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Bob - 2007-10-26 20:47:28
That's funny, I can't stand Skin So Soft (and femmy isn't at all the problem with its smell... and 'sides, that'd smell like companionship)... and yet it's the ONLY thing that keeps sandflies (no-see-ums) off, which is a serious consideration here. I mean, the Haitians who sometimes get dumped by Bahamian smugglers on the uninhabited barrier island across the way must think they've gone from Haiti to hell, if they land on a bad night. But I never wear the stuff, even when snook fishing in the stillness before dark with a full moon phase. So, um, you're like, wierd.
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2fs - 2007-10-26 22:48:28
I tried to make veggie meatloaf using TVP once, but it didn't turn out. A different recipe using seitan turned out pretty well, though. So this Treacy guy's blog - it has recipes then?
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Greg - 2007-10-26 23:33:52
I had a wonderful flashing romance (one week) with a tattooed Maori princess whose brother owned a zorb business in a place called Rotorua or something of the sort. I'm not kidding either... I wonder sometimes what may have, and all that. This is the first time I've seen the zorb reference since.
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greg - 2007-10-27 08:40:06
I should add that this "princess" could drink her age in pints, cursed like a sailor, and enjoyed fist fights. Not so "exotic" at all...
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Bob - 2007-10-27 11:41:47
Greg, I passed through Rotorua when I was twelve, but all I remember specific to it is the name. Have you seen "Once Were Warriors"? Speaking of enjoying fistfights, its male lead would definitely hold his own in that department. And though most Kiwis are friendly and placid, that movie and its moments of disturbingly-more-realistic-than-Hollywood violence outsold Jurassic Park, in New Zealand. It makes a good down-under companion piece to Romper Stomper (the better Aussie movie that American History X was ripped off of)... (but Once Were Warriors isn't just mokes).
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Greg - 2007-10-27 12:56:47
Bob: Once Were Warriors is a beautiful but very sad film. Totally heartbreaking.
I believe American History X was an adaptation of a true story though and not a copy of Romper Stomper.
The recent This Is England is worth seeing, by the way.
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Bob - 2007-10-27 13:25:46
Sorry, I didn't so much mean a copy as a "let's make one like that"... and even Spielberg was taken with Romper Stomper, apparently. One of my favorite things about it was the sountrack, made by a friend of the director who gleefully threw himself into making those songs all by himself. (And yet they seem as authenticly silly as the skins played by real skins.)
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Bob - 2007-10-27 16:05:02
Oh, and a funny update on what might have sounded like hyperbole about the sandflies here. I just heard that the visiting brother and sister-in-law of the neighbor two doors down both had? to go to the emergency room, and for what I asked? ...sandfly bites (cue music from Jaws). Perhaps I should take them some Skin So Soft?
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Bob - 2007-10-28 15:32:53
And - not to babble further or anything but - I was just switching channels after the football game when I noticed Harrison Ford and Anne Heche getting captured by none other than... the Maori lead actor from Once Were Warriors. (Never thought I'd see him in a movie with Ross from Friends....)
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grigorss - 2007-10-28 21:08:44
Bob (and all other Temuera Morrison fans): you do realize that the Maori lead actor you spoke of had a pretty big part in the last couple of Star Wars movies; and he seems to get quite a few character parts in films these days.
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Bina - 2007-10-28 22:48:55
Does anyone remember a one-hit wonder band called OMC which had a single called "How Bizarre"? I always thought the singer in that band was gorgeous.
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Greg - 2007-10-29 12:32:31
I've got that OMC album. It's really good and there are several better songs than How Bizarre... which I liked just fine.
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