Author Topic: bored while driving (Read 2276 times)

Laldiien · « **on:** January 08, 2007, 10:58:03 AM »

Could someone start an interesting, insightful and beneficial thread? I have a looong drive and need something to read. I've tried license plate bingo, riddlely-ree and making up limericks. (They all start with "There once was a girl from Nantucket..."). I need mental stimulation.*edited for formatting

Rowana · « **Reply #1 on:** January 08, 2007, 11:08:48 AM »

Your are driving and writing on the forums at the same time....?

Serissa · « **Reply #2 on:** January 08, 2007, 11:11:58 AM »

Try being read to--books on tape or cd are available from your local library. Great way to pass the time!

Gulnyr · « **Reply #3 on:** January 08, 2007, 11:12:36 AM »

Interesting and insightful things could happen, but they wouldn't be especially beneficial, I think.

Something tells me he's a passenger, though.

Eight-Bit · « **Reply #4 on:** January 08, 2007, 11:13:24 AM »

I thonk he is a passanger. Do you have the interweb on this long drive? I am confused. If so, get some Enemy Territory... good game... great for long drives, apparantly...

Laldiien · « **Reply #5 on:** January 08, 2007, 11:20:13 AM »

No, not a passenger. All by myself. I thought I put my Power of Persuasion cd's in the car, but I didn't. Not interweb, Blackberry. Gah! Still 2 hours from Richmond, with to many to go after that.

IDii · « **Reply #6 on:** January 08, 2007, 11:27:00 AM »

Imaginary friends are always good for stuff like that... Just stay away from the ones that tell you to drive over people... bad.

Nah seriously. I'd go with music... Something new maybe. But I'm kinda a music freak.

Laldiien · « **Reply #7 on:** January 08, 2007, 11:37:11 AM »

Been jamming to Trans-Siberian Orchestra and Aqua, but if I hear 'Barbie Girl' again, I may ram a bridge support. As far as running peoe over, I drive Hyundai. I'd tear up my suspension if I hit squirrel at highway speeds.

Grid Blader · « **Reply #8 on:** January 08, 2007, 04:15:41 PM »

I know what a long dive can be, and how boaring it can be. I think Cd's, and tapes of books is a great Idea. Finish all the book of Harry Potter off. Good luck in your mission to keep your Sanity :-) I lost mine long ago.

Laldiien · « **Reply #9 on:** January 08, 2007, 04:34:02 PM »

I made it. As I post this, I am sitting ina Golden Corral, happily munching my banana pudding. You know, I never want to move back South, but I do miss the cooking. Just had Bourbon Street Chicken, turnip greens, fried chicken livers (with the requisite mayonaise), and peach bread pudding. Now I am going back to my hotel, finding a stairmaster, and working off the aforementioned dinner. Tomorrow, I do things to Citrix they never intended.

Jearick Hgar · « **Reply #10 on:** January 08, 2007, 04:46:45 PM »

man the golden corral rocks. when i lived in montana for 18 months, they had a golden corral, some grat food there.

Milo · « **Reply #11 on:** January 08, 2007, 05:48:11 PM »

Ah Golden Corral...yum, they have great foods of all sorts

twidget658 · « **Reply #12 on:** January 08, 2007, 06:36:24 PM »

No Waffle House, Golden Corral or Cracker Barrel in Hawaii. I am looking forward to getting back to the Mainland.

Laldiien · « **Reply #13 on:** January 08, 2007, 07:04:59 PM »

Let's see: Waffle house...Sandy beaches. Golden Corral...Moonlit walks by tiki torches. Cracker Barrel...Great scuba diving.
Yes, I can see why you would be miserable. You poor, poor soul.
**SMACK**

LynnJuniper · « **Reply #14 on:** January 08, 2007, 07:08:45 PM »

Ewwww Chicken Livers! it sounded good till then

Laldiien · « **Reply #15 on:** January 08, 2007, 07:20:03 PM »

They were dead......and DEEP FRIED! Oh YEAH! Give me the gland that filters the poisons from your blood, dip it in batter, and deep fry it. Slathered with Mayo, well....Need I go on?
They weren't actually very good. They had ben sitting a while and the undersides were soggy. A tad off-putting. The greens were great, though. You just can't find that stuff in PA. I remember moving there and going to a restaurant and I asked for sweet tea. They looked at me like I had just asked for baby-flambe. Then again, if you want a decent cheesesteak, if you are below the Mason-Dixon line, give it up.

LynnJuniper · « **Reply #16 on:** January 08, 2007, 07:34:07 PM »

*grins happily about the mention of Pennsylvania and cheesesteaks* See! I was right! There's only one place you're getting an authentic Cheese-steak and if I can't see you in the lines of one place or the other you're not getting one!

lonnarin · « **Reply #17 on:** January 08, 2007, 07:36:59 PM »

MoonSorrow... Nothing beats mind-bending Finnish Black Metal churning like an apocalypse in you brain, with interludes of classic folk, swords clanging and lecherous pirates yearghing. Sounds pretty Bloodwar Thrash meets Dwarven War Opera.

http://www.moonsorrow.cjb.net/

Witch Hunter · « **Reply #18 on:** January 08, 2007, 07:54:10 PM »

Pfffffffffffftttt.... I bet swedish mind booming ootzing dark industrial beats mind bending finnish black metal!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RucqhltOHI

lonnarin · « **Reply #19 on:** January 08, 2007, 10:50:56 PM »

Ah, but then Samael... Forever they were an angry blitzkrieg dark metal band of incoherent madness, then one of them took up electro-blastbeat drumming and operatic doomtide synthwork. Era One blew me away, then Xytras did a 2-disk album entirely electronic, with Zorphalax on crazed hoarse growling vocals per usual. Here's some promotional track the band has up on their site. Mixing Laibachesque industrial with death metal was the best alchemical formula ever. What I also like is instead of lowering themselves to profaniy like the pop culture bigwigs, they merely substitute insaniy with very poetic descriptions of desolation with shrieky evil-muppet voices.

http://www.samael.info/sounds/samael_moongate.mp3
http://www.samael.info/sounds/samael_telepath.mp3
http://www.samael.info/demo/slavocracy.htm

Laibach still... my ultimate favorite electronic experiment in orchestrated gloom.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-zSRcFxZVAA (Tanz Mit Laibach)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YBn6Mr34LGA (War cover)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=4EZCl7sZniw (Das Spiel ist Aust with creative subtitles)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sRADA7fLVpQ (way more oldschool with live instruments and people with weird cultist stares)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YvRhOpqZO7I (life is life)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=j7cKZlkC2AI (zee final countdown... best cover ever!)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BukDVsLS_pc (I dunno man... gears and leotards)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8qixisUDtVo (doomish battle hymn LIVE)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mV-q1WRZPWs (now they're REALLY getting weird...)