What are you doing for entertainment in this era of "social distancing?"
Electronman
Too much of a good thing is never enough
I hope that the strip clubs don't shut down but I'm not confident that they'll stay open.
What are you doing for entertainment?
Streaming movies and TV shows? Any recommendations?
Reading? Any recommendations?
Exercise?
Spending time with your significant other?
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Book Title: Papillon
Author: Henri Charrière
Book Title: Banco
Author: Henri Charrière
Themes:
The books are an account of (Papillon) a 14-year period in Papillon's life (October 26, 1931 to October 18, 1945), beginning when he was wrongly convicted of murder in France and sentenced to a life of hard labor at the Bagne de Cayenne, the penal colony of Cayenne in French Guiana and his escape from Devil's Island and ends when he is settled in Venezuela.
Continuing on from Papillon, Banco tells of Henri's life in Venezuela attempting to gain funds to seek revenge for his false imprisonment and to see his father.
After many enterprises failed to net profits (including diamond mining, a bank robbery and a jewelry heist) Henri found success in Venezuela running various restaurants.
Parts of the book talk in more detail about the crime he committed in France, his arrest, his trial and his views on French justice in the matter. Toward the end of the book, he returns to France as a free man.
Book Title: Le Petit Prince
Author/ Illustrator: Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry,
Theme:
“The main theme of The Little Prince is the importance of looking beneath the surface to find the real truth and meaning of a thing. It is the fox who teaches the Prince to see with one's heart instead of just with one's eyes. ... “
Non-fiction
Original title: Traité sur la tolérance
Author: François-Marie Arouet nom de plume Voltaire
Theme:
“The Treatise on Tolerance on the Occasion of the Death of Jean Calas from the Judgment Rendered in Toulouse (Pieces Originales Concernant la Mort des Sieurs Calas det le Jugement rendu a Toulouse) is a work by French philosopher Voltaire, published in 1763, in which he calls for tolerance between religions, and targets religious fanaticism, especially that of the Jesuits (under whom Voltaire received his early education), indicting all superstitions surrounding religions.”
I may need to rely on porn for some more adult-style entertainment.
I guess I'll have to practice some self-shots with my digital camera since I doubt I'll be shooting with anyone else anytime soon.
Gaming is another thing, but usually I'll only play on the PC or PS4 for two hours tops.
It was glorious fun!
Later they will be able to also read the materials for my organization.
SJG
(/sarcasm)
Getting as close to as many people as I can as quickly as possible. What else would be any fun?
2. Reading books ... Letting serendipity unfold to discover the undiscovered
3. Stepping back and really thinking hard about the complicated world we have created ... Maybe its time to go back to our roots and keep it simple
i did watch the passing compilation of jayson williams. that sacramento king team was awesome to watch.
Actually - I think it was a late-regular-season game
Finally, the voice of reason. Good for you, SkiBum. Keep at it. Also, go to a gym, spend some time in movie theaters, go square dancing, see an escort if you can find one. Don't worry, people in their 70s like you have nothing to worry about.
You mean the movie with the Saved By The Bell chick doing her best stripper impression? That's the one where Agent Dale Cooper got a lapdance and jizzed his pants after she went all bucking broncette on him.
Buying more computers so my kids can do "distance learning" while the cowardly keep the schools closed.
Still going to my office and patronizing local restaurants since nobody can make me shut down my business unless they go truly full on panic mode with "shelter in place."
Seeing out of work girls when I can.
Bringing one of my kids to the one athletic complex locally that has stayed sane and remained open for athlete training.
In other words, pretty much everything I've always done except go to clubs and drop my kids to school.
Because showgirls will live in infamy forever (maybe it's why so many customers are idiots, because all they know about stripperz they learned from that and Striptease?) I'll stray somewhat off topic share what one of the actors thought about. Since Agent Dale Cooper was the inspiration for sticky pantzers everywhere, here is what he's said about the worst decision of his acting career:
Showgirls (1995)—“Zack Carey”
KM: Uh… yeah. [Laughs.] That was a decision that was sort of a tough one to make, but I was enchanted with Paul Verhoeven. Particularly Robocop, which I loved. I look back on it now and it’s a little dated, but it’s still fantastic, and I think it’s got some of the great villains of all time in there. It was Verhoeven and [Joe] Eszterhas, and it seemed like it was going to be kind of dark and edgy and disturbing and real. I signed on, and… I think they’d wanted Dylan McDermott and he’d passed, so then they came to me and asked, “Do you want to do this?” And I was like, “Yeah!” Because I was really into that mode. And I worked hard, I came in and did my scenes, but then I wasn’t really involved in anything else until it finally came time to do the press for it.
It was about to première, I hadn’t seen it yet, and I wanted to. So I went to see it and… I was absolutely gobsmacked. I said, “This is horrible. Horrible!” And it’s a very slow, sinking feeling when you’re watching the movie, and the first scene comes out, and you’re like, “Oh, that’s a really bad scene.” But you say, “Well, that’s okay, the next one’ll be better.” And you somehow try to convince yourself that it’s going to get better… and it just gets worse. And I was like, “Wow. That was crazy.” I mean, I really didn’t see that coming. So at that point, I distanced myself from the movie. Now, of course, it has a whole other life as a sort of inadvertent… satire. No, “satire” isn’t the right word. But it’s inadvertently funny. So it’s found its place. It provides entertainment, though not in the way I think it was originally intended. It was just… maybe the wrong material with the wrong director and the wrong cast.
AVC: But apart from all of that…
KM: Apart from all that, it was great. [Laughs.] It has a couple of moments in it that are pretty wild. And I gotta say that, when I was watching the actual shows that they created, I was like, “Hey, this is a Vegas show!” I was watching it from the audience, and it was amazing, what they were able to create. But reduced down to its elements, it was, uh, not one of my finer attempts. But it was done initially for all the right reasons; it just didn’t turn [out] to be what I anticipated. Everybody has one of those in their repertoire, I think. It’s just that this one has stayed around. Even Ishtar eventually disappeared. But this one keeps coming back! [Laughs.]
https://film.avclub.com/kyle-maclachlan-…
Can you believe the guy who directed Robocop also directed that crime against the cinema?