Meme

[fbhjr]

I got this from 64tbird

<#> Post 3 things you've done in your lifetime that you don't think anybody else on your friends list has done.
<#> See if anybody else responds with "I've done that." If they have, you need to add another.
<#> Have your friends cut & paste this into their journal to see what unique things they've done in their life.

1) I made two science fiction movies back with silent 8mm film. The first in elementary school, the second in high school. (iMovie is so much easier...)

2) Took on all challengers for sword fights in a parking lot at night while wearing furry underwear for a party. (Did I mention I used to drink...)

3) Got kicked out of the Lincoln Memorial for sliding down the banisters of a national monument. (That was before I started drinking. I've never been back to it.)

Comments

[yebo.livejournal.com]

For #1, I made two in high school, but it may not count 'cause one was on 8mm, and the other was on half-inch open-reel video tape.... The 8mm one was glorious color, the video one was, alas, black & white. You weren't supposed to, but in a pinch, you could razor-edit portapack tapes - you just got a wicked discontinuity at the splice 'cause they were helical scan....

[yebo.livejournal.com]

BTW: Aside from the current version of iMovie, I agree with you. If you need to use the latest and greatest version, you really need to buy Final Cut in stead....

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

No, that probably counts....

OK, then for a replacement one:

I once was chased through a dorm by a cake wielding woman intent on hitting me in the face with it. She finally threw it across a stairway at me and got me in the side. (This is a lesson for people who may reply "well it is your birthday" to someone who says "I've always wanted to hit someone in the face with a cake.")

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

I agree. The current version sucks.

Sad, but true...

[yebo.livejournal.com]

I can verify the verasity of this new #1 and the original #2, having been there for both occasions (or at least the beginning and end of the new #1 - I wasn't there for the entire chase).

[perrin-o-ravnos.livejournal.com]

I was chased through providence by a pie wielding friend during college, does that count?

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

I'd say no as it wouldn't have the stairway ending...

But, I'll go with a popular vote. If other people say it does count, I'll come up with yet another one.

[palusbuteo.livejournal.com]

I made goofball movies with brother and friends of mine in High School...Although not technically SciFi - many were based on our fascination with Street Fighter, as well as fascination with reversing and editing, saying things backwards to have them play forwards...Like "Tish Tea"...

During college a buddy of mine knew some SCAdians and got some ductape swords and we were goofing around with them on the college green...Needless to say my faux skillz as a Samurai Master were obliterated by the quasi-general-grievous windmill like swinging of my buddy's two swords to my one. *rolls eyes*

I've been to the Lincoln Memorial, but did not slide down the banisters. The scale of the monument to me was astounding.

And, once after making a rather rude/smart-ass remark, got a full tray of icecubes put down my shirt by a friend in college. So, not exactly cake.

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

I already replaced movie.

The sliding down the banisters was the important part, so I'm not going to replace that one.

The chase by cake wielder was the big thing, so pie chasing is closer than ice cube dumping.

But, keep trying.