Welcome to the out_of_con_txt 2008 Social!

[sageness]

Welcome to our little OOCT party! Let's have a little get-to-know-you post.

Hi! I'm Sage. china_shop is trapped under something heavy (her WIP!!), so I'm hosting this party along with this group of lovely DS fen. Please say hi to eledhwenlin, lamentables, and monroe_nell! :D

Back in December 2005 the fabulous ds_recs community hosted a fandom social that many of us remember fondly, so I'm

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[clionaeilis]

Hi, I’m Clio, not really promoting myself so much as trying to shift back into writer/participant versus lurker, which I’ve mostly been for a long while now

I'm an idiot

[clionaeilis]

Yeesh - nevermind the depressing Oz link, here's what I should have linked, as a sort of companion piece to my boxathon entry. This one was for ds_flashfiction, for the curtainfic challenge, but I missed the deadline: DisJunctures

[akamine_chan]

I’m a huge film person...

Oh, I totally get that. I worked at a video store for six years...if you didn't love film before, you certainly will afterwards...*g*

[clionaeilis]

six years, wow - what was your favorite left-field film to rec to customers?

[akamine_chan]

I had a bunch. Orlando. Hard Core Logo. Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai. Tremors. Big Trouble In Little China. Brazil. Chungking Express. Free Enterprise. Ran. Six String Samurai...

I could go on and on...*g* This is why the question "What's your favorite movie?" just doesn't work for me...

What films have you seen recently that you wouldn't recommend other people see?

[clionaeilis]

Some of my usual ones to rec were Housekeeping and Truly Madly Deeply. As for recent films I wouldn't rec - hmm, I can say the last one I saw that I really HATED was Operation: Filmmaker, mostly because I despised the filmmaker's attitude (she's as much a part of the doc as her subject). The last film I saw that I loved was Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg.

[akamine_chan]

Oh, you're a real art house movie person. Me, I'm just a cheesy-cult-movie-foreign-flick-wow-that's-a-cool-martial-arts-film kind of movie watcher. *g*

[clionaeilis]

I swing from one extreme to the next - the last two movies I saw were Son of Rambow and Indiana Jones 4! So I'm totally useless to my friends, who keep expecting me to tell them what the latest Little Miss Sunshine, big indie, flick is!

[isiscolo]

My junk food of choice is: those addictive lime-flavored Tostito thingies.

Haha, my husband and I call those "addictochips!"

[clionaeilis]

they really are - it makes me wonder what ELSE is in there besides 'lime flavored salt'!