From: owner-the-landing-digest@smoe.org (the-landing-digest) To: the-landing-digest@smoe.org Subject: the-landing-digest V2 #194 Reply-To: the-landing@smoe.org Sender: owner-the-landing-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-the-landing-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk the-landing-digest Tuesday, August 24 1999 Volume 02 : Number 194 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: the-landing-digest V2 #193 [Sambone67@aol.com] Re: the-landing-digest V2 #193 [LitLpish9@aol.com] Re: the-landing-digest V2 #193 ["theresa mccart" ] NC: part 1 [Jessica Brandt ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 06:21:06 EDT From: Sambone67@aol.com Subject: Re: the-landing-digest V2 #193 Dont feel too bad .I recieved my poster [BOF] but still havent recieved my cd:-( Sambone ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 13:52:17 EDT From: LitLpish9@aol.com Subject: Re: the-landing-digest V2 #193 << TUESDAY AUGUST 24 8 pm on VH1 (before they were rock stars) Squirrel Nut Zippers >> What time zone is that in??? I want to record it, but I'll have to pre set the video timer, cause I'll be in Milwaulkee seeing BOF!!!!! :) *laura* ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 14:28:40 -0400 From: "theresa mccart" Subject: Re: the-landing-digest V2 #193 Ok, what is VH1? Is it a fashion channel or a music channel? Is it a subsidiary of MTV? > > ><< TUESDAY AUGUST 24 > 8 pm on VH1 (before they were rock stars) Squirrel Nut Zippers >> > >What time zone is that in??? I want to record it, but I'll have to pre set >the video timer, cause I'll be in Milwaulkee seeing BOF!!!!! :) > >*laura* > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 01:50:11 -0500 From: Jessica Brandt Subject: NC: part 1 Okay, here is one Zipper-related part of the vacation. INSIGNIFICANT OTHERS, the movie viewing. If you didn't know already, in 1994 when Tom was still with What Peggy Wants, his longtime friend J. David Moody (an actor/filmmaker) made a movie called "Insignificant Others" and asked Tom and bandmate John Ensslin to be the "comic relief" in the movie as the team of Bob and Ray, friends of one of the main characters. Read more about the movie at: http://www.arcana.com/~mogul/softwhite/index.html I found the website and asked David if I could get a copy. He told me "No, but if you live near me you can come watch it at my place." I think he was joking, but I took him up on the offer, knowing I was going to Chapel Hill for a week. So we made plans for my friend Ginger and I to come to his house in Raleigh on Thursday night of last week and see the movie. David is a very friendly, funny, and bubbly guy. He grew up with Tom and you can tell they are friends because they have the same gregarious personality. And the same very cute southern accent :) The movie is about a rapist who uses girls and then some people die and stuff. It was pretty good, but the acting was a little choppy. The best parts, honestly, were John and Tom. They added the much needed comic relief. Tom was very funny and ad-libbed some lines (David pointed them out) and John just has a presence that made me say "that boy should be in more films!" If you ever get a chance to watch a film, be it indie or hollywood, with its creator, do it! I got some fascinating looks into the making of a movie and some secrets. Of course, I will share them with you: - -In one scene, we see the rapist in the act of raping a girl, It's tactfully done with him sort of pumping his face into the camera. The way this was shot was by the cameraman lying on the floor with a camera and the actor basically humping his leg. The camera man asked for a second take, and when David yelled "cut" the actor dismounted, the camera moved the camera and looked at the actor and said "You have beautiful eyes" hehehe - -Since you will probably never see the movie, i'll tell you that the rapist is killed by one of his victims taking a syringe and putting rubbing alcohol into a lightbulb in his bathroom. Aparently, if you do this and then turn on the light, everything you touch (like the hair dryer) will short and you'll die from electorcution. David said he came up with that one night while on secuurity at a dorm at UNC and was thinking of ways to kill off some annoying girls in the dorm. Spooky, eh? - -The dorm scenes are suposed to take place at the big fancy dorm, but the initial outdoor shot was taken at the freshman dorm at UNC (howard james or something) but the dorm room scenes were filmed in the upper room of David's townhouse in Raleigh. Also, there was only one bed in the room so they had to keep moving it and changing the covers to make it look like these girls weren't sleeping together :) - -Tom and John appear as Ray and Bob. The characters are the bartender and waiter at Crook & Chase in Carborro, and so were tom and John. They are both in What Peggy Wants and so are the characters. Tom's real life girlfriend and now wife, Mel, appears in the film as Ray's girlfriend Mel. The guys read the script and didn't have problems with its content, except they wanted to change their names so it wouldn't be so lifelike. - -One of the funniest moments in the movie is when Ray, Bob, and another girl confront one of the rapist victims with the news that her boyfriend (the rapist) is sleeping with someone else. The girl gets really pissed off and walks off to find the guy, smacking away Ray's (tom's) beer. In all that emotion, all Tom could ad-lib was "how rude." Very funny :) - -After the credits roll, a single shot of John Ensslin is shown, with him just staring at the camera and swaying. after about a minute and a half, he says "what? what are you looking at?" then Tom comes in and says "hey man, look what i got" and presents him with a bottle of wine. he says "you want some?" and john looks at the camera and says "nope" and tom looks stunned and john say s"hell yeah of course i want some" so they open the bottle and drink and talk about how everyone is looking at them and Tom deadpans into the camera "do you think we'll get paid?" and it's over :) So david and Ginger and I talked a while. He had a lot in common with Ginger and i think he had a crush on her :) She is going to England for the semester and I guess David and Tom went one semester when they were in school too. He told me about some picture he has of Tom coming out of the shower in nothing but a top hat. So if you ever see tom with a top hat, know he got it in england and he showered with it :) Well, that's all for this installment of all the Zipperness that happened for me in NC. Tomorrow, Immortal! jess *********************************************************** * --+-READ THE SHRUBBERY-+-- * http://www.theshrubbery.com --New Every Month- -Humor, Music, News and More-- *********************************************************** ------------------------------ End of the-landing-digest V2 #194 *********************************