

Have you seen The Mouse That Roared? It's a good Peter Sellers movie.

I was disappointed with the Phantom Menace. It was too cheesy, and the animation was too obvious. The effects were better when they had to use models and puppets and stuff. It could have been a lot better. It also didn't have Chewbacca or Han Solo in it, which I'm sure wouldn't make it a better movie, but I would have enjoyed it more.

I haven't yet, unfortunately.
I have a lot of his - all the "Pink Panther" films (including the terrible ones after he died.) and a current favourite is "I'm All Right Jack". The Ealing classic "The Ladykillers" is also good - as it stars Hurbert Lom ("Dreyfuss" from Panther) and Alec Guiness ("Star Wars" etc). You can't beat the old films.
Something George Lucas needs to learn, though "Phantom Menace" did have good points, it just needed to do more. ie, completely change.

I haven't seen most of the Sellers movies you mentioned, not even the Pink Panther ones. You need to see The Mouse That Roared, you'll like it.

I wouldn't say that you can't beat the old ones, but you're missing out if you don't watch them. I've known people who won't watch an old movie, and people who won't watch movies with subtitles. Those people make me so mad, because they're missing so much fo no reason.

I wish I could say that I have high hopes for the rest of the prequels, but I don't.

You wanted to know what movies I like, well this is no where near all of them (not even close), but this is all the movies I own at present. There would be a lot more, but when I broke up with my ex, we had to split up the video collection.

About a third of my videos are Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes.

The rest are (in no particular order): Microcosmos, Charlotte's Web, Fantasia, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink, Orgazmo, Cannibal! the Musical, Mallrats (he got Clerks ), Citizen Ruth, The City of Lost Children, Pump Up the Volume, Dazed and Confused, Harvey, The Big Lebowski, U-Turn, Gridlock'd, Evil Dead 2, The Fifth Element, Ghost in the Shell, Class of Nuke 'Em High, In the Mouth of Madness, Kids In the Hall-Brain Candy, Supercop

I want tons more though.

Okay, I'll definately look out for "The Mouse That Roared" - afterall, it is Peter Sellers.

And I know what you mean about convincing people to watch films that are either old or with subtitles. Have you seen "Das Boot" or the more recent "Life Is Beautiful"? They have subtitles, but they are just so amazing films that anyone who doesn't see them is definately missing out. And there are some really good old films, among my favourites are "Metropolis" and "Nosferatu", and they are really old!

I don't know anything about Mystery Science Theater 3000, sorry. From your list, I've seen Mallrats, The Big Lebowski and The Fifth Element, and I liked them all.

I can't see how you find "Yellow Submarine" scary, and yet own "Fantasia" on video! My cousin Morgan was terrified by the whole Dinosaur sequence throughout his childhood!
Have you seen "Fantasia 2000" yet?

No, I haven't seen Fantasia 2000. The only theater we have here in Okc that shows those movies is showing Everest and another movie, and Disney will only let theaters show Fantaisa 2000 if it's the only movie showing. That is so unfair.

I saw Life Is Beautiful on Christmas eve the year before last. I loved that movie so much. I saw it later here after it was nominated for an Oscar and it was so funny. When we went to buy the tickets, the girl was like 'you know this has subtitles, don't you?' I was like, 'yeah, I've seen it three times'. I haven't seen Das Boot, but I want to.

Have you seen any of the other Cohen brothers movies, like Fargo or Barton Fink?

Oh, yeah, I've seen Metropolis and liked it a lot. But it's scary and sad. I think it would be a good idea for someone to make another soundtrack for it though. That would be cool. I haven't seen Nosferatu, but I want to.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 is a tv show that had this guy and two robots watching bad movies and making jokes about it. It's my favorite tv show of all time. TV's Frink wrote an entry about it.

I'm sorry, I forgot what I was going to say. I'm sick and on medication, so this has been happening to me a lot this week.

London, and both of them are showing "Fantasia 2000", so I did the rare thing of actually going all the way to London, and saw it. It was quite good, but there was one thing that ruined it for me. During Elgar's "Pomp & Circumstance", the cartoon did not show a single Union Jack! How dare they? Everyone knows that whenever you here "Pomp & Circumstance" you wave Union Jacks and be proud to be British, singing "Land of Hope And Glory" - but did they sing "Land of Hope And Glory"? Did they wave Union Jacks? I think not - but that's American Hollywood for you - if it was an American tune, they would have had all "Ain't America oh-so lovely" bits everywhere, but as Elgar wrote it specifically for England, it's ignored...

I sadly haven't seen any of the other Cohen films. As for Metropolis, didn't Queen once have one of their songs with the Metropolis film in the background??? I'm pretty sure they did.

Sounds like American Hollywood to me. (Is there another Hollywood? ) I really want to see Fantasia 2000, but I would have to drive a long way to go see it so I don't think I will get to.

The Cohen brothers have made a ton of good movies. The Big Lebowski is my favorite though. I love The Dude! (I think I'm gonna watch it)

You should see Raising Arizona, Barton Fink and Fargo and others but I can't remember their names now. Raising Arizona is more lighthearted like TBL, but Barton Fink is downright depressing, but it's a good movie.

There's only one Hollywood, although the Indian film industry has a Bollywood, apparently...

Okay, I'll look out for more of those films. But try not to be terrified of "Yellow Subamrine", okay?

So, what books do you like reading?

OK, I'll watch it, just for you. P'hul got a copy of it for her boyfriend for Christmas, so I'll watch it at her house.

I'll have to make a list of books I like. But, you should have an idea, I mean where are we?

The obvious doesn't count!
What OTHER books do you like?

OK, books. It's a strange bunch.

Neil Gaiman-all of his comics but Sandman in particular, Neverwhere, Smoke and Mirrors, Good Omens w/Terry Pratchett (I just now started reading his stuff)

Stephen King-I know what you're thinking, 'King's a Hack', but he has written some great books. He just needs to quit trying to get a new book out every couple of months.

Anne Rice-the vampire series and a couple of others

Richard Armour-Twisted Tales of Shakespear, It All Started with Stones and Clubs, and everything else he's written

CS Lewis-the Narnia chronicles

Hunter S Thompson-Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Madeline L'Engle-Wrinkle in Time, Wind in the Door

Edgar Allen Poe

Mark Twain

Chris Rock's book

A book called Alas Babylon

And I like non fiction books about lots of stuff.

This list seems kind of poor to me, I've read a lot more stuff. This is just what I have on my bookshelf.