- The Russian week begins on Monday instead of Sunday. Despite being the cultural colonialist I am, I have to think they got this one right. Sunday night always feels like the end of the week, trying to enjoy the last few golden hours before the tedium begins again.
- Having a fairly rare name, it's always a bit strange when I met another Dustin. Is it the same for people with more common names? For instance, is it weird for a guy named John to meet another guy named John? Or, if you're reading this in Australia, is it weird for a guy named Bruce to meet another guy named Bruce? I have no way of knowing if this feeling is shared by everybody or only those with uncommon names. Perhaps my friend and sometime reader with a relatively more common name could share his views.
- Certain parties have made observations to Captain Zissou as to his prodigious use of linkage on the site. Faithful readers of the Life Despotic know how we respond to such implied criticisms.
- I had a class with another Dusty last quarter, though his real name is Justin. It was a small class, and he sent out an email to the eight or so of us asking about something class-related. I "replied all" first and jokingly signed my name "The Other Dusty." Everyone that replied to the email after that proceeded to refer to me as "Other Dusty," including my professor. Bastards.
- I've found that sometimes I fail to make connections between things I encountered as a child and things I've encountered since. EXAMPLE: I didn't realize that Dustin(!) Hoffman played the eponymous Hook in that classic film until about two years ago. CHILLING EXAMPLE: About that same time I realized that George Carlin was the conductor on Thomas the Tank Engine.
- The food fight scene from Hook is one of the best movie scenes of all time. To this day, the imagined food makes my mouth water, despite the fact that everything seems to be made of some kind of neon paste. HIGHLIGHT: Old Fart Peter (he hasn't become the Pan yet) diagnoses Rufio as having "a severe 'kaka' mouth." Rufio responds by calling him a maggot burger.
- How I choose to believe the "Weapon of Choice" planning session went down:
"Okay, so we want to make the greatest music video of all time for a
reclusive artist who doesn't actually sing on his own tracks and never
appears in his own videos. What are our resources?"
"Well, we've got four hours, an empty hotel, and Chris Walken."
"Bingo."
Badass.
From the virtual desk of Ivan Zissou
dictated but not read
cth
4 comments:
Thoughts:
1. I totally agree with you about Sunday. In my mind's eye, I have a spatial image of the week which sort of resembles a board game, or maybe sidewalk squares? Its a weird remnant of my childhood. It runs from Monday through Saturday, and then Sunday is in its own little world. Monday is the start of the week.
2. My name isn't too common either - it really freaks me out when I go to the grocery store or Target and someone shouts "Olivia! Put that down!" at her little girl, as almost any other Olivia I've ever encountered is below the age of five. I hate name trends.
3. Lol Monty!
4. OMG I totally had the exact same experience with Dustin Hoffman as Hook. For so many years, he was just Hook, you know? I love going back to stuff I haven't watched or read since I was little because you pick up on so many details you missed before.
5. Five minutes ago was my first viewing of "Weapon of Choice." It changed my life forever for the better. So thank you, Captain, and thank you Christopher Walken.
Well, I just posted a rather lengthy comment and for some reason it isn't here. That is f***ed up, Captain.
food fight scene in hook=legendary... epic... need i say more? you're spot on "the other dusty". and yes, it totally freaks me out when i meet people named chelsea. try this one out for size "chelsea goding". crazytrain!
Olivia--you need to calm down. Any lag in posting time cannot be attributed to Captain Zissou but rather to the amount of time required for the data to make its way through the fourth-dimensional wormhole to reach the RFS Yuri Andropov.
Brosephine--Thank you for your testimonial. I'm glad to know it's not just me being enormously arrogant (that's not to say I'm not, mind you). Still, neither your name nor Olivia's is particularly common, so I still wonder if it's just us "rare-ies" who feel this way.
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